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US Sen. Maria Cantwell faces former head of Wash. state GOP
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Democrat Maria Cantwell has easily won re-election to the U.S. Senate from Washington state in previous years, but as she seeks her fourth-term this November she is facing her most recognizable opponent.Republican Susan Hutchison, who spent two decades as a Seattle TV news anchor before leading the state Republican party for five years, says people are looking for change.
"Eighteen years is a long time for anyone," said Hutchison, a strong supporter of President Donald Trump who drew national attention in 2016 after confronting Texas Sen... Read More
Memory's frailty may be playing role in Kavanaugh matter
NEW YORK (AP) — She says he sexually assaulted her; he denies it. Is somebody deliberately lying?Not necessarily.
Experts say that because of how memory works, it's possible that both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford — the woman who says a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her at a party when they were teenagers in the early 1980s — believe what they say.
And which one of them believes his or her version more strongly is no tipoff to what really happened.
"Confidence is not a good... Read More
Reckoning with loss of homes, livelihoods after Florence
SPRING LAKE, N.C. (AP) — With Florence's floodwaters receding in some places and still menacing others, tired and waterlogged North Carolinians are finally getting a chance to take stock of the destruction from the wind and floodwaters.When rivers spilled from their banks this week, many were forced to flee their homes in multiple inland cities. Now that waters are receding, property owners along its banks are picking through debris and figuring out what's left of their homes and livelihood.
Jose Perez-Santiago, an Afghanistan war veteran, retrieved belongings on... Read More
Florence evacuees return as others brace for more flooding
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The trillions of gallons of water dumped by Hurricane Florence continue to slowly meander their way to the sea, leaving billions of dollars of damage in their wake.The crisis is slowly moving to South Carolina, where there was enough warning and certainty about where the water was going that hundreds of people loaded furniture from their homes into trucks and flatbeds to take to higher ground.
Officials downstream sounded dire alarms, pointing out the property destruction and environmental disasters left in Florence's wake.
Nevada senator rallies with president he used to criticize
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republicans' chances of keeping their majority in the U.S. Senate have become shakier as races in red states such as Texas have tightened, but the party's most vulnerable member insists he's bullish about his re-election in Nevada.Sen. Dean Heller has faced tight races before but never lost an election. He's now in the fight of his career to keep his Senate seat in a blue-trending state that Hillary Clinton carried in 2016.
"Oh yeah, oh yeah. I'll win," Heller told reporters last week in Reno.
To win, he's performing political... Read More
Top Stories in US News
- US Sen. Maria Cantwell faces former head of Wash. state GOP
- Memory's frailty may be playing role in Kavanaugh matter
- Reckoning with loss of homes, livelihoods after Florence
- Florence evacuees return as others brace for more flooding
- Nevada senator rallies with president he used to criticize
- Native American teens stopped on college tour urge changes
- California makes people ask for straws, sodas with kid meals
- Cornell review finds academic misconduct by food researcher
- Grand jury indicts Alaska man tied to girl's death
- Florence-weary South Carolina could get more record flooding
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