Matt Pearce

Las Vegas gunman was a laid-back ‘goofball,’ longtime business associate says: ‘He made you laugh’

August 22, 2019 at 6:11 a.m.

Stephen Paddock, the former IRS agent and professional gambler whose shooting rampage in Las Vegas left 58 victims dead, was a laid-back "goofball" who didn't have a "serious bone in...

Las Vegas police release body camera footage of attack

August 22, 2019 at 6:09 a.m.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released a three-minute compilation of body camera footage Tuesday night that showed the attack on a music festival from the perspective of police. Clark...

Volunteers rescue residents from the Cypress Glen nursing home in Port Arthur, Texas, on Aug. 30, 2017.

After Harvey hit, one Texas nursing home evacuation began with a gun drawn

August 22, 2019 at 6:06 a.m.

The front doors to the Lake Arthur Place nursing home were locked when Ben Husser and his team of volunteer rescuers arrived on boats. He knocked, and when somebody cracked...

Rescue workers help a couple evacuate their flooded home in Jacksonville.

Why didn’t Hurricane Irma kill more Americans? Thank the meteorologists

August 22, 2019 at 5:52 a.m.

During a hurricane in 1900, a storm surge rose out of the Gulf of Mexico and annihilated Galveston, Texas, killing about 8,000 men, women and children. In 1935, at least...

This photo provided by Michael Sechler shows a stranded manatee in Manatee County, Fla., on Sept. 10, 2017. The mammal was stranded after waters receded from the Florida bay as Hurricane Irma approached.

Stranded by Irma, manatees get rescued by bystanders and deputies

August 22, 2019 at 5:50 a.m.

As coastal Florida residents discovered Sunday, one of the strangest side effects of Hurricane Irma was the way the storm drained seawaters away from shorelines, leaving huge mud flats behind...

A fleet of Coca-Cola delivery trucks sits in floodwaters in Lumberton, Texas.

‘I think he’s barbecuing’: A helicopter view of the Texas flood with the National Guard

August 22, 2019 at 5:44 a.m.

The HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter skimmed a few hundred feet over the trees, patrolling for targets. The crew of six scanned the trees and buildings below for anything resembling the...

Nancy Bram, 39, heads back inside her home after surveying the damage to her frontyard in Victoria, Texas, on Saturday.

‘It was like riding on a boat’: How one Texas town weathered Hurricane Harvey

August 22, 2019 at 5:39 a.m.

No one dared go outside. Hundreds of men, women and children waited on cots inside the Red Cross shelter in St. Joseph High School, which doubles as a protective storm...

Jason Kessler, right, organizer of the Unite the Right rally last weekend, speaks at a press conference Sunday at Charlottesville City Hall. He was quickly forced from the podium by counter-protesters, pictured at left.

‘Unite the Right’ organizer tweets insult of slain protester, backtracks, then cites drug combination, deletes account

August 22, 2019 at 5:33 a.m.

A tweet from the account of the far-right activist who organized the Charlottesville, Va., "Unite the Right" rally insulted the protester who was killed at the event, saying late Friday...

National Socialist Party of America leader Frank Collin holds a press conference officially announcing the cancellation of his group's march in heavily-Jewish Skokie in 1978, which was defended successfully by the ACLU. Collin would instead march in Chicago's Marquette Park, symbolically where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was once attacked by a racist mob, and downtown.

Tensions grow inside ACLU over defending free-speech rights for the far right

August 22, 2019 at 5:33 a.m.

It was 1934 and fascism was on the march not only in Europe but in America. People who admired Adolf Hitler, who had taken power in Germany, formed Nazi organizations...

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" with body armor and combat weapons take refuge in an alleyway after the "Unite the Right" rally was declared a unlawful gathering by Virginia State Police on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va.

Who was responsible for the violence in Charlottesville? Here’s what witnesses say

August 22, 2019 at 5:31 a.m.

The clashes that broke out over the weekend at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., have become a new touchstone in the nation's long-running debate over racism, free speech...

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