Former President Donald Trump will survey the damage from Hurricane Helene in Valdosta on Monday as officials work to recover power and repair damage to one of the hardest hit parts of the state.

The Republican is one of several politicians to visit the south central Georgia city after the storm brought lashing winds and catastrophic flooding ...Read more

AUGUSTA - Across Augusta and the surrounding communities, Tropical Storm Helene has made even the most basic of essentials – power, water and gas – hard to come by, and residents don’t know when things will get better.

Massive trees and limbs are strewn across yards and roads in the city, with some neighborhoods still impossible to leave ...Read more

Legendary actor John Ashton has died.

Ashton, who was best known for his roles in the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise, was 76 years old at the time of his death.

His longtime manager, Alan Somers, confirmed Ashton’s death in a statement, according to CBS News.

“John was a loving husband, brother, father, and grandfather who will be ...Read more

Four of the top Democrats running for California governor met Sunday morning for the first major candidate forum of the 2026 election, a cordial discussion with few fireworks and almost no jabs at the politician they hope to succeed, Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The forum in downtown San Francisco, sponsored by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization — a win for reproductive health advocates amid nationwide concerns about the future of access to fertility treatments.

The bill also expands health care benefits to LGBTQ+ families seeking to have children, changing the ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have required vehicles to come equipped with technology that automatically alerts drivers when they exceed the speed limit by more than 10 mph.

The bill, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would have applied to new passenger vehicles, buses and big rigs sold or leased in ...Read more

Austria’s traditional political powers are pledging to block the far-right Freedom Party from forming a government following Sunday’s national elections, marking the latest effort to stem the rising tide of populism in Europe.

How they’ll achieve that, replicating a strategy adopted in Germany and France, is set to become the subject of ...Read more

California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a contentious artificial intelligence safety bill that would have required companies to make sure their AI models don’t cause major harm.

The bill, called SB 1047, was poised to be one of the most consequential pieces of AI regulation in the U.S., given California’s central position in the tech ...Read more

Floodwaters threaten more damage in Georgia and South Carolina as the U.S. South reels in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, a storm that killed at least 64 people, destroyed homes and left millions without power even as forecasters look to the tropics for the next storm.

While Helene has been completely absorbed by a larger weather system and...Read more

A U.N. Security Council vote scheduled for Monday on the armed international mission trying to rescue Haiti from the grip of armed gangs is critical to the fate of the operation and for the troubled nation’s fight for stability, a senior State Department official told the Miami Herald.

“Some countries cannot make contributions to this ...Read more

Numerous roads in downtown Baltimore are closed and power to some businesses and residences is shut off due to an underground fire, according to a news release from the Baltimore Department of Emergency Services. The fire has been extinguished.

Early Sunday crews responded to the 300 block of North Charles Street for reports of an underground ...Read more

Proposition 131 on Colorado’s November ballot proposes significant changes to how many high-profile elections would be conducted.

If passed by voters, the measure would apply to races for state offices (including for statewide officials and the legislature) and federal representatives to Congress. In each race, an open primary would be held ...Read more

Five people, including a child, died in a fiery Saturday evening plane crash at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, the National Park Service reported Sunday afternoon.

The single-engine Cirrus SR22 crashed into the trees at 5:18 p.m. as the pilot attempted to land at the monument’s small airstrip, known...Read more

A statewide ad blitz by the group pushing for legalized marijuana warns Floridians of the dangers of black-market pot: It may be laced with fentanyl, they say, a potent drug driving an epidemic of fatal drug overdoses.

“I’ve seen it firsthand,” Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young said in a 30-second television spot running in prime time. ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center is tracking three developing systems with growing chances to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm while also following Hurricane Isaac and Tropical Storm Joyce in the Atlantic.

The most likely to threaten the U.S. is a system the NHC expects to form in the Caribbean that could head into the ...Read more

One system headed for the Gulf of Mexico should have the attention of the United States, Cuba and Mexico, and two systems with development chances follow a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean.

All that and Hurricane Isaac are in the National Hurricane Center’s 8 a.m. update on the weather system activity in the Atlantic region.

A ...Read more

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a right to abortion in 2022, providers across California have seen an increase in protests outside their clinics and have scrambled to increase security measures, lobbying cities to enforce ordinances meant to shield patients from outside chaos.

A bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday ...Read more

SpaceX celebrated the first human spaceflight from its Cape Canaveral launch site on Saturday, and while the two humans aboard the Crew Dragon Freedom are safely on their way to the International Space Station, a problem arose with the rocket’s second stage that prompted the company to shut down future launches for now.

“After today’s ...Read more

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Iran and the militant groups it backs against attacking Americans in the Middle East, while the White House renewed calls on Israel to avoid triggering a wider regional war.

Two days after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike on Beirut, the Pentagon elaborated on U.S. naval ...Read more

It was a moment of high drama. Federal agents stopped New York City Mayor Eric Adams on the street on Nov. 5 and took his cell phones. As word of the seizure emerged Nov. 10, Adams declared he had “nothing to hide.”

“I would be shocked if someone stated that our campaign coordinated any illegal behavior,” Adams said.

But, as Thursday�...Read more