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Major plumbing headache haunts $13 billion U.S. carrier off the coast of Venezuela

The crew of USS Ford is struggling to handle sewage problems on board the Navy's newest carrier.

U.S. Deaths Top 170,000 As Coronavirus Pandemic Continues To Take Its Toll

The CDC estimates there could be up to 200,000 deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 by Labor Day. As schools begin to reopen, there are renewed calls for vigilance in social distancing and masking.

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe during his Senate confirmation hearing earlier this year.

Security Gaps Persist, Report Warns, After U.S. Blames Iran In Election Scheme

A report published on Thursday described how many government and political domains don't observe a security practice that makes it more difficult for attackers to run spoof email scams.

Combat veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner in Sullivan, Maine, in 2025; Maine Gov. Janet Mills in National Harbor, Md., in 2023. Both Platner and Mills are Democrats vying to defeat Sen. Susan Collins, who is running for a sixth consecutive term in Maine.

Hoping to unseat Collins, Maine Democrats battle it out in an expensive U.S. Senate primary

As June's primary election nears, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between factions in their own party.

Former White House Director Of Legislative Affairs Discusses New Job At U.Va.

Marc Short, President Trump's former legislative director, talks with Mary Louise Kelly about his new job at the University of Virginia, the controversy that followed him and how he is moving forward.

U.S. Economy Added 157,000 Jobs In July; Unemployment Dips To 3.9 Percent

The economy continued to add jobs at a steady pace last month and the unemployment rate remained low. Analysts have been looking for signs that wage growth might pick up, but it held steady, too.

The new poet laureate of the United States, Tracy K. Smith, visits the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center in Washington, D.C., last month.

Tracy K. Smith, New U.S. Poet Laureate, Calls Poems Her 'Anchor'

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet says she plans to use her new role to meet people who don't read poetry ... yet, anyway. She believes poetry can be a resource for people in fraught or isolating times.

Renee Bach, who is 31, was sued in Ugandan civil court over the deaths of children who were treated at the critical care center she ran in Uganda. She has left Uganda and is now living in the U.S.

U.S. Missionary With No Medical Training Settles Suit Over Child Deaths At Her Center

Renee Bach ran a treatment center for severely malnourished children in Uganda. Over five years, 105 died. This week, a lawsuit by two mothers who each lost a son was settled with a cash payment.

A hospital patient in Stamford, Conn., who has COVID-19 symptoms gets his temperature checked. Severe infections with the novel coronavirus have been unusually high among African Americans and Latinos in many hospitals.

Opinion: U.S. Must Avoid Building Racial Bias Into COVID-19 Emergency Guidance

States are releasing "Crisis Standards of Care" guidelines, aimed at helping desperate hospitals discern how to allocate scarce resources. But the guidance doesn't factor in health care inequalities.

The woman identified in court papers as Esther (far right) was among Haitian migrants who say they were threatened by Border Patrol agents on horseback last September as they tried to return to a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas.

After Del Rio, some Haitian migrants found safety in the U.S. But many have not

It's been nearly a year since tens of thousands of Haitian migrants converged on Del Rio, Texas. Some of those migrants are still looking for safety — and accountability for how they were treated.

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