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Updated 6 hours, 46 minutes ago

Hurricane Polo fuels fears of landslides and flooding in Mexico's southwest

Rain and strong winds began to pummel the coastline on Wednesday afternoon with waves crashing onto the normally p…

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Kawānanakoa, 'last Hawaiian princess' dies at 96

Kawānanakoa held no formal title but was a living reminder of Hawaii’s monarchy and a symbol of Hawaiian national identity that endured after the kingdom was o…

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Storm packing high winds, heavy snow blows into the Sierra

More than 30,000 customers were without power in the Sacramento area at one point Saturday morning

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema switches to independent

Sinema's decision may well have more impact on her own political livelihood than the operations of the Senate

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
WNBA star Griner freed in swap for Russian arms dealer Bout

Biden's authorization to release Bout, the Russian felon once nicknamed “the Merchant of Death," underscored the heightened urgency that his administration fac…

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Microsoft strikes 10-year deal with Nintendo on Call of Duty

Smith said the agreement would bring Call of Duty to more gamers and more platforms

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Brendan Fraser is back. But to him, 'I was never far away'

Fraser's performance been hailed as his comeback — a word, he says, that “doesn’t hurt my feelings.” But it’s not the one he’d choose

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Justices spar in latest clash of religion and gay rights

The issue of where to draw the line dominated the questions early in Monday's arguments at the high court

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider

China is on track to have 1,500 nuclear weapons by 2035

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Prayers? Bombs? Hawaii history shows stopping lava not easy

Most people in Hawaii wouldn’t want to build a wall to protect the highway because it would “mess with Pele.”

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Jeffries wins historic bid to lead House Dems after Pelosi

Wednesday’s internal Democratic caucus votes of Jeffries and the other top leaders came without challengers

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
Mayor says NYC will treat mentally ill, even if they refuse

The mayor’s announcement was met with caution by civil rights groups and advocates for the homeless

Updated 3 years, 9 months ago
GOP-controlled Arizona county refuses to certify election

Conspiracy theories surrounding this process surfaced in early 2021, focused on what appeared to be an outdated accreditation certificate for one of the compan…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes

The eventual demise of its DVD-by-mail service has been inevitable since Hastings decided to spin it off from a then-nascent video streaming service in 2011

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Walmart manager opens fire in break room, killing 6

Tuesday night's shooting also brought back memories of another at a Walmart in 2019, when a gunman who targeted Mexicans opened fire at a store in El Paso, Tex…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Thanksgiving travel rush begins with new some habits

The Transportation Security Administration screened more than 2.6 million travelers on Monday, surpassing the 2.5 million screened the Monday before Thanksgivi…