First responders and utility crews worked overnight into Wednesday clearing roads from trees and wires that were downed during severe storms in the Midwest that unleashed tornadoes, heavy rains and ...

ROME — Europe braced Wednesday for a fifth heat wave of a record-breaking summer that has already spurred wildfires of rare ferocity, caused water shortages across the continent and, for many ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold for the second time in a year, going to businessmen Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for a record-breaking price. This sale agreement is $12.5 billion ...

GENEVA (AP) — The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo is on track to surpass the deadliest one in history that killed over 11,000 people out of more than 28,000 cases, the head of the World Health ...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Cristobal formed Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean well west of the Azores, forecasters said. There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect, the National Hurricane ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft that entered the airspace above a youth sporting event that President Donald Trump was attending in Ohio on Tuesday, launching flares as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats remain mixed over what ideological direction the party should take. But across a series of closely watched primaries, they are sending a clearer message about the party’s ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, whether ever actually implemented or not, are yet another affront to public health in the U.S. No new evidence is ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — David Crowley’s razor-thin primary win over a democratic socialist in swing state Wisconsin sets up a match against a congressman who has voted with President Donald Trump 100% of ...

Iranian-backed Houthis have attacked a ship off Yemen, killing six people, including three Pakistani nationals.

Of the many lessons to be learned from David Robert Mitchell’s new genre-flexible film “The End of Oak Street,” two of the most important are as follows: Do not wear headphones during a crisis, and ...

A generation ago, some folks wrote off the timber towns of Washington’s North Olympic Peninsula. Far too many of the mills that anchored paychecks and Main Streets for a century were closing. The ...