Snowbirds trade vacation homes for winters at five-star resorts
Forget the timeshare. There’s a new, cold-weather version of “summering” abroad.
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Trump’s declaration of national emergency hit with first lawsuits
Unsatisfied with the funding in a bill passed by Congress, President Trump took executive action to try to secure about $6.5 billion more for border barriers.
As dollar stores storm into cities, some see downsides
The retailers cluster in low-income neighborhoods, and their critics say they push out grocers
Police: Aurora attacker used gun he shouldn’t have owned
Three of the five co-workers he killed were in the room with him and the other two were just outside, police said.
Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick over sex abuse
Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and of sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.
Snow too thick to plow keeps skiers from California resorts
Winter weather enveloping California’s mountains for a fourth straight day Friday kept skiers from hitting the slopes at the start of the Presidents Day holiday weekend, with snow so deep that plows could not tackle it and cities scrambled to find places to pile it.
Trump uses border announcement to defend his presidency
For just under an hour, America was allowed to witness a president’s intimate thought process as he reacted publicly to not getting his way and pondered the power of his presidency.
Trump’s controversial move over border wall came after months of frustration
The president’s lawyers told him he would be sued, but he demanded aides find a way to get around Congress and build the wall.
Employee being fired fatally shoots 5 co-workers in Illinois
A 15-year employee being fired from a suburban Chicago manufacturing company started shooting Friday, killing five co-workers and wounding five police officers before he was killed by police, authorities said.
A year in space put one US astronaut’s disease defenses on alert
A long stint aboard the International Space Station changed the activity of some of Scott Kelly’s genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said.
Supreme Court agrees to review Trump administration plan to ask about citizenship in census
The Supreme Court added a politically explosive case to its low-profile docket Friday, agreeing to decide by the end of June whether the Trump administration can add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census.
‘One of my worst fears’: Colorado trail runner who killed mountain lion describes his life-or-death fight
He locked eyes with the wild cat, yelled and waved his arms over his head to make himself look bigger. But the mountain lion lunged for his face anyway.
Trump declares emergency for wall funds denied by Congress
Unsatisfied with the funding in a bill passed by Congress, Trump took executive action.
In a slippery heist, 8,000 gallons of iceberg water vanish from a Canadian warehouse
The spirits company that claimed ownership of the unspoiled liquid said it was enough to make 150,000 bottles of vodka.
White House scrambles to find pots of money to use for wall
The administration has been eyeing several pots of money — including disaster funds, counternarcotic accounts and military construction dollars — to fund Trump’s wall, according to congressional aides and White House officials.
Avenatti says he has new video evidence against R. Kelly
Attorney Michael Avenatti said Thursday that he has given Chicago prosecutors new video evidence of R&B star R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl.
US, Facebook negotiating record multibillion-dollar fine after privacy lapses
The fine would be the largest the agency has ever imposed on a technology company, but the two sides have not yet agreed on an exact amount.
Mudslide sweeps house off hill as storm pounds California
Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, flooding streets, triggering a mudslide that destroyed homes and forcing residents to flee communities scorched by wildfires last year.
Billion-dollar empire made from mobile homes
Big investment firms buy up hundreds of mobile home parks and call it affordable housing. A resident says “they just want the rent.”
Heavy rain triggers mudslide and forces Californians to flee homes
A mudslide in Sausalito, north of San Francisco, barreled over cars, uprooted trees and sent a home sliding down a hill and smashing into another house.