The National Hurricane Center says Michael is making landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a catastrophic Category 4 Hurricane, pushing a deadly storm surge and whipping the coast with 155 mph (250 kph) winds.
Gaining frightening fury overnight, Hurricane Michael closed in Wednesday on the Florida Panhandle with potentially catastrophic winds of 145 mph, the most powerful storm on record ever to menace the stretch of fishing towns, military bases and spring-break beaches.
President Donald Trump says he will decide in two to three weeks, if not sooner, who will be America's next ambassador to the United Nations.
A vulgar message on a Charlotte middle school sign about the controversial Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has people concerned.
Brett Kavanaugh took the bench with his new Supreme Court colleagues for the first time Tuesday in a jovial atmosphere that was strikingly at odds with the tension and rancor surrounding his high-court confirmation.
A fast and furious Hurricane Michael sped toward the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday with 120 mph winds and a potential storm surge of 13 feet, giving tens of thousands of people precious little time to get out or board up.
United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley resigned Tuesday.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in βagain, for the cameras, this time β Monday night at a White House ceremony, but not before President Donald Trump slammed Kavanaughβs opponents for a βcampaign of personal destruction.β
Facebook is launching the first electronic device to bear its brand, a screen and camera-equipped gadget intended to make video calls easier and more intuitive.
The supersized limousine that crashed and killed 20 people outside a country store failed a safety inspection last month and shouldnβt have been on the road, and the driver wasnβt properly licensed, New Yorkβs governor said Monday.
Hurricane Michael gained new strength Monday and is expected to keep growing stronger ahead of an expected midweek strike on Floridaβs Panhandle, forecasters said.
The FDA is required by law to remove any food additive that has been shown to cause cancer in animals or humans at any dose.
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has spiked 7 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, costing $2.97.
The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the countryβs cultural, gender and political divides.
After weeks of shocking accusations, hardball politics and rowdy Capitol protests, a pair of wavering senators declared Friday they will back Brett Kavanaughβs Supreme Court confirmation, all but guaranteeing the deeply riven Senate will elevate the conservative jurist to the nationβs highest court on Saturday.
Michael βThe Situationβ Sorrentino, whose abs became famous on the hit reality show βJersey Shore,β was sentenced Friday to eight months in prison for cheating on his taxes.
Melania Trump briefly lost her footing when a baby elephant startled her with a sudden move, but the first lady was anything but out of step when children at an orphanage welcomed her to their home with African song and dance.
A 74-year-old who won a sharpshooting decoration in Vietnam ambushed police officers coming to his South Carolina home to question his adult son about a child sexual assault, killing one and wounding six others, the sheriff investigating the case said Friday.
A jury on Friday convicted white Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
An Arkansas man who killed himself during a 1999 police standoff at a Missouri motel was a serial killer and rapist who strangled a South Carolina woman in 1990 and gunned down a Missouri mother and daughter eight years later, authorities said Friday.
