Nation & World - The Durango Herald

Officials reopening Outer Banks as Maria races out to sea

WAVES, N.C. – Maria raced away from the U.S. East Coast on Thursday, giving the nation its first rest from the constant threat of tropical weather for more than a month. No injuri...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump, Ryan clear the way for gov’t cash to Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON – On the defensive over the pace of federal help for Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans cleared the way Thursday for more supplies and government ca...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tribal head who led Dakota Access pipeline fight voted out

BISMARCK, N.D. – The Native American official who has been the face and voice of the fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline has been voted out of office. Unofficial results ...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Colorado says 430 pipelines failed leak test

Tiny holes or faulty parts could be the reason that about 430 oil or gas pipelines in Colorado failed a leak-detection test after a fatal explosion blamed on gas seeping from a severed line,...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California regulator admits to anxiety as legal pot nears

LONG BEACH, Calif. – California’s emerging marijuana industry is being rattled by an array of unknowns, as the state races to issue its first licenses to grow and sell legal recreational pot...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wray installed as FBI director

WASHINGTON – Chris Wray was formally installed as the new FBI director on Thursday in a ceremony notable for the absence of the man who appointed him: President Donald Trump. The ...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EPA’s Pruitt took charter, military flights that cost taxpayers more than $58,000

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has taken at least four noncommercial and military flights since mid-February, costing taxpayers more than $58,000 to fly him to va...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EPA buys Pruitt a special booth for secret talks

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency is spending nearly $25,000 to provide Administrator Scott Pruitt something none of his predecessors have had – a custom soundproof booth for ...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dark days for Senate Leader McConnell as losses cast doubt

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans reckoned Wednesday with an insurgent’s win in Alabama that poses clear threats to their own grip on power and the leadership of Majority Leader Mitch McConnel...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

US middle class gets richer, but wealthy do even better

WASHINGTON – Most American families grew richer between 2013 and 2016, but the wealthiest households pulled even further ahead, worsening the nation’s massive disparities in wealth and incom...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senator: Russian trolls using NFL debate to sow discord

WASHINGTON – Russian internet trolls are exploiting the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to stir up divisions in the United States, a Republican on the Senate...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scientists discover a species of giant rat

In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats. In one rhyme, Kamare and Isuku go scurrying up a child, one rat ...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World