Hurricane Lowell was expected to cause major rains across Hawaii on Tuesday as its core was projected to pass over or near the sparsely populated island of Niihau

There was extensive damage across Kauai, and crews were using heavy equipment to push trees and debris off the roads, said Derek Kawakami, mayor of Kauai County.

Hawaii is under a state of emergency as Hurricane Lowell, a Category 2 storm, slams the islands with life-threatening rain. Destructive wind gusts have topped 90 mph and Lowell has sparked Hawaii's first-ever tornado watch.

Hurricane Lowell was skirting western Hawaii, bringing damaging winds, heavy rain and punishing waves, the National Hurricane Center said.

Republicans gathering in Dallas this week will celebrate President Donald Trump and ⁠rally ⁠support ahead of U.S. midterm elections, but a disappointing showing in the ⁠November 3 vote could sharpen an already simmering debate over who comes next and what will become of the party he transformed.

Republicans are kicking off their first midterm convention in Dallas, where President Trump will deliver the keynote as the party prepares for November elections.

President Donald Trump had been eagerly awaiting his trip to Texas for Republicans’ unusual midterm convention

The first GOP midterm convention kicks off in Dallas, Texas today. Trump and Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton are expected to speak tonight

One of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway and killed five people repeatedly warned they were coming in too fast nearly two minutes ahead of time and at the

One day after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway at Miami International Airport, crashing into vehicles and killing at least five people, it's too soon to know what went wrong.

Five members of a cleaning crew were wrapping up their shift when they were killed as an Amazon cargo jet plowed into their van at the Miami airport

The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to get to planes to clean them, authorities said. The jet crashed as it tried to land Sunday afternoon,

Jurors in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy spoke out in interviews this week, after the judge declared a mistrial following days of jury deadlock.

A jury foreperson says the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy trial said he had reasonable doubt but still wouldn’t acquit

A judge declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the question of whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023.

A woman who served as a juror in Lindsay Clancy's high-profile Massachusetts murder trial provided a look at deliberations, saying there was too much doubt for her to reach a not guilty verdict.

New Hampshire voters picked candidates in primary races for the House, Senate and governor. The winner will replace outgoing Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who held the seat since 2009.

John E. Sununu will face Rep. Chris Pappas in the New Hampshire Senate race in November.

Republican John E. Sununu and Democrat Chris Pappas will compete for an open U.S. Senate seat in New Hampshire.

Mr. Pappas, a moderate Democrat who has served four terms in the House, will face former Senator John E. Sununu, the Republican nominee, in November.

The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to condone its efforts to bypass the usual processes to appoint new leaders for U.S. Attorney's Offices nationwide, after a federal appeals court ruled that Sigal Chattah is not validly serving as the lead federal prosecutor in Nevada.

Advocacy groups that sued to block the revised SAVE system said the new approach has resulted ⁠in people wrongfully being kicked off voter rolls.

Justice Department lawyers asked the ⁠court to ⁠halt a Washington, ⁠D.C.-based ​federal judge's June ruling that blocked the ​mass voter ⁠verification system, which the judge said was haphazardly assembled and contained unreliable citizenship data.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in a lawsuit and allow the use of a controversial data system to review state voter rolls heading into the midterm elections.In June,