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Utility says most of a Hawaiian island is without power

A utility company that serves about 33,000 customers on the island of Kauai reports that power is out on most of the island

Major power outages pop up from Michigan to New York amid dangerous heat wave

FRANK MILES

As the heat wave gripped much of the country on Sunday, power outages reported in multiple states left hundreds of thousands of customers in the dark.

Tennessee felon arrested after ramming into police cruiser during chase, investigators say

TALIA KAPLAN

A convicted felon in Tennessee was arrested after he allegedly rammed into a police cruiser and led officers on a chase, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

Gulf tanker incidents may raise shippers' costs, cut traffic

Seizure of oil tanker near Iran could raise insurance rates for shipping companies and eventually reduce tanker traffic, according to energy and security experts

Authorities: 8 hurt by lightning at Florida Gulf Coast beach

Authorities say a lightning strike at a Gulf Coast beach in Florida has left eight people injured, one of them critically

The Latest: Power restored to about 30% percent of customers

A utility company says it has restored power to about 30% of its customers on Kauai, "and we continue efforts to restore power to remaining members."

GOP group removes post calling congresswomen "Jihad Squad"

An Illinois Republican group has apologized and removed from its Facebook page a post that showed images of four Democratic women members of Congress and referred to them as the "Jihad Squad."

Report: At least 14 Alaska cities have officers with records

The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica report that at least 14 cities in Alaska have employed police officers whose criminal records should have prevented them from being hired under state law

Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims That Democrats Are Radical Socialists

REID J. EPSTEIN AND LINDA QIU

The president wants to portray his opponents as steering the country in a dangerous direction. But what does it mean to be a socialist — and to what degree do Democrats fit the definition?

On Politics: Trump’s History With Race

Over decades in business, entertainment and now politics, President Trump has approached America’s racial divisions as openings to achieve his goals.

Former Manhattan DA Morgenthau dead at 99

He seemed almost like he was out of Central Casting -- tall and patrician, with a cultivated above-the-fray presence. And in fact, former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau inspired some television casting of his own, as the model for the avuncular character of prosecutor Adam Schiff, played by actor Steven Hill on the long-running television series, "Law and Order."

NY state police lag behind agencies nationwide on camera use

A mainstay technology is missing among New York state troopers

Fake bloody legs appear at memorial for Cape Cod shark-attack victim

Officials in Cape Cod are working to find out the person behind the lifelike fake legs that keep popping up at a memorial for a bodyboarder who died there in September after being mauled by a great white shark.