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As the smoke lifts, the full destruction of the wildfires in Oregon is beginning to reveal itself. A chain of small mountain communities, dotted along Highway-22, east of the state capital Salem, has been left as nothing more than ashes by the Beachie Creek fire. Image: Wetter and cooler than California, Oregon is not supposed

Donald Trump had a simple message for emergency officials in California: “It’ll start getting cooler.” The US president, who in the past has blamed the widespread blazes on poor forest management, visited the state on Monday. Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for National Resources, told Mr Trump: “We had temperatures explode this summer. You may have

Donald Trump has hosted his first indoor rally in three months in front of a packed, mainly mask-less, crowd in Nevada – defying state regulations and his own administration’s guidelines. Despite a ban on gatherings of more than 50 in Nevada, the president soaked up raucous cheers from the large crowd inside a warehouse in

Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies are fighting for their lives after they were shot in an apparent ambush that was captured on video. The pair, a man and a woman, were sitting in their patrol car in Compton when a gunman approached from the side and opened fire before fleeing the scene. Officials said

The pall hanging over Oregon is literally breathtaking. The wildfire smoke is a choking shroud hundreds of miles long and it is impossible to escape. It pervades in a remarkable way – even, alarmingly, into the cabin of planes descending into Portland airport. Image: Molalla in Oregon is a ghost town because of the fires

The pandemic has laid bare deep-rooted problems and many Angelenos are cutting their losses and leaving the city.  Homelessness has long been a problem in US cities such as Los Angeles. Since the pandemic hit, the number of people living in tents in the city has grown visibly. Image: Homelessness has increased in the Californian

Bodycam footage has captured the moment a police officer confronted a student who was hosting a “COVID-19” party where everyone who attended had tested positive for the virus. The video shows an officer in Oxford, Ohio, talking to one of 20 people at a home near Miami University last Saturday – double the number allowed

Dozens of people are missing in Oregon as two large fires threaten to merge and hundreds of thousands are ordered to evacuate. The western US is reeling from a devastating wildfires season that has destroyed more than 2.6 million acres in California alone, killed at least 24 people, and given the area the world’s worst

More than half a million people have been forced to evacuate their homes in Oregon as wildfires across the US West Coast continue to rage, killing several people. At least 100 wildfires are burning across 12 western US states, with more than 10% of hard-hit Oregon‘s 4.2 million population told to flee their properties. Governor

Hackers from China, Russia and Iran are attempting to spy on the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, according to Microsoft. The tech giant says that the same group of cyber criminals from Russia that attempted to interfere in the 2016 US election are trying to break into email accounts belonging to staff

A 10-day biker rally in South Dakota was responsible for more than 260,000 cases of coronavirus costing $12.2 billion in treatment, according to a study by San Diego State University. That represents almost one in five of the 1.4 million new cases of COVID-19 in the US between 2 August and 2 September. The Sturgis

Donald Trump has defended his approach in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic following claims he admitted he was playing down the US outbreak. According to Rage, a new book by journalist Bob Woodward, the US president appeared to understand the threat of COVID-19 as he was telling the nation it was no worse

Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize following his efforts to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The US president’s name has been put forward by Norwegian politician Christian Tybring-Gjedde, according to Fox News. “For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace

Keeping Up With The Kardashians is ending after 14 years on air, Kim Kardashian West has announced.  The reality show, which followed the lives of the Kardashian family over 20 seasons, made its stars household names. It will come to an end after its 20th season in early 2021, Kardashian West said on Instagram. View

There have always been a few things that Los Angeles residents had good reason to worry about. The traffic, the wildfires, being button-holed in the coffee shop by would-be movie scriptwriter. And the earthquakes, of course. But the weather has rarely been cause for concern. The perennial Mediterranean climate, always seemingly sunny and in the

A record of more than two million acres have burned in California so far in 2020 – with authorities warning the worse could still be to come. More than 14,000 firefighters are battling around 24 major fires in the state, according to California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s (Cal Fire). Those active fires have