Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...

Sid The Cat, Mike Viola and Tyler Chester on Friday announced the “I Love LA” Eaton Fire Relief benefit concert with Andrew Bird, Bright Eyes, David Longstreth (of Dirty Projectors), Delicate ...

Charon was discovered on June 22, 1978, by American astronomer, James Walter Christy, at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, USA. It was initially going to be called “Vulcan” after the Roman ...

A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los Angeles County. The Hughes Fire, which broke out Wednesday afternoon in Castaic, is 0 percent ...

The U.S. Air Force is examining ways to upgrade the Andreas Papandreou Air Force Base, shown here, for use as a humanitarian staging post in future operations in the Middle East. (Petros Karadjias ...

The Hughes Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres Wednesday around the Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County on Wednesday continuing a devastating wave of Southern California wildfires fueled by dry ...

Istanbul, Turkey — A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...

Click here for the latest Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 updates. A fast-growing brush fire forced evacuation orders in the Los Angeles County community of Castaic on Wednesday, officials said.

Nearly a thousand people are under a mandatory evacuation order after a brush fire broke out Tuesday afternoon near Fashion Valley Mall in Mission Valley. The Friars Fire broke out just after 12: ...

San Diego County firefighters were working to contain the Lilac Fire, one of three brush fires that broke out early Tuesday morning prompting evacuation orders, school closures and power shutoffs ...