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A Driver Desperate to Use the Bathroom Plows Into a Kroger in Texas, the Police Say

NEIL VIGDOR

The driver, James Mansell Lancaster Jr., was upset to find the supermarket in Rosenberg, Texas, closed early Sunday morning, the police said.

How a Planned Steel Mill in Iowa Reveals Trump’s Midterm Strategy

KATIE ROGERS AND FARAH STOCKMAN

As President Trump travels the country, he is expected to focus on his economic accomplishments at a time when Americans have expressed deep frustration with his policies.

Lindsay Clancy holdout juror asks for one thing in new video after mistrial drama

Michael Desronvil, the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, speaks publicly for the first time as allegations from fellow jurors intensify.

Kentucky trooper, father of 3, gunned down during traffic stop as suspect captured after manhunt

Hayden Phillips, a 30-year-old Kentucky state trooper, leaves behind a wife and three sons after being killed during a routine stop on Interstate 65.

Powerful nor’easter floods Northeast again, causing problems from New Jersey to New England

A powerful nor'easter is pummeling the shoreline in the eastern U.S. for a second day

Lindsay Clancy's push to probe holdout juror hits snag before pivotal retrial hearing

Lindsay Clancy returns to court in person as her defense pushes a double jeopardy motion and seeks to investigate holdout juror Michael Desronvil.

GOP doubts about Georgia and North Carolina have Republicans shifting focus in battle for Senate

Republican hopes of winning Senate races in Georgia and North Carolina have been fading, and the GOP is increasingly focused on playing defense elsewhere with five weeks until the midterm elections

Florida is set to execute a 77-year-old man convicted of a 1995 murder

A 77-year-old Florida man convicted of the hammer beating death of a woman is set to become the 16th person executed this year in the nation's busiest death chamber

2 US Navy aviators eject while landing plane on carrier off Virginia, 4 sailors injured

Two U.S. Navy aviators ejected while landing their plane on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier off Virginia's coast

From motorcycles to booze, US ban on $1 billion worth of Canadian imports goes into effect

U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles

Head Start preschools serve parents, too. Under Trump, advocates fear that will change

Parents of Head Start preschoolers are lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill, worried proposed changes by the Trump administration threaten the backbone of the federal preschool program

Police investigate after toddler pulls out loaded gun at Michigan daycare

Police in southeast Michigan are investigating after a toddler pulled out a loaded pistol at a daycare

Officials looking into possible new ransom note related to Nancy Guthrie

Authorities are looking into the possibility of a new ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

Police arrest a California couple in the public shooting death of their son-in-law

Authorities say a couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend

We're in this together, Earth's leaders told each other at the UN. But how does that work, exactly?

There is doom