Nearly 200,000 people remained under evacuation orders Monday in the western U.S. state of California while authorities tried to repair erosion of an emergency spillway at the country’s tallest dam to keep it from failing and unleashing uncontrolled flood waters. The immediate emergency that led to the evacuation appeared to have waned; but, officials […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is expected to appear in a court in New York on Friday, a day after his surprise extradition from Mexico ended a decades-long criminal career that included daredevil prison breaks and murder. A Justice Department spokesman said El Chapo (Shorty in English), once […]
The death toll from the blaze that gutted an Oakland, California warehouse reached 36 on Monday, and could climb further as investigators continue to search the building where an electronic dance party turned into an inferno. Officials say that so far only about 20 percent of the building has been searched. One local fire official, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) received the coveted Panetta Institute 2016 Jefferson-Lincoln Award, to honor her “outstanding stewardship of our democracy through dedicated, responsible, and bipartisan leadership.” The award was conferred by the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, located at California State University-Monterey Bay. “I am so humbled to be given this […]