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Harvey rolls over Texas coast, smashes homes and businesses

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Hurricane Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were for...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Texas mayor says Harvey devastated his city

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A Texas mayor says Hurricane Harvey hit his coastal community “right on the nose” and left “widespread devastation.” Rockport Mayor Charles “C.J.” Wax told...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Palace suspect drove at U.K. police, went for 4-foot sword

LONDON – British counterterrorism police on Saturday were investigating a man who was detained after he drove a car at police outside Buckingham Palace then “reached for a 4-foot sword,” inj...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump setting records for low presidential approval

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump started as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling. After seven months, things have only gotten worse. Plunging into undesirabl...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hurricane Harvey has Texas in crosshairs

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – With time running out, tens of thousands of people fled Friday from the path of an increasingly menacing-looking Hurricane Harvey as it took aim at a wide swath of th...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police boost patrols around home of Powerball winner

CHICOPEE, Mass. – Police are providing extra patrols around the home of a Massachusetts woman who won the $758.7 million Powerball prize. Mavis Wanczyk, a hospital worker from the...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump administration imposes sweeping sanctions on Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela – The Trump administration on Friday slapped sweeping financial sanctions on Venezuela, dramatically ratcheting up tensions between the two countries and making it harder ...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hiker tells harrowing tale of being struck by lightning

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – There was no rain, no rumbling, no sign of danger before the blinding flash and deafening bang of a lightning bolt threw Mathias Steinhuber to the ground, tore off his c...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Harvey close to major hurricane strength as refineries shut

Evacuations begin across southern Texas

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump attacks Republican leaders over debt ceiling

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday at Republican leaders in Congress, suggesting efforts to increase the country’s borrowing limit to avoid an economic-rattling default ...

DATE: Aug 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wet weather erases drought, dryness in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE – National weather forecasters are warning of more storms around New Mexico as the state celebrates the disappearance of any signs of drought or abnormal dryness from the map. ...

DATE: Aug 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Boat accident in northeastern Brazil kills at least 22

SAO PAULO – A passenger boat carrying more than 100 people sunk in a bay in northeastern Brazil on Thursday, killing at least 22 and leaving dozens more missing. Navy Lt. Col. Fla...

DATE: Aug 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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