Impeachment talk got you down? Does the mention of a word that rhymes with “dump” make you want to drive north on the southbound 405 during rush hour? The standard remedies — alcohol, meditation, self-cutting, ice cream, porn — aren’t enough these days.

Southern California Edison warned customers Wednesday that a windy forecast means pre-emptive blackouts could be on the way to avoid catastrophic wildfires throughout the region.

After more than a year of contract negotiations at the Los Angeles Times, the newsroom’s union reached a contract agreement on Wednesday evening after the newspaper was purchased in February 2018 and broke away from a Chicago-based publisher.

September was the warmest ever recorded in North America and the rest of the planet tied a record for the hottest September ever, according to a global climate report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday.

A federal judge handed a victory to conservationists Wednesday, finding the Trump administration’s plan to boost energy development, mining and construction in greater sage grouse habitat should be halted while the two sides argue the merits.

California’s Central Valley yields billions of dollars’ worth of fruits and vegetables each year, but its aquifers are overused and polluted. With brown, silty streams pouring from their kitchen sinks, thousands of farmworkers and residents have become habitual buyers and users of bottled water.

Rosalie Howes began to choke up when she began to describe the effect Tennessee’s proposal to receive Medicaid funding as a block grant would mean for her family.

In a secret motel room meeting in 1994, federal agents offered Rayful Edmond III the opportunity to cooperate with the government but told the D.C. drug kingpin the help he gave would not change his life sentence.

The new head of Alaska’s Iditarod plans to meet with a leader of an animal welfare group that’s devoted to ending the world’s most famous sled dog race, which it sees as a cruel, deadly event for its canine participants.

Eager for changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs, President Donald Trump toyed with issuing an executive order to close parts of the VA health system without consulting Congress, according to an upcoming book by his former VA secretary.

Embattled Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria on Thursday accused Turkey of using banned weapons such as napalm and white phosphorus, a charge Ankara denied.

The grieving parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash involving a U.S. diplomat’s wife felt ambushed when President Trump tried to get them to meet with the woman in front of the press, attorneys for the couple said Wednesday.