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LOS ANGELES - Three major fires fueled by devastating winds have burned more than 20,000 acres in Los Angeles County in just over a day. The winds have made the firefight difficult, particularly for units in the air. Dozens of structures have been destroyed and tens of thousands have been evacuated.
While multiple agencies are working together to put out the flames, these fires come just six months after LA Mayor Karen Bass and the LA City Council enacted a new budget which slashed the Los Angeles Fire Department's funding.
According to Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia, the city cut the LAFD's funding by $17.6 million in the 2025 fiscal year, which started on July 1, 2024. Compared to the city's other departments, the LAFD saw the second-largest cut, next to street services. Click here to read more.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF - Wildfires are being drawn inexorably into the climate change hysteria as dueling experts seek to explain the warm, dry weather we have experienced this year.
One recent article correctly moved past the climate concerns to explain how “The truth about forest fires goes up in climate-change smoke.” The author, Ross McKitrick, a professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario, gets it right when he describes how the number of wildfires and area burned have trended down over the past few decades in Canadian forests. He uses numbers from the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System.
“Wildfires have been getting less frequent in Canada over the past 30 years,” McKitrick writes. “The annual number of fires grew from 1959 to 1990, peaking in 1989 at just over 12,000 that year, and has been trending down since. From 2017 to 2021 (the most recent interval available), there were about 5,500 fires per year, half the average from 1987 to 1991.” Click here to read more.
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The Biden administration is preparing to issue roughly $55 million in refunds to illegal aliens who applied for its Keeping Families Together program.
In August, Biden's Department of Homeland Security implemented the program, which would have granted temporary legal status to "certain noncitizen spouses and noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens." The program promised to streamline the path to permanent residency.
To be eligible, spousal applicants had to be married to an American citizen and have resided in the country for the past 10 years. Stepchildren needed to be under 21 years old, unmarried, and have an illegal alien parent who is married to a citizen.
While those who had committed serious violent offenses were not eligible, the program carved out exceptions for other crimes. Illegal aliens facing removal proceedings could also apply. Click here to read more.
BENTONVILLE, AR - Two major retailers confirmed this week that they do not sell a popular abortion pill, despite pressure from Democratic officials to do so.
Both Kroger and Sam’s Club confirmed to The Daily Wire that they do not offer mifepristone for sale after screenshots posted online last month appeared to show the life-ending drug available for purchase. Mifepristone is now used in over half of all abortions and has been used across the country to bypass pro-life protections in Republican-led states.
The controversy emerged last month after pro-life organization Live Action reported that both Kroger and Sam’s Club had mifepristone, which is estimated to be used in over half of abortions, advertised on their websites.
An archived page from December 18 on Kroger’s website shows mifepristone listed for sale. Click here to read more.
LOMBARD, ILL - LOMBARD, Ill. (WKRC) - A man went viral after discovering a decades-old Christmas gift inside the walls of his childhood home.
According to PEOPLE, Tim King, the owner of T.King Construction Services in Lombard, Illinois discovered a Christmas present from around 1978 in the walls of his childhood home while performing renovation work on the property.
King posted video of the shocking discovery to Instagram on December 27. The video later went viral and has garnered more than 51,000 likes. Click here to watch the video.
