A fast-moving wildfire flared Wednesday, spreading to more than 5,000 acres in a matter of hours, forcing over 20,000 people to evacuate a region north of Los Angeles, according to officials. The Hughes Fire broke out around 10:53 a.m. Wednesday near the northern Los Angeles County city of Castaic, prompting an additional 15,000 residents to be placed under evacuation alerts, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office. Three hours later, fire officials reported that the fire had burned over 5,054 acres. The fire started weeks after two neighboring fires in the Los Angeles area earlier this month destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at least 27 people. The Angeles National Forest said in a statement that the fire was uncontainable as of 1:33 p.m. The California H...

Actress Cheryl Hines shared a graphic video of her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking a shower behind her while she promoted her cosmetics company less than two months ago. According to a recent financial declaration, Hines, of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame, has consented to stop selling the company's goods in the event that her husband is appointed the next secretary of Health and Human Services. According to the disclosure, my spouse has committed to Hines & Young, LLC ceasing to sell the company's cosmetic inventory within ninety days after my appointment date. Hines shared the video on Instagram in November along with the caption, "Oh Bobby." Her head is purposefully obstructing portions of his body while he takes a shower in the background of the video. It was strategically placed t...

Washington The Laken Riley Act, a stringent immigration detention law named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student who was slain by an undocumented immigrant last year, received final passage in the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday. Upon his return to the White House this week, President Donald Trump is anticipated to sign the legislation, which aims to crack down on illegal immigrants who commit nonviolent offenses like theft. 46 Democrats joined all Republicans in supporting the legislation, which was approved by the House by a vote of 263-156. With 12 Democratic votes, the bill cleared the Senate on Monday by a vote of 64-35. Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Mark Warner (D-Va.) were among them; they are all up for reelecti...

After a brief missing-persons search, Mob Wives cast member Natalie Nat D. DiDonato was found safely in Nevada on Wednesday, according to her mother. "My daughter has been located," Denise Fuoco, the mother, said NBC News. "At the moment, she is alright. Our goal is to bring her home. Late Wednesday afternoon, a representative of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was unavailable for comment. A spokesman earlier in the day verified that DiDonato, who had been reported missing, was being sought by the department. When Florida resident DiDonato called her mother on Wednesday to let her know she was okay, the worried mother informed the authorities that her daughter was no longer missing or in danger, according to her family. Family members claimed they had no idea why she had gone ...

A fast-moving wildfire broke out in Southern California on Wednesday, prompting evacuation orders and the closure of a portion of a key freeway. Following two adjacent fires that destroyed thousands of houses and killed at least 27 people in the Los Angeles area earlier this month, the Hughes Fire broke out. More than 5,000 acres had been burned by the most recent fire, which was reported at 10:53 a.m. on Wednesday in Castaic, a hamlet in northern Los Angeles County, according to fire officials. The Angeles National Forest said in a statement that the fire was uncontainable as of 1:33 p.m. The California Highway Patrol reported that a portion of Interstate 5, which runs across California, Oregon, and Washington State, had its northbound lanes closed. The number of persons who had been told...

Before putting on running sneakers for a weightlifting or aerobics class, give it some thought. Training shoes—lightly padded, flat, solid sneakers that put stability first and keep you grounded—are necessary for these kinds of exercises. According to podiatrist and certified sports trainer Dr. Alicia Canzanese, consider them your multipurpose gym sneakers. They are designed for weight training, CrossFit, HIIT workouts, and quick running or jumping exercises. I spoke with experts on things to look for while buying for training shoes so that you can get the perfect pair. For the past two years, the NBC Select staff has also been evaluating training shoes, so I compiled our top picks based on activity type, price, and support level. GO Ahead and Skip2025's top training sneakers | Why shoul...

In a message on Tuesday, Dr. Dorothy Fink, President Donald Trump's acting secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, directed chiefs of all federal health departments to temporarily halt public communications while a review was conducted. The memo, which was obtained by NBC News, instructs the heads of the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hold off on releasing any documents or communications—including press releases and regulations—to the public until they have been examined and approved by a presidential appointee. The pause began immediately and will end on February 1. The memo allowed for communications that might be deemed a critical health and safety issue to be released. During a ca...

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday that paused all government regulations, putting a proposal to prohibit formaldehyde in hair straightening products in limbo. The Food and Drug Administration declared that it would make a decision by April 2024 about the prohibition of formaldehyde or substances that can release formaldehyde when heated in chemical hair straightening products sold in the United States. The FDA stated in 2024 that while formaldehyde is not present in all chemical hair relaxers, several of them have components that can release the toxin when heated. More and more research over the years has connected formaldehyde to cancers that are particularly common in Black women. According to a document published in the United Agenda, a government website that offers i...

Washington On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, announced the formation of a select subcommittee to look into incidents that occurred before to and following January 6, 2021. There is certainly more work to be done, but House Republicans are proud of our efforts thus far in dispelling the myths spread by the politically driven January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, Johnson said in a statement. According to Johnson, the goal of the subcommittee is to find the whole truth that the American people deserve. The speaker did not specify which misleading narratives he claims the initial select committee spread. The new subcommittee, which will be under the purview of the House Judiciary Committee, which is led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will be ...

In a courthouse in central Manhattan, the trial of three men who prosecutors claim enabled a robbery and drugging conspiracy that terrorized gay bars in New York City and resulted in two fatalities got underway Wednesday. Between March 2021 and June 2022, Jayqwan Hamilton, 36; Robert Demaio, 35; and Jacob Barroso, 30 are charged with conspiring to drug and rob five men after they met them outside of gay bars and nightclubs in Manhattan. In the spring of 2022, prosecutors claimed that the offenses resulted in the deaths of political strategist John Umberger, 33, and social worker Julio Ramirez, 25. The crimes were not made widely known until May 2022, over a year after the plan started, when Ramirez's unexplained death was covered by NBC News. Hamilton, Demaio, and Barroso entered not guilt...