WASHINGTON — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday. What You Need To Know Jimmy Carter’s state funeral has moved to Washington after observances in his native Georgia The 39th president’s remains left the Carter Presidential Center on…
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A developing winter storm threatens to drop snow, sleet and freezing rain on parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas as frigid air that escaped the Arctic plunges temperatures to subfreezing levels in some of the southernmost points of the U.S. What You Need To Know National Weather Service meteorologists predicted wintry…
President-elect Donald Trump, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, said he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.” His comment came as he claimed Mexico is taking advantage of the U.S. on immigration and trade. “We’re gonna be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which…
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The next round of bitter cold was set to envelop the southern U.S. on Tuesday, after the first significant winter storm of the year blasted a huge swath of the country with ice, snow and wind. What You Need To Know The first significant winter storm of the year blasted a huge swath…
A blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures stirred up dangerous travel conditions in parts of the central U.S. on Sunday, as a disruptive winter storm brought the possibility of the “heaviest snowfall in a decade” to some areas. What You Need To Know A major, disruptive winter storm was sweeping across the central U.S. and…
MEXICO CITY — Mexico opened the possibility Friday of receiving non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States after initially saying they would push President-elect Donald Trump to return other nationalities directly to their countries of origin. What You Need To Know President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her daily press briefing that in cases where the U.S. would not…
NEW ORLEANS — A U.S. Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group wrought carnage on New Orleans’ raucous New Year’s celebration, killing 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police. What You Need To Know Authorities…
U.S. stocks closed broadly lower Monday as a banner year on Wall Street looked set to finish on a sour note. The S&P 500 fell 1.1%, its third straight decline. Roughly 90% of stocks within the index lost ground. On the second-to-last day of 2024, the benchmark index was still on track for its second…
HOUSTON — Officials were beginning to assess the damage on Sunday after a strong storm system moved across the southern U.S. over the weekend, spawning tornadoes across the region and killing at least four people. What You Need To Know At least four people were killed as several tornadoes touched down in Texas and Mississippi on Saturday, damaging…
The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday. What You Need To Know Federal officials say the United States saw…