A swimmer at a beach in Waikiki was injured this weekend after encountering an endangered Hawaiian monk seal with a young pup.
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A massive Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers Tuesday night and won the top prize.
Gov. Gavin Newsom decalred a state of emergency Saturday as a fast-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park exploded in size, prompting evacuation orders for thousands.
“President Trump didn’t fail to act,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a fellow Republican but frequent Trump critic who flew fighter jets in Iraq and Afghanistan. “He chose not to act.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug designed to reduce the severity of the disease.
Store associates handed single carnations to customers as they entered the newly reopening store.
Surging prices for gas, food and rent catapulted U.S. inflation to a new four-decade peak in June.
Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with a AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
The vice chair of the House Jan. 6 committee said Donald Trump has attempted to contact a witness who was talking to the panel investigating the attack on the Capitol.
The first image from NASA’s new space telescope is the deepest view of the universe ever captured.
More than 500 sequoias were threatened in the Mariposa Grove but as of Saturday afternoon there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, including the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.
The former president called Nevada “a cesspool of crime” in a speech at the Treasure Island on Friday night after a roundtable discussion with U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and gubernatorial nominee Joe Lombardo.
Highland Park’s police chief said the 22-year-old man identified as a person of interest in the shooting that killed at least six people and wounded at least 30 has been taken into custody.