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FPL: Shutting down Turkey Point will not impact pre-storm power

In response to the potential outages, FPL said it has more than 13,000 crews ready to restore power once it goes out. Be sure that ladders or scaffolds are ...

Record Fall Enrollment for AR Universities

The number of graduate students increased by a dozen, and the number of honors students increased by 5.5 percent. Among the state's four larger schools, Missi...

Work to start on Donald Trump's controversial US border wall with Mexico

CBP said the walls would likely be built this fall. The wall was a hot-button issue in Trump's campaign a year ago. Last week, the CBP announced the sel...

Spokane couple shares names with devastating hurricanes

Harvey and Irma on the hurricane map together will never happen again. A Washington couple named Harvey and Irma are amazed by the hurricanes that bear their ...

UN Considering Oil Embargo Against North Korea

Last Sunday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said North Korea would face "a massive military response" if it were to pose any threat against the United Stat...

One arrested after shooting at Columbus high school, police say

Officers said they were called to the campus of Columbus Scioto Friday morning. Police then reported they arrested the suspect just before 9AM. Columbus Polic...

United States seeks Kim Jong-un assets freeze

American basketball great Dennis Rodman says he has skied and sung karaoke with his friend, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un , and would like to "straighten t...

'Tension in the air' as Hurricane Irma heads towards Florida

On Twitter Friday , Trump wrote, "Hurricane Irma is of epic proportion, perhaps bigger than we have ever seen". Miami hasn't announced if it will cease com...

Mexico's Caribbean coast prepares for Hurricane Katia

Category 1 is the NHC's weakest hurricane designation while Category 5 is the strongest. The storm is expected to further weaken as it moves inland, and is ex...

The View from Puerto Rico as Hurricane Irma Arrived

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A nurse who lives in Richmond rode out Hurricane Irma at a hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico . "We were actually fortunate last night...

Why we still need Obama-era sexual assault policy

DeVos said her department would establish new guidelines following a public comment period - for now, it remains exactly what will change. The union leader ha...

Korea nuclear test 10 times more powerful than Hiroshima

And that spot will only get more hard if radioactive contamination suddenly turns up in China . Putin said that while North Korea's nuclear test violates...

Grandmother in custody for holding girl in dog kennel

The investigation was sparked when police along with Racine County Human Services responded to an elementary school earlier this week regarding a child abuse co...

Hurricane Irma track continues shift west into Georgia

Friday advisory of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Though confidence in the hurricane's track grows stronger by the hour, Short did advise some caut...

Wife of Trump ethics lawyer arrested over prison sex

While police declined to identify the inmate, only two 23-year-olds are now detained in the Fauquier County Adult Detention Center, according to the county she...

Pence's spokesman pushes lie about voter fraud in New Hampshire

Kobach, who serves as vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, wrote that the vast majority of the state's same-day registrants...

Bannon: Christie frozen out from Cabinet for 'Access Hollywood' tape response

If you make the plane, you make the team. Christie at the time said he wouldn't support Trump over his comments. "Grab 'em by the p-y". Steve Bannon , ...

Whitehouse told Trump's closest aides to be grilled over Russian Federation links

The investigators want to speak with aides connected to Donald Trump Jr.'s controversial meeting at Trump Tower past year with a Russian lawyer, among other inc...

Sen. Nelson Says FEMA Ready For Irma - But Needs Money

He also warned that more than 100,000 people may need shelter. "This is a storm of absolutely historic destructive potential". Irma, one of the strongest st...

Army to induct women in military police

The Indian Army has finalised a plan to induct women in the military police, a senior officer said on Friday. The defence ministry today chose to recruit wo...

Digvijaya Singh under fire over abusive tweet against PM Modi

Backlash from Rudy came in the wake of Singh "retweeting" an abusive meme against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the micro-blogging site Twitter. "What giv...

Boy found murdered in Gurugram school, seven detained (Second Lead)

He confirmed a knife soaked in blood was also recovered from the spot. The knife was also been discovered beside the body. "They told me his health deteriorat...

Will Rahul Gandhi's visit help boost chances for Congress in Maharashtra?

According to reliable sources, Rahul Gandhi called the senior Congress legislators to Delhi in a damage-control exercise to prevent a section of Members of ...

Tsunami after magnitude 8 quake strikes off Mexico

Residents fled buildings, many in their pajamas, and gathered in frightened groups in the street. Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto has tweeted that: "Civi...

Putin, Moon See Trump as Willing to Defuse North Korea Crisis

But given its recent economic growth, North Korea would be expected to import about 850,000 tons of crude oil this year, nearly entirely from China, said Pete...

[Editorial] Putin negative on sanctions

You might say the honeymoon is over, but Vladimir Putin would disagree. "The country was demolished and Saddam Hussein was hanged". On Russia's much-watc...

Congressional Democrats back Harvey aid with 3-mo. debt limit increase

But it's the photo that is being expertly analyzed, with the publication noting the placement of Trump's arms upon Schumer's body - and other power moves....

I-75 to reopen after Wacker explosion; Old Lower River Road reopened

Any students or adults who were still at Charleston or Walker Valley are sheltering in place at this time. All employees, contractors and firefighters are accou...

N Korea to dominate Abe-Putin summit, putting isles row aside

Mr Putin said North Korea's neighbours should engage with it, not whip up "military hysteria". "We too, are against North Korea developing its nuclear capabil...

Some of the nation's largest school systems shutting down for Hurricane Irma

Hurricane Irma , a powerful Category Five storm, is expected to make landfall over the weekend in southern Florida, where evacuations have also been ordered, ...