With voting in the California recall closing Tuesday night, the possibility of Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, being recalled was nearly a toss-up, winding up just outside the margin of error, according to the latest…
Firefighters battling a stubborn California wildfire Friday near the Lake Tahoe resort region faced gusty winds and dry conditions that made vegetation ready to burn.
The United States on Friday charged Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina with making threats or attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting the use of an explosive device, after Roseberry parked…
Russian President Vladimir Putin objected to President Joe Biden’s June 16 summit suggestion to reposition withdrawn Afghanistan forces in Central Asian countries, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Police were investigating a report Thursday of a possible explosive device in a pickup truck outside the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill and have evacuated the area around the building, two law enforcement officials…
Portland’s homicide total in 2021 has already reached 58 people, making it the deadliest year in the city this century. Portland appears to be on track to shatter its previous all-time record of 70 homicides…
Houston area officials say the latest wave of COVID-19 cases is pushing the local health care system to nearly “a breaking point,” resulting in some patients having to be transferred out of the city to…
A 55-year-old woman was beheaded in broad daylight Wednesday in Shakopee, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said Sunday a bipartisan group working on an infrastructure package is near agreement, with one outstanding issue to resolve: mass transit funding….
Four people have been arrested and more than a dozen weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition have been seized at a downtown Denver hotel that is close to several events planned in conjunction with…
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck a mountainous region of Northern California near the border with Nevada on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), but no injuries or serious damage were immediately reported.The quake,…
The first “murder hornet” of the year has been discovered near Seattle.
U.S. military scrambled fighter jets in response to the Russian Navy conducting what Moscow officials called its largest exercise in the Pacific Ocean since the end of the Cold War. The exercise, which comes just…
The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday that river traffic has reopened on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, three days after it was closed when a crack was discovered in the Interstate 40 bridge that…
Texas lawmakers are trying to stop a Chinese firm from infiltrating the state’s power grid near a U.S. Air Force base. In April, the state Senate passed a bill that would ban businesses backed by…