More than a million people in California were without electricity Wednesday as the state’s largest utility pulled the plug to prevent a repeat of the past two years when windblown power lines sparked deadly wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes
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Andrew J. Pleviak, 42, also faces state charges, including attempted aiding of escape, false impersonation and forgery.
Police say they obtained a warrant for the arrest of Brian Steven Smith, 48, on a murder charge and arrested him Tuesday at an Anchorage airport.
ALBANY, N.Y. — A former repair shop manager told investigators that brake work was billed but not performed on the stretch limousine that crashed five months later in upstate New York, killing 20 people, according to court papers released to reporters on Wednesday.
Democrats on Wednesday remained undeterred in their impeachment inquiry, despite a White House lawyer’s letter saying the president would not cooperate with the probe.
According to the affidavit, the suspect would mount a fake shelf to fitting room walls at the Mall of America with cameras mounted under the shelves.
The adoptions won’t be undone because the adoptive parents are considered victims along with the women, authorities said.
Under the new ordinance, the department is authorized to release such investigations in cases that involved a death or a possible felony and is “of a compelling public interest.”
In video remarks before the rampage, the attacker shouted that Jews were “the root” of “problems” such as feminism and “mass immigration.”
Two major retailers say they will no longer sell e-cigarettes in the U.S. amid mounting health questions surrounding vaping.
To President Donald Trump, the diplomat representing the U.S. in Ukraine was “bad news” — a supposedly rogue ambassador with a political bias against him. Those who know Marie Yovanovitch sharply disagree.
Bernie Sanders began reintroducing himself to the 2020 campaign on Tuesday, venturing outside his Vermont home to say that he doesn’t plan on leaving the presidential race following last week’s heart attack — but that he may slow down a frenetic pace that might have contributed to his health problems.
Millions of people in California woke up in the dark Wednesday after Pacific Gas Electric started shutting off power to prevent what the utility called an unprecedented wildfire danger.
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed overhauling decades-old Medicare rules originally meant to deter fraud and abuse but now seen as a roadblock to coordinating better care for patients.
The Turkish operation would ignite new fighting in the war-ravaged country’s eight-year-old war, potentially displacing hundreds of thousands of people.