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Hurricane Harvey was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane after the storm became the first major hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since 2005....Read More

Hurricane Harvey increased in strength to Category 4, with winds of 130 mph Friday evening, the National Weather Service said....Read More

President Donald Trump signed a presidential disaster declaration to make federal funds available to Texas as Hurricane Harvey bears down on the coast....Read More

President Donald Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio weeks after a federal judge found the former Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff guilty criminal content....Read More

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Friday evening instructing the Pentagon not to allow to allow people who are transgender to join the military....Read More

A federal judge in Detroit sentenced a Volkswagen engineer who helped design engines at the center of an emissions cheating scandal to 40 months in prison....Read More

As Hurricane Harvey fast approaches, Texans prepared Friday and braced for what’s expected to be the state’s first major hurricane in nine years....Read More

In what may have been her last speech as chief of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen said Friday that any rollbacks of financial reforms should be modest....Read More

Hurricane Harvey continued to strengthen overnight and is expected to hit Texas on Friday night or early Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said....Read More

Healthcare insurer Aetna inadvertently revealed thousands of people’s HIV status in a mailing about new medication options to about 12,000 people last month....Read More