NEW YORK (AP) — Heavy rain and winds pounded the Northeast U.S. on Thursday as storms tore through a beach on Long Island, stranded dozens of people in their cars in New Jersey and knocked out power in parts of Delaware’s capital city. Photos and video shared on social media show debris thrown in the air and […]

President Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court to overturn sanctions arising from his settlement with the IRS and Treasury Department, as a new brief on the docket is drawing attention to an unusual punishment imposed on one of his personal attorneys. Trump filed his latest response over U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’s order to the U.S. Court […]

Ben Jones, known to millions as the country boy mechanic Cooter Davenport in the 1980s television series The Dukes of Hazzard, died on Aug. 9. His wife said on social media that Jones suffered a heart attack in his home in Washington, Virginia, while waiting to watch an Atlanta Braves baseball game. They were his […]

Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mayor Paige Cognetti’s past comments supporting the separation of local police from federal immigration enforcement are drawing new scrutiny as the Democrat campaigns for Congress on a message of political independence in one of the country’s most competitive House races. Cognetti, who is challenging freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional […]