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A historic lodge in Grand Canyon National Park was one of dozens of structures destroyed by a wildfire in northern Arizona that has prompted evacuations and forced the closure of the North Rim to visitors for the remainder of the 2025 season, authorities said Sunday.

For more than 60 years, the CIA claimed it had little or no knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That wasn’t true, new documents unearthed by a House task force prove. The revelation raises further questions about the agency’s awareness of - or involvement in - the plot to murder the president.

US ice cream makers are planning to eliminate a number of artificial colors from their products by 2028, representing another milestone for Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his push to remove the additives from the nation’s food.

Julie Overgaard, executive director of South Dakota's biggest public broadcaster, breathed a sigh of relief in the winter after the state legislature defeated a measure to cut half of her funding. Then the real battle began.

The X account of the “Sesame Street” character Elmo posted a slew of antisemitic and anti-Donald Trump comments Sunday afternoon after getting hacked.

Officials in Kentucky are investigating shootings Sunday involving one attacker that ended at a church, with two people dead and at least three others injured, including a state trooper.

In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say.

Emergency crews in central Texas suspended their search for victims of recent catastrophic flooding as another night of heavy rain touched off new flash flood warnings. The Kerr County Sheriff’s Office ordered volunteers, equipment and vehicles to vacate the area around Guadalupe River as water is expected to rise, it said on its Facebook page. Highway 39 in the area has been closed to all ...

An early Sunday morning SpaceX launch marked the 60th orbital mission from the Space Coast from all companies for the year, but also the 500th successful mission for the workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

A young undocumented man stood outside of the Hollywood Home Depot looking for work on a recent hot Wednesday afternoon. Since the store was raided by federal immigration agents in June, he’s been on high alert, fearing detainment and deportation. But he relies on being in public spaces for his livelihood, like many other laborers and street vendors, and he has four kids to support.

President Donald Trump threatened Saturday morning to impose 30% tariffs on imports from Mexico and the European Union starting Aug. 1, raising the stakes for ongoing negotiations with two crucial trading partners.

Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own even if officials have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said in a memo this week.

Andrew Kassoy, who left a career in private equity to help start an international movement to reconsider capitalism as a force for social good and not merely for profit, died June 22 at his home in New York City. He was 55.

A Texas-based company gave $10,000 to Florida’s Republican Party days before getting state contracts to help with transportation at a state-run detention facility for migrants in the Everglades.

SEATTLE — Four children who are U.S. citizens have been detained with their mother for about two weeks after she was arrested by Border Patrol agents at Peace Arch Park near the U.S.-Canada border in June, U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Ore., said Friday. The Portland, Oregon-based mother and her young kids were taken into custody on June 28 after going to the park to meet family, Dexter said at a ...

A large crowd of protesters gathered outside Disneyland’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa on Friday afternoon after local officials rumored a possible vacation visit from Vice President JD Vance.

Attorney General Pam Bondi this week fired multiple Justice Department employees who were involved in two federal prosecutions of President Donald Trump during the Biden administration, according to several people familiar with the terminations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution.

WASHINGTON – Thousands of new deportation agents deployed into American cities. A doubling of detention space to hold tens of thousands of immigrants before they are expelled. Miles of new border wall, along with surveillance towers equipped with artificial intelligence.