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A Hillsboro, Ore., man returned to the Cowlitz County Jail on Tuesday night after prosecutors got an arrest warrant for the kidnap and rape of a 13-year-old girl known to him in September 2014.

Donald Trump will get to make the next nomination for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court and the best jurists for it will combine a belief that Constitution should be read to enforce the original intent of the drafters along with a willingness to overrule bad precedents.

Metro Diner, at 100th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, opened in 1989.

DURHAM, N.C. — Grayson Allen’s foot is feeling a little better — and so is his shot.

A handful of wins towards the end of the year have rescued the Turnbull government from the near certainty of a difficult summer, but progress must be maintained if the government is to recover its balance and make something of 2017.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — An unusually late-season Hurricane Otto swirled over the Caribbean just off Central America on Wednesday and headed toward a possible landfall in Nicaragua after regaining hurricane strength. Heavy rains from the storm were blamed for three deaths in Panama, and officials in Costa Rica ordered the evacuation of 4,000 people from its Caribbean coast. Nicaragua ordered evacuations in low-lying areas of its sparsely populated Caribbean coast, an order that could cover about 7,000 people. Читать дальше...

Socially, Brian Hingerty was quietly jovial; his core was adamantine, wholly encased in gentleness.

Philanthropist and education activist Betsy DeVos said in a statement on Wednesday that she was eager to advance President-elect Donald Trump's education policies as the next US secretary of education.

The list of potential targets from a seized mobile telephone include an amusement park.

The grizzled Southern California commuter knows the day before Thanksgiving is going to be a nightmare. And 2016 is living up to expectations. As of Friday afternoon, unusually bad traffic was reported on most Los Angeles-area freeways. It prompted the California Highway Patrol to put out this...

Sindarius Thornwell had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead South Carolina past cold-shooting and 25th-ranked Michigan, 61-46, on Wednesday night at Columbia, S.C.

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As the shock grenade of his electoral college victory begins to wear off, the Donald Trump administration is now coming into focus.

Rightfully, much of the emphasis has been on whether he’ll follow through on the nastiest, most racist campaign promises he made.

But as time goes on, the scale and variety of the changes that a Trump administration could bring becomes clear.

For example, he’d like to cut funding for NASA’s earth-science research... Читать дальше...

A motorcyclist riding south on Highway 101 near San Jose Wednesday crashed into the center median, catapulting the male rider over the guardrail and onto the northbound side of the highway where he was pronounced dead, police said. The accident, reported at 2:15 p.m. on Highway 101 north of the I-880 connector, closed down multiple lanes and was expected to cause traffic delays lasting well into the evening commute, said Officer Ross Lee, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol’s San Jose division. Читать дальше...

A former Massachusetts prosecutor once named one of People Magazine's most eligible bachelors is again facing sexual assault allegations ...

The holiday season is officially upon us and with it come gatherings of family members both close and obscure, welcomed and tolerated.

Former Rep. Bob Walker, President-elect Donald Trump’s senior adviser on space policy, hopes to end NASA’s research into climate change and instead focus on “deep space” investigation, according to an interview published Wednesday in The Guardian.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract valued at over $7.2 billion to produce 90 F-35 combat aircraft for the US Air Force and Marine Corps as well as foreign countries, the Department of Defense said in a press release.

More than 60 Radio National staff met at the broadcaster's Ultimo office on Thursday to unanimously pass a motion of no confidence against ABC management.

HACHIOJI, Japan - People walk past Tokyo's JR Hachioji Station on their way to their offices and schools on the mornin...

Failing to top a Champions League group often comes back to bite teams when the competition really gets going in the round of 16

The theater doyenne stars as La Marquise de Merteuil in Josie Rourke's revival of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' now on Broadway.