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In this photo provided by Pasadena, Calif., resident Matt Logelin, flames burn beneath transmission towers owned by Southern California Edison in Eaton Canyon in the early evening of Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Matt Logelin via AP)

California utility reports fault on power line miles away from origin of deadly Eaton fire

Southern California Edison has reported a Jan. 7 fault on a power line that was connected miles away from the lines located near the origin of the deadly Eaton Fire that sparked that day.

In this photo provided by Pasadena, Calif., resident Matt Logelin, flames burn beneath transmission towers owned by Southern California Edison in Eaton Canyon in the early evening of Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Matt Logelin via AP)

Attorneys for fire victim say utility may have destroyed evidence of what caused deadly LA-area fire

Attorneys for a woman who is among thousands who lost their homes in the Eaton Fire outside Los Angeles say Southern California Edison crews working to repair and restore power in the area may have destroyed evidence that could help determine what sparked the wildfire.

Southern California Edison workers service a utility pole in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire, Jan. 12, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, file)

Lawsuits claims utility’s equipment sparked devastating Eaton Fire, but investigation still ongoing

A lawsuit filed against Southern California Edison claims the utility’s equipment sparked the deadly Eaton Fire burning just outside Los Angeles.

Smoke lingers over a neighborhood devastated by the Eaton Fire, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

What ignited the deadly California wildfires? Investigators consider an array of possibilities

Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the huge fires that have killed at least 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in the Los Angeles area.

Police officers stand near the scene where a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon streets, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

New Orleans attack and Vegas explosion highlight extremist violence by active military and veterans

The military ties of the man who carried out an attack in New Orleans on New Year’s and another who died in an explosion in Las Vegas highlight the increased role of people with military experience in ideologically driven attacks, especially those that seek mass casualties.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump gather outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Shafkat Anowar, File)

Takeaways from AP’s report on a study into extremism in the military that used old data

Early this year, Pete Hegseth told a Fox News audience a new, Pentagon-funded study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces.

A photo illustration highlighting a Pentagon-funded study that used old data to conclude incorrectly that extremism is not a problem in the military.

AP finds that a Pentagon-funded study on extremism in the military relied on old data

Early this year, Pete Hegseth told a Fox News audience a new, Pentagon-funded study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces.

FILE - Pete Hegseth walks to an elevator for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump Pentagon pick had been flagged by fellow service member as possible ‘Insider Threat’

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups.

This image used as evidence by federal prosecutors shows a weapon confiscated from the home of Chris Arthur in Mount Olive, N.C. (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina via AP)

Takeaways from The Associated Press’ reporting on extremism in the military

The number of U.S. service members and veterans who radicalize make up a tiny fraction of a percentage point of the millions and millions who have honorably served their country.

This image from a YouTube video posted by Chris Arthur on March 20, 2018, shows him with a handgun during a training video. Arthur was a member of the North Carolina National Guard at the time he posted the video. (AP Photo)

His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same

The number of U.S. service members and veterans who radicalize make up a tiny fraction of a percentage point of the millions and millions who have honorably served their country.

FILE - A sinkhole that opened up underneath a gypsum stack at a Mosaic phosphate fertilizer plant is seen in Mulberry, Fla., on Sept. 16, 2016. (Jim Damaske/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)

Polluted waste from Florida’s fertilizer industry is in the path of Milton’s fury

As Hurricane Milton pummels Florida’s west coast with powerful winds and flooding rain, environmentalists are worried it could scatter the polluted leftovers of the state’s phosphate fertilizer mining industry and other hazardous waste across the peninsula and into vulnerable waterways.

Man sentenced to 25 years for teaching bomb-making to person targeting authorities

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a North Carolina man to 25 years in prison for teaching someone how to make bombs meant to kill federal law enforcement officers.

FILE - The exterior of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is shown in Hailey, Idaho, on Sept., 19, 2023. Former Idaho bishop in the Mormon church, John Goodrich, was arrested Tuesday, March 12, 2024, by police in Virginia after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a school trip when she was a child. Recordings obtained by The Associated Press show that instead of helping prosecutors, the Mormon church used a legal playbook that has helped protect itself from sex abuse claims. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen, File)

Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges

A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter w

This image released by Routledge shows "Out of Hiding, Extremist White Supremacy and How it Can Be Stopped" by Kathleen M. Blee, Robert Futrell and Pete Simi. (Routledge via AP)

Book Review: Scholars analyze extremist white supremacy’s grip on U.S. politics and culture

Three sociologists who have studied racist movements in the U.S. for decades chronicle in “Out of Hiding, Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped” the history of U.S. white supremacy from the Ku Klux Klan to today’s far-right groups that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City is shown on April 18, 2019. A top Mormon church official learned a former bishop had made a religious confession to details about his relationship with his own daughter when she was a child. Recordings obtained by The Associated Press show that instead of helping prosecutors, the church used a legal playbook that has helped protect itself from sex abuse claims. Today, the former bishop is a free man. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Takeaways from The AP’s investigation into the Mormon church’s handling of sex abuse cases

A former Mormon bishop whom a top church official said committed “sexual transgression” with his own daughter was excommunicated after making a religious confession.

Chelsea Goodrich poses for a portrait at a friend's house in Ketchum, Idaho, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Goodrich's father, a popular Idaho dentist and former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, was excommunicated after sharing details about his relationship with her when she was a child during a religious confession. Recordings obtained by The Associated Press show that instead of helping prosecutors, the church used a legal playbook that has helped protect itself from sex abuse claims. Goodrich's father is today a free man, and she says she decided to speak out to protect other children. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)

Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims

A former Mormon bishop whom a top church official said committed “sexual transgression” with his own daughter was excommunicated after making a religious confession.

Court cites clergy-penitent privilege in dismissing child sex abuse lawsuit against Mormon church

An Arizona Superior Court judge has dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling that church officials who knew that a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police or social service ag

FILE - Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, June 25, 2017. A study released on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, has found that people convicted of crimes related to domestic extremism face far shorter prison terms than those convicted in international terrorism cases, even when the crimes are similar. Prosecutors had requested 25 years in prison for Rhodes in a Jan. 6 case. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced him to 18 years in May 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

International terror defendants face longer prison terms than domestic counterparts, new study finds

A new study has found that people convicted of crimes related to domestic extremism face far shorter prison terms than those convicted in international terrorism cases, even when the crimes are similar.

Man found guilty of teaching bomb making to person targeting authorities

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a man charged with teaching someone how to make bombs to target federal law enforcement officers. Christopher Arthur, 39, faces a maximum 20 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors.

How brothers in arms plotted theft, sale of US Army weaponry

An Associated Press investigation has shown how U.S. troops have stolen guns and explosives from the military — and the weapons of war ended up on America’s streets.

GOP fronts ‘pro-Trump’ doctors to prescribe rapid reopening

Republican political operatives are recruiting what are described as “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, without waiting to meet safety benchmarks proposed by public health experts to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

NYPD tests new tool that detects credit card skimmers

The U.S. Secret Service says more than a billion dollars is stolen from U.S. consumers each year by credit card skimmers, money that funds organized crime and which is usually passed back to consumers through higher fees.

EPA to clean up toxic Texas site damaged by Hurricane Harvey

Federal environmental regulators have reached a long-awaited agreement with the owners of a polluted toxic waste site in Texas that was damaged during Hurricane Harvey.

Vigil for Florida bridge-collapse victims draws tears, gasps

Hundreds of Florida International University students have held a vigil for the six victims of a pedestrian bridge collapse near their campus. The names of the victims were displayed on a screen Wednesday at the Miami-area campus Wednesday.

No police search at home of man who shot self by White House

Four days after he fatally shot himself outside the White House, a Florida man’s apartment has not been searched by police. His roommates have never even been told he died.

The Latest: Official: Inmate scream not from execution drugs

Florida authorities say there’s no indication that loud screaming by a Florida inmate as he was being executed was caused by the lethal injection procedure. Inmate Eric Scott Branch let out the blood-curdling scream and yelled “murderers!”

Superfund work touted by Trump EPA was completed years ago

EPA is touting cleanups finalized at seven of the nation’s most polluted places as a signature accomplishment in its effort to reduce the number of Superfund sites.

3 arrested after shooting following white nationalist speech

Police say three men were arrested after a shot was fired at a group of people following the appearance of white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida.

Yellow wristbands, segregation for Florida homeless in Irma

Homeless people and their advocates in Florida are complaining that some of them were turned away at shelters, separated from others via yellow wristbands or otherwise mistreated during Hurricane Irma in early September.

Florida to execute white man for racially motivated murder

For the first time in its history, Florida is to execute a white man for killing a black person _ and it plans to do so with help of a drug that has never been used previously in any U.S. execution.