The nine people still missing have been presumed dead after a fire raged through a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California coast.
Magnitude 7.1 quake strikes near the town of Ridgecrest with 11 times more force than an apparent foreshock that rattled the same area a day earlier.
About 150,000 people flocked to see this year's rain-fed flaming orange patches of poppies lighting up the hillsides near the Southern California city of Lake Elsinore.
US federal prosecutors charge dozens, including celebrity Felicity Huffman, in a college admissions fraud scheme.
The claims, so far, fall short of the record $12 billion in wildfire-related insured losses sustained in California in 2017.
Hours after Trump surveyed the devastation in the town of Paradise, authorities raised the death toll to 76 and warned people being let back into previously evacuated areas to watch out for any remains.
The state-wide death toll from both the Camp and Woolsey fires rose to at least 60 as the Camp Fire grew overnight from 5,000 acres to 135,000 acres.
Thousands of firefighters battle blazes in northern and southern California as body recovery teams search remains of houses and charred cars for victims of "deadliest" wildfire in California's history.
Additional remains of people killed by northern California wildfire, also known as the Camp Fire, recovered, making it the deadliest wildland blaze in state's history, Sheriff Kory Honea says.
At least five search teams were working in Paradise, a town of 27,000 that was largely incinerated on Thursday, and surrounding Northern California communities.
Ian David Long is believed to have stopped shooting in the middle of his massacre that killed 12 people in a bar in California on Wednesday night to post on Instagram.
Hurricane Rosa is expected to affect parts of the coastlines of southwestern Mexico, the southern Baja California Peninsula, and southern California later this week and over the weekend.
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