Nearly all of the 19 people who died in the Eaton fire lived in West Altadena.

Bryan Hubbell, former head of the air, climate and energy program at the Environmental Protection Agency’s research office. “I knew I wasn’t going to be able to keep doing the work.”

Representative Tony Gonzales during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing in Washington in February.

For Dr. Alister Martin, New York City’s new health commissioner, keeping New Yorkers insured could prove to be the main challenge of his tenure.

A memorial on the Brown University campus in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday.

A Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago last week on the first day of the government shutdown.

Police officers in Manchester, England, on Thursday. The attack on the synagogue came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, and has added to growing fears about a rising wave of antisemitism.

Terry Reid in performance in 1973. During his prime, in the late 1960s and the ’70s, his powerful vocal stylings were compared favorably to the likes of Rod Stewart.

Melissa and Mark Hortman, along with their dog, Gilbert, were killed at their home in Brooklyn Park, Minn.

A partially submerged car in Elmsford, N.Y., on Tuesday morning following heavy rains.

The only hospital in Martin County, N.C., closed two years ago.

Texas officials have blamed the Weather Service for issuing forecasts on Wednesday that underestimated how much rain was coming. But the staffing shortages present a more complicated picture.

The aftermath of the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif., in January. The peak of California’s fire season, when fires are most abundant and the most acres burn, occurs from June through October.

Representative Melissa Hortman at a swearing-in ceremony as House Speaker at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., in 2019.

Kenneth Walker in 1986. He pushed for ABC News to pay more attention to Nelson Mandela “when he was still in jail and was anything but a hero to millions of people, including the president of the United States,” Ted Koppel, the longtime “Nightline” anchor, said.