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SACRAMENTO — After being soaked by an onslaught of storms that have flooded towns, saturated fields and heaped the Sierra Nevada with a near-record snowpack, Californians are getting relief from a host...

The storm system that ripped through Mississippi and Alabama over the weekend, causing at least 26 deaths, and left residents and volunteers in the Mississippi town of Rolling Fork digging through rubble.The...

Philadelphia officials on Sunday suggested residents consider using bottled water rather than tap water for drinking and cooking after a chemical spill into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of...

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, Phillip A. Washington, has withdrawn from consideration for the job, according to the White House.Mr. Washington’s Republican critics in the Senate...

George Washington University will soon choose a new nickname for its athletic teams, dropping “Colonials” after years of pressure from students who said the name was entangled with violence toward Native Americans...

President Biden’s nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, Phillip A. Washington, has withdrawn from consideration for the job, according to the White House.Abdullah Hasan, a spokesman for the White House, said...

NPR laid off 10 percent of its staff this week and announced that it would stop production of four popular podcasts — “Invisibilia,” “Louder Than a Riot,” “Rough Translation” and “Everyone &...

At precisely midnight, two officers pulled a black tarp and plastic sheet off a newly erected sign at what has been the most famous unofficial border crossing in Canada, Roxham Road. “STOP....

Two people were killed and nine others were missing after a powerful explosion ripped through a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pa., on Friday, sending a plume of smoke into the air...

Emergency workers were surveying the damage from a tornado that touched down in Mississippi on Friday night, the authorities said, as rain and high winds whipped through the region, and power outages...