By OLIVIA DIAZ, MIKE CATALINI and BILL BARROW Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is encouraging voters to elect Democrats as governor in Virginia and New Jersey in races this Tuesday that could signal the national mood 10 months into Donald Trump's second ...
BOSTON (AP) — There was an explosion early Saturday at Harvard Medical School that appears to have been intentional, but no one was injured, authorities said. A university police officer who responded to a fire alarm tried to stop two unidentified people who ran from the Goldenson Building ...
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI allegations that his 20-year-old client and four other young suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack on Halloween weekend. Authorities with the FBI and in Michigan have offered few details about the case, ...
By STEPHEN GROVES, ALI SWENSON and SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The crises at the heart of the government shutdown fight in Washington were coming to a head Saturday as the federal food assistance program faced delays and millions of Americans were set to see a dramatic ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman elected governor of Kentucky, died on Saturday. She was 88. The Democrat's most visible legacy is a sprawling Toyota auto assembly plant — arguably the biggest industrial plum of its day and the linchpin of her ...
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The profits of Warren Buffett 's company improved 17% thanks to a relatively mild hurricane season and more paper investment gains this year as Berkshire Hathaway prepares for the legendary 95-year-old investor to relinquish the CEO ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A multi-state carbon capture pipeline began operating in September, reducing emissions from Midwest ethanol plants and carrying that carbon dioxide gas to be forever buried underground in Wyoming — an achievement after years of ...
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press For more than two weeks now during the government shutdown, Imelda Avila-Thomas has been trying in vain to get approved for unemployment compensation to help cover essentials such as food and mortgage payments for her family while she's on unpaid ...
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night during the closest supermoon of the year. The moon's orbit around the Earth isn't a perfect circle, so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. A so-called ...
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The first sign something was amiss was the thwack of helicopter rotors overhead, followed by screams. Within moments, Anabel Romero was on the ground with her hands restrained behind her, she said, as law enforcement officers ...
FORT COLLINS, Colo (AP) — President Donald Trump's efforts to help the U.S. coal industry at home are being undermined by falling sales abroad amid his trade war with China, new government reports show. China has stopped importing U.S. coal, accounting for most of a 14% decline in U.S. coal ...
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The former Marine who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze last month was motivated by "anti-religious beliefs" against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the FBI confirmed Friday. While friends of the gunman in the deadly shooting have said ...
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — The windows shook as dynamite aboard an airplane exploded over Conrad Hopp's family farm in northern Colorado 70 years ago. Hopp, then 18 years old, saw a ball of fire streaking across the night sky and rushed with his brother toward where the burning wreckage came ...
The recent escape of several research monkeys after the truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi interstate is the latest glimpse into the secretive industry of animal research and the processes that allow key details of what happened to be kept from the public. Three monkeys have ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean "Diddy" Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve out the remainder of his four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related charges. The hip-hop mogul is currently incarcerated at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute, located about 34 miles ...
Ohio's Republican-led redistricting commission unveiled a proposed U.S. House map Thursday that could give Republicans a chance at winning two more seats in next year's midterm elections, bolstering President Donald Trump's efforts to hold on to a slim congressional majority. Ohio's ...
An Ohio panel adopted new U.S. House districts on Friday that could boost the GOP's chances of winning two additional seats in next year's elections and aid President Donald Trump's efforts to hold on to a slim congressional majority. The action by the Ohio Redistricting Commission came as ...
President Donald Trump's call for Republicans to redraw U.S. House districts ahead of next year's election has triggered an unusual outbreak of mid-decade gerrymandering among both Republican- and Democratic-led states. Democrats need to gain just three seats to wrest control of the House away ...
DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) — Nine couples got married Friday inside a former county jail in central Ohio that was decorated for Halloween. The vows were exchanged in Delaware County's 18-cell jail building, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Columbus. These days the 1878 structure is owned by ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthony Taylor will never forget the look of horror on the student's face. The school crossing guard was walking into the crosswalk in front of Washington Township High School in Indianapolis when a car with a young boy and his mom, who was dropping him off at school, ...