• Why Democratic state leaders could have a tougher time countering Trump in his 2nd term

    Why Democratic state leaders could have a tougher time countering Trump in his 2nd term

    Nov 13, 2024 10:49 PM EDT

    ... to carry out deportations he has said would begin the day he is sworn in. There are key differences to the legal landscape now Bob Ferguson, Washington's Democratic governor-elect and current attorney general, said at a news conference last week that offices of Democratic attorneys general have been ...

  • Endless summer? Phoenix swelters in 100-plus degree temps for 100 straight days

    Endless summer? Phoenix swelters in 100-plus degree temps for 100 straight days

    Sep 03, 2024 08:19 PM EDT

    ... the data is parsed, 2024 marks another record-breaking summer of heat in Phoenix. It’s been the hottest meteorological summer, which includes the months June, July and August. And it’s the same story throughout the western U.S. with several locations in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New ...

  • Norfolk Southern will pay modest $15 million fine as part of a federal settlement over Ohio train derailment

    Norfolk Southern will pay modest $15 million fine as part of a federal settlement over Ohio train derailment

    May 23, 2024 06:27 PM EDT

    ... the Feb. 3, 2023, derailment. That agency plans to announce its conclusions about what went wrong that night at a hearing in East Palestine on June 25. Republicans in Congress have said they might be willing to look at rail safety reforms after that report. Ferguson said it feels like ...

  • 'Noncompete' agreements would be barred for most employees under this new rule

    'Noncompete' agreements would be barred for most employees under this new rule

    Apr 23, 2024 09:31 PM EDT

    ... what’s not by moving to ban noncompete agreements in all sectors of the economy.” Two Republican appointees to the FTC, Melissa Holyoak and Andrew Ferguson, voted against the proposal. They asserted that the agency was exceeding its authority by approving such a sweeping rule. Noncompete agreements are banned in ...

  • Southern Californians recount harrowing mudslides during record-breaking winter storm

    Southern Californians recount harrowing mudslides during record-breaking winter storm

    Feb 07, 2024 10:48 PM EDT

    ... and storm channels, fire officials said. Four of the nine people killed by the storm were hit by falling trees or limbs, according to Brian Ferguson, a spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. Another died when power failed and she lost her oxygen supply, one drowned in ...

  • King Charles III is doing well after hospital admission for scheduled prostate treatment

    King Charles III is doing well after hospital admission for scheduled prostate treatment

    Jan 26, 2024 05:45 PM EDT

    ... of royal medical news over the past 10 days. The Princess of Wales’ office at Kensington Palace said the princess underwent planned abdominal surgery on Jan. 16 for an undisclosed condition. 16. The palace didn’t provide further details but said her condition wasn’t cancerous. The 42-year-old ...

  • WATCH: Harris speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in South Carolina

    WATCH: Harris speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in South Carolina

    Jan 15, 2024 09:07 PM EDT

    ... action. “Generation after generation on the fields of Gettysburg, in the schools of Little Rock, on the grounds of this Statehouse, on the streets of Ferguson and on the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives — we the people have always fought to make the promise of freedom real,” Harris ...

  • Lewiston mass shooter had numerous run-ins with authorities, showed warning signs long before shooting

    Lewiston mass shooter had numerous run-ins with authorities, showed warning signs long before shooting

    Oct 30, 2023 08:59 PM EDT

    ... he made threats against his base and fellow soldiers. But ultimately, after a visit to Card's home, police moved on. On Monday afternoon, Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, held a news conference to provide an update on the response to the shooting. The conference turned contentious quickly when Mills ...

  • More than 800 missing in Maui wildfires as officials continue search

    More than 800 missing in Maui wildfires as officials continue search

    Aug 22, 2023 02:17 PM EDT

    ... reaching out by email and social media. “We were able to identify them through basically good old fashioned detective work,” Honea said. Scuba instructor Tim Ferguson, whose home north of Lahaina was spared, was elated to hear about a friend who managed to flee the flames with their family, including ...

  • Tyre Nichols' death renews push for police reforms

    Tyre Nichols' death renews push for police reforms

    Jan 29, 2023 05:47 PM EDT

    ... repeated in a ceaseless rhythm ever since, punctuated by the deaths of Amadou Diallo in New York, Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and so many others. George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in 2020 was so agonizing to watch, it summoned a national reckoning that ...