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The track where Monday’s crash occurred had been part of a $220 million upgrade of New England Central Railroad tracks funded with help from a $50 million federal recovery grant.

Christie said residents who lose power should alert authorities and find a place to stay the night.

Officials said the Marine was part of a training exercise in which live ammunition was used.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump says he would drop out of the race for president if his polling dropped into the low single digits.

Pew reported that at current rates, non-Hispanic whites will make up less than half of the US population by 2055, at which point it will begin becoming more hard to recognize any clear racial majority in the nation.

As receiver Calvin Johnson tried to stretch across the goal line, safety Kam Chancellor punched the ball loose, sending it bouncing into the end zone. The ball rolled through the end zone, and Seattle linebacker K.J. Wright looked as if he intentionally batted the ball over the...

The national average price of gasoline also saw a marginal rise of half a cent to $2.29 per gallon.

The U.S. Coast Guard confirms one person is dead and that their remains were found in a survival suit.

The majority of the posts on BernieSanders.com no longer listed events involving only the senator: There was a volunteer rally in Littleton, door-knocking in Nashua and canvassing in Claremont, Hudson, Salem and Berlin.

About 40,000 have been left without drinkable water.

Under the cover of night, a 6-foot-tall (180-cm) granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments was removed from the Oklahoma Capitol grounds after judges said its placement on government land violated state law, officials said on Tuesday.

Wolf has sought a multibillion-dollar tax increase that he says is necessary to wipe out the GOP’s funding cuts for schools and human services enacted under his Republican predecessor, Tom Corbett, and to eliminate a long-term budget deficit.

The owner of a reptile store in Newport, Ohio, was recovering after police pried off a 20-foot python that was wrapped around his head, neck and torso, crushing him on Monday.

Here is the FEC document showing that Fiorina didn’t clear her campaign debt until January 2015.

After challenging a reporter to tell him “what I said wrong”, Bush clarified that he meant “Things happen all the time”. So, the impulse to call Bush’s response a gaffe rests instead upon the callousness of the wording – “stuff happens”.