Uber is once again facing tough questions about safety after one of its drivers was charged with murder. The fast-growing, San Francisco-based ride-hailing company defended its screening of drivers Monday, saying it couldn’t have predicted that driver Jason Dalton would engage in the random shootings that left a half-dozen people… Read More

Vast coal seams dozens of feet thick that lie beneath the rolling hills of the Northern Plains once appeared almost limitless, fueling boasts that domestic reserves were sufficient to power the U.S. for centuries. But an exhaustive government analysis says that at current prices and mining rates the country’s largest… Read More

Singer Don McLean is pleading not guilty to additional charges stemming from his domestic violence case in Maine. The “American Pie” singer didn’t appear in court during a proceeding related to the case Monday. The Knox County district attorney’s office added five charges against McLean last week, bringing the total to… Read More

The mayor of Ithaca in upstate New York wants his city to host the nation’s first supervised injection facility, where heroin users would be able to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police. Canada, Europe and Australia are working to… Read More

The death of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last known link to the notorious death camp of Treblinka, perhaps the most vivid example of Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy European Jewry. But the death of Willenberg, who was buried Monday, also symbolizes a looming transition… Read More

North Carolina’s largest city passed a law Monday allowing transgender people to choose public bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, which the governor had called a threat to public safety and warned that the General Assembly may step in. The Charlotte City Council voted 7-4 to expand protections based… Read More

President Barack Obama has refused to send any suspected terrorists captured overseas to the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But if the U.S. starts seizing more militants in expanded military operations, where will they go, who will hold them and where will they be tried? Those are questions that… Read More

Virgin Galactic rolled out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket Friday as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 accident destroyed the original craft, killing a pilot and setting back the nascent industry. A Land Rover with Virgin Galactic founder… Read More

The death toll from a ferocious cyclone which tore through Fiji over the weekend has risen to 18 as authorities on Monday began to get a grasp on the scale of the disaster and deploy aid to hard-hit outer islands. Authorities were still having trouble communicating with some islands, including… Read More

After a two-year absence, a pumpkin-flinging contest could be coming back to the Delmarva Peninsula this year. Organizers of the World Championship Punkin Chunkin hope to hold the event in Delaware’s Sussex County but are considering locations across Delmarva, including Maryland’s Worcester and Dorchester counties. The event began in Lewes… Read More