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Vice President Mike Pence’s airplane struck a bird Tuesday on takeoff in New Hampshire, causing the pilot to return to the airport out of caution, the White House said.
There are “a million things” the cruise company could have done to prevent the death of an 18-month-old Indiana girl who fell to her death from an open window on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico, the toddler’s mother said in an interview broadcast Monday.
A 17-year-old Kansas student will collect diplomas from high school and Harvard University this month.
President Donald Trump kicked off the annual Easter Egg Roll Monday — the White House’s biggest social event of the year.
A Southern California city overwhelmed by throngs of visitors seeking out a rare wildflower bloom says it has a parking plan.
A powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck southern Ecuador in the early hours of Friday close to the country’s border with Peru, although no immediate reports of possible casualties or damage were available.
A young couple from India who wrote a travel blog were intoxicated when they died in a fall from a scenic overlook in Yosemite National Park in California, according to an autopsy report released Tuesday.
Maine’s giant spinning ice disk that quickly gained international fame survived the weekend winter weather that pummeled New England and now has its own webcam.
London’s Gatwick Airport was plagued by long lines and flight delays Saturday but no new drone sightings, allowing British officials to hope the worse was over after two people were arrested in connection with the drone invasion that had shut down the country’s second-busiest airport.
A Canadian goose and a gull are recovering after they swallowed prescription pills that were dumped at Southern California park.
A former Lehigh University student was accused Thursday of poisoning his roommate.
A dog that snarled morning commute traffic on two Phoenix freeways has been reunited with his owners.
A 26-year-old man accused of firing into a Milwaukee home and killing a 13-year-old girl in her living room may have been planning to shoot his ex-girlfriend, prosecutors allege in a complaint filed Wednesday.
Some residents of a Dallas apartment complex leaped from third-floor windows onto mattresses, and a woman dropped her baby to a bystander to escape the flames.
