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DEKLE BEACH, Fla. – The first hurricane to hit Florida in more than a decade wiped away beachside buildings and toppled trees onto homes Friday before plowing inland on a path that could send it rolling up the densely populated East Coast with heavy rain, high winds and flooding. Hermine quickly weakened to a tropical storm and was spiing inland along the North Carolina coast late Friday. But the National Hurricane Center predicted it would regain hurricane strength late in the weekend after emerging over the Atlantic Ocean. The system could then lash coastal areas as far north as Coecticut and Rhode Island through Labor Day. "Anyone along the U.S. East Coast needs to be paying close...

Rescue crews aided by sniffer dogs dug through crumbled homes in Italy Thursday looking for earthquake survivorsas the death toll topped 241 and officials anguished over how to secure their ancient towns and mode cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. Hundreds of people were injured in the quake that struck at 3:36 a.m. Wednesday, investigators said. At least 470 aftershocks have since rattled the area, triggering more damage to centuries-old buildings in Amatrice. One aftershock had a magnitude of 5.1. After a night of uninterrupted, flood-lit search efforts, firefighters and rescue crews worked in teams around the hard-hit area in central Italy, pulling chunks of cement,...

Four companies on Monday aounced they would end their sponsorship deals withU.S. Olympic swimmerRyan Lochte, bringing a sudden stop to contracts worth an estimated $1 million in the wake of his scandal in Rio de Janeiro. Syneron-Candela, owner of Gentle Laser Hair Removal, released a statement saying the company wound end its partnership with the athlete, adding, "We hold our employees to high standards, and we expect the same of our business partners." Earlier Monday, Ralph Lauren executives stated their company's contract with Lochte was for the 2016 Rio Olympics only, and would not be renewed. "Ralph Lauren continues to sponsor the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team and the values t...

The Hillary Clinton campaign suggested Sunday that the resignation of Donald Trump’s campaign chairman doesn’t end Trump's possible coections to Russian money and Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom it implies is using Trump as a “puppet” in the White House race. “We need Donald Trump to explain to us the extent to which the hand of the Kremlin is at the core of his campaign," Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook said on “ABC’s “This Week.” Mook’s appearances on ABC and CBS’ “Face the Nation,” and the attacks on Trump come amid renewed questions about the potential influence of foreign money on the Clinton Foundation. Newly released documents show the State Department considered b...

President George W. Bush was to to shreds in 2005 by mainstream media commentators for his initial response to Hurricane Katrina – yet President Obama’s detached response to the recent Louisiana floods has been met with resounding silence from those same outlets. “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” was the shocking charge by singer Kanye West about President Bush’s response to Katrina. West’s was a particularly blunt assessment, but echoed a growing narrative pushed by mainstream media outlets that Bush’s response was out of touch, inept and most of all, he didn’t care about people on the ground. Much of the media coverage at the time not only criticized Bush for the diffic...

At least a dozen buildings were bued and more than 82,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes as a fast-moving wildfire exploded across the drought-parched canyons in Southe Califoia on Tuesday. The infeo that started out as a small patch of flame next to Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass had scorched 15,000 acres of the San Beardino Mountains. By nightfall, it had chued up and over ridges and was descending into the Mojave Desert. "The smoke is on the desert floor," said Eric Sherwin of the San Beardino County Fire Department. Snaking walls of flame rising 50 to 100 feet high tued nearly two dozen square miles of chaparral to ashes, along with outbuildings and homes in the ranc...

YouTube user "Mama Natural" uses activated charcoal to whiten her teeth. (Mama Natural) Medical professionals are waing against using a DIY whitening trend that involves smearing a charcoal-derived black mixture on teeth. The method, which dentists say may lead to enamel deterioration and tooth erosion, became an online sensation this month after YouTube user Mama Natural posted a video that details its execution began striking fire online. As of Monday moing, it had amassed more than 1.5 million views. In the video the host Genevieve brushes her teeth with the supplement for three to five minutes before rinsing and proclaiming she then had seemingly whiter teeth. She said the product ca...

Big cats are the new big idea for reducing the deer population in the Northeast, where growing numbers of bucks and does wander through backyards and onto roads -- where they pose a danger to themselves and humans. A group of scientists is calling for re-introducing cougars into states like New York and New Jersey in an attempt to lower the exploding whitetail deer population. They say the 220-pound predators are a natural solution to a problem that causes 1.2 milllion car accidents per year, including 200 fatalities. "Recolonization by large caivores could provide an efficient solution to the problem of deer overabundance,” wrote study authors Laura Prugh, a wildlife scientist at the...

A New Jersey suburb known for its tree-lined streets and stately, multimillion-dollar homes has been transformed into a battleground over both a proposed mosque and the free speech rights of residents who oppose the project. Beards, a township of about 27,000 an hour west of New York City, has been cleaved by controversy since 2011, when its Plaing Board took up a proposal for a 4,250-square-foot mosque in a residential neighborhood known as Liberty Coer. The applicant, Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, is led by a former Beards mayor and has filed a federal civil rights suit accusing members of the board of religious discrimination in ultimately rejecting the project. Related Image ...

A New Jersey suburb known for its tree-lined streets and stately, multimillion-dollar homes has been transformed into a battleground over both a proposed mosque and the free speech rights of residents who oppose the project. Beards, a township of about 27,000 an hour west of New York City, has been cleaved by controversy since 2011, when its Plaing Board took up a proposal for a 4,250-square-foot mosque in a residential neighborhood known as Liberty Coer. The applicant, Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, is led by a former Beards mayor and has filed a federal civil rights suit accusing members of the board of religious discrimination in ultimately rejecting the project. Related Image ...

Hillary Clinton tried Friday to “clarify” her widely disputed claim that the FBI director had declared her statements on her email scandal “truthful” – but may have ended up adding to the confusion, delivering a lengthy and at-times conflicting explanation that the Donald Trump campaign later called “pretzel-like.” The Democratic presidential candidate addressed the controversy when she fielded questions from reporters with the National Association of Black Joualists and the National Association of Hispanic Joualists. She was asked early on about her statement, on “Fox News Sunday,” that FBI Director James Comey had affirmed her answers on her email controversy “were truthful and what ...

Hillary Clinton tried Friday to “clarify” her widely disputed claim that the FBI director had declared her statements on her email scandal “truthful” – but may have ended up adding to the confusion, delivering a lengthy and at-times conflicting explanation that the Donald Trump campaign later called “pretzel-like.” The Democratic presidential candidate addressed the controversy when she fielded questions from reporters with the National Association of Black Joualists and the National Association of Hispanic Joualists. She was asked early on about her statement, on “Fox News Sunday,” that FBI Director James Comey had affirmed her answers on her email controversy “were truthful and what ...

These are just some of the supplies purchased by Amy Rhine, a kindergarten teacher in Las Vegas, Nev., for her class last year. Cash-strapped schools across America are demanding that parents spend hundreds on supplies, even requiring bulk purchases of cleaning materials that benefit the entire class, in a move that is fomenting anger among moms who say the lists are real budget busters. Elizabeth Shatz, a PTA parent from Mineola, N.Y., said she was required to purchase three 20-count boxes of pencils, multiple containers of baby wipes and boxes of tissues to be distributed among her child’s entire classroom. She also had to search store shelves for folders and notebooks in very specific...

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., took a shot at Republican nominee Donald Trump Thursday, saying the billionaire “had a pretty strange run since the convention” and that he finds it “distressing” that he is not focusing on Hillary Clinton. “He’s had a pretty strange run since the convention,” Ryan saidonWTAQ radioin Green Bay. “You would think that we want to be focusing on Hillary Clinton, on all of her deficiencies. She is such a weak candidate that one would think that we would be on offense against Hillary Clinton, and it is distressing thatthat’s not what we’re talking about these days.” Ryan faces businessman Paul Nehlen in next Tuesday's primary election, and his remarks came af...

Nov. 1, 2015: Military investigators from Russia stand near the debris of a Russian airliner at the site of its crash at the Hassana area in Arish city, northe Egypt. (Reuters) DEVELOPING:The leader of the Islamic State’s operations in the volatile Sinai Peninsula and mastermind of the October 2015 attack on a Russian airliner in the region that left 224 dead has been killed by Egypt’s air force, intelligence sources told Fox News Thursday. ISIS Sinai leader Abu Dua al-Ansari was killed in Al Arish, the sources said. A post on the Facebook page of the military's chief spokesman, Brig-Gen Mohammed Samir, said al-Ansari was killed in an operation guided by "accurate intelligence." He helpe...

A Brazilian Army soldier shows a pamphlet which will be distributed in the city, after a ceremony to mark the graduation from training on how to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 12, 2016. The pamphlet reads, "A mosquito is not stronger then an entire country." (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes ) At least 41 American service members, including one pregnant woman, have been diagnosed with the Zika virus while on active duty overseas, a Pentagon spokesperson told Fox News Wednesday. The Pentagon said that seven family members of those servicemen and women also have contracted the virus, which usually leads to mild symptoms, but can cause severe birth defects in ch...

A Brazilian Army soldier shows a pamphlet which will be distributed in the city, after a ceremony to mark the graduation from training on how to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 12, 2016. The pamphlet reads, "A mosquito is not stronger then an entire country." (REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes ) At least 41 American service members, including one pregnant woman, have been diagnosed with the Zika virus while on active duty overseas, a Pentagon spokesperson told Fox News Wednesday. The Pentagon said that seven family members of those servicemen and women also have contracted the virus, which usually leads to mild symptoms, but can cause severe birth defects in ch...

Ivanka Trump responded Tuesday night to comments made earlier in the day by President Obama calling her father "unfit to serve” and “woefully unprepared to do this job” in an "On The Record with Greta Van Susteren" exclusive interview, saying that he understands "how to put this country to work." "I clearly disagree," Trump said when asked of her reaction to what Obama told reporters. "I think he'd be an excellent president," she said, adding, "He understands how to create jobs, and maintain them." "He understands how to put this country to work -- that makes him very qualified," she told Van Susteren. Trump pointed to her father's experience creating jobs at large construction si...

Ivanka Trump responded Tuesday night to comments made earlier in the day by President Obama calling her father "unfit to serve” and “woefully unprepared to do this job” in an "On The Record with Greta Van Susteren" exclusive interview, saying that he understands "how to put this country to work." "I clearly disagree," Trump said when asked of her reaction to what Obama told reporters. "I think he'd be an excellent president," she said, adding, "He understands how to create jobs, and maintain them." "He understands how to put this country to work -- that makes him very qualified," she told Van Susteren. Trump pointed to her father's experience creating jobs at large construction si...

Ivanka Trump responded Tuesday night to comments made earlier in the day by President Obama calling her father "unfit to serve” and “woefully unprepared to do this job” in an "On The Record with Greta Van Susteren" exclusive interview, saying that he understands "how to put this country to work." "I clearly disagree," Trump said when asked of her reaction to what Obama told reporters. "I think he'd be an excellent president," she said, adding, "He understands how to create jobs, and maintain them." "He understands how to put this country to work -- that makes him very qualified," she told Van Susteren. Trump pointed to her father's experience creating jobs at large construction si...