The $500 million figure reflects only the work by the main construction contractor, Kiewit Corp., to repair the spillways at the 770-foot Oroville Dam, said Erin Mellon, a spokeswoman for…
Matt Rourke/Associated PRess<br><br>A woman walks through a winter snow storm in Philadelphia. In a report released Thursday, U.S. forecasters say chances are good that much of the nation will have…
A Pacific Gas & Electric crew work on replacing poles on Wednesday in Glen Ellen, Calif. California fire officials have reported significant progress on containing wildfires that have ravaged parts…
British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. European Union leaders are gathering for a…
The Toyota brand came in first in this year’s rankings, followed by the company’s luxury Lexus brand. It’s the fifth year in a row that a Toyota brand has topped…
Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press<br><br>CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks during the Foundation for Defense of Democracies National Security Summit in Washington on Thursday. Pompeo says the North Koreans are closer than they…
This illustration provided by Hilcorp Alaska Inc. shows a model of an artificial gravel island of the Liberty Project, a proposal to drill in Arctic waters from the artificial island.…
This is life one month after Hurricane Maria slammed into the U.S. territory on Sept. 20 as a Category 4 storm that killed at least 48 people, destroyed tens of…
Demonstrators protest against Catalan government’s push for secession from the rest of Spain in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday. The pro-independence regional Catalan government’s foreign affairs chief rules out the possibility…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, announces to reporters that the Senate is moving ahead on a…
An Afghan National Army soldier searches a vehicle at a checkpoint on the way to Zhari district, where the Maiwand army base is located, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Thursday. The…
Iolana Keith of Des Moines, Iowa, feeds chickens in the backyard with her mom, Tanya Keith, in Des Moines on Sept. 26. The trend of raising backyard chickens is causing…
Both numbers were expected to rise as crews continued assessing areas scorched by the blazes that killed 42 people, a total that makes it the deadliest series of fires in…
They create a blue halo, apparently to attract the bees they need for pollination, scientists reported Wednesday. Bees are drawn to the color blue, but it’s hard for flowers to…
Defendant Tyerell Przybycien waits for the start of his preliminary hearing, in 4th District Court, Provo, Utah. A judge ruled this week that Przybycien, who was accused of encouraging a…
This photo posted online Thursday by supporters of the Islamic State group on an anonymous photo sharing website, purports to show an IS fighter firing a weapon during clashes with…
Cancer patients increasingly are having their care guided by gene tumor boards, a new version of the hospital panels that traditionally decided whether surgery, radiation or chemotherapy would be best.…
Google executives on Wednesday briefed the House and Senate intelligence committees ahead of two Nov. 1 hearings that will examine Russian efforts to influence U.S. elections through social media.Matt Rourke/Associated…
Alice was 8 years old when her father, a Bloomsbury Publishing executive, brought home a new manuscript for her to read. “The excitement in this book made me feel warm…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., stands beside a poster critical of the Republican tax and budget proposals during a news conference, at the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday.J. Scott…
Karissa Willhite testified she and other staffers were probing Medicare policy issues and not trying to specifically help a wealthy donor on trial for allegedly bribing the Democrat senator from…
Now, Finzell wonders if that will be her fate too, as the wildfires that charred California wine country send thousands of people who lost their homes scrambling for new places…
Argento revealed for the first time in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine last week that in 1997 Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her at a hotel…
Literally. The Associated Press talked to the leaders of more than 50 cities or metropolitan regions about the different ways they’re showcasing themselves to the Seattle e-commerce company. The bids…
Russian socialite and TV host Ksenia Sobchak, daughter of the late St. Petersburg mayor, Anatoly Sobchak, speaks to journalists during her interview in the Echo Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio…
Susan Walsh/Associated Press file<br><br>Former Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pa., President Donald Trump’s now-withdrawn nominee to be the nation’s drug czar, is defending his role in writing a law that critics say…
Protesters march near the scene of Saturday’s massive truck bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday. Thousands of people took to the streets of Somalia’s capital Wednesday in a show…
A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces on Wednesday defuses a bomb left by Islamic State militants at the stadium that was the site of IS fighters’ last stand in…
Kennesaw State University cheerleaders, from left to right, Shlondra Young, Tommia Dean and Kennedy Town stand outside the student center on the school’s campus in Kennesaw, Ga. The three are…
In this June 8, 2017 photo, former FBI director James Comey testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Trump is again tweeting about the…
