Nassau County Republicans are taking it on the chin politically in the proposed settlement of two cases claiming the GOP redistricting of the county legislature was illegally discriminatory. And ...

As the West Coast braces for fiery winds and the Northeast shivers under a polar vortex, the nation finds itself caught between two extreme weather fronts.

Mapmakers and teachers are rethinking what to call the body of water between Mexico, the U.S. and Cuba after President Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.