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Four days after issuing a firm threat to shut down the U.S. southern border as soon as this week, President Donald Trump on Tuesday was far less definitive. “I haven’t made that intention known,” Trump said when asked by a reporter during an Oval Office photo-op if he intended to […]

A massive explosion tore through a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, Tuesday, killing at least one person, injuring two others and promoting a shelter-in-place order for the surrounding community as firefighters worked to extinguish an apparently out-of-control fire there, officials said. The explosion occurred at the sprawling KMCO plant just […]

The United States Department of Agriculture has announced it will end all experiments on kittens at its Maryland laboratory after a bipartisan bill filed last month described the practice as “taxpayer-funded kitten slaughter.” The kittens were being used for toxoplasmosis research, which will now be redirected, according to a statement […]

The lawyer representing the family that owns the manufacturer of OxyContin defended his clients in an interview Tuesday. “I think the first thing that’s very, very important is that the Sackler family deeply feels the sorrow and the pain that this opioid epidemic has inflicted on people and their loved […]

Two teenage boys were arrested and accused of throwing a rock from the side of a Kentucky roadway, seriously injuring a driver, authorities said. William Wehner, 64, was driving on KY-237 in Burlington on Saturday night when a large rock was thrown through his windshield, according to the Boone County […]

President Donald Trump directed his outrage at Puerto Rico on Monday night, calling the U.S. territory “a mess” and its politicians “incompetent or corrupt,” after Senate Democrats clashed with their Republican counterparts over sending more disaster aid money. Senators took test votes on two competing measures — one drafted by […]

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Transcript for FBI joins hunt for missing 15-year-old And now to the search for that missing 15-year-old who authorities believe went on the run with a 47-year-old man. The FBI is now getting involved and the teen was last seen getting off this bus at her Louisiana high school last […]

Pope Francis said Tuesday that women have “legitimate claims” to seek more justice and equality in the Catholic Church, but stopped short of endorsing more sweeping calls from his own bishops to recognize the “urgency of an inevitable change” to give them leadership roles. Francis issued a document inspired by […]

As much of the Midwest braces for more rain that could exacerbate existing flooding, a coastal storm is targeting the Southeast today as a storm out West pounds the coast. Although rain is in the forecast today along the East Coast, the strongest part of that storm likely will remain […]