California's blazing hellscape, Jimmy Carter's belief in humankind, and more from Fox News Opinion

The move is another flip flop for Hochul, who let proposals for universal free school lunches from the legislature die in state budget talks for at least the last two years.

JJ Redick lost his rental home in the Pacific Palisades fire this week.

The teens – ages 13, 14 and two 15-year-olds – were nabbed on Wednesday and Thursday, each facing charges of robbery, assault and harassment in the Jan. 1 evening attack on Linda Rosa, 71,  authorities said.

The Toronto Blue Jays added an All-Star to their bullpen on Friday by signing a former Philadelphia Phillies right-hander to a 3-year, $33 million contract.

Rob Marciano spent Friday embedded with Los Angeles County Fire Department crews as they went through the disaster zone of the Palisades Fire, extinguishing flare-ups.

One of the dumbest rules in Hall of Fame voting limits voters to 10 “yes” votes. 

Two massive fires, the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, and the Eaton Fire in northeast Los Angeles County, continued burning on Friday, but crews have made some progress on containment. Meanwhile, fire officials are responding to three other dangerous fires in the region. CBS News' Tom Hanson and Kris Van Cleave report.

Greenland's prime minister says the people of his Arctic territory don't want to be American or Danish, but he's open to cooperation with the U.S.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said it reached a settlement agreement with WWE co-founder Vince McMahon, which requires he pay a civil penalty and reimburse the WWE $1.33 million following a yearslong probe over administrative charges.

The National Weather Service warned of "dangerous travel conditions, scattered power outages, and downed branches."

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday afternoon confirmed Mexico will send firefighters to help Los Angeles battle wildfires.

Bill Hader discovered his home survived the flames.

"I think she's competent to run again in four years. That will be a decision for her to make," Biden, 82, said just 10 days before leaving the White House.

A winter storm is moving out of Texas after dropping ice and snow across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. CBS News' Jason Allen has the latest.

After a 1-4 start to the season that ended with an NFC West title, the Rams believe, "It's not something that we cannot overcome. ... the Rams are built for this."

President-elect Donald Trump will become the first sitting U.S. president to have a criminal record when he takes office in 10 days. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman breaks down what this means for Trump and if he can appeal the verdict.

Los Angeles Fire Chief Kirstin Crowley slammed the city’s leadership over its handling of the fire department’s budget as deadly wildfires continue to rip through Southern California. During an interview with Fox News’ affiliate KTTV on Friday, Crowley was asked three consecutive times if LA Mayor Karen Bass failed the department and the thousands of Angelenos whose...

At a gathering of local officials and business leaders hosted at Crest Hollow Country Club Friday morning, Gov. Kathy Hochul bragged about taking the LIRR out from Manhattan that morning.

He’s going to play through. President-elect Donald Trump casually played a round of golf Friday afternoon — completely unfazed by the sentencing from New York Judge Juan Merchan. The soon-to-be commander in chief donned his signature “Trump Was Right About Everything” cap as he swerved around in a golf cart on the links of Trump...

President Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office, five days before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in.

Bet on briefcases! But on an island! It’s Deal or No Deal Island, and it’s back for another season.

Here's a look at the top stories making headlines on the "CBS Evening News" with Maurice DuBois.

An emotional JJ Redick opened up about losing his home in the Palisades wildfires and explained to the media what he saw driving in his neighborhood.

Brenda King, a California single mother who lost everything in Altadena this week during the Eaton Fire, is hailing her community’s resilience.

In my neighborhood—a mobile-home park on the western side of Malibu—the power and gas have been out for days, and cell service is intermittent at best. If I drive to the right vantage points, I can see the Palisades Fire and Kenneth Fire—two of the five major fires blazing across Los Angeles—but they are still far away. My home is not in a mandatory evacuation zone or even a warning zone. It is, or is supposed to be, safe. Yet my family’s phones keep blaring with evacuation notices, as they move in and out of service.As far as I can tell, these notices have all been in error. Earlier today, Kevin McGowan, the director of Los Angeles County’s emergency-management office, acknowledged at a press conference that officials knew alerts like these had gone out, acknowledged some of them were wrong, and still had no idea why, or how to keep it from happening again. (The office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)The first alert jolted my phone yesterday afternoon. My family had already loaded the essentials in the car earlier this week, but we started packing in whatever else would fit, thinking that this might be the last chance we had to save anything we valued. Dad and I heaved my mother’s old rodeo saddle through the living room as she took a call from a woman worried about a friend of ours whom no one had heard from since the night before. Mom had the phone crooked under her ear, moving back and forth through the house. She gathered a photograph of her father and the tablecloth crocheted by my great-great-great-grandmother—a Californian, like me. But every time she went to a new part of the house to get some other keepsake, the call would cut out and she couldn’t hear what her friend was saying.“Just stop moving,” I told her.“I know,” she said, “but what else am I supposed to do?” The tablecloth was in our kitchen; the photograph of her dad was in the living room; she still wanted to see if we could find the old Super 8 tapes we’d been meaning to digitize. We had to get ready to leave.We learned that the first notification had been sent out in error. Mom’s employer, Pepperdine University, sent an email clarifying that, according to multiple sources, officials had accidentally sent the warnings countywide, rather than to only the people who actually needed to evacuate.The second notice came as we drove through a canyon, on our way to the woman who had called earlier. We got the third when we pulled into her driveway. For all I know, these could have been the same alerts, pinging my phone again from different cell towers as we drove through L.A. County.Mom checked the Watch Duty app before we went into our friend’s house. The platform sends her alerts about fire perimeters, evacuations, and any new blazes cropping up. This app has been the only way we’ve had any sense of the gray area of danger between the fire is far away and leave now. Looking at Watch Duty, we judged that we were in the clear—that these notifications were inaccurate. But we kept our phones close.The third and fourth evacuation warnings came through on the way home. Again, we had no idea whether to trust them. From what we could tell of the fire’s movements, from the radio and from Watch Duty, the perimeter was still very far away from us. The wind had gone quiet. Mom and I fell asleep at about 4 a.m.The fifth, sixth, and seventh evacuation warnings came through around 6 a.m.—on my phone. My parent’s phones were silent, and they were still asleep. I woke Mom up to check Watch Duty. From what we could tell, these notices were also false. At least now we were awake in case they turned out to be real.If we had to leave, we weren’t entirely sure where we would go. Most of our local friends have already had to evacuate; we have yet to find a hotel with a vacancy. Mom and I keep talking over our options—whether we should drive to Santa Cruz, San Francisco, or Las Vegas, where we have friends waiting for us.The eighth notification came at about 8 a.m today. The ninth, around 9 a.m. The tenth, around 11:30 a.m. The 11th, as I finished writing this dispatch.My family might be outliers in the sheer number of false alarms we keep receiving. Two of our friends in other neighborhoods received only that first false alarm yesterday and haven’t received anything since. (Some people received a correction notice from L.A. County.) But our next-door neighbor told us this morning that several evacuees staying with her got evacuation alerts last night, too.Even one false evacuation alert is, of course, a problem. Everyone around me is desperate for any bit of information that might tell us what’s happening and what we need to do next. It’s alarming when my phone—my one portal to fire updates and messages from friends—keeps screeching that I may need to get up and go, with seemingly no relation to the reality I see out my window.Between the probably-false-but-maybe-not evacuation notifications, my loved ones are texting to ask if my family is okay. I am grateful they are asking, and at the same time, I truly do not know what to tell them. Not being able to trust the alerts that are supposed to tell us when we are safe or not has rattled us. We keep talking with our neighbors, trying to figure out where the fires are.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass recently rejected an offer for assistance from the New York Fire Department, outlets reported.

The couple are already the parents of daughter Paulina, while the "Botched" star also shares sons Gavin, Colin and Christian with ex Adrienne Maloof.

LOS ÁNGELES . — Los bomberos esperaban un respiro el viernes de los vientos feroces que alimentan los enormes incendios en Los Ángeles que han matado a 10 personas, arrasado barrios enteros y puesto en alerta a la segunda ciudad más grande de Estados Unidos.

Here are five NFL teams that didn't make the playoffs but could definitely pull it off next year.

The Biden administration is illegally sanctioning American Jews in the Middle East, a recently filed lawsuit challenging the executive order claims.

He gives a pluck about crime prevention! Mayor Adams stopped to get his eyebrows “threaded” Friday while on a tour of a notorious Queens street he aimed to show had been “cleaned up” of rampant prostitution and illegal merchants. “I look even better looking than I did when I walked in,” Adams said, while glimpsing...

The emperor has no clothes — and no empathy. It’s likely, though, he still does have a standing reservation at the French Laundry. Of course, it’s Gavin Newsom, of whom I write. The smug and ambitious progressive California Governor whose political aspirations went up in flames as Los Angeles continues to burn to the ground,...

A political who's who attended former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral on Thursday, including several presidents who were elected by emulating his "dark horse" campaign strategy. CBS News' Lindsey Reiser breaks down exactly how a Georgia peanut farmer won the nation's most powerful office roughly half a century ago.

On Thursday, in response to a rash of brutal, high-profile attacks on random straphangers, Mayor Adams unveiled a $650 million, five-year plan to fight homelessness and get help to the city's untreated mentally ill.

Luis Manuel Hernandez Bonilla, a suspected MS-13 gang member, was arrested Tuesday by Texas authorities after a traffic stop and charged with murder.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will appeal his conviction in the New York criminal "hush money" case after being sentenced Friday without any penalties. Ty Cobb, former member of the Trump administration's legal team, joins "America Decides" with his reaction.

The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok as soon as this month. The justices appear to agree that the app's links to China are a national security threat. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford joins "America Decides" to break down Friday's arguments.

At least 10 people are dead and over 300,000 have been ordered or warned to evacuate as wildfires continue to devastate parts of Southern California. Some residents have been quick to blame Democratic leaders in the state, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom. Political strategists Mariel Sáez and Matt Gorman join "America Decides" with analysis.

Could the Giants find their quarterback of the future by revisiting their recent past?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom demanded an independent investigation into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power after fire hydrants went dry during the devastating fires.

In more than half of the 50 largest U.S. metros, median list prices have plunged year over year.

The Arizona Cardinals are reportedly sending two of their team planes to Los Angeles to evacuate LA Rams players, their families, team staffers and pets.

The "well-prepared" actor "had purchased a ring," "spoken with her father and gained permission to propose to his daughter," Dominic Holland revealed.

CBS News examined public statements and warnings to trace how authorities sounded the alarm about the L.A. fires as conditions worsened. Here's what we know.

He’ll miss New Orleans’ Friday night game against the 76ers as a result. 

And if you were looking for potential heroes in the extra session for the Rangers, Sam Carrick probably wouldn’t have been high on the list.

Deadly wildfires in Southern California remain mostly uncontained as of Friday evening. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office says at least 10 people have died. CBS News correspondent Elise Preston has more from Santa Monica on new fears that strong winds will persist.

El presidente electo estadounidense, Donald Trump, dijo que intentará cambiar el nombre del Golfo de México por el de “Golfo de Estados Unidos”, un nombre que, según él, suena “hermoso”.