NEAR BRANSON, Mo. -- Eight people are dead and an unknown number of others are missing after a tourist boat capsized on Table Rock Lake on Thursday night, the Stone County sheriff said.

Sheriff Doug Rader said that seven people were taken by ambulance from the scene where the Ride the Ducks boat sank.

"It capsized and sank," Rader said of the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- At least eight people were killed and many are missing after a strong wind burst capsized and sank a pleasure boat Thursday night on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Mo.

Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said in a news conference shortly before 10 p.m. that at least seven people were taken to hospitals.

There reportedly were 31 ...Read more

Federal, state and local firefighters are battling a 75-acre wildfire near the Cleveland National Forest, a fire department spokeswoman said late Thursday afternoon.

At least 240 personnel are fighting the blaze, which started about 3 p.m. at Skyline Drive and Burrero Way, near the entrance to a hiking trail.

Mandatory evacuations are in place...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump unexpectedly invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington this fall, the White House announced Thursday, just after he belatedly rejected Putin's unprecedented request to interrogate a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow and other Americans.

The announcement of the invitation came just three ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Elon Musk personally dialed up the head of the environmental group the Sierra Club and asked for help with deflecting criticism over donations that the chairman of Tesla Inc. made to Republicans, according to an email that the head of the nonprofit sent to his staff.

Musk on Saturday called Michael Brune, the Sierra Club's ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Some Senate Democrats are alarmed by what may be a pattern of ICE making arrests when immigrants are conducting routine business at citizenship and immigration services offices.

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and the acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Ronald Vitiello, a group of 10 Senate...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- An Algerian-born al-Qaida operative accused of recruiting Pennsylvania's infamous "Jihad Jane" in a 2009 plot to assassinate a Swedish artist has told a federal court in Philadelphia that he intends to plead guilty to terrorism charges, prosecutors said Thursday.

Ali Charaf Damache, 52, is scheduled to admit his guilt before U.S...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Here's the story of a lovely family home, which just hit the market for $1.885 million.

The Brady Bunch house, a Traditional-style residence near the Colfax Meadows neighborhood, was used for outdoor representations of the beloved television family's abode. That included the show's opening and closing scenes as well as numerous ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A Broward County grand jury has indicted four men in the fatal ambush shooting in June of rapper XXXTentacion, the Broward Sheriff's Office said Thursday.

The 20-year-old Parkland songwriter and performing artist, whose given name was Jahseh Onfroy, was driving out of a Deerfield Beach motorcycle dealership when his car...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats haven't had private meetings with Judge Brett Kavanaugh in his first two weeks as a Supreme Court nominee, and aren't likely to until there is progress on getting access to his lengthy paper trail about his prior political work.

Democrats want assurances that the National Archives will agree to send to the Senate ...Read more

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin stood up for Donald Trump over his performance at their summit and hit out at U.S. critics of the meeting that he said helped ease tensions between their countries.

"Certain forces in America are trying to belittle and disavow the results of the meeting in Helsinki," which was a success and produced ...Read more

Humans may not have been the only hominids who knew how to start a fire long ago. New research suggests that as early as 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals wielded this power as well.

The work, published Thursday in Scientific Reports, provides new evidence that Neanderthals may have created flames-on-demand by striking a small piece of pyrite ...Read more

LOS ANGELES--A group of far-right protesters who planned to demonstrate outside Rep. Maxine Waters district office in South Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon failed to show up, but dozens of counterprotesters did.

The Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government group that purports to have many veterans as members, said they would protest outside ...Read more

WASHINGTON--President Donald Trump, after coming under fire for even considering the idea, on Thursday decided not to allow Russia to interrogate a former U.S. ambassador and other Americans, as Russia's President Vladimir Putin proposed during their summit in Helsinki, Finland.

"It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats haven't had private meetings with Judge Brett Kavanaugh in his first two weeks as a Supreme Court nominee, and aren't likely to until there is progress on getting access to his lengthy paper trail about his prior political work.

Democrats want assurances that the National Archives will agree to send to the Senate ...Read more

WASHINGTON--Senate Republican leaders on Thursday abruptly withdrew the nomination of Ryan Bounds for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a reminder of how a single GOP senator's objection can derail a judicial confirmation when all Democrats unite against it.

It was a rare setback in President Donald Trump's otherwise impressive record of ...Read more