(AP) — Lally Weymouth, the daughter of the late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham who forged her own journalistic career interviewing world leaders including Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, has died. She was 82. Weymouth died Monday at her home in Manhattan. ...

(AP) — Authorization for the largest residential flood insurance program in the U.S. was set to expire Tuesday, leaving homeowners unable to access new coverage and potentially wreaking havoc on home sales in flood-prone areas. Millions of policyholders rely on the National Flood Insurance ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has died, the school said. He was 80. Smoot died on ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ernie “Big Cat” Stevens Jr., a driving force behind the expansion of Native American gaming for more than two decades, has died. He was 66. The Indian Gaming Association, a Washington, D.C.-based group that works to protect tribes and promote tribal gaming, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is close to reaching a deal with Harvard University, which it has targeted with a series of investigations and billions of dollars in funding cuts as it presses for changes to its policies and governance. A truce ...

(AP) — The Transportation Department will immediately tighten up the requirements for noncitizens to get commercial drivers’ licenses after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers who never should have received licenses. The new rules will ...