New Jersey’s yearlong coronavirus-inspired ban on smoking in Atlantic City casinos will end Sunday.
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British Columbia’s chief coroner, Lisa Lapointe, said her office received reports of at least 486 “sudden and unexpected deaths” between Friday and Wednesday. Normally, she said about 165 people would die in the Canadian province over a five-day period.
Trump was invited to South Texas by the state’s governor, Greg Abbott, and joined by a handful of House Republicans, who made the trip from Washington to stand by his side.
Donald Trump’s company and his longtime finance chief are expected to be charged Thursday with tax-related crimes stemming from a New York investigation into the former president’s business dealings.
Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case.
Flash flooding has caused the closure of State Route 9 inside Zion National Park in Utah, officials said Tuesday.
A passenger who tried to break into an airplane cockpit last week had recently been under the influence of methamphetamine before he jumped from the moving plane in Los Angeles, authorities said Monday.
A high of 117 degrees was predicted in the southeastern Washington cities of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco. The state’s highest-ever recorded temperature was 118 degrees, recorded in 1961.
The slow work of sifting through the remnants of a collapsed Florida condo building stretched into a sixth day Tuesday.
Officials want to study parking lots at crowded beach parks on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and explore the possibility of imposing fees on tourists’ vehicles.
The national average is now almost 5 cents higher than a month ago and 92 cents higher than this time last year.
Seattle saw 108 degrees Monday — well above Sunday’s all-time high of 104 F. Portland, Oregon, reached 116 after hitting records of 108 on Saturday and 112 on Sunday.
Another body was recovered overnight, bringing the confirmed death toll to 10. But more than 150 people are still missing in Surfside.
Records were being broken across the region, and the sizzling temperatures were expected to get even hotter Monday.
Forecasters say many Pacific Northwest communities may sweat through the hottest days in their histories as as temperatures soar during a heat wave that has sent residents scrambling for relief.