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LOS ANGELES — Four current or former Los Angeles County sheriff’s employees were found dead Monday and Tuesday in deaths that are being investigated as suicides, law enforcement sources said. The deaths are unrelated to one another, law enforcement sources said. A captain was found dead at his home in …

Special counsel David Weiss, who is overseeing the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, met with the House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors Tuesday as Republicans seek to ramp up their impeachment inquiry into the president over his family’s business dealings. The testimony from Weiss, the U.S. attorney for …

LOS ANGELES — Authorities in Ventura County, California, are investigating the death of a Jewish man who was injured during a confrontation at dueling rallies over Israel and Gaza died Monday, the sheriff’s department said. Witnesses said Paul Kessler, 69, “was in a physical altercation with counter-protestor(s),” the Ventura County Sheriff’s …

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is responsible for the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 because they were the “culmination” of his conspiracies to overturn the 2020 presidential election, special counsel Jack Smith’s office says in a new filing in the former president’s federal election interference case. The filing …

Taraja Ramsess, a stuntman known for his work in “Avengers: Endgame” and “Black Panther,” died on Oct. 31 in Atlanta. He was 41. Ramsess died in a car accident alongside his two daughters Sundari and Fujibo, who were 13-years-old and 8-weeks-old, respectively. His mother Akili Ramsess confirmed the death of …

Gaza communications restored after latest outage JERUSALEM — Communication networks have been restored in the Gaza Strip after the latest total cut-off, a local aid group said. “A little while ago, telecommunications and internet services in the Gaza Strip were restored after being intentionally and forcibly cut off by the …

Meet Grok, the first technology out of Elon Musk’s new AI company, xAI. Grok, the company said, is modeled on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” It is supposed to have “a bit of wit,” “a rebellious streak” and it should answer the “spicy questions” that other AI might dodge, according …

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., on Sunday defended the cuts to IRS funding in a bill passed by the GOP-led House that would provide about $14 billion in aid to Israel amid its war with Hamas. The House last week voted 226-196, mostly along …

Kourtney Kardashian Barker gave birth this week to her first child with husband Travis Barker, according to two sources close to Kardashian Barker. Kardashian Barker, who married the Blink-182 drummer last year and announced her pregnancy in June, welcomed a baby boy. The couple had documented Kardashian Barker’s struggle to …

A San Jose, California, police officer was fired after an investigation revealed he had sent “disgusting text messages that demonstrated racial bias,” San Jose Chief of Police Anthony Mata said in a release Friday. It was discovered that the former officer, Mark McNamara — who had been working for the …