National parks are getting hotter and drier. What's the outlook for 2100?

WASHINGTON -- America's national parks are warming up and drying out faster than other U.S. landscapes, threatening iconic ecosystems from the Everglades in Florida to Joshua Tree in California to Denali in Alaska.

That's the conclusion of a new climate change study ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Circumstance, confusion and chaos have collided to ensure Thursday will be one of the most consequential -- and perhaps the most by a wide margin -- days of the tumultuous Trump presidency.

Washington has rarely seen the kind of spectacle ahead in just a few days, and the inevitable ramifications will trigger ripple waves that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democratic lawmakers are criticizing a new rule proposed by the Trump administration that would make it harder for immigrants who receive public benefits to obtain green cards.

The 447-page proposed rule, unveiled by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday, would expand the government's ability to deny a green card -- and ...Read more

UNITED NATIONS -- Cuba's handpicked President Miguel Diaz-Canel began his first appearance at the United Nations lauding "blood ties" between Cuba and Africa at a session dedicated to peace and to pay homage to the late South African leader Nelson Mandela.

"Cuba is honored to remember that it shared its struggles in the first line of combat ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- April Freeman, a Democrat who was running for retiring Rep. Tom Rooney's Florida seat, has died unexpectedly, according to media reports Monday.

Her husband, David Freeman, told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that his wife appeared to have had a heart attack Sunday night.

While Freeman's name will remain on the 17th District ballot,...Read more

WASHINGTON -- North Dakota voters will have to show identification that includes a street address before they can cast a ballot in November, a federal court ruled on Monday.

While opponents had successfully sued to block the provision, a St. Louis-based U.S. appeals court put that lower court order on hold. In a 2-1 ruling, the majority ...Read more

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- An Iraqi captive held at Guantanamo and accused of commanding al-Qaida and Taliban forces in Afghanistan after 9/11 failed to show up at a hearing Monday, stalling progress toward the war crimes trial following a health setback from his fifth spine surgery in less than a year.

The no-show presented a quandary ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the senior Justice Department official supervising the Russia investigation, will meet Thursday with President Donald Trump, an announcement that stanched, at least for now, a flurry of reports that Rosenstein would be leaving his post.

Rosenstein headed to the White House early Monday "...Read more

NEW YORK CITY -- President Donald Trump on Monday continued to stand behind his embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh, calling him "an outstanding person" and dismissing a second woman's accusation of sexual misconduct as being part of an "unfair, unjust" political attack.

Trump, leaving the United Nations after a short morning ...Read more

Hoppy beers are famous as a driver of craft brewing. But the challenging taste of hops goes far beyond the palate. According to a new study from Scripps Research scientists, the bitter flavor literally reaches into your gut.

Moreover, chemicals in hops called isohumulones may help control obesity, Type 2 diabetes and other diseases.

Intestinal...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, whose campaign toppled a Bay Area judge this year over a controversial sentence in a high-profile sex assault case, is moving on to a much bigger target: politicians across the country who don't take violence against women seriously or who have committed sexual misconduct themselves.

On...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the official in charge of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, has verbally resigned to White House chief of staff John Kelly, according to one person familiar with the matter.

The resignation was delivered to Kelly late last week, but it's unclear whether Rosenstein is ...Read more