A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along a busy bike path Tuesday, killing at least eight and injuring 11 others.
AP: 8 killed by New York motorist in ‘cowardly act of terror’
AP: Manafort and Gates face decades in prison, millions in fines
Special counsel Robert Muller’s charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other aides marked a new phase in his sprawling investigation into Russia and President Donald Trump, underscoring the ongoing threat Mueller poses to the president.
California works to clean up after wildfires
Designer Jonathan Westerberg looks at the statistics behind the California wildfires as the Associated Press reports the clean-up effort is ‘for the record books.’
AP: ‘Nothing, nothing.’ Aid lags in hurricane-torn Puerto Rico
Some Puerto Ricans say they have not seen anyone from the Puerto Rican government, much less FEMA, since the Hurricane Maria tore up the island Sept. 20, killing at least 16 people and leaving nearly all 3.4 million people in Puerto Rico without power.
AP: Hurricane Irma pummels Florida; ‘This one scares me’
A monster Hurricane Irma roared into Florida with 130 mph winds Sunday for what could be a sustained assault on nearly the entire Sunshine State, flooding streets and knocking out power to more than 2 million homes.
Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez hangs himself in his prison cell
His death came less than a week after the 27-year-old athlete was acquitted in a second murder case.
Poland confirms Minnesota man as Nazi commander
Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday.
Fight on travel ban on hold; appeals court sides with states
The legal fight over President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations is on hold after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reinstate the order.
Brady suspects game jersey was stolen after Super Bowl win
Tom Brady thinks his Super Bowl jersey has been picked off.
With students stranded abroad, colleges condemn travel ban
Dozens of U.S. colleges are opposing President Donald Trump’s sweeping travel ban that has left some students and professors stranded abroad.
AP: Minnesota fires coach Claeys after team boycott threat
Minnesota fired coach Tracy Claeys on Tuesday, just over two weeks after the football program became embroiled in a standoff with the administration over the suspension of 10 players in connection with allegations of sexual assault.
Trump signals end to Clinton investigations
fter a campaign filled with Donald Trump’s denunciations of “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, the president-elect declared Tuesday that “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons; I really don’t,” and a top adviser said he had no interest in pursuing further investigations.
Pipeline protester seriously injured; conflicting accounts
A New York woman seriously hurt protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline faces multiple surgeries and could lose an arm, her father said Tuesday, and protesters and law enforcement gave conflicting accounts about what might have caused the explosion that injured her.
Minnesota’s Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award on a musician for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
Hurricane Matthew rips into Florida
Hurricane Matthew scraped Florida’s Atlantic coast early Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to a half-million people but sparing some of the most heavily populated stretches of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had feared.