More than half of the basin’s miles of rivers and streams were in poor condition for nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer that drains into waterways, the agency found
Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia
Conspiracy theories have a long history in the United States, going back at least to 1800, when secret forces were said to be backing Thomas Jefferson’s presidential bid
To win, she’ll have to convince a new swath of voters that her brand of white-hot, far-right political activism is more needed in Washington than the home-grown Republicans she now faces in the primary
The recordings show how first responders and emergency dispatchers — many of whom had already worked long hours during what was likely the most harrowing experience of their lives — continued to be hindered by limited staffing
The girl was rescued July 9 in Long Beach, south of Los Angeles, after a passerby called 911 to report seeing her hold up the piece of paper with the handwritten desperate plea for help
Haley’s best shot at shaking Trump’s grip on the Republican nomination rests with her ability to attract New Hampshire’s independent voters
Trump was joined at a rally at the NHU Arena in Manchester on Saturday night by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, the state’s lieutenant governor and a slew of other senior officials
Freezing rain, sleet and high wind gusts later Sunday would make traveling in parts of Kansas and Oklahoma particularly treacherous, the National Weather Service said
Since Roe was overturned in 2022, voters have pushed back by approving a number of statewide ballot initiatives to preserve or expand the right to abortion
The attorney said in a letter to the judge that she would not show jurors the 2005 tape in which the former president is caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly of women
Relatives of the victims asked for the indictment of police officers after a report laid bare numerous failures by police during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history
The Court of Appeals heard diverging descriptions of the humaneness and potential risks of the proposed method, which no state has previously attempted to use
Mortgage rates have been mostly easing since November, echoing a pullback in the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing loans
Following a wiretapping and polygraph scandal, the leader’s closest advisor, Laura Sarabia, returns to his side wielding more power than ever
‘Let’s press on and hope that we can join together and make this great difference,’ House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told the crowd
The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative members of the Republican conference
The bipartisan commission, approved by the GOP-majority committee, would recommend ways to balance the budget
The allegations that the District Attorney has been romantically involved with a special prosecutor she hired for the case have been seized upon by Trump
The Democratic incumbent who is campaigning to win a second term narrowly lost the state in 2020 by 1.34 percentage points to Trump
Home loan borrowing costs have been mostly coming down since late October, after the average rate on a 30-year mortgage surged to 7.79%, the highest level since late 2000
Negotiators are deciding whether to preserve the president’s authority to allow in certain immigrants at certain times
Hundreds of officers responded to the 2022 massacre that killed 19 children and two staff members, but waited more than an hour to confront and kill the gunman
U.S. President is convening the lawmakers at the start of an election year when border security and the wars abroad are punctuating the race for the White House
The makeshift approach has frazzled volunteers, nonprofit groups and migrants wary of the lack of a long-term plan, particularly during the city’s long winters
If the group can secure 13,000 signatures from Solano County voters, the measure will go before voters this November
The vice president is scheduled to begin a series of events focused on abortion in Wisconsin, a key battleground state
