Florida Panthers owner Vincent Viola has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as Army secretary.
Conservatives who have long complained about the government’s control of vast Western lands hope they will have a new ally in President-elect Donald Trump, who has sent mixed signals about how he might manage land and whether he would relinquish federal authority over millions of acres.
Dangerous, record-low temperatures caused cancellations of some holiday festivities in the Plains and Midwest over the weekend before the cold front pushed into the Ohio Valley and the Eastern Seaboard on Sunday.
The results of an investigation into the suicide of a Marine that suggested his unit might have a “drug problem” and highlighted a hostile work environment were withheld from the Marine’s family for an “unacceptably long time” spanning months.
She has been described as “our era’s Anne Frank,” updating the world on the horrors of war in Syria’s Aleppo in real-time and now she appears to be safe.
A fragile cease-fire was back on in Syria on Monday, as buses resumed evacuating those still remaining in eastern Aleppo following days of delays, and others departed with the sick and wounded from two rebel-besieged Shiite villages in the country’s north.
Jordanian troops with armored vehicles have blocked access to a popular tourist site — a Crusader castle — following attacks in the area that killed 10 people.
Authorities say they’ve rescued seven cavers who didn’t exit a southern Indiana cave as planned.
Nobody was hurt and 10 people were displaced after a building fire near South Maryland Parkway and East Desert Inn Road overnight.
More than 20 people were displaced after an apartment fire southeast of downtown Sunday evening.
Engulfed in choking smog, some northern Chinese cities limited the number of cars on roads and temporarily shut down factories on Monday to cut down pollution during a national “red alert.”