Heavy downpours in South Texas washed out highways and stranded motorists Tuesday as forecasters warned that a threat of more severe weather could bring dangerous flooding to already drenched counties near the border with Mexico

President Donald Trump has warmly welcomed new Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to the White House

Pat Oliphant, one of the most influential political cartoonists, has died at 90

A U.S.-Russian space crew has arrived at the International Space Station for an eight-month mission

A federal appeals court has ended more than 60 years of federal oversight of a Louisiana school system that had been ordered to eradicate segregation

The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief has warned that most Ebola cases in eastern Congo come from unknown transmission chains

Authorities say 1 person is dead after fire on boat off San Francisco

Authorities say a man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer

Florida has administered a lethal injection to a 74-year-old man, its oldest inmate in over a century, just weeks after executing another man who was briefly the oldest person executed by the state