STOWE, Vt. A historic mountaintop stone cabin gutted by an accidental fire caused by the sons of a snowboard company founder has been rebuilt. Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin traveled to the top of Mount Mansfield for a reopening ceremony on Tuesday and called the rebuilt stone hut “truly magical.” “I am so proud of the […]

WASHINGTON Donald Trump blames Mexico and China for stealing millions of jobs from the United States. He might want to bash the robots instead. Despite the Republican presidential nominee’s charge that “we don’t make anything anymore,” manufacturing is still flourishing in America. Problem is, factories don’t need as many people as they used to because […]

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. Hillary Clinton is pressing into reliably red Arizona as she tries to steal a Republican state away from Donald Trump. Her rival, reinvigorated by the FBI’s new email review, is laser-focused on Florida, a marquee battleground state he can’t win the White House without. With less than a week until Election Day, […]

NEW YORK Many Muslim Americans cringe at the way they have been portrayed by candidates during the presidential campaign — either as potential terrorists or as eyes and ears who can help the government’s counterterrorism efforts. Those descriptions, offered by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, respectively, are troubling to Muslims who complain they are being […]

HELENA, Ala. Executives at a pipeline company say their goal is to restart the line as early as this weekend after an explosion and fire shut down gasoline shipments to millions across the South. The deadly explosion sparked a geyser of fire Monday and closed off the vital pipeline, raising fears of another round of […]

NEW YORK Somewhat incredulously, Jon Stewart on Tuesday recalled getting into a Twitter war three years ago with the man who could be elected president of the United States next week. The former host of “The Daily Show” talked Donald Trump and betrayed some nervousness about the election during an appearance at a benefit for […]

CHUNKY, Miss. Every Halloween in the rural eastern Mississippi hamlet of Chunky, families and groups of friends load costumed children onto flatbed trailers and drive from house to widely spaced house for trick-or-treating. It’s how things have been done for as long as Joyce Reynolds, the co-owner of a local trading post, can remember. On […]

BARTELLA, Iraq Iraqi special forces paused their advance into the Islamic State group stronghold of Mosul on today, as poor weather hampered visibility and troops attempted to clear a recaptured neighborhood of any remaining militants, military officials said. Special forces could be seen going house to house in the Gogjali neighborhood of the country’s second-largest […]

SYDNEY A fresh analysis of the final moments of doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suggests no one was controlling the plane when it plunged into the ocean, according to a report released by investigators today, as experts hunting for the aircraft gathered in Australia’s capital to discuss the fading search effort. A technical report released […]