The good news out of San Juan came in a hurry for Natascha Otero-Santiago but it wouldn’t last long: Her mother’s 92-year-old friend, stranded on the fifth floor of a nursing home with no power, finally had a seat waiting for her on a private jet. It was leaving in 90 minutes.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped to its lowest level in more than 44 years last week, pointing to a rebound in job growth after a hurricane-related decline in employment in September.

John F. Kelly, a retired general, said Rep. Frederica S. Wilson’s criticism of the president’s choice of words in the call was ‘selfish’ and shocking.

America's confused Middle East strategy has also had a hand in the latest round of violence between Iraqi and Kurdish forces.

The State Patrol believes faulty brakes and speeding caused a semi truck to crash on the State Route 16 interchange with northbound Interstate 5 in Tacoma Tuesday night. Troopers said the truck was headed eastbound on State Route 16 around 10:00 p.m. when it rolled on the ramp to northbound I-5. The State Patrol photo tweeted a photo from the scene which showed the truck's brake lines tied together with a plastic grocery bag.

US President Donald Trump's latest attempt to bar citizens of eight countries from entering the US has suffered a second federal court defeat. Judges in Hawaii and Maryland issued separate temporary restraining orders on the open-ended travel ban. Both judges cited Mr Trump's campaign description of it as a "Muslim ban". The policy targets travellers from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea, as well as some Venezuelan officials.

Donald Trump has appeared to suggest, without providing evidence, that the FBI and Russia may have colluded to fund the infamous dossier that alleged links between his team and the Kremlin. Taking to Twitter, the US President said: “Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th. Who paid for it, Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?” Mr Trump’s outlandish claim comes after two bosses of Fusion GPS, the firm that helped produce the dossier, refused to answer questions on Wednesday in a private meeting with the House Intelligence Agency.

Amid a historic spike in U.S. traffic fatalities, federal data on the danger of distracted driving are getting worse.

An estimated one out of three California adults has an arrest or conviction record, according to the nonprofit National Employment Law Project. If employers weed out applicants who check "yes" for the Have you ever been convicted of a crime? question on a job application, they could be preventing millions of Golden State residents from getting a paycheck. These applicants also tend to be people of color, since African-Americans and Latinos are arrested at much higher rates, often for crimes committed in equal numbers by whites.

US had early, detailed and ongoing knowledge of anti-communist purge in which army and Muslim groups massacred hundreds of thousands

As many as 100 unwitting activists were recruited to help organize events in the United States both before and after the election by the same St. Petersburg-based Russian troll farm behind scores of fake social media accounts that purchased ads to sow discord during the 2016 campaign. The revelation comes from a report in the Russian business magazine RBC published on Tuesday morning.

On Sunday, California Governor Jerry Brown passed AB 967, an innocuously named bill for a not-so-innocuous law. The bill, proposed by assembly member Todd Gloria, a San Diego democrat, will make it legal for Californians to liquefy their corpses after death in a bath of caustic juice.

Lucy Treccasse has seen it all. She was born in 1905, and now she’s celebrating her 112th birthday. Treccasse is the eighth oldest living person in America. She now lives in a nursing home in Cabot, Butler County. But she’s originally from Foxburg, and has fond memories of her childhood. Her father played golf. Her family even had a radio. They listened to the first radio broadcast on KDKA together: the election results on Nov. 2, 1920.

The National Archives is set to release thousands of documents about John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It’s likely to fuel conspiracy theorists for years.

President Donald Trump took credit for the fact that ISIS is in retreat during an interview Tuesday, claiming that ISIS wasn't on the run before because "you didn't have Trump as your president." The comment comes as US-backed forces fighting ISIS in Raqqa said "major military operations" in the city have ended and that the jihadists have lost control of their self-declared capital. American officials have not yet formally announced that the fight is won, but the development marks a significant moment for the war on ISIS.

The Trump administration is repealing the Clean Power Plan and proposing to extend the life of the defunct U.S. coal industry by providing it with taxpayer-funded subsidies. The proposal is the equivalent of having offered subsidies to hay producers in order to keep buggies on the streets in 1910, when automobiles had already shown their superiority.

This is the mass grave for the victims of the 1890 genocidal massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee. I assume that everyone knows the story of Wounded Knee, but maybe they don’t, so I guess I will lay it out. The short version is that the United States has committed unspeakable genocide against indigenous …

There have been at least two incidents of drones disrupting firefighting activities during the deadly California wildfire disaster, the FAA said Monday.

A Utah teen accused of helping a teen girl commit suicide and filming the act will go to trial on a murder charge, a judge ordered Tuesday. Prosecutors say 18-year-old Tyerell Przybycien’s actions in helping Jchandra Brown, 16, plan her hanging death in a wooded area in Payson Canyon in May were criminal. They’ve charged him with murder, a first-degree felony, as well as a misdemeanor count for failure to report a dead body.

Coffey Park was built on city streets, not forested country lanes. The Santa Rosa suburb was a planned development laid out on a typical grid with sidewalks and landscaped yards. The fire hazard zone shown on city and state maps was to the north and east, on the other side of the 101 Freeway. Yet when the Tubbs fire swept down the mountain, Coffey Park proved defenseless in its path. In a matter of hours, the neighborhood was almost totally consumed, leaving hundreds of houses burned to the ground and residents in disbelief.

Sammy Rolon is living in a makeshift clinic set up at a school. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy and is bedridden. He's waiting for surgery that was scheduled before Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico. Now, he can't even get the oxygen he needs. There is help available for the 18-year-old -- right offshore. A floating state-of-the-art hospital, the USNS Comfort, could provide critical care, his doctor says.

Aside from vague threats of violence and suggestions he could 'renegotiate' the Iran nuclear agreement, Donald Trump has provided little in the way of coherent or viable policy options.

The mystery is over: Las Vegas security guard Jesus Campos has been found. On the set of “Ellen.” On Wednesday, Ellen DeGeneres’ television talk show is expected to broadcast the much-anticipated first interview with the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino security guard, who was the first shooting victim in the Oct. 1 massacre in Las Vegas. DeGeneres tweeted a photo of Campos holding a cane on the set Tuesday alongside maintenance engineer Stephen Schuck, who was also shot at by the gunman on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.

And the effects could damage our national interests even after he's gone.

Three of the Chicago law enforcement officers involved in dragging a Louisville doctor off a United Airlines’ flight in April are no longer on the job, officials revealed Tuesday. Chicago’s Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said an officer and an Aviation Security sergeant were fired, a third officer resigned and another received a five-day suspension — which was shorted to two days on appeal — for their involvement in the “violent forcible removal” of Dr. David Dao.

And they want the money spent on clean energy.

There’s a law against government officials trying to influence private employment decisions.

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol

California’s dry climate, Santa Ana winds, and long periods of drought create the perfect combination for wildfires. Every year between May-November at the height of wildfire season, the state turns to inmates for help. California isn’t the only state with a prison firefighter program, but they rely on inmate firefighters far more than anyone else.

Life-changing surgery is on hold for a 2-year-old boy. His mom says it's because of red tape between the hospital and police. She is fighting to change that. Her son has no kidneys. He was born without them. A.J. does have a willing donor who is a perfect match -- yet he is left waiting. A.J.'s dad, Anthony Dickerson, is a perfect match.

Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg will not say whether her company has identified similarities in how Russian agents and Donald Trump's presidential campaign used the social media platform ahead of the 2016 election. In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Sandberg repeatedly refused to answer when asked whether Facebook had seen an overlap in how Russians and the Trump campaign targeted their ads toward users.

Inmates killed two people and injured 10 more as they set fires and attempted a prison break Thursday, officials said. Fires were set in the sewing plant at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City, the state Department of Public Safety said Thursday afternoon. The high-security prison has a capacity of 896 inmates and was housing 729 on Thursday, authorities said.

Before Scott Pruitt was sworn in as the chief of the US Environmental Protection Agency under president Donald Trump, he was at odds with the organization. He vowed to dismantle several of the EPA’s current regulations limiting pollution, even going so far as suing the federal agency multiple times as Oklahoma’s attorney general. Today, Oct. 10, Pruitt followed through on his pledge to roll back one of the Obama administration’s most important pieces of environmental legislation...

The quote seems clear, but now he’s changing his tune. By Beth Mole.

Parents of children found bullying other minors can now end up in jail, thanks to a recently-passed ordinance in one western New York town. The new law, which went into effect on October 1 in North Tonawanda, New York, states that any parent of a child who violates city law twice within a 90-day period could be fined $250 and sentenced up to 15 days in jail. This includes infractions such as bullying other children and breaking the city's curfew.