The former Harris County attorney defeated Amanda Edwards in Texas’ 18th Congressional District. The two will face off again in the March 3 primary for a redrawn version of the district.

He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.

Three hundred Kurds detained and further 400 evacuated following clashes in Aleppo Syrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as US and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets. An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish fighters and 60 wounded had been bussed to the Kurds’ de facto autonomous zone in the north-east from the Sheikh Maqsoud district, the last area of Aleppo to fall to the army. Continue reading...

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality administers federal and state grants to improve Idaho’s drinking water.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

When the new buses arrive, estimated in 2028, SEPTA will retire the last of its diesel-burning buses.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Nathan Sage finished his tour of holding town halls in all 99 counties Thursday in Des Moines.

Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno said he’d obtained his Democratic colleagues’ vehicle identification numbers, sparking a heated argument during a committee hearing.

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Officials are asking residents of Yazoo City to shelter in place after an ammonia plant exploded around 4:25 p.m. at C.F. Industries.

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground in Oklahoma. For years, residents have filed complaints and struggled to find solutions. We need your help to understand the full scale...

Political gridlock in Washington has shut down the government and left South Dakota’s farmers, ranchers and conservationists stranded.

Those in need of free emergency contraception no longer have to see their GP or attend a sexual health clinic The NHS has made the morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England in an effort to reduce a “postcode lottery” of access to emergency contraception. Almost 10,000 pharmacies are now able to offer the pill without charge, saving those in need of free emergency contraception from having to visit their GP or to get an appointment at a sexual health clinic. Continue reading...

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has ...

Though food banks said they have mostly made up shortfalls from the cuts, some worry coming SNAP changes will worsen hunger.

Community groups, airlines and nonprofits are seeking food, clothing and supplies to help residents.

One of ‘most significant’ airlifts in Alaska history is underway to evacuate hundreds from villages on the state’s southwest coast that were inundated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong last weekend, officials said Wednesday.

Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds…