Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia experienced flooding Saturday after the storm made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island
The announcement about the new diplomatic missions in the South Pacific comes as Biden prepares to welcome leaders to Washington for the two-day U.S.-Pacific Island Forum Summit
It’s technically still winter in Brazil with spring due to start in a couple of days. But a heat wave has engulfed the country since the beginning of the week
The Associated Press college football poll started in 1936, the brainchild of former sports editor Alan J. Gould
While some government entities will be exempt, others will be severely curtailed. Social Security checks, for example, will still go out. But federal agencies will stop all actions deemed non-essential
Russia says Ukraine has launched another missile attack on Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Doolittle helped the Washington Nationals win the World Series in 2019 and spent the bulk of his career with Washington and the Oakland Athletics
Swedish rookies Maja Stark and Linn Grant made crucial birdie putts on their final two holes to help the hosts split the morning foursome matches and stay only 7-5 down against the US
Felix Auger-Aliassime, Ben Shelton and Francisco Cerundolo all claimed wins for Team World, along with the doubles pairing of Tommy Paul and Frances Tiafoe
Supporters say she has staked out a consistent approach from her earliest days in politics, challenging fellow Republicans to be pragmatic in their pursuit of a deeply conservative agenda
Since the first complaint was filed last month, the city’s mayor has ordered the facility closed, the police department has disbanded its street crimes unit and an officer at the center of the allegations resigned
The Biden administration’s grant of temporary legal status to nearly 500,000 Venezuelans already in the United States may complicate its messaging abroad
Experts have speculated the two nations discussed banned arms transfer deals and other cooperation measures during Kim’s visit
What caused Prigozhin’s private jet to plummet into a field northwest of Moscow is still a mystery and the Russian military leaders he tried to oust with his armed rebellion remain in power
The sweeping bribery case brought against Bob Menendez includes allegations that he took cash and gold in exchange for interfering in a criminal case against a New Jersey real estate developer
The storm promises a weekend of windy conditions and heavy rain in the mid-Atlantic region through Sunday. The system had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph with some higher gusts late Friday night, but was forecast to weaken after landfall
Italy’s presidential palace says the first former Communist to rise to Italy’s presidency, has died. Napolitano was also the first person to be elected twice to the presidency
Journalists and politicians in the U.K. both hailed and reviled the 92-year-old mogul after he announced Thursday that he was stepping down as leader of his companies Fox and News Corp., handing control to his son Lachlan
The 58-year-old Navy veteran was facing near-certain death from heart failure but other health problems meant he wasn’t eligible for a traditional heart transplant
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US would provide logistics, including intelligence, airlift, communications and medical support to the mission, which still needs to be approved by the U.N. Security Council
This year, many civil society groups are taking steps and making plans themselves to try to push progress forward on the Sustainable Development Goals
The rising tensions along Israel’s front with Gaza came as fighting in the occupied West Bank surged to levels unseen in two decades
This year’s autumnal equinox arrives on Saturday. But what does that mean? The Earth’s axis is tilted at an angle as it travels around the sun. On the equinox, the Earth’s orbit lines up so both hemispheres get the same amount of sunlight
Authorities on Monday will begin escorting the first residents back into the burn zone. For many it will be the first time back to their properties since the Aug. 8 wildfire
As originally proposed in March, the sale would have made 73 million acres of offshore tracts available for drilling leases. That area was reduced to 67 million acres in August when Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced final plans for the sale
While the United States has a 27-14-2 lead in the series dating to 1927, Europe has a 11-9-1 edge going back to 1979 when continental Europe was invited to join players from Britain and Ireland
Unlike other states, California does not let insurance companies consider current or future risks when deciding how much to charge for an insurance policy. Instead, they can only consider what’s happened on a property in the past to set the price
