A large flash flood swept through Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area of Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday, prompting 62 people to be evacuated from the area throughout the weekend.

The National Park Service said Sunday that more than 20 people may be missing following the flood. Officials are seeking information from the public...Read more

Tarrant County voter access is still being threatened though the proposed cut to polling locations isn’t as deep as initially suggested, Commissioner Alisa Simmons said Sunday afternoon alongside House Rep. James Talarico.

Last month, Tarrant County Commissioners Court members unanimously agreed the significant slash to the November midterm ...Read more

Within days of President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America," Google Maps quietly fell in line. Searches for the international boundary water in Google Maps now direct U.S. users to a renamed "Lake America."

While the president's preferred name for the smallest Great Lake isn't yet reflected on Apple Maps, it may be ...Read more

A mass shooting in Washington Park Saturday night became the city’s largest of the year when Chicago police reported that a total of 15 people had been shot, leaving one man dead.

Just before midnight on the 5400 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, police sources said a pair of unknown shooters dressed in all black and ski masks shot at the ...Read more

The National Park Service is asking the public to provide information for more than 20 people who may be missing or unaccounted for following a significant flash-flood event Saturday in Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area in Grand Canyon National Park.

Park staff, in coordination with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, are ...Read more

SpaceX and NASA are delaying the launch of a planned mission to the International Space Station to fix an oxidizer leak in the Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system, the U.S. space agency said.

NASA and SpaceX are doing additional testing and didn’t announce a new target launch date for the Crew-13 mission, which will be staffed by American...Read more

More than 4 million gallons of raw sewage are flowing down the Arkansas River in southern Colorado, leaving public health officials to issue downstream warnings about playing in the water.

The sewage is expected to reach the John Martin Reservoir State Park in Bent County on Monday morning, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife advised people to ...Read more

The Timber and Plaskett fires continued to challenge firefighters up and down the Big Sur coast on Sunday, burning in rugged, steep terrain.

After doubling in size Saturday, the Plaskett Fire burning along the southern Big Sur coast held at 8,241 acres on Sunday, with containment still at 1%.

The Timber Fire, meanwhile, was at 24,839 acres, up...Read more

President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against the media on Sunday with an admonition to the Federal Communications Commission to investigate polling used by news outlets and punish a prominent television news host.

Trump has long had an adversarial relationship with journalists and news organizations who publish stories he doesn’t ...Read more

Passersby at Seattle Center on Saturday saw the typical Ukrainian independence day festivities, from embroidered traditional clothing to varenyky dumplings, Ukrainian candies and a lineup of contemporary musicians and folk performances.

Those witnessing Ukraine's 35th annual celebration of freedom after the fall of the Soviet Union also might ...Read more

Zambian police arrested and charged the country’s main opposition leader with treason, ramping up political tensions that have spiked after the copper-rich nation’s disputed August general election.

Brian Mundubile and his former running mate, Makebi Zulu, were formally charged on Aug. 29 along with 16 other suspects, Zambia Police Service...Read more

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The skies cleared and NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket hurtling past a rising sun, headed for a mission to unravel some celestial mysteries.

The powerhouse rocket lifted off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A at 7:26 a.m. with the $4.3 billion telescope that’s off on a trip...Read more

The latest political battleground between California and the Trump administration over transgender youth is a few million dollars annually for gender-affirming care.

Upcoming cuts to federal funding for gender-affirming health care will apply to a small fraction of transgender kids and teens in California. The impact will be far short of U.S. ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday upped the odds that two systems, one in the Gulf, and the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm Dolly, could develop.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, what had been Dolly for just one day last week but is now a strong tropical wave was producing an area of showers and thunderstorms from ...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent began the week vowing an “economic onslaught” against Iran and its trading partners in a fresh bid to end the war. By the week’s end, countries with ties to Tehran had so far shrugged off the threat and analysts were left underwhelmed by the U.S. actions.

China, which buys 90% of Iran’s oil, issued a ...Read more

The U.S. plans to use its newfound assertion of control over billions of barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to refill the nation’s depleted emergency reserve, President Donald Trump said Sunday.

“One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves,” Trump said in a Truth Social post, in ...Read more

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a $4.3-billion sister to the Hubble and James Webb telescopes — launched into space Sunday morning on a SpaceX rocket with space enthusiasts and scientists from around the world looking on.

Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists' inventory of planets outside...Read more

President Donald Trump is entering a critical stretch of his second term with a slew of resignations among his senior staff, forcing him to rely on an even smaller circle of aides.

Over the last month, Trump lost his chief spokesperson, his top legal adviser, a key national security adviser and his liaison to Capitol Hill. More senior officials...Read more

MIAMI — In the north and the south of the county, on the beach and at the cusp of the Everglades, in neighborhoods of all kinds, the number of students attending traditional public schools is down.

Overall, enrollment in traditional public schools in Miami has declined steadily for decades, but in recent years, the issue has become so ...Read more

A new plan by California lawmakers to help fund the state's struggling journalism organizations could advance in the coming days but faces an uncertain future.

Assembly Bill 2222 would create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ, which in practice would provide direct cash...Read more