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He used encrypted channels, social media and other electronic communications in the plot, the indictment says.

Ninety-eight people died in the June 24 tragedy in Surfside.

French shipping giant CMA CGM is working with Woods Hole to deploy two of them off Virginia and Georgia.

Watches are posted for the southern coast from Salina Cruz to Punta Maldonado.

Delta suffers the most among U.S. carriers, with more than 240 flights, or 9 percent of its operations, eliminated Saturday.

Meanwhile, the leaders of Germany and France urge President Vladimir Putin to agree to an immediate cease-fire.

Republicans and Democrats agree there is little chance that legislation tightening gun laws will be passed by a narrowly divided Congress.

A witness says the victims include a pregnant woman and many children.

The natural and cyclical cooling of parts of the equatorial Pacific changes weather patterns worldwide.

Schools and sponsors have dropped out and regions have been consolidated.

In all, 13 people were shot in the supermarket attack, which federal authorities are investigating as a hate crime.

The nation's biggest active wildfire and the largest in New Mexico history has burned 491 square miles of forest.

Communities nationwide are still learning how deadly high temperatures can be.

As new cases of the coronavirus ease in much of Maine, 166 people were in hospitals statewide with the illness on Saturday, two fewer than the day before.

The delay in confronting the shooter could lead to discipline, lawsuits and criminal charges against officers.

The record cost of fuel is particularly problematic for lobstermen and fishermen, who face increased costs at a time when wholesale seafood prices are flat.

For more than an hour, while he waited to be rescued, Daniel heard only occasional sobbing and hushed instructions from his injured teacher to stay quiet.

During the trial's opening statements Tuesday, a Justice Department prosecutor said Timothy Hale-Cusanelli stormed the Capitol because he wanted to kick off a civil war and create 'a clean slate.'

The Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak fires began as 2 separate wildfires that combined to destroy hundreds of homes and displace thousands of people.

Police have charged a 15-year-old boy with terrorizing after a threat was posted on social media.

Bomb-detecting dogs assisted in the search for explosive devices but none were found.

The strong finish for the week came as investors received potentially encouraging news about inflation.

McCarthy's apparent defiance presents a new challenge for the committee after lawmakers decided to take the extraordinary and politically risky step of subpoenaing their own colleagues.

Police responded to a Waterville hotel in February 2021 following reports of a disturbance and found 32-year-old Eric Porter armed with a knife, according to a report by the state Attorney General's Office.

A proposal to covert the former big-box store on Western Avenue into a self-storage facility has prompted conversations about how to reuse large, empty retail spaces.

If you haven't booked your summer vacation plans, you are already too late to snag the best deals, according to travel experts.

The deal between the University of Maine System and Michael Laliberte also ensures he will make a minimum of $235,000 annually for the next two years, with UMaine agreeing to pay the difference if a new job pays him less than that.

Armando Barron, 32, was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder.

Robert De Niro kicked off the bidding on a lunch with him and by the time it was over, 500,000 euros ($537,025) had been raised to support amfAR's AIDS research efforts.

The dance-pop duo from North Carolina performed the first concert of the outdoor venue's season on Thursday.

Many hotels across the United States have done away with daily housekeeping service, making what was already one of the toughest jobs in the hospitality industry even more grueling

The seizures by Iran's Revolutionary Guard appear to be in retaliation aimed at the United States.

Democrats would need 10 Republican votes to get a bill through the 50-50 Senate, and they admit that the odds are against them.

The group's convention in Houston, which drew hundreds of protesters, came just three days after the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The reduced service was prompted by a COVID-19 case coupled with an ongoing staffing shortage.

The ruling comes a day after a New York appeals court ruled that the former president must answer questions under oath in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ probe,

The commander at the scene believed that 18-year-old gunman was barricaded inside adjoining classrooms and that children were no longer at risk.

Wastewater testing for COVID-19 presence in many of Maine's larger cities and towns is showing a drop-off in virus prevalence.

The Rhode Island farmhouse where the paranormal happenings that inspired the 2013 horror movie 'The Conjuring' was bought by a Mexico couple in 2019.

The Portland company was proposing to raise 66 million pounds of Atlantic salmon annually and to operate a fish processing plant.

With prices at the pump hovering above $4.70 a gallon, travelers and residents alike plan to take to the road for the traditional start of Maine's peak tourism season.

Consumer spending rose by a healthy 0.9% from March to April, outpacing the month-to-month inflation rate.

Getting all G-20 countries to sign on to the ambitious targets will be difficult, as countries such as China, India and Indonesia remain heavily reliant on coal.

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba pleads with Western nations for heavy weapons, saying it is the one area in which Russia has a clear advantage.

Top Southern Baptists called publishing the list 'an initial, but important, step towards addressing the scourge of sexual abuse and implementing reform in the Convention.'

Joe Garcia, 50, dropped off flowers at his wife’s memorial Thursday morning in Uvalde, Texas, and returned home, where he collapsed and died.

The performance was canceled in 2020 and moved in 2021 because of the pandemic.

An unassuming but uniting force in the British electro-pop band, Fletcher's keyboard sounds influenced Techno and other musical styles.

Charles Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel, 74, was previously denied parole 14 times for the slayings of pregnant actor Sharon Tate and 4 other people in 1969.

Whip Hubley played a hotshot fighter pilot in the 1986 movie but is in no hurry to see the sequel, which opens Friday. These days, he acts with southern Maine theater groups and works at a construction firm.

Travel experts say two years of pent-up demand from the pandemic will spur an increase in summer trips even as gas prices and hotel rates rise.

The president and first lady will travel to Texas on Sunday and meet with victims' families, as well as community and religious leaders.

Jacklyn Cazares, her second cousin, Annabelle Rodriguez, and three other classmates were among the 19 students killed Tuesday at Robb Elementary School.

As state housing officials make plans for a temporary emergency shelter for homeless people in Portland and long-term housing for asylum seekers in three communities, Portland's mayor and interim city manager say statewide coordination is also needed.

Collins says she is optimistic a compromise can be found after the initial meeting of 4 Republican and 4 Democratic senators.

The ACLU contends Maine has failed in its duty to provide competent, well-supervised attorneys for poor criminal defendants who cannot afford to hire their own.

It spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease.

Several towns have parades and ceremonies.

Officials have said at least 17 children were hospitalized with injuries, though it’s unclear how many of those survived.

Families and friends describe the children and teachers they knew and loved and the void left in the community.