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SAN DIEGO -- The University of California, San Diego's outdoor shake table in Scripps Ranch will soon give engineers a truer sense of the fury released when big earthquakes erupt in places around the world,

The National ...Read more

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa--Standing in a drizzle in this southwestern Iowa city, in a line that snaked around the arena and an adjacent field house, the people in red hats and raincoats were nonetheless cheery and eager, even ...Read more

WASHINGTON ––President Donald Trump has selected former Justice Department attorney Pat Cipollone to be the new White House counsel, said a person with direct knowledge of the search.

Cipollone would replace Don ...Read more

WASHINGTON –– President Donald Trump said that if migrant families fear they'll be separated by the U.S. government, it may deter them from illegally crossing the border from Mexico, suggesting that he's reconsidering ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Five days before an 18-year-old YouTube star known as "McSkillet" caused a head-on crash that killed him and two other people on Interstate 805, he began having what he described as a "meltdown," an episode ...Read more

NUSA DUA, Indonesia -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday that he was sticking with plans to attend a government-sponsored investment conference in Saudi Arabia this month despite the uproar over the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Calling the idea "fundamentally illegal," the Philadelphia region's top federal law enforcement official says that his office will take measures -- possibly including arrests and prosecutions -- to prevent ...Read more

Islamic State has kidnapped 130 families, mostly women, from Deir al-Zour province in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the kidnappings took place Friday in a ...Read more

President Donald Trump has promised that Saudi Arabia would face "severe punishment" if the kingdom's leadership was behind the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The writer and Saudi dissident has not been seen...Read more

WASHINGTON ––Donald Trump's presidency has inspired huge protests, with hundreds of thousands of women marching on the National Mall and scientists swarming the White House fence.

But now the Trump administration is ...Read more

WASHINGTON –– Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, paid almost no federal income taxes in several recent years despite a ballooning net worth and billions of dollars spent building his real estate empire...Read more

A major Republican Party funding group has passed two Republican members of Congress in its opening round of broadcast television advertising across Southern California.

The omission of Reps. Dana Rohrabacher and Mimi ...Read more

Some patients refuse to answer. Many doctors don't ask. As the number of Americans with dementia rises, health professionals are grappling with when and how to pose the question: "Do you have guns at home?"

While gun ...Read more

CLEVELAND -- You can call Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray a nerd (he's a five-time "Jeopardy!" champion who likes to tweet state trivia).

You can even call him boring (asked by the Columbus ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--Six months before his murderous attack, Nikolas Cruz trespassed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, wearing a hoodie, carrying a backpack and -- ominously now -- mingling among students, newly released...Read more

MIAMI -- What looks ghastly on the ground in the wake of Hurricane Michael looks absolutely apocalyptic from up above.

Satellite images released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after the storm ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump took his campaign road show to Ohio on Friday, a state that is a microcosm of the fight his Republican Party faces in next month's midterm elections.

On the one hand, a recent Suffolk ...Read more

One of the most bitterly contested races in the Nov. 6 election is in Georgia, where the gubernatorial campaign pits Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a white Republican, against Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who is vying to ...Read more