A longtime Navajo Nation lawmaker has resigned, citing health reasons.
Nelson S. BeGaye made the announcement Monday in an emotional speech at the start of the Navajo Nation Council's weeklong summer session. He has served on the council since 2003.
NEW YORK (AP) — Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many places around the world, not only in authoritarian countries, but also in many of Europe’s democracies, according to a report surveying 198 countries that was released Monday. The report released by the Pew Research Center, covering developments through 2017, also seeks to […]
Taxpayer-funded family planning clinics must stop referring women for abortions immediately, the Trump administration said Monday, declaring it will begin enforcing a new regulation hailed by religious conservatives and denounced by medical organizations and women's rights groups.
Facebook's ambitious plan to create a financial eco-system based on a digital currency faces questions from lawmakers, as it's shadowed by negative comments from President Donald Trump, his treasury secretary and the head of the Federal Reserve.
A 47-year-old Texas woman has been arrested after authorities discovered she and her daughter had been living in a house with her mother's corpse, police said.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has officially announced the location for their planned Layton Utah Temple just west of HWY 89 on the corner of Oak Hills Drive and Rosewood Lane
"[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces," a spokeswoman told The Washington Post. "The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets."
CAMP WILLIAMS, Utah — A live-fire exercise at Camp Williams yesterday sparked a wildfire. Major Toby Adamson says that “They were shooting a 50-caliber weapon, and the round hit and caused a spark.” This comes 10 years after another live-fire exercise at Camp Williams sparked the Machine Gun Fire that burned thousands of acres and three homes. […]
The annual sales extravaganza begins this Monday and will run for 48 hours. Similar to previous Prime Days, Amazon is slashing prices and offering more than one million deals as a way to drum-up spending during a typically slow summer sales period. Amazon also wants to drive people to subscribe to its Prime membership service.
Four children aged 10 to 14 packed fishing rods in a parent's SUV, left a farewell note then drove more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) down the Australian east coast before they were stopped by police the next day after two fuel thefts and one aborted pursuit, officers said on Monday.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even though Tropical Depression Barry did not unleash catastrophic flooding in Louisiana, many across the Gulf Coast were urged to take heed of tornado and flash-flood warnings Monday as the storm moved north. Barry was downgraded from a tropical storm on Sunday afternoon but continued to pose a threat. Much of […]
It took 400,000 people to put Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon a half-century ago.
That massive workforce stretched across the U.S. and included engineers, scientists, mechanics, technicians, pilots, divers, seamstresses, secretaries and more who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to achieve those first lunar footsteps .
Times Square went dark along with 30 blocks of Manhattan on Saturday night. The power outage caused theatergoers to come streaming out of Broadway plays.
A family from Wellington, Utah is trying to bring a father of five home from Ecuador after he suffered a devastating medical episode. Forty-two-year-old James Campbell is in a hospital in the city of Cuenta, where he’d gone on a business trip. His father-in-law, Randy Dieterle, says he’s had excellent care there and they’ve managed […]
The Pottery Barn table from "The One with the Apothecary Table" and other "Central Perk-worthy accents" will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Friends.
(CNN) — Clear out your shoe racks (if you’ve got a few thousand dollars to spare): New York auction house Sotheby’s has announced a sale of 100 of the world’s rarest sneakers, including a handmade 1972 pair expected to sell for up to $160,000. The pair of Nike “Moon Shoe,” waffle-soled running shoes designed by […]
"I watched the construction guys pull off, and the first thing I heard them say was, 'Please don't be dead, please don't say we just watched him die.'"
A sweeping red-rock cliff at Utah's Zion National Park is now the home of a new California condor chick as the species makes a comeback in the wild three decades after they were on the brink of extinction, biologists have confirmed.
