Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan ordered a probe into abductions of political figures and government critics ahead of upcoming elections in the East African nation.

The investigation follows the abduction and murder of a senior member of the main opposition Chadema party, Ally Mohamed Kibao.

“I have ordered investigative agencies...Read more

Republican lawmakers accused the Biden administration of lying to Americans and sacrificing the safety of U.S. soldiers during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, in a report that sought to implicate Vice President Kamala Harris before the presidential election.

The report said President Joe Biden’s team “misled and, in some instances, ...Read more

The U.S. is preparing for a gargantuan spike in the amount of energy it harnesses from the sun, and vastly changing the desert landscape of the Silver State’s public lands is a major component of that vision.

Within the Bureau of Land Management’s controversial plan that updates preferred solar zones for the first time in 12 years, Nevada ...Read more

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer emphasized the importance of avoiding a government shutdown on Sept. 30, as lawmakers return to Washington after the August break with the U.S. election ahead in November.

In a letter to his Democratic colleagues on Sunday, Schumer said his party favors a short-term funding extension, known as a continuing ...Read more

A storm system in the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane early this week, bringing heavy rain, damaging winds and potentially life-threatening storm surges to parts of the Texas and Louisiana coastlines.

The system is forecast to become a tropical storm on Monday as it moves north, with storm watches in effect for parts ...Read more

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy will soon make a historic decision that could restore water to the long-dammed Eklutna River.

The decision could mark a turning point in a dispute between two electric utilities on one side, and the municipality of Anchorage and Native Village of Eklutna on the other.

The Chugach and Matanuska electric associations ...Read more

Five years after state law empowered prosecutors to recommend the early release of people who have substantially rehabilitated in prison, an architect of the landmark reform saw something starkly missing: women prisoners were a tiny fraction of those set free.

“We see this across every industry. We’re underrepresented,” said Hillary Blout...Read more

For decades, gases from car exhaust and cow waste have drifted from Colorado’s Front Range to harm plants, fish and wildlife in Rocky Mountain National Park, and while a decades-long effort to slow the damage is working, it’s not moving as quickly as environmentalists hoped.

Nitrogen and ammonia, largely generated by heavy traffic along the...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — The Rev. Chris Strickland ended his Sunday service at Winder First United Methodist Church a little different this week.

Instead of the usual closing hymn, Strickland issued an invitation: Anyone in the pews who needed to sort out the emotions they may be feeling after four community members were shot and killed earlier this ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday increased odds for a Gulf of Mexico system to become a tropical depression or storm while chances for two Atlantic systems increased as well.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico had increased showers and thunderstorms.

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CHICAGO — Betty Bogg remembered how excited Margaret Miller and her husband were when they landed a place to stay at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Miller, 64, and her husband had been living out of their truck when they first sought help from Connections for the Homeless, where Bogg is the CEO. They were eventually sheltered through ...Read more

It’s September! That means Christmas trees are twinkling at Big Box stores (despite the heat), Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie rule the holiday makeovers at Disney (and have since well before Labor Day), rejiggered vaccines are landing at pharmacies and officials are bracing for the fall/winter waves of COVID, flu and other respiratory ...Read more

In the wake of Rep. Carolina Amesty’s indictment last week, Florida Republicans have mostly kept silent, avoiding public comment on her fitness for office even though state law places the authority to judge her in the legislative majority’s hands.

It’s a stance that suggests tacit support for the Orlando-area GOP lawmaker just as her 2024...Read more

The mother of the Georgia teenager accused of killing four people at his high school says she warned school administrators before the shooting.

Marcee Gray told relatives she had notified a school counselor about 30 minutes before her 14-year-old son, Colt Gray, allegedly fatally shot two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School, the ...Read more

In a rare attack at an Israeli-controlled crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, a gunman killed three Israeli workers Sunday before being shot dead, the Israeli military said.

The Allenby Bridge crossing point, also known as the King Hussein crossing, is the only one with Jordan that leads into the Israeli-occupied West Bank, near the ...Read more

House Republicans will extend a two-year investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan beyond a report to be released on Monday and until “well after the election” in November, according to a lawmaker leading the probe.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said many questions remain as the panel looks into what ...Read more

Two months out, it is hard to know exactly how smooth the state's vote-counting will go in the presidential election, but feelings among some close observers run from guarded optimism to grave concern.

The preliminary phase has already started: Many counties already have processed thousands of applications for mail ballots so that when actual ...Read more

Terence Banks, one of two brothers of top officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration ensnared in a federal corruption investigation, is not a registered lobbyist, but keeps a roster of clients with business interests before Adams’ administration, according to a New York Daily News review of public records.

Banks, a former MTA employee-...Read more