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Fake 911 report of fire at the White House triggers emergency response while Biden is at Camp David 01/15/2024 10:48am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A fake 911 call that the White House was on fire sent emergency vehicles to the complex Monday morning, when President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David. Fire engines and other emergency vehicles responded to a report just after 7 a.m. that the White House was ablaze Migrant deaths in Rio Grande intensify tensions between Texas, Biden administration over crossings 01/14/2024 11:08pm • BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — After Texas fenced off a park along the U.S.-Mexico border and began turning away Border Patrol agents, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott explained why at a campaign stop near Houston. “We are not allowing Border Patrol on that property anymore,” Abbott said Friday, drawing Millions of Americans face below-zero temperatures as storms bring blast of Arctic air, snow and ice 01/14/2024 10:10pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Subfreezing temperatures across much of the U.S. left millions of Americans facing dangerous cold as Arctic storms left four dead and knocked out electricity to tens of thousands in the Northwest, brought snow to the South, and walloped the Northeast with blizzard conditions GOP candidates make last-minute appeals to Iowa voters a day before caucuses. Follow live updates 01/14/2024 09:12pm • With just one day to go until Iowa's presidential caucuses, the candidates are urging their supporters to brave bone-chilling cold and blustery wind to help carry them through Republicans' leadoff voting contest. The final Des Moines Register/NBC News poll before Monday night's caucuses found for Republican voters look like they're sticking with Trump: Is the primary too 'boring' to matter? 01/14/2024 04:55pm • ABC NewsKurt Kreuger attended a presidential campaign event for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday -- not that he felt it would make much of a difference. Kreuger, a 33-year-old from the city, is still deciding who to vote for in Monday's caucuses, which kick A weekend of ferocious winter weather could see low-temperature records set in the US heartland 01/14/2024 09:08am • O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Icy winter weather blanketed the U.S. on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread cold and snow from coast to coast and cast a chill over everything from football playoffs to presidential campaigns. As the thre War in Gaza and US election factor into some of the many events planned for MLK holiday 01/13/2024 04:47pm • As communities nationwide celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this weekend with events ranging from parades to prayer services, some people are taking a cue from the slain civil rights icon's history of protest to demonstrate against the war in Gaza and draw attention to the looming U. De Bruyne inspires Man City comeback in Premier League return to show he can swing title race 01/13/2024 03:43pm • LONDON (AP) — It took Kevin De Bruyne less than five minutes to show why his return from injury could be so crucial for Manchester City in the second half of the Premier League season. Five months after having surgery on a hamstring injury, De Bruyne came off the bench to score the equalizer and Iowa's sparsely populated northwest is a key GOP caucus battleground for both Trump and DeSantis 01/13/2024 09:07am • ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Some of the most contested real estate for Iowa's Republican caucuses is a vast, wind-swept plain where hogs outnumber people by the millions. Northwest Iowa's landscape is sparse, made up of high plains, in places marked by fields of soaring white wind turbines. The land Columnist's lawyer warns judge that Trump hopes to 'sow chaos' as jury considers defamation damages 01/13/2024 01:55am • NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for a columnist who last year won a $5 million jury award against Donald Trump for sex abuse and defamation urged a judge Friday to take strong measures to ensure the former president doesn't “sow chaos” when a new jury considers next week if he owes even more in damag DCPS students participate in 2nd annual DC Public Schools dance festival celebrating diversity 01/12/2024 11:45pm • Friday was a day of dance, diversity and scholarship at D.C. Public Schools' second annual dance festival at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. "I think that it gives kids confidence," said Nadirah Rahman, dance teacher at Excel Academy. "To be able to stand in front of this audience and perform t Carl Yuan gets a gift from Jon Rahm going to LIV. He's already taking advantage of it at Sony Open 01/12/2024 11:42pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Carl Yuan soaked up the views at the Sony Open, not just his name atop the leaderboard when he finished his second round Friday but just being in Hawaii to start his PGA Tour season. If not for Jon Rahm, the 26-year-old Yuan wouldn't be here. Yuan finished at No. 126 in the FedEx C Snow, ice, wind and bitter cold pummels the northern US in dangerous winter storm 01/12/2024 09:05pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — A dangerous winter storm swept the northern U.S. on Friday, with blinding snow in some places, freezing rain in others, and bitter cold temperatures and whipping winds across several states. The massive storm continues a week of strong winter weather for much of the U.S. that has Iowa campaign events are falling as fast as the snow as the state readies for record-cold caucuses 01/12/2024 07:22pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Campaign events have continued to fall as swiftly as the Iowa snow as wintry weather hampers the leadoff GOP caucus state, with Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump all shuffling their schedules ahead of Monday's presidential votes. Prolonged freezing Missouri's professional sports teams launch petition drive to put sports betting on November ballot 01/12/2024 04:16pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's professional sports teams announced Friday that they have launched an initiative petition drive to put the legalization of sports betting on the November ballot. The initiative is an attempt to sidestep the Missouri Senate, where bills to allow sports betting