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Air Force Academy investigates racial slurs

AIR FORCE ACADEMY – Someone wrote racial slurs on message boards outside the dormitory rooms of five black students at a preparatory school on the U.S. Air Force Academy campus, school offic...

Climber: Rock fall strikes Yosemite for a second day

SAN FRANCISCO – A massive new rock fall hit Yosemite National Park on Thursday, cracking with a thundering roar off the iconic El Capitan rock formation and sending huge plumes of white dust...

Trump economic aide says tax overhaul aimed at middle class

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s economic adviser pushed back Thursday against the suggestion that the administration’s tax plan could benefit the wealthy, but said he couldn’t guarante...

Pipeline firm gives $15M toward security costs

BISMARCK, N.D. – The builder of the Dakota Access pipeline sent North Dakota $15 million on Thursday to help pay law enforcement bills related to months of sometimes violent protests over th...

Puerto Ricans say U.S. relief efforts failing them

FEMA to receive infusion of funds

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...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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 ...

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...