Churches Burn; Synagogue Scorched, but Survives; Rabbi’s Home Lost in Palisades Fire
Religious buildings were not spared the wrath of the Palisades Fire on Tuesday and Wednesday in Los Angeles, with many churches damaged and destroyed.

Religious buildings were not spared the wrath of the Palisades Fire on Tuesday and Wednesday in Los Angeles, with many churches damaged and destroyed.
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel B. Pollak spent Wednesday afternoon reporting from the Palisades fire — and spent an hour time trying to save his own home.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who is under fire for being in Africa as her city erupted in flames this week, last month boasted that she was “building a greener L.A.”
A host of famous Hollywood landmarks remained under threat Thursday as the deadly fires laying waste to vast parts of Los Angeles County and its immediate surrounds show no sign of abatement.
President-elect Donald Trump has called on Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom to resign while the city of Los Angeles burns, saying it is “his fault.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the renowned actress and comedienne who co-starred in Seinfeld and played the Vice President in Veep, lost her home in the Huntington neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, California, during the Palisades fire.
The streets at the foot of the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles were gridlocked Wednesday night as hundreds of people fled from the newly erupted Sunset fire in Runyon Canyon near the famous Hollywood sign.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass held a press conference on Wednesday night in response to the California wildfires raging in the Palisades and Altadena.
A brush fire erupted in the Hollywood Hills area of California, to the west of the iconic Hollywood sign, amid several ongoing wildfires that first erupted in the Pacific Palisades area on Tuesday.
The Eaton fire in Los Angeles County’s Altadena and Pasadena has grown to over 10,000 acres with at least five people dead, hundreds of homes lost, and over 100,000 people under an ordered evacuation.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) nearly fell into total silence when questioned by a reporter about the incompetent response to the wildfires,
Far-left activists from Code Pink are being accused of exploiting tragedy after linking California’s devastating wildfires to the conflict in Gaza, claiming both are fueled by policies targeting indigenous lands and broader environmental neglect.
President-elect Donald Trump believes the wildfires that have wreaked havoc on Los Angeles County could be the most costly – in terms of money – in the history of the United States.
Biden received a briefing from first responders and officials at Santa Monica Fire Station #5 in California about the Santa Ana wind-fueled wildfires ravaging Los Angeles.
President-elect Donald Trump said that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is to blame for the horrific wildfires incinerating Los Angeles.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the Democrat-run government of California caused insurance companies to cancel many of their fire insurance policies — with many residents of Pacific Palisades losing their policies just before the wildfires.
California Governor Gavin Newsom used an emergency press conference Tuesday to thank Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for her leadership “in absentia” during the wildfire crisis now enveloping the state after she phoned it in from Ghana, Africa.
People battling the raging wildfires that broke out in the mountains above the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday are rescuing and releasing horses in hopes they survive as extreme winds rapidly spread the blaze across the region.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ran on abortion in her 2022 campaign and was in Ghana on a diplomatic mission when the fires broke out.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D), who was on a trip to Ghana when fire engulfed large portions of the city, cut nearly $20 million from the city’s budget for fire services for the current fiscal year — and proposed even more cuts.
Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World star Chris Pratt called for prayers Wednesday morning on behalf of the Los Angeles firefighters battling wildfires engulfing the city for a second day running.
A brushfire erupted in Eaton Canyon near Altadena just north of Pasadena amid the Los Angeles wildfires on Tuesday, which have been exacerbated by the massive windstorm hitting the area.
Fireworks that were set off on New Year’s Eve and caused a small fire in calm conditions may have smoldered and caused the wildfire currently burning in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, after being accelerated by high winds.
Two brush fires broke out in Los Angeles on Tuesday as Southern California faces “life-threatening” wind conditions that are fanning the flames, according to city officials.
A massive multi-hundred-acre fire has engulfed the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, forcing evacuations of the area.
The fast-burning wildfire that broke out in the mountains above Pacific Palisades amid extreme high winds on Tuesday morning threatened homes and the local public school, which was evacuated.
Iranian engineers, whose “operational negligence” allegedly caused an oil spill in one of Venezuela’s main refineries in November, helped the socialist regime there cover up the accident, the Argentine outlet Infobae revealed on Tuesday.
Vast areas of Southern California have been warned by weather officials to brace for a “life-threatening and destructive” windstorm driven by strong Santa Ana winds across Tuesday.
A devastating earthquake rocked a remote region of Tibet near Mt Everest on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing “many buildings.”
California’s long-delayed high-speed rail project has a new destination: Las Vegas.
The first bird flu virus death in the United States was recorded in Louisiana on Monday after the patient was exposed to a backyard flock.
President Joe Biden’s long-threatened push to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters is going ahead in a move designed to thwart incoming President-elect Donald Trump’s administration promise to expand offshore drilling in the name of ensuring America’s energy self-sufficiency.
President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration has granted California special Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waivers to impose higher emissions standards for law mowers, leaf blowers, refrigerated trucks, and off-road vehicles.
A financial and critical flop in its day, director Roger Spottiswoode’s The Best of Times (1986) deserves a second life.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is planning to clear 420 acres of trees in a state forest in order to build a solar farm, according to a recent report.
The Pacific Ocean orca mother who made headlines in 2018 for carrying the body of her dead calf for over two weeks is in mourning again.
Lightning struck the Capitol dome in Washington, DC, on New Year’s Eve, leaving observers stunned — and leading social media users to wonder if the bolt heralded a new era of change.
Several Illinois school districts will be receiving millions in federal grant dollars to purchase electric school buses to replace gas-powered ones, Board of Education officials said.
Two Portland, Oregon, men who went into the Washington state wilderness to look for “Sasquatch” were discovered dead after failing to return home on Christmas Eve, police said.
People around the planet suffered “an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change,” CBS News lamented Friday.