Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, left, joined by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington in June. The bipartisan governor duo is…
Lydia Balderas, left, and Merced Leyua, right, join others as they protest against a new sanctuary cities bill outside the federal courthouse in San Antonio on June 26. A federal…
The bones and skull of a triceratops were found last Friday in Thornton at the construction site of a new public safety building. Denver Museum of Nature and Science curator…
The gunfight at Ruby Ridge occurred when agents approached Randy Weaver’s property near the Canadian border looking for a place to arrest the military veteran on gun charges. They had…
In this photo provided by Jiles Daniels, his flooded home near Cleveland, Texas, northeast of Houston. Daniels, a retired oil company manager, never wavered when he bought flood insurance on…
A sign at the Silver City Visitors Center declares the town a Continental Divide Trail Community in Silver City, N.M. Silver City was the first “Gateway Community” certified by the…
Two people walk down a flooded section of Interstate 610 in floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday in Houston, Texas.Associated Press file Harvey is yet another of several recent…
In a terse, written statement, Trump said that North Korea’s missile launch “signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations and for minimum standards of…
The business leaders are submitting their request in a joint letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The federal agency is seeking public comments on its draft plan that…
The forecast Houston is getting a bit of a break from the relentless rain. Forecasts call for only 2 to 3 inches in the Houston area. But torrential rains will…
Volunteer rescue boats make their way into a flooded subdivision to rescue stranded residents as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Monday in Spring, Texas.David J. Phillip/Associated Press While scientists…
The former Arizona sheriff struck a defiant tone in insisting he “didn’t do anything wrong” and questioning whether his judge was fair. His comments came as President Donald Trump took…
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile traveled around 1677 miles and reached a maximum height of 341 miles as it flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.…
The nation’s fourth-largest city was still largely paralyzed, and there was no relief in sight from the storm that spun into Texas as a Category 4 hurricane, then parked itself…
The ban applies to the use, manufacture, and importation of plastic shopping bags and gives a minimum fine of about $19,000 or up to a year imprisonment, according to the…
Police set up barricades around a city park where the right-wing rally billed “No to Marxism in America” and a counter-protest were underway, with officers checking bags of people and…
The incessant rain covered much of Houston in turbid, gray-green water and turned streets into rivers navigable only by boat. In a rescue effort that recalled the aftermath of Hurricane…
The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where communities had prepared for life-threatening storm surges – walls of…
Rockport Mayor Charles “C.J.” Wax told The Weather Channel on Saturday that some homes and businesses were heavily damaged or even completely destroyed. Schools were also damaged. He says emergency…
A police cordon outside Buckingham Palace where a man was arrested after an incident in London on Friday. A man armed with a knife was detained outside London’s Buckingham Palace…
President Donald Trump came into office as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling. Things have not improved.Alex Brandon/Associated Press Plunging into undesirably uncharted territory, Trump…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned that the monster system would be “a very major disaster,” and the forecasts drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest ever to…
Mavis Wanczyk, a hospital worker from the western Massachusetts town of Chicopee, was announced Thursday as the winner of the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history. “This is a…
The sanctions Trump signed by executive order prohibit financial institutions from providing new money to the government or state oil company PDVSA. It would also restrict PDVSA’s U.S. subsidiary, Citgo,…
The 31-year-old Austrian teacher, an avid hiker, had just reached the 9,000-foot summit of a Northern California mountain range ahead of his companions when he raised his arms for a…
Evacuations begin across southern Texas
On Twitter, Trump said he had asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to attach legislation to increase the country’s borrowing limit to a bill he…
Weekly reports on the impacts of drought across the United States show New Mexico is free from any of the colors that indicate dry conditions, marking the first time that…
Navy Lt. Col. Flavio Almeida told The Associated Press that the vessel went down on the Bay of All Saints in the city of Salvador. Almeida said 21 people were…
