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Forest Service spends record $2B battling forest fires

WASHINGTON – The Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion battling forest fires around the country – a new record as wildfires blacken the American West in one of the nation’s worst fir...

Equifax’s troubles deepen after disclosure about breach

NEW YORK – Credit agency Equifax traced the theft of sensitive information about 143 million Americans to a software flaw that could have been fixed well before the burglary occurred, furthe...

Phoenix sheriff pardoned by Trump hits the speaking circuit

LAS VEGAS – Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is returning to the public speaking circuit after being pardoned by President Donald Trump following his federal contempt-of-court conviction in an immi...

House backs $1.2T spending bill with more money for military

WASHINGTON – The Republican-led House on Thursday passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion spending bill that provides billions more dollars for the military while sparing medical research and popula...

Double attack in southern Iraq kills at least 50

IRBIL, Iraq – A coordinated attack on a restaurant and a security checkpoint in southern Iraq killed at least 50 people Thursday, police and health officials said, in a rare spasm of violenc...

Trump, top Democrats agree to work on deal to save ‘dreamers’ from deportation

WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders announced late Wednesday that they agreed with President Donald Trump to pursue a legislative deal that would protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumen...

Fire at an Islamic school in Malaysia kills at least 23 teenage boys

As the flames engulfed the building, the boys cried for help. The teens pressed their faces to the windows of their school dormitory, begging for rescue. They couldn’t escape the ...

Vladimir Putin quietly becomes longest-serving Russian leader since Joseph Stalin

On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin quietly passed a landmark date: He had spent 6,602 days as the top leader of Russia. Though not widely acknowledged, this figure meant that Putin had sp...

Berkeley braces for visit by right-wing speaker Ben Shapiro

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – The University of California, Berkeley will seal off large parts of its campus like a fortress with a closed perimeter and a “very large” visible police presence Thur...

High school shooting in Washington state kills 1, injures 3

Shooter apprehended by police

U.S. Virgin Islands getting aid but still reeling from Irma

ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands – The last of the late-summer tourists were gone Wednesday from the U.S. Virgin Islands, ferried away from the wreckage of Hurricane Irma in cruise ships boun...

Hurricane victims facing a long road to home reconstruction

With floodwaters nearing knee height, Arlene Estle fled to the upstairs of the Houston house where she’s lived for 50 years and raised four children. It was many hours later before her son-i...
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