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The Panama Canal Authority is reaching out to communities that could be impacted if the Indio River is dammed to make a new reservoir ensuring the water supply needed to operate the Panama Canal

Donald Trump says Ohio Sen. JD Vance will be his vice presidential pick.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for their first presidential face-off to play out in just over a month.

The Justice Department on Wednesday appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 presidential election.

The Senate on Monday confirmed former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be agriculture secretary in President Donald Trump's administration as the farming industry looks to Washington for help amid a downturn in the market.

In an impromptu Easter Sunday speech, Pope Francis on Sunday encouraged people to hold fast in their `'fearful hearts'' to faith despite all the wars, sickness and hatred in the world, acknowledging that many wonder where God is amid so much evil and suffering.

Backed by ships, helicopters and drones, Russian rescue teams searched for victims in the Black Sea after a Russian military plane carrying 92 people to Syria crashed Sunday shortly after takeoff from Sochi.

President Barack Obama has designated the bulk of U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing.

Thick smoke has settled over a wide area of the southern Appalachians, where dozens of uncontrolled wildfires are burning through decades of leaf litter, and people breathe in tiny bits of the forest with every gulp of air.

North Carolina officials say the death toll associated with Hurricane Matthew has risen to 18. Gov. Pat McCrory told a briefing Tuesday afternoon that two people drowned in Robeson County.