Politics Aug 28 WATCH: White House announces Biden will visit Hanoi next month to strengthen U.S.-Vietnam relations President Joe Biden is heading to Vietnam next month to meet with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other Vietnamese leaders, the White House announced on Monday.
Nation Aug 28 Tropical Storm Idalia predicted to make landfall in Florida as a major hurricane this week Forecasters say they expect Idalia to become a hurricane later Monday in the Gulf of Mexico, then curve northeast and reach Florida's western coast on Wednesday.
World Aug 27 Russia officially confirms Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in plane crash Russian authorities on Sunday confirmed the death of Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, putting to rest any doubts about whether the wily mercenary leader turned mutineer was on a plane that crashed Wednesday, killing everyone on board.
Nation Aug 27 Crews put out brush fire that prompted temporary evacuation order on Maui The fire prompted Maui authorities to temporarily evacuate residents Saturday from a neighborhood of Lahaina, just a few miles from the site recently ravaged by blazes, before firefighters brought it under control.
Politics Aug 25 New York man sentenced to 3 months in prison for threats to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Joseph Morelli was sentenced Thursday in a Syracuse federal court after pleading guilty in February to threatening Greene in several calls to her Washington, D.C., office.
World Aug 25 A 1953 CIA-backed coup in Iran continues to complicate and keep tensions high with U.S. Seventy years after a CIA-orchestrated coup toppled Iran's prime minister, its legacy remains both contentious and complicated for the Islamic Republic as tensions stay high with the United States.
Politics Aug 25 Kremlin denies involvement in plane crash believed to have killed Russian mercenary leader Prigozhin Prigozhin, whose brutal fighters were feared in Ukraine, Africa and Syria, was eulogized Thursday by President Vladimir Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian leader was behind the crash that many saw as an assassination.
Nation Aug 25 Maui County sues power company for negligence during deadly wildfires Maui County has sued Hawaiian Electric Company over the fires that devastated Lahaina, saying the utility negligently failed to shut off power despite exceptionally high winds and dry conditions.
Nation Aug 25 Hawaii releases the names of 388 people still missing after deadly wildfire Maui County has released the names of 388 people still missing more than two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.
Politics Aug 24 Photo: Mug shot of Donald Trump released after arrest in Georgia Trump’s surrender to law enforcement authorities has become by now a familiar election-season routine in a way that belies the unprecedented spectacle of a former president being booked, in four different cities, on felony criminal charges.