Panama rocked by 2 powerful earthquakes and multiple aftershocks, prompting evacuations

The Justice Department has loosened the guidelines for the attorney general and other senior ​political appointees, allowing them to participate in political activities.

Palestinians have not held a legislative election since 2006, when Hamas won a majority of seats.

EMS workers, who make life-or-death decisions in emergencies, are the lowest paid first responders After 31 years in New York City’s emergency medical services, Oren Barzilay has started giving young New Yorkers advice he never imagined giving when he began his EMS career. “Don’t come here,” he tells them. “You are only going to hurt yourself.” It is a striking reversal for Barzilay, the recently retired president of FDNY EMS Local 2507. What changed for Barzilay was not his view of work or the value of service. It was what he believes is the New York…

Nearly 900,000 people were without power after Isaias made landfall as a hurricane on the northern Gulf coast near Destin, Florida, on Friday night.