When the two didn’t return as expected, authorities were notified and the U.S. Coast Guard kicked off a search that began shortly after 5 p.m. last Friday.
Mustard-colored wastewater laced with heavy metals continues to drain into a river from an abandoned mine in southwestern Colorado at a rate of about 550 gallons per minute, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, which caused the spill.
The greatest chance for severe storms in eastern South Dakota and southwest Minnesota is late Sunday into Sunday evening, but they will be isolated. The rain threat keeps temperatures a few degrees cooler, but the mugginess remains.
She started swimming at 11:16 p.m. Friday and completed the 30-mile swim in a just over 17 hours, arriving to a group of friends and supporters. And Saturday morning she was past the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary.
And as the Maddow Blog’s Steve Benen noted this week, multiple polls in fact show that Republican voters overwhelmingly prefer ideological purity to electability. George P. Bush has been helping members of his famous family get elected since age 3 but has never played a...
Biden has yet to tell his staff whether he will run or personally ask them to do any planning for a potential campaign, according to several people close to the vice president.
The mother of Jessica Ghawi (GOW’-ee), an aspiring sports broadcaster killed by Holmes, said she was feeling a little overwhelmed about taking the stand. But Sandy Phillips said it’s her job to share her daughter’s story and vowed to do the best she could.
The divide is likely to be a problem for the Democratic Party, whose presidential candidates tend to be old and white. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., stands nearby as the two women take over the microphone at a rally in downtown Seattle.
University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh is known for his unorthodox recruiting methods. Harbaugh says he tried to sell Thomas, a noted Nebraska football fan who drives his RV to Huskers games, on adopting Michigan as his second-favorite team.
In his second straight game at the No. 4 spot in the order for the Oakland Athletics, Valencia delivered an early two-run double to support right-hander Jesse Chavez’s strong start in a 2-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Saturday.