President Barack Obama, first lady fan out over ‘Hamilton’

An Indiana man armed with three assault rifles and chemicals used to make explosives was arrested in Southern California on Sunday and told police he was headed to a West Hollywood gay pride parade, an event that annually... For the second straight year, Yale's crew team has defeated rival Harvard in the 151st regatta, but this time with a footnote. For the second straight year, Yale's crew team has defeated rival Harvard in the 151st regatta, but this time with a footnote.

‘Hamilton’ sweeps up awards at a sometimes somber Tonys

Despite the presence of new host James Corden and the arrival of Barbra ... The year 2015 began with a musical opening downtown that seemed an unlikely subject for a hit show - a hip-hop biography of a Founding Father. On Sunday, this show about American history is expected to make its own... "Hamilton," the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, was, as expected, vacuuming up Tony Awards on the telecast on Sunday, but it will not break the record for the most Tonys.

Energy bill prospects dim in dispute over drilling, drought

In this photo taken April 20, 2016, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, accompanied by the committee's ranking member, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., speak about energy policy modernization during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional efforts to approve the first major energy bill in nearly a decade are in jeopardy amid a partisan dispute over oil drilling, water for drought-stricken California and potential rollback of protections for the gray wolf and other wildlife.

Garett Reppenhagen: The case for protecting Camp Hale’s historic landscape

The original 10th Mountain Division, pictured here in 1943, was an elite mountain unit made up of Olympic-caliber skiers, champion ice skaters, mountain climbers, cowboys, and miners, trained at Camp Hale in Colorado. They skied on 7-foot-long wooden skis, snowshoed, rock-climbed and built snow caves in anticipation of defending mountainous coastal areas of the United States and besting the enemy in the mountains of Europe.

Recreational boating accidents increasing in NJ: Here’s how to be safe

Recreational boating is fun, but it can be deadly: 626 people were killed in boat-related accidents nationwide last year, including eight in New Jersey, according to the National Safe Boating Council. NSBC Executive Director Rachel Johnson stressed the importance of wearing a life jacket, considering 85 percent of drowning victims in recreational boating fatalities were not wearing a flotation device.

Murkowski hosts Kenai field hearing on federal conflicts

Sen. Lisa Murkowski visited Kenai on May 31 to hold a field hearing for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that she chairs on how federal management conflicts with local management on the Kenai Peninsula. Wildfire management drove much of the conversation, but federal land management that limits access to fishing and hunting were also major points.

NRA Tells Parents To Keep Guns In Kids’ Rooms

During a seminar on "home defense concepts" at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Louisville, an instructor encouraged gun owners to store firearms in their children's bedrooms. Rob Pincus, who owns the popular firearm instruction company I.C.E. Training , paced across a conference room stage as he repeatedly warned against the threat of violent home invasions.

Fear of Hillary Clinton pushes GOP voters to Donald Trump

Having overcome a multimillion-dollar "Never Trump" campaign aimed at blocking him from the Republican nomination, he's now benefiting from a wave of GOP donors, party leaders, voters and conservative groups that are uniting under a new banner: "Never Hillary." "Nothing unites Republicans better than a Clinton," says Scott Reed, a political strategist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who has advised previous GOP campaigns.

Five dead in Hawaii crash of skydiving plane

The crash occurred around 9:30 a.m. local time outside the fence line of the Port Allen Airport, said He said five people were on the plane at the time - a pilot, two skydiving instructors and two clients - and that no one on the ground was injured. He said it appeared that each of the clients intended to perform a tandem jump with an instructor.

Utah Congressman Plots Anti-Park Campaign In Mainea

In this Jan. 28, 2011 photo, snowmobilers take in the scenery on a parcel of land sandwiched in between land owned by conservationist Roxanne Quimby in Township 5, Range 8, Maine. a Just days after a failed legislative attempt to force the disposal of the popular Vieques National Wildlife Refuge in Puerto Rico, Representative Rob Bishop signaled that he will next seek to block a Maine-based foundation from donating property to the National Park Service to create a new national monument in the Maine Woods.

Hillary Clinton Could Topple Obama’s Record for Revving Gun Sales

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has struggled with her party's liberal base during the primary season, as Senator Bernie Sanders and his supporters insist she's too cozy with Wall Street, resent her 2002 vote to invade Iraq, and criticize the overlap between her family foundation's donors and some of the corporations doing business in Washington. But for conservatives, there are plenty of issues-including their own uncompromising stand to protect access to firearms-on which Clinton is viewed not just as an extension of incumbent President Barack Obama, but as even more liberal.

Hillary Clinton antipathy unifies Republicans behind Donald Trump

His new list of potential Supreme Court picks soothed conservatives' fears, and his embrace by the National Rifle Association guaranteed him the backing of the most committed activists on the right, as likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continued to build unity within the GOP . In both cases, the support is as much about antipathy toward Mr. Trump 's likely opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , as it is about liking the billionaire businessman.

Ted Nugent tells NRA crowd: Donald Trump is a the [expletive] kickera

Hard rock legend Ted Nugent on Sunday delivered a profanity-laced speech urging gun-rights supporters to get behind Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, telling the National Rifle Association's annual convention that they must stop the Democrats this year. "Donald Trump is the [expletive] kicker," the rock guitarist/gun rights advocate said in a speech billed as "Ted Nugent: 2016 Election Do or Die for America and Freedom."