A July 4 boat trip, an 18-year-old’s death and a family’s search for answers in the Deep South
NEW YORK — A week ago, 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells took a boat trip with friends to celebrate the Fourth…
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Mexican builder fatally shot by an ICE officer is mourned after making a life in the US
The builder got up every morning long before dawn, left home to pick up his construction crew and then headed…
Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live….
Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife
PHOENIX — The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act and eliminates…
Emergency crews rescue about 20 after campground building collapses in flooding
REYNOLDS COUNTY, MO — Emergency crews rescued about 20 people in Missouri on Friday after a building collapsed in a…
County seeks help to care for 16 siblings from squalid home, prosecute their family
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The discovery of 16 siblings who authorities say were held at a rural Ohio home for years…
Is an Iran deal ‘over’ and war back on? A timeline of the conflict and talks
Global markets and oil prices have lurched again after the United States and Iran traded new strikes and U.S. President…
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear asks Sen. Mitch McConnell to give a public update on his condition
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is directly asking Sen. Mitch McConnell, the state’s most powerful figure in Congress, to disclose more…
Houston shooting marks at least the 8th fatality in US immigration sweeps
The fatal shooting of a Houston man by a federal immigration officer Tuesday marks at least the eighth death during…
The tenuous state of a US-Iran ceasefire renews anxiety over high fuel prices
NEW YORK — The potential unraveling of a fragile truce between Iran and the United States renewed anxiety Wednesday over…