AP National News

U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a disaster declaration, freeing up more resources as crews battle a pair of fires that have killed at least two people, destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee a mountain village in southern New Mexico

More than 1,000 firefighters are taking advantage of the weather to get the upper hand on a pair of fires in New Mexico that killed two people, destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands to flee

Donald Sutherland has died at 88

The White House says it will rush delivery of air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine by redirecting shipments that had been planned for other allied nations

The California Supreme Court has removed a measure from the state’s November ballot that would have made it harder to raise taxes

For the second time this month, a police dog has been killed while trying to help arrest a suspect in South Carolina

The NCAA has presented a plan to Division I conference commissioners that would expand the lucrative men’s and women’s basketball tournaments by four or eight teams alongside an option to leave each field at 68 teams

Former U.S. Marine Gerry Brooks died alone at a nursing home in Maine, abandoned and all but forgotten

An Alabama man wanted in connection with homicides in Oklahoma and Alabama has been apprehended in Arkansas

A heat wave is moving closer to the breaking point from the Midwest to New England as millions of people sweat it out for another day