Earthquake early warning alerts will become publicly available throughout California for the first time this week, potentially giving people time to protect themselves from harm, the Governor�s Office of Emergency Services said Wednesday. The nation�s first statewide quake warning system will debut Thursday, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake that ravaged […]

Keep him talking, don�t interrupt him and, no matter what, don�t ask why he killed his victims. Those were the instructions Texas Ranger James Holland gave to the dozens of homicide detectives around the country when they got their moment with Samuel Little, hoping to solve decades-old cold cases and bring back answers to desperate […]

On the picket lines at a General Motors transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio, passing cars honked and striking workers celebrated a tentative contract deal by munching on 10 pizzas dropped off by a supporter. They had carried signs for 31 days and demonstrated the muscle the United Auto Workers union still has over Detroit�s three […]

An aging, failed elbow pipe that hadn�t been inspected in almost 45 years appears to be the initial cause of a June 21 fire and subsequent explosions that injured five people at the largest oil refinery on the East Coast, federal investigators said Wednesday. The U.S. Chemical and Safety Hazard Investigation Board released a preliminary […]

The grieving parents of a British teenager who was killed in a car crash involving an American diplomat�s wife felt ambushed when President Donald Trump tried to get them to meet with the woman in front of the press, attorneys for the couple said Wednesday. Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn traveled to Washington on Tuesday […]

The House impeachment inquiry is exposing new details about unease in the State Department and White House about President Donald Trump�s actions toward Ukraine and those of his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. One witness said it appeared �three amigos� tied to the White House had taken over foreign policy. Another quoted national security adviser John […]

Scientists have discovered a mash-up of two feared disasters � hurricanes and earthquakes � and they�re calling them �stormquakes.� The shaking of the sea floor during hurricanes and nor�easters can rumble like a magnitude 3.5 earthquake and can last for days, according to a study in this week�s journal Geophysical Research Letters. The quakes are […]

The Supreme Court is trying to sort out whether states can prosecute immigrants who use fake Social Security numbers to get a job. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in Kansas� appeal of a state court ruling that threw out three convictions after concluding the state was seeking to punish immigrants who used fake IDs to […]

Russia offered Wednesday to mediate a resolution in northern Syria, further asserting Moscow�s role as a regional force, ahead of a mission by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to press Turkey for a cease-fire in its attack on Syrian Kurdish fighters. Ahead of talks with Pence, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defied U.S. economic sanctions, […]