Hurricane Dorian unleashed flooding, high winds and tornadoes Thursday along the East Coast, leaving more than 250,000 homes and businesses in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas without power. Published September 5, 2019
Coastal communities across South and North Carolina scrambled Wednesday to prepare for the wind and rain of Hurricane Dorian, which forecasters predicted would come ashore on Thursday. Published September 4, 2019
Emergency management officials from Florida to the Carolinas late Tuesday were bracing for the arrival of slow-moving Hurricane Dorian after it blasted the Bahamas with "historic" force, destroying more than 10,000 homes and devastating infrastructure across the Caribbean island. Published September 3, 2019
The United States has improved its ability to differentiate earthquakes from underground explosions, according to leading seismologists who have just concluded nine years of research at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and other national security testing sites. Published August 22, 2019
California is expected to post $3.1 billion in licensed cannabis sales this year, solidifying the Golden State's status as the world's largest legal marijuana market, according to a study by financial analysts tracking the industry. But California's marijuana black market is even larger, about $8.7 billion annually, as tough licensing, testing and packaging regulations have made opening a dispensary a struggle. Published August 20, 2019
California has enacted one of the country's most stringent regulations on police use of force, hoping to curb the high-profile law enforcement shootings of unarmed minority men that have caused outrage across the nation. Published August 19, 2019
Women are far less enthusiastic about the prospect of driverless cars than men, recent studies show. Published August 13, 2019
Boston, San Francisco and Seattle have ranked the highest on a national Clean Energy Scorecard for their renewable energy and energy efficiency policies. Published August 7, 2019
El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said President Trump will visit El Paso on Wednesday following a weekend mass shooting that killed 22 people at a Walmart. Published August 5, 2019
Police in Dayton, Ohio, are wrestling to find what prompted a gunman to kill nine people, including his sister, at a popular entertainment district early Sunday. Published August 5, 2019
The doomsday scenario of "unfunded liabilities" emptying state and local pension funds is overrated, according to new research. Published August 1, 2019
Federal investigators have announced plans to boost resources for whistleblowers reporting fraud, corruption and other wrongdoing. Published July 31, 2019
Capital One's data breach has turned attention to an often-overlooked vulnerability in securing online information: cloud computing. Published July 30, 2019
Most federal agencies lack a cybersecurity risk management strategy program and are susceptible to "the loss of sensitive data or compromise of agency systems," according to a Government Accountability Office report. Published July 29, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday slapped Facebook with a record $5 billion fine for mishandling consumer data, but privacy analysts and Washington lawmakers were quick to say the tech giant deserves even more punishment. Published July 24, 2019
Attorney General William P. Barr said Tuesday the nation's leading technology companies must assist law enforcement officials investigating terrorists, drug cartels and other criminal suspects using encrypted messaging apps. Published July 23, 2019
Nevada officials are launching the nation's first banking system for the booming cannabis industry, whose dispensaries increasingly are targeted for burglaries and robberies for the hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash they keep on hand to pay employees, taxes and rent. Published July 22, 2019
Ohio has opened the country's largest test track for driverless vehicles, complete with Teslas swerving through intersections, headfirst collisions and cheering engineers. Published July 17, 2019
Over 300 U.S. mayors have signed a pact to not pay "ransomware" in the face of a wave of hacker crimes that have taken over the computer networks and frozen systems in cities across the country, but leading cybersecurity experts are wary the united front will actually discourage attacks. Published July 11, 2019
In San Diego over the holiday weekend, police handed out nearly 100 citations to electric scooter users, while a TV broadcast of a man riding one with an infant in a baby carrier strapped onto him sparked outrage. Published July 10, 2019
