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About 64,000 portable generators have been recalled because of serious fire and burn hazards, according to federal regulators.Generac Power Systems, a manufacturer of backup power-generating products based in Wisconsin, recalled two of...

They thought they had him cornered.Danelo Cavalcante, facing life in prison for murder, had shimmied his way out of the Chester County jail on Aug. 31 and was on the run in...

Lee, which was downgraded from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone early Saturday, brought gusty winds, rain and dangerous surf conditions to coastal communities in New England early Saturday, as the center...

Ovidio Guzmán López, one of four sons of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord best known as El Chapo, was extradited to Chicago on Friday to face trial on a sprawling...

As Hurricane Lee churned closer to coastal New England on Friday, with winds expected to intensify by nightfall, cruise ships sought refuge in Portland, Maine, and homeowners in Provincetown, Mass., piled sandbags.An...

Lauch Faircloth, a North Carolina hog farmer who as a one-term Republican United States senator was instrumental in stripping the District of Columbia and Mayor Marion Barry of all authority to deal...

Mr. DeSantis, a former congressman who helped found the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus, has leaned into the spending fight, and blamed Republicans for overspending during the Trump years.In a private call...

An Iowa teenager was found guilty on Thursday of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two students in January at an educational program for at-risk youths.The teenager, Preston Walls,...

Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted on Thursday to remove the state’s elections chief, escalating a fight over who can determine the leader of a group that will supervise the elections next...

A judge on Thursday granted former President Donald J. Trump and 16 others a separate trial from two of their co-defendants, who will go to trial next month in the Georgia election...