The section of State Highway 133 that runs through Oakland, Ill., was named the 1st Lt. Jared W. Southworth Memorial Highway in a ceremony Saturday. Southworth was killed by an improvised explosive device Feb. 8, 2009, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden urged his supporters to stay unified during a series of Sunday stops in critical Pennsylvania on Sunday, even as some leading congressional Democrats privately suggested it was time for him to abandon his reelection bid because of intensifying questions about whether he’s fit for another term.
Last month, a caravan of four buses carried California survivors to the sites of the Jerome and Rowher incarceration camps, built during World War II to hold thousands of Japanese Americans who lived on the West Coast.
A crew from Coast Guard Station Mayport near Jacksonville, Fla., rescued five boaters Sunday after their vessel capsized.
A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and held the East in its hot and humid grip.
As Tropical Storm Beryl closes in on Texas, a search is underway for two people missing after a boat crashed near Galveston, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A body was found Saturday, but officials have not confirmed whether it is one of the missing boaters.
Marine Corps veteran Kirstie Ennis lost her left leg and suffered other serious injuries in a helicopter crash on her second tour in Afghanistan in 2012. In the wake of that life-altering trauma, the 33-year-old found a calling as a world-class mountaineer.
Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures — and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said.
Texas officials urged coastal residents to brace for a looming hit by Beryl, which was a tropical storm on Saturday but was expected to regain hurricane strength as it moves across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
President Biden’s top aides awoke after debate night with a plan to contain the damage: A raucous North Carolina crowd, a message of resilience, a demonstration of vibrancy. It was a comeback tale, based on the notion of a single bad night. But the crisis that may yet topple his candidacy would only get worse.
President Biden has made clear he has little intention of quickly or quietly leaving the presidential race, warning that if leading Democratic donors and elected officials want to alter his thinking, they are going to have to wage a protracted and public battle. By Saturday, that battle showed signs of intensifying.
The Supreme Court term that ended this week played out on a split screen: The justices issued blockbuster rulings that pushed the law sharply to the right, while outside the court some justices were buffeted by new ethics allegations that stoked questions from critics about their impartiality.
A week after his disastrous debate performance and amid rising doubts inside his party about his capacity to defeat former president Donald Trump in November, Biden has adopted a one-word strategy to keep his candidacy alive: defiance. Many Democrats believe instead that he is in denial.
A radio host says aides to President Biden gave her questions for an interview, a move that a Biden campaign spokeswoman defended as routine. The campaign’s acknowledgment comes as it has been criticized for heavily controlling his public events to minimize potential gaffes during unscripted appearances.
The enormous bunker, Battery 223, is located right on the beach in Cape May Point State Park — evident to anyone who sets up their beach chairs and umbrellas in the summer months. While it’s hard to miss, local historians say there’s much about the bunker and nearby Fire Control Tower No. 23 that people don’t know.
Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, a U.S. Navy veteran, blasted a “disgusting” hate crime that left several monuments in the Common and Public Garden defaced with “antisemitic and anti-American” graffiti on the eve of Independence Day.