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The Latest: Senators ask Hegseth about tax returns, tattoos and diversity in the military By The Associated Press undefined Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are beginning their nomination process this week, starting with Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. The hearing opened Tuesday as senators question whether the former combat …

By JAIMIE DING, JULIE WATSON and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters hoped for a break Friday from fierce winds that have fueled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighborhoods and setting the nation’s second-largest city on edge. The fires have …

By The Associated Press undefined Firefighters battled Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed seven people, burned at least 10,000 structures from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes. Ferocious winds that drove the …

By WILL WEISSERT and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As they filed into the front pews at Washington National Cathedral, wearing dark suits and mostly solemn faces, five current and former presidents came together for Jimmy Carter’s funeral. During a service that stretched more than an hour, the …

By BILL BARROW and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to the Washington area for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday. The hearse carrying flag-draped casket of former President …

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and BRIAN WITTE Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures stirred up dangerous travel conditions in parts of the central U.S. on Sunday, as a disruptive winter storm brought the possibility of the “heaviest snowfall in a decade” to …

By BILL BARROW Associated PressATLANTA (AP) — Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter begin Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.The first events reflect Carter’s climb up the political ladder, from the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, to decades …

By TARA COPP, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press Investigators know that a highly decorated Army soldier shot himself in the head inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks just before it exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, but authorities say there …

By ERIC TUCKER, JIM MUSTIAN, KEVIN McGILL and JACK BROOK Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group wrought carnage on New Orleans’ raucous New Year’s celebration, killing 15 people as he steered around a …

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s planning to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter. Asked about it as he walked into a New Year’s Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump responded, “I’ll be …