House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., answers questions during an interview at the Associated Press bureau in Washington on Wednesday.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press Ryan, R-Wis., said the GOP’s goal is…
Staff members at Westwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and firefighters from Fort Walton Beach Fire Department load Hurricane Irma evacuees, who had stayed at Westwood…
The Denver Post reported Monday (http://dpo.st/2wUUiYN) that the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission fined a subsidiary of Encana Oil and Gas over a June 2016 spill on the Bishop…
Protesters gather on Tuesday at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., ahead of a daylong meeting of the Trump administration’s election integrity commission. They argue the commission, which is tasked…
12:10 p.m. Florida’s largest utility says much of the state’s east coast could have power back by Sunday, but other areas could take 10 days or more. Rob Gould, vice…
The contenders for the Class of 2017 were announced Tuesday. Also up for the honor are the board games Risk and Clue, the Magic 8 ball, Matchbox cars, My Little…
Feinstein The outcry stems from the questioning last week of Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor tapped to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh…
A woman joins a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, outside the Edward Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles on Sept. 1.…
Every Sept. 11 since the date of the deadliest terror attack on American soil, Rob Fazio has come to the place where his father, Ronald Carl Fazio, and thousands of…
Irma hit the Sunshine State as a big wide beast, though not quite the monster it once was shaping up to be. Earlier, it was the most powerful recorded storm…
Addressing an audience at the Pentagon, one of three sites attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, Trump used the anniversary to sternly warn terrorists that “America cannot be intimidated.” He said…
The 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore Sunday in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys, then marched up its western coast, its punishing winds extending clear across to Miami and West Palm Beach…
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum, bottom, surrounded by high-rise towers Friday in New York. The new towers are: WTC 1, second from left, WTC 7, third from left,…
Some people continued to sleep outside, fearful of more collapses, as strong aftershocks continued to rattle the town, including a magnitude 5.2 jolt early Sunday. Some prompted rescue workers to…
The nearly 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore in the morning in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys and was expected to make a slow, ruinous march up the state’s west coast, hitting…
And that, he says, is all he needs to hunker down through a massive storm coming straight at him. Authorities have beseeched more than 6 million people in Florida and…
Forecasters predicted Irma’s center would blow ashore Sunday and strike the Florida Keys, then hit southwestern Florida, move up the state’s Gulf Coast and plow into the Tampa Bay area.…
The 8.1 quake off the southern Pacific coast just before midnight Thursday toppled hundreds of buildings in several states. Hardest-hit was Juchitan, Oaxaca, where 36 people died and a third…
Preliminary results from a new national census – the first conducted since 1998 – show that the population grew by 57 percent since then, reaching 207.7 million and making Pakistan…
Not real Computer Models Show Irma Destroying New York City On Sept. 10 The facts The government’s Global Forecast System produced a computer model on Sept. 1 that projected Irma…
winds expected to begin Friday night
President’s son met with Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday
Department will seek public input before enacting new policy
In this May 23, 2017, photo, U.S. Postal Service worker Dianne Zambelli places a sleeve of newly dedicated Henry David Thoreau postage stamps for purchase in a bag at Walden…
The device is highly experimental, but laboratory tests show it uses molecular fingerprints to distinguish between cancerous cells and healthy ones far faster than today’s technology, Texas researchers reported Wednesday.…
