WASHINGTON — The mail-bomb scare widened Thursday as law enforcement officials seized three more suspicious packages — two addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden and one to actor Robert De Niro — as part of a sprawling investigation […]
BRANSON, Mo. — Divers found four more bodies Friday in a Missouri lake where a duck boat packed with tourists capsized and sank in high winds, bringing the death toll to 17 in the country-and-western town of Branson, authorities […]
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — Searchers scouring a river Tuesday that runs alongside a historic Maryland town ripped apart by flash flooding found the body of a man last seen being swept away by brown waters racing downhill, gutting shops and […]
WASHINGTON — Student survivors of the Florida school massacre anchored a massive rally against gun violence Saturday in Washington, D.C., while throngs of young people took to the streets in sister marches across the U.S. Some students also participated […]
Tens of thousands swarmed into the nation’s capital to march for gun control and ignite political activism among the young. Teenage marchers are pledging to vote in November for candidates that will listen to their cries for gun control. (March […]
One month after a deadly shooting that pushed their school to the center of the gun debate, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School take part in the nationwide school walkout against gun violence. (March 14)
Warning that their futures are […]
Parents of Marjory Stoneman Douglas victims were in Tallahassee on Tuesday as Florida lawmakers considered gun legislation. A House committee approved a bill that would raise the minimum age for long gun buyers and let some teachers carry arms. (Feb. […]
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the Russia probe (all times local):
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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors have filed a new charge against a man they say lied to federal investigators in the Russia probe.
A charging document filed in federal […]
Eagles fans crowded the streets of Center City Philadelphia and sang the team’s theme song “Fly Eagles, Fly” after the Eagles beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, 41-33. (Feb. 5)
PHILADELPHIA — The rain and hail that […]
A train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck on Wednesday. No lawmakers were reported to be injured, but the White House said one person was killed and another was seriously injured. […]
WASHINGTON — Brushing aside opposition from the Justice Department, Republicans on the House intelligence committee voted Monday to release a classified memo that purports to show improper use of surveillance by the FBI and the Justice Department in the […]
NEW YORK — Celebrities and activists have taken part in an evening of speeches and music in Manhattan billed as “The People’s State of the Union.”
Monday’s event was planned in response to President Donald Trump’s first State of the […]
NEW YORK — One-time Grammy winner Hillary Clinton made it back to the awards show Sunday night in a role she no doubt relished.
She was a surprise guest in a skit by host James Corden, supposedly auditioning for the […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. home sales slid 3.6 percent in December, as rising prices and a declining number of available properties stifled purchases.
The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that sales of existing homes fell last month to a seasonally […]
A 15-year-old walked into a Kentucky High School and began shooting, killing two and sending dozens to the hospital Tuesday morning. He will be charged with two counts of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder.(Jan. 23)
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BENTON, Ky. — A 15-year-old student opened fire with a handgun inside his rural Kentucky high school Tuesday, killing two classmates, injuring 19 others and sending hundreds fleeing for safety.
Police were seen leading a teenager away in handcuffs. It […]
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Democrats to vote to end the government shutdown. (Jan. 22)
WASHINGTON — As Congress appeared ready to reopen the government Monday on the third day of a shutdown, some federal workers said they are […]
NEW YORK — People participating in marches in the United States and around the world walked in support of female empowerment and denounced President Donald Trump’s views on immigration, abortion, LGBT rights and women’s rights on the anniversary of […]
NEW YORK — Across the globe, people are hitting the streets on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, marching against his policies and in support of the #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment.
A protest in New […]
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney wasn’t optimistic Friday evening about the chances of Democrats and Republicans reaching a deal on a spending bill before midnight. Still, he said there’s a “good chance” they find a solution by Monday. (Jan. […]
CHESAPEAKE, W.Va. — A domestic battery charge against an actress on the former hit show “Glee” has been dismissed in West Virginia.
WCHS-TV reports that the case against 30-year-old Naya Rivera ended after her husband decided not to seek prosecution.
An order was […]
The South awoke on Wednesday to a two-part Arctic mess. First came a thin blanket of snow and ice, and then came the below-zero wind chills. Dangerous, icy roads are reported from Texas and Louisana east to Georgia and North […]
A young woman led deputies to a California home where her 12 brothers and sisters were locked up in filthy conditions, with some of them malnourished and chained to beds. Riverside County deputies arrested her parents on Sunday. (Jan. 16)
PERRIS, […]
Leaders of the Cherokee Nation marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day by welcoming the descendants of slaves into their tribe after years of exclusion, while King’s children and the pastor of an Atlanta church where King preached passionately decried disparaging […]
NAIROBI, Kenya — President Donald Trump’s vulgar insult of Africa was a puzzle for many foreign media organizations, which didn’t have a ready translation of his epithet for their readers or listeners.
Their answers ranged from “dirty” to, well, dirtier.
While […]
President Donald Trump’s administration announced $2 billion in grants Thursday for local agencies trying to help the homeless even as the government proposes deep cuts to federal housing programs.
The total awards in the Continuum of Care program is the most […]
At least six people were killed and homes were ripped from their foundations Tuesday as downpours sent mud and boulders roaring down hills stripped of vegetation by a gigantic wildfire that raged in Southern California last month. (Jan. 9)
MONTECITO, Calif. […]
WASHINGTON — Employers posted fewer open jobs in November, the second straight month of decline after openings reached a record high in September.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that the number of available jobs slipped 0.8 percent to 5.88 million, […]
WASHINGTON — The author of an explosive new book that questions President Donald Trump’s fitness for office on Monday contradicted Steve Bannon’s explanation of comments that had angered his former boss. The book publisher said any effort by Trump […]
MERRIMACK, N.H. — It’s been a billion-dollar lottery weekend after a lone Powerball ticket sold in New Hampshire matched all six numbers and will claim a $570 million jackpot, one day after another single ticket sold in Florida nabbed […]
A massive winter storm roared up the East Coast on Thursday, threatening to dump as much as 18 inches of snow from the Carolinas to Maine, unleashing hurricane-force winds and damaging flooding. (Jan. 4)
BOSTON — Frigid temperatures, some that […]
WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump(all times local):
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President Donald Trump has signed into law a $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package.
Trump touted the size of the tax cut, declaring to reporters in the Oval Office before he […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday GOP candidate Roy Moore should quit his Alabama race amid allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl and pursued romantic relationships with other teenage girls decades ago. (Nov. 13)
WASHINGTON — […]
WASHINGTON — Promoted as needed relief for the middle class, the Senate Republican tax overhaul actually would increase taxes for some 13.8 million moderate-income American households, a bipartisan analysis showed Monday.
The assessment by Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation […]
WASHINGTON — The Latest on Roy Moore, Alabama’s Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate (all times local):
2:45 p.m.
A second woman has come forward to accuse Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore of sexual misconduct when she was a minor.
Beverly […]
A transgender candidate defeated an incumbent Virginia lawmaker who sponsored a bill that would have restricted which bathrooms she could use. (Nov. 8)
RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia woman who is set to become the first openly transgender person to serve […]
LOS ANGELES— California should use armored cars to transport hundreds of millions of dollars in cash tax payments expected next year with the state’s legal marijuana market, the state treasurer said Tuesday.
The state on Jan. 1 will enter a new […]
About a half mile from the site of the worst mass shooting in Texas history, 26 crosses dot the landscape of an empty lot next to the only baseball diamond in Sutherland Springs, Texas. (Nov. 7)
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas — […]
SEATTLE — In a park in the middle of a leafy, bohemian neighborhood where homes list for close to $1 million, a tractor’s massive claw scooped up the refuse of the homeless – mattresses, tents, wooden frames, a wicker chair, […]
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