AP Photo/Lennox McLendon An international rescue worker pauses for a moment and pets his search dog as they take a break from searching for victims in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Mexico City, Sept. 24, 1985.
Communications failures that snarled hundreds of flights across the Northeast on Monday have put the spotlight back on the aging systems that air traffic controllers rely on in the U.S. Congress already handed the Federal Aviation Administration $12.5 billion last year to overhaul ...
NEW YORK — The U.S.-backed Board of Peace is proposing a six-month, $2.45 billion plan to begin reconstruction and governance in Gaza as President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan struggles to stay afloat. At a meeting of the group’s board in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, the governors unveiled a 66-project blueprint to get things started while acknowledging enormous hurdles that must still be overcome. The projects include ambitious infrastructure, education and health initiatives that are designed to support Trump’s 20-point plan to end ...
By ALI SWENSON, SARAH JANE TRIBBLE and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press and KFF Health News WASHINGTON — About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office, according to a new survey that points to economic ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around. Online voting began Tuesday for Fat Bear Week, the annual contest that pits the rotund residents of Katmai National Park and Preserve against ...
Inside three water tanks in a tucked-away room at the Aquarium of the Pacific, biologists are tasked with bringing back a population of frogs that once thrived across the state’s mountainous streams but has since reached the brink of extinction. It’s a program that’s nearly closed ...
