Rylee Kirk

The avalanche struck a guided backcountry skiing group near Truckee, Calif., near the end of a multiday trip, officials said. Six skiers have been rescued.

High winds were fueling the risk of wildfires across the Southwest and the Plains, and an Oklahoma town faced a mandatory evacuation. Officials said the weather had caused a deadly pileup in Colorado.

During the investigation, the man was found to have child sex abuse materials on his phone, federal prosecutors said.

The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, professors, journalists and others.

An Emmy-winning comedian with oddball charm, she got her start with the influential Canadian sketch comedy series “SCTV.”

Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident on Saturday, the city’s police chief said.

As many as four vervet monkeys were spotted in a neighborhood in North St. Louis on Thursday, city officials said. No one knows how they got there.

People at the beach went to the woman’s rescue and helped her ashore, the authorities said, but she died at a hospital.

After 9/11, Gander took in thousands of people whose flights were diverted. History repeated on a smaller scale this week.

Mr. Reagan, who was the son of Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, built on his father’s conservative legacy with a radio talk show and columns on right-wing sites like Newsmax.

Bryan Reisberg built a social media following in the millions by carrying his corgi, Maxine, in a backpack. Now, he carries shelter dogs.

Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials.

Twelve former commissioners, in a New England Journal of Medicine article, said they were “deeply concerned” by a leaked memo from the agency’s vaccine regulator.

Twelve former commissioners, in a New England Journal of Medicine article, said they were “deeply concerned” by a leaked memo from the Trump administration’s chief scientific officer.