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HOUSTON — At least eight people are now dead in Tropical Storm Harvey’s assault on southeast Texas, authorities said Monday, as the nation’s fourth largest city remained awash in murky brown water that submerged highways, houses, shopping plazas and entire neighborhoods. More than 30,000 people in Houston and across the Gulf Coast were likely to […]

Donald Trump’s presidency already has been one of the most controversial in American history, and its ending could be just as action-packed and unpredictable as his first seven months in office. As the 45th president deals with his stalled agenda, his sinking approval ratings and the investigations into his presidential campaign’s possible ties to Russia,

SAN DIEGO — The following notice was received from the Jewish Federation of San Diego County: Help us help the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Harvey, the category 4 storm that bombarded the Gulf Coast on Saturday with home-ripping winds and extensive damage, continues to dump rain in large areas of central Texas. Despite difficult

WASHINGTON �� House Speaker Paul Ryan became one of a few top Republicans to publicly disagree with President Trump’s pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, as lawmakers in Congress have become more willing to distance themselves from the White House, especially on issues of race. “The speaker does not agree with this decision,” said

Donald Trump is being undermined by White House insiders who would rather have worked for Hillary Clinton, according to former deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka. Gorka, who disputed reports he was asked to leave his role and insisted he resigned shortly after the departure of Steve Bannon, slammed West Wing insiders in an

An Oklahoma police chief plans to resign after being accused of links to neo-Nazi websites. Reserve officer Bart Alsbrook was appointed temporary police chief in the town of Colbert near the Texan border Tuesday. Texas-based broadcast news network KXII channel 12 had probed local racist groups identified in a hate map by the non-profit civil

WASHINGTON — As criticism of President Donald Trump’s views on race has continued to mount, his secretary of state appeared Sunday to distance himself from “values” Trump expressed of a white-supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va., this month. Rex Tillerson was asked on “Fox News Sunday” about a United Nations panel’s recent criticism over failure at