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Privately owned train company Brightline will break ground next week on a $12 billion high-speed rail project connecting Las Vegas and Southern California.

Loren Brey, a poultry grower in Minnesota, walked onto the farm where his egg-laying turkeys nest in November to discover a handful of hens dead from the highly pathogenic avian flu. Within a week, he lost nearly half of his entire flock.

The House voted resoundingly on Saturday to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., put his job on the line to advance the long-stalled aid package by marshaling support from mainstream Republicans and Democrats.

House lawmakers escalated efforts to restrict video-sharing platform TikTok, renewing pressure on the Senate by advancing a bill Saturday that would force the company to be sold or face a national ban as part of a broader package sending aid to Israel and Ukraine.

It begins at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, with a black motorcade pulling into the morning rush. It ends four miles downtown, at a dingy courthouse – with TV cameras and familiar soundbites: “rigged,” witch hunt,” “disgrace.” So goes the strange new rhythm of the Trump 2024 presidential campaign.

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, passed a historic vote to join the United Auto Workers on Friday, making the auto factory the first in the South to vote to unionize since the 1940s.

Chad called on the U.S. to withdraw its troops from an army base in the central African country that’s one of the West’s few remaining outposts to fight a roiling jihadist insurgency in the region.

The Senate early Saturday approved an extension of a warrantless surveillance law, moving to renew it shortly after it had expired and sending President Joe Biden legislation that national security officials say is crucial to fighting terrorism but that privacy advocates decry as a threat to Americans' rights.

A century or two ago, spring cleaning was less of a tradition and more of a necessity. “In a time when people heated their houses with coal or wood, not only was there more dirt on everything after winter, there were limited options for cleaning things up,” says historian Susan Strasser, author of “Never Done: A History of American Housework.” (Vacuum cleaners and automatic clothes washers weren’t in common household use until the middle of the 20th century.)

You might be one of the countless homeowners frustrated with the annual or biannual task of cleaning and sealing your wood deck. I’m right there with you, as I have to deal with my wood dock and the stairs leading to it. It’s a wretched job that can span days. It’s no wonder you might be drawn to the composite decking displays at local home and garden shows.

Washington Gov. Dan Evans sparked a controversy when he chided Expo ’74 officials for allowing construction of the Sheraton ITT Hotel to continue next to the Washington State Pavilion while Expo was underway.

Since adopting him in November 2022, I have loved sharing a home with my indoor cat, Mouse. I love how the bell on his collar announces his presence in a room, and how his cartoonish ears twitch as he watches the birds outside.

Rep. Sue Chew, the longest serving Democrat in the Idaho Legislature, died on Wednesday following a battle with pancreatic cancer, officials with the Idaho Democratic Party said.

Rev. Stephy Nobles-Beans ended her 28-year career at Whitworth University the way she wanted – praising Jesus with her friends, colleagues and students.

A week after the Spokane County GOP gave Ferry County Commissioner Brian Dansel its top rating for the 5th Congressional District, the state Republican Party has given the former Trump appointee its endorsement.

The United States informed the government of Niger on Friday that it agreed to its request to withdraw U.S. troops from the West African country, said three U.S. officials, a move the Biden administration had long resisted and one that will transform Washington’s counterterrorism posture in the region.

Following a legislative session with no action taken to clarify or amend Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, some residents have formed a political group called Idahoans United for Women and Families to explore options for a possible 2026 ballot initiative that would restore and protect access to reproductive care statewide, including abortion.