Palm trees are reflected in puddles after a torrential downpour in the South Beach part of Miami, July 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri ) Mosquitoes are actively transmitting the Zika virus in Miami Beach, sources aware of conversations that took place Thursday between Florida state health represent...

xa0 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – xa0Twisted metal gates and rusted mailboxes remained where houses once stood. Flames had tu ed a lot full of cars — including some vintage models — into a junkyard of hollowed-out shells. Countless trees were scorched or gone. Scenes of destruction were everywhere Thursd...

xa0 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 ...

The sign hanging on the door at the Catholic High School for boys in Little Rock, Arkansas. Let's say your 10th-grader forgets his lunch. So you receive a telephone call at work. “Mom, I left my baloney sandwich on the kitchen counter,” he tells you. “Can you bring it to me, pretty please?” Click he...

Four of the students, shown here at federal court where they are suing the Lancaster (Pa.) school district. A group of refugees is suing a Central Pennsylvania school district, saying the academy they were put in after their arduous jou ey to America is not up to snuff. Represented by the Pennsylvan...

xa0 Joanna and Chip Gaines, of HGTV’s xa0“Fixer Upper,” aren't too happy that some of the homes they have remodeled in Waco, Texas, are being marketed as vacation rentals. The Waco Tribune reported that at least six of the Gaines’ remodeled homes are on the rental sites Airbnb and VRBO. One more Gai...

xa0 The Twitterverse has more to fear from a gay conservative than a fire-breathing ISIS recruiter if the social media giant’s treatment of a pair of prolific and provocative posters is to be squared. Twitter banned Breitbart tech editor and openly gay conservative Milo Yiannopoulos for life last mo...

xa0 Congress may have the FBI’s documents on the Hillary Clinton email investigation – but Republicans are complaining that the way the files were handed over means only a few lawmakers can actually see them. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says the bureau has “improperly...

xa0 If you’ve thought about signing up to become an Uber driver, you’d better do it fast — the taxi-alte ative giant appears to be on the brink of starting to replace its vast army of drivers with a fleet of driverless cars. Uber Technologies has signed a $300 million agreement with Volvo to develop...

(Biadasz Farms on Facebook) A coroner revealed Tuesday that a Wisconsin farmer and more than a dozen cows died when they became overcome by fumes from a huge manure holding tank. According to WAOW-TV, Michael Biadasz, 29, was found by other farmers early Monday when they arrived at Biadasz Farms nea...

FILE: April 26, 2011: NBC host Chris Matthews at the 2011 Time 100 Gala ceremony in New York. (REUTERS) MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has a striking message for disaffected Democrats: Get “excited” about Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the possibility of the party controlling Washington, or “don’t vote.” Th...

xa0 For nearly two years, Mahmoud and his extended family of 17 lived in an Egyptian camp for refugees, experiencing first-hand the U.S. process for vetting Syrian refugees for admission into America. It boiled down to five interviews, totaling roughly four hours, in which they answered mostly ‘yes ...

(Biadasz Farms on Facebook) A coroner revealed Tuesday that a Wisconsin farmer and more than a dozen cows died when they became overcome by fumes from a huge manure holding tank. According to WAOW-TV, Michael Biadasz, 29, was found by other farmers early Monday when they arrived at Biadasz Farms nea...

Jennifer Denen and Clarence Reed. (Hot Springs Police Department) A 4-year-old Arkansas girl who was taken into protective custody after being zip-tied to her bed as punishment by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend thought her name was “idiot,” police said. Jennifer Diane Denen, 30 and Clarence E...

FILE: April 26, 2011: NBC host Chris Matthews at the 2011 Time 100 Gala ceremony in New York. (REUTERS) MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has a striking message for disaffected Democrats: Get “excited” about Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the possibility of the party controlling Washington, or “don’t vote.” Th...

The Bible on the desk of Maj. Steve Lewis. (Courtesy of MRFF) The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is demanding an Air Force major be “aggressively punished” for having an open Bible on his desk at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. “It [the Bible] is very obviously a statement ...

xa0 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump got his first look Wednesday at classified intelligence on threats to the United States and other security issues. The more than two-hour briefing was held at an FBI field office in New York City and was led by the Office of the Director of National I...

xa0 A federal program to work with local law enforcement to remove dangerous illegal immigrant criminals, implemented just weeks after Kate Steinle's murder put the issue in the national spotlight, has resulted in fewer deportations, according to analysts. The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) was ...

xa0 Donald Trump is getting pro-active about conce s the White House race could be “rigged” against him, by recruiting “election observers” to help monitor the vote, though details of the program are unclear -- and are raising conce s about potential Election Day confrontations. The campaign put out...

June 6, 2013: This photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP) An almost day-long outage of the National Security Agency’s website has raised further questions as to whether America's most secretive surveillance agency has itself been compromised, days af...