A veteran detention officer at a North Carolina jail is facing 20 counts of felony forgery, after it was determined documents linked to deportations had fake signatures, according to investigators.

The paperwork was used to hold suspected undocumented immigrants in jail for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, officials said.

“On ...Read more

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams is one of 38 election officials, many of whom are Republicans, who have filed a brief in opposition to President Donald Trump’s new limits on mail-in ballots.

In March, Trump issued an executive order that requires states to give lists of voters receiving mail-in ballots to the U.S. Postal Service, ...Read more

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cautioned oil traders against expecting a breakthrough on the Strait of Hormuz as Iran plans to pitch other Gulf countries on a deal for passage through the energy choke point.

“Counting on a consensual agreement with Iran today is certainly not a good bet,” Wright said in an interview on Sunday. He said ...Read more

Two youths riding in a driverless vehicle were arrested after the operators alerted authorities to an assault rifle in the vehicle, California police said.

Officers found an illegal “ghost gun” inside the vehicle, along with marijuana and mace spray, San Francisco police said in a Thursday news release.

The company operating the vehicle ...Read more

A facility at the Nevada National Security Site outside of Las Vegas has been used to perform testing on key components for very small nuclear reactors — a technology that some believe holds great promise for advancing energy production in the United States.

Several companies around the world are now racing to produce what are known as ...Read more

A federal operation is removing hundreds of wild horses from western Colorado in the largest helicopter roundups in the state in several years, a tactic that has prompted criticism from state leaders and advocates.

Since early August, contractors for the Bureau of Land Management gathered and shipped off 880 horses from the Piceance-East ...Read more

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cautioned oil traders against expecting a breakthrough on the Strait of Hormuz as Iran plans to pitch other Gulf countries on a deal for passage through the energy choke point.

“Counting on a consensual agreement with Iran today is certainly not a good bet,” Wright said in an interview on Sunday. He said ...Read more

President Donald Trump defended his remarks calling for the unification of Ireland as “fairly routine,” standing by comments that have sparked a controversy in Northern Ireland.

“I’ve always loved the people of Ireland, and it just seems to me that you have Northern Ireland, and you have Ireland, and it would seem to me that one of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump defended his remarks calling for the unification of Ireland as “fairly routine,” standing by comments that have sparked a controversy in Northern Ireland.

“I’ve always loved the people of Ireland, and it just seems to me that you have Northern Ireland, and you have Ireland, and it would seem to me that one of the ...Read more

Penn Medicine researchers are testing whether an ultrafast form of radiation therapy can treat cancers in the head and neck with fewer side effects.

The clinical trial marks the first time the technology, conformal FLASH proton therapy, is being used in humans.

Radiation therapy, one of the most commonly used cancer treatments, works by aiming...Read more

Iran plans to formally unveil an agreement on a temporary shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, after a flurry of diplomatic activity including a rare meeting between senior officials from Tehran and Abu Dhabi.

The Islamic Republic is set to reveal to Gulf nations its agreement with Oman on a temporary new shipping lane, ...Read more

President Donald Trump downplayed the growing alarm over risks from artificial intelligence after some of the industry’s leaders called for slowing the pace of development of the technology.

“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI ...Read more

Russia hit energy facilities and other sites in the Odesa region in southern Ukraine overnight while Kyiv’s forces claimed strikes on oil refineries in southern Russia and Tatarstan.

Debate continues on when and where new talks may be scheduled on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, well into its fifth year, after U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’d warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop targeting oil refineries in Russia amid strikes that have shut down diesel refining and helped drive prices for the fuel to record levels.

“Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing: He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump said Sunday on the...Read more

Over two days in the summer of 1910, wildfires roared across the bone-dry forests of the inland Northwestern U.S., the Rockies, and parts of British Columbia. Whole towns burned. The blazes scorched 3 million acres of forest, an area the size of Connecticut, and left behind a legacy that profoundly changed how the U.S. managed wildfires – ...Read more

DENVER — New legislation in Congress would make Coloradans who became ill after living near two of the state’s nuclear sites eligible for tens of thousands of dollars in federal compensation.

A proposed expansion of the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act would recognize the Cotter uranium mill near Cañon City and the former Rocky ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vox Payne heard the screams and instantly knew where they were coming from.

“I immediately texted my next-door neighbor and we both were like, ‘That was the tower, wasn’t it?’” Payne said.

Her house sits in the shadow of an abandoned grain elevator in south Minneapolis that’s become a dangerous hot spot for urban ...Read more

TROY, N.Y. — Like many residents of this aging industrial city on the Hudson River, Starletta Washington was stunned when she heard Troy’s last remaining hospital planned to close its birthing center.

“It was devastating,” said Washington, who heads the local YWCA. Washington was born at the hospital and had her children there. She ...Read more

Three fires across Mendocino County grew to a combined 59,214 acres by Saturday afternoon as firefighters worked to establish containment lines.

The most recent is the Lucas fire, which started Thursday morning near Bachelor Valley on the border of Lake County and Mendocino County. Fueled by northwest winds, it reached 3,846 acres by noon ...Read more