Mary Bono Mack speaks onstage during the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 4, 2014 in Palm Springs, California. Mary Bono Mack speaks onstage during the 25th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 4, 2014 in Palm Springs, California.

The storm that ravaged Florida's Panhandle left incredible destruction stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the state border, but so far getting a firm grasp on how many died is proving somewhat elusive. The state has officially acknowledged just two deaths so far - and one death was in northeast Florida, far from the ground-zero fury of the Category 4 storm.

The lesson we've now learned about the political relationship between California and the administration of President Trump is one closely aligned with the third law of motion discovered by Sir Isaac Newton in 1686: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Certainly that's what we saw on Sunday, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a closely watched state law reconstituting the net neutrality rules scuttled by Trump in 2017.

Laver Cup, Roger Federer 's Team Europe Versus Team World tournament dedicated to tennis legend Rod Laver , the fact that the city had its own namesake musical wasn't part of the lure-although it did come in handy in appropriated production numbers in the gala that kicked off the tournament last week. The city's famous deep dish pizza did play a small part as Federer and team were taken to famous pizza den Lou Malnati's during his whirlwind familiarization tour of the city.

Shanin Specter, who met his wife playing squash, said his late father loved the racket sport so much that he often joked that nothing on his crowded U.S. Senate schedule was as significant as his daily hour on the court. "He played for most of his life, nearly every day," Specter said recently during an interview in his Center City law offices.

R.S. Monger and Sons employees Marc Gloeckner and Chris Jackson fill sandbags Wednesday afternoon in preparation for Hurricane Florence. A James Madison University student walks across the bridge from Bridgeforth Stadium to Greek Row on a drizzly Friday afternoon.

It goes without saying that federally funded educational institutions cannot discriminate on the basis of gender. Some federal courts believe Title IX is the proper statute upon which to base employment discrimination claims, while others believe Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the correct vehicle.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, photographed Friday at a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, voiced opposition Tuesday to Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn's ban on Nike purchases by the Recreation Department. Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn 's ban on Nike purchases by the Recreation Department came under new attack Tuesday from U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond , whose district includes most of south Kenner.

Democrat Andy Kim, a candidate in New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District, talks with voters in Waretown, a suburb of Philadelphia. As the midterm elections approach and vulnerable House Republicans nervously navigate around an unpopular president, charting a course is particularly fraught in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where the dominant ideology is pragmatism and fickle voters have little patience for Washington's political drama.

'I wasn't planning on trolling him or protesting. When I heard something that I disagreed with, I visibly disagreed' When US President Donald Trump took the stage on Thursday at the Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Montana, it had all the trappings of his signature rallies.

Members of the NFL executive committee and NFL Players Association are meeting Monday in East Rutherford, N.J., to resume discussions designed to establish a policy or universal protocol for the national anthem. The NFL logo is pictured on a football at an event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 30, 2017.

California Gas Tax Repeal Effort Could Help GOP Candidates Top national Republicans and grassroots donors alike have poured money into the campaign to repeal a recent gas tax increase in California with the hopes it will drive turnout in November and help the GOP hold onto U.S. House seats in the heavily Democratic state. But they face an uphill battle against opponents with far more cash, who say the increase is needed to repair the state's crumbling roads.

President Donald Trump heads to Pennsylvania Thursday to campaign for a Republican he hopes can unseat one of his toughest critics. Trump will hold a rally in Wilkes-Barre to campaign for Rep. Lou Barletta , who is running against two-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.

Nebraskans refer to it as the "Miracle at Missouri" - the fluky end-zone catch by Matt Davison off a teammate's foot that helped keep the Cornhuskers undefeated in 1997. Davison became close friends with Scott Frost , the quarterback who fired the pass.

Attorneys who recently visited Border Patrol stations, ports of entry and family detention centers filed a scathing report this week alleging that the federal government is not adequately caring for minors in its custody. Children and their parents interviewed by the attorneys described cramped cells where there wasn't enough space or bedding to sleep, cold or frozen food and a lack of access to basic hygiene products like toothbrushes and soap.

The 2018 National Fantasy Football Convention took place in Fort Worth on July 14 and 15, giving fantasy football fans a chance to see NFL stars from every team in the league. Grand Prairie police said the bicyclist was struck by a mid-2000, 4-door, gray Chevrolet sedan, with damage to the area around the passenger side headlight, which proceeded northbound on S. Belt Line Road near I-20 around 6 a.m. on Sunday morning.

During every previous All-Star Game in Washington, the president was part of the story. That might not be the case this year.

In this photo from Dec. 5, 2015, Baylor helmets are shown on the field after a game in Waco, Texas. Former Baylor athletics Ian McCaw claimed regents schemed to make black football players scapegoats for a decades-long problem of sexual assault at the school.