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One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Kilauea in Hawaii, has resumed erupting after nearly a monthlong pause in activity, scientists said.Just after 4:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, a glow was...

WASHINGTON — The longtime partner of a Capitol Police officer who died after the Jan. 6 attack sued former President Donald J. Trump and two Capitol rioters on Thursday, arguing that his...

Plus, Democrats held rock-solid control of the House for four decades before 1994 with their large majorities, allowing the certainty of who was speaker to be settled long before the pro forma...

As Congress slogged through its third day of paralysis and into its eighth vote for speaker, there was one man trying hard to avoid being part of the story even as he...

Another bout of rain, wind and snow was expected across large portions of California on Thursday, as a powerful winter storm moved eastward across the state, disrupting the power grid and threatening...

And with more storms on the horizon, the mountains could see more rain that may lead to flooding.“Now that we have a saturated snowpack, we’re probably not going to get a lot...

(Mr. Long is not a congressman, since the last Congress adjourned for a final time on Tuesday, even though Representative-elect Eric Burlison, the Republican who won the race to succeed him, has...

WASHINGTON — After helping to foment a right-wing rebellion that dealt Representative Kevin McCarthy three humiliating losses on Tuesday in his bid to become speaker, Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, added...

Another powerful atmospheric river storm threatens California with more flooding, landslides and damaging winds in the next two days as the storm that drenched the state last week now drifts across the...

STROUDSBURG, Pa. — The graduate criminology student accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students agreed in his first public court appearance on Tuesday to be extradited from Pennsylvania to Idaho...