TikTok users are seeing an alert that the app that services around 170 million Americans will become “temporarily unavailable” when the government’s ban goes into effect Jan. 19, signaling that the app could go dark before President-elect Donald Trump gets sworn in on Jan.

Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday, complying with a law requiring China's ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S.

Like the wildfire conditions in Los Angeles County, my For You page on TikTok turned overnight ... dynamic at play with the fires in Southern California, but the overall experience is not that ...

More than 10,000 homes and other structures have been destroyed by the Palisades and Eaton fires. This is a tragedy of catastrophic scale, a fact that is not lost on Sara Wang, but she's finding some humor in the darkness.

As wildfires continue to ravage California, social media is flooded with misinformation about their origins and impacts. DW investigates the most viral claims.

Firefighters are exhausted and facing low water supply. L.A. officials are urging residents to conserve their water use as firefighters run out of fuel to tamp down the flames. Firefighters went through at least three 1-million gallon tanks.

The Eaton Fire is one of several that have swept across Los Angeles County. At least 24 people have died and more than 12,000 buildings have been destroyed. Parts of Altadena, a mixed-income neighbourhood set ablaze by windblown embers,

As LA firefighters continue to battle the blazes, here’s what you can do for the thousands of people impacted, wherever you are in the world.

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Mercy Chefs, a Virginia-based nonprofit specializing in disaster relief, is on the ground in LA County distributing meals to victims, volunteers, firefighters and other first responders. Mercy Chefs also continues to serve meals in western North Carolina since the region was devastated by Hurricane Helene in late September.

T HE FIVE fires that on January 9th were still blazing in and around Los Angeles were already among the most destructive in California’s history. The scale is staggering, even for a state accustomed to natural disasters.