DES MOINES, Iowa — A sprawling storm hit the U.S. South, with tornado warnings and high winds that blew roofs off homes, flipped over campers and tossed about furniture in Florida on Tuesday, while another storm buried cities across the Midwest in more than a half a foot of snow, stranding people on highways as
NEW YORK — Olympic gymnastics great Mary Lou Retton said she faces a long battle recuperating at home from a rare form of pneumonia in which doctors weren't sure whether she would survive. In an interview that aired Monday on NBC's "Today" show, Retton said while wearing a breathing tube pumping oxygen through her nose
SALT LAKE CITY — Mountain climber and climate activist Caroline Gleich made her U.S. Senate run official Monday when she filed paperwork to run for Sen. Mitt Romney's seat. Romney announced last year he would not run again, and Gleich said in a press release she was "answering Sen. Romney's call for a new generation
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — When a rocket makes its inaugural liftoff attempt on Monday, it will carry nothing less than the first lunar lander to launch from the United States since NASA's final Apollo mission in 1972. The stakes are high. The success of the rocket, developed by the joint venture of Lockheed Martin and
JERUSALEM — Top U.S. and European diplomats urged leaders in the Middle East on Sunday to keep the Gaza war from spreading across the region, but three months into the conflict, more bloodshed underlined the challenge as Israel presses ahead with its offensive. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the European Union's top diplomat
PERRY, Iowa — An Iowa principal critically injured in a school shooting put himself in harm's way so students could try to escape from a teenage shooter who opened fire in a cafeteria as students were gathering for breakfast before class, authorities said Friday. Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger and six others, including two
TOKYO — Japan plans to accept a relief team from the United States but no aid from other governments, the daily Nikkei reported on Friday, four days after an earthquake killed 91 people and forced the evacuation of thousands in the Noto peninsula. The U.S. and Japan are discussing how and when the U.S. would
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Oregon on Friday after a window and chunk of its fuselage blew out in midair, media reports said. A passenger sent KATU-TV a photo showing a gaping hole in the side of the airplane next to passenger seats. It was not immediately clear
NEW YORK CITY — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday proposed offering pregnant women 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments, which she said would make New York the first state in the U.S. to offer such benefits. The proposal was part of a six-point plan to improve maternal and neonatal
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada judge was back to work a day after being attacked by a defendant in a felony battery case who was captured on courtroom video charging forward and "supermanning" over the judge's bench after it became clear that he was being sentenced to prison, a court official said Thursday. The defendant
