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1 month ago | nytimes.com | Danny Hakim |David Chen

Clamoring to capitalize on the MAGA base's excitement over Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, Republican officials in more than a dozen states have moved to start their own versions. But they want everyone to know they've already spent years cutting costs. "We were DOGE before DOGE was cool," Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said recently. Or as Gov. Kevin Stitt put it in a social media post: "We've been DOGE'ing in Oklahoma before it was cool." Then there was Gov.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Shawn Hubler |Alexandra Berzon |Soumya Karlamangla |Thomas Fuller |Danny Hakim

Dave Gomberg had been watching the wind, his concern mounting. A veteran fire weather specialist at the National Weather Service, he understood the high and low pressure systems that ginned up the infamous Santa Anas that blew periodically through Southern California. This wasn't that.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jesus Jimenez |Kate Selig |Amy Graff |Zach Montague |Catrin Einhorn |Ivan Penn | +9 more

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Danny Hakim |Ivan Penn |Blacki Migliozzi |K.K. Rebecca Lai |K.K. Rebecca Lai

LOS ANGELES — Early on the evening of Jan. 7, a resident of a neighborhood of homes backed up against the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California saw what he described as a bright white light and then a small fire at the base of an electrical tower up in Eaton Canyon. Another neighbor reported that his lights flickered a few minutes before he saw fire underneath the tower.

2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Ivan Penn |Blacki Migliozzi |Danny Hakim |K.K. Rebecca Lai |K.K. Rebecca Lai

Share On Jan. 20, nearly two weeks after the Eaton fire broke out, investigators were examining transmission towers, which had visible signs of smoke residue that appeared to have resulted in a brown discoloration on the structure — features that distinguished them from other towers in the area.Firefighters have begun to slow the spread of the Border 2 fire, which started Thursday in the mountains near the U.S.-Mexico border and has scorched 6,625 acres of wilderness in San Diego County.