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As the extended drought has left vegetation dry, brittle and ripe for burning, fire officials in Southern California are bracing for another challenging summer and fall of wildfires amid a shortage of firefighting crews and increased workloads.

Grand Rapids Police Department Officer Christopher Schurr was charged Thursday with one count of second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Lyoya, who was shot in the back of the head during a struggle after an April traffic stop, a Michigan prosecutor said.

Betsy DeVos, who served as former President Donald Trump's secretary of education, is acknowledging publicly for the first time that she discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment with other Cabinet members and then-Vice President Mike Pence following the January 6 US Capitol attack.

Former Rep. Ryan Zinke, who left his seat for a scandal-plagued tenure as then-President Donald Trump's Interior secretary, has won the GOP primary in Montana's 1st Congressional District, CNN Projects.

The California man arrested near US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home and charged with attempting or threatening to kidnap or murder a US judge said in calls he made to 911 before the arrest that he was thinking of killing himself and needed psychiatric help, according to audio recordings released by the Montgomery County Police Department.

Two people were rescued after falling into a tank full of chocolate at the Mars M&M factory in Pennsylvania Thursday, officials said.

Two of the largest fires in New Mexico history are happening simultaneously and are only expected to get bigger through the weekend.

The Supreme Court declined Thursday to step in to block a lower court decision that allowed the counting of undated ballots in a local Pennsylvania judicial race.

Republican candidate Mehmet Oz is being criticized on social media with a false claim that he is not registered to vote in Pennsylvania, the state he is running to represent in the US Senate.