SAPELO ISLAND, Georgia — Marsha Armstrong and her fiance were standing on the gangway to the ferry on Sapelo Island when it collapsed.

“We heard a click and then we were down in the water,” said Armstrong.

Armstrong and her fiance were among the survivors sharing harrowing details of Saturday’s chaotic and tragic collapse of the ...Read more

Sitting outside her house in North Philadelphia, Bettie Poplar embodies both the opportunity and the challenge facing Kamala Harris, who must resoundingly take this city to win Pennsylvania, and with it the presidency.

Poplar is Black and so plugged into the electoral process that she worked at a polling place in the last election – exactly ...Read more

Unprecedented flooding in southeast New Mexico killed at least one person in Roswell and led to almost 300 rescues over the weekend, authorities said.

Roswell set a new rainfall record on Saturday, leaving underwater many parts of a city with a population of 48,000.

Even Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington was caught up in the flooding, ...Read more

Spending on the litany of measures on Coloradans’ ballots has surpassed $24.5 million, led by the campaigns to overhaul the state’s election system and to protect abortion access in the state constitution.

Campaign finance reports updated in the last week show total fundraising has reached more than $31 million, including nonmonetary ...Read more

Cuba entered a third day without electricity after another outage Saturday evening set back efforts to restore power on the island, underscoring the challenges posed by decades-old, poorly maintained infrastructure.

Citing hurricane Oscar, which threatened the eastern end of the island Sunday, and the work in progress to restore the electrical ...Read more

A day after a Hezbollah drone penetrated Israel’s air defenses and exploded next to the private home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he held a series of meetings with top security aides to discuss the next attack on Iran.

The planning for such an assault has been underway for three weeks since Iran fired some 200 ballistic missiles at ...Read more

Three United States representatives from North Carolina requested a national intelligence briefing on the spread of online misinformation hindering efforts to support and rebuild parts of Western North Carolina washed away by Hurricane Helene.

“This information is dangerous to saving life and property right now, and we need to get to the ...Read more

The cost to maintain Idaho’s execution capabilities for prisoners sentenced to death, including upgrades to the area planned for a firing squad, has grown to nearly $1.3 million, according to the state’s prison system.

The Idaho Department of Correction issued notice last week of changes to its procedures for lethal injection. They included...Read more

Just over a year ago, four Pepperdine University students were killed by a speeding car on a section of Pacific Coast Highway known to Malibu locals as "Dead Man's Curve."

The tragic deaths of Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir and Deslyn Williams brought the number of fatalities on the 21-mile stretch of PCH to 61 in just the last 15 ...Read more

The unquiet spirits, vampires and the omnipresent zombies that take over American streets every October 31 may think Halloween is all about spooky fun. But what Halloween masqueraders may not realize is that in the early 1970s and well into the next decade, real fear took over.

The media, police departments and politicians began to ...Read more

A day after a Hezbollah drone penetrated Israel’s air defenses and exploded next to the private home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he held a series of meetings with top security aides to discuss the next attack on Iran.

The planning for such an assault has been underway for three weeks since Iran fired some 200 ballistic missiles at ...Read more

Moldova cleared a key hurdle as part of its bid to join the European Union in a set of votes on Sunday that may help break the Kremlin’s decades-long grip on the country.

Some 42% of voters participated in a referendum to join the EU as of 6 p.m. local time, exceeding the one-third threshold required to validate the ballot, the country’s ...Read more

Cuba entered a third day without electricity after another outage Saturday evening set back efforts to restore power on the island, underscoring the challenges posed by decades-old, poorly maintained infrastructure.

Cubans in the provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo in eastern Cuba were also bracing for a direct hit by Hurricane Oscar later on...Read more