Massive python found in Florida wildlife preserve Officials at a South Florida wildlife preserve say they've captured the largest python ever found in the park. Officials discovered the female python, more than 17 feet long and weighing 140 pounds, on…
Just three weeks after one of the most intense storms on record pounded the Plains and Midwest, another "bomb cyclone" of similar strength is in the forecast. The spring storm seems poised to dump even heavier snow and could be followed…
Individual tax refunds this year have been only slightly smaller than last year, but those shortfalls are adding up. At the end of last month, the amount of money the government refunded was $6 billion below this time last year,…
Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran in September 2016 AP/Handout Washington -- In an unprecedented step to ramp up pressure on Tehran, the…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - All children deserve a safe, comfortable place to lay their heads. That's where Sleep in Heavenly Peace comes in. They are an organization that builds and delivers beds to children who do not have one of…
Washington — Kirstjen Nielsen's abrupt departure as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) comes as President Trump seeks to steer his administration towards a "tougher" approach on immigration to confront a surge in migrant families heading to the U.S.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Dozens came out to participate in the Bi-Annual Shred-IT event Saturday. With the help of the Hamilton County Sheriff's office's, A-A-R-P and News 12 co-sponsored this free event. Car after car drove up and sheriff's office…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) - Meet Stanley Myers. The retired WWII veteran is celebrating not just any birthday but his 100th birthday. A birthday this grand doesn't just get any regular presents but ones sent over by Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke.…
A student at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston who was missing since Saturday morning was found dead Sunday, officials said. Police do not believe the death of Max Carbone, a 19-year-old biomedical engineering student, is suspicious, CBS Boston…
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Democrats will "never" obtain President Trump's tax returns, intensifying the latest showdown between the White House and Democrats in the House. In an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," Mulvaney was asked…
An American who was kidnapped along with her driver in Uganda last week has been recovered unharmed, a spokesman for the Ugandan government said Sunday. The pair were recovered along the border with the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).…
Two gunmen approached a baby shower in Chicago and opened fire Saturday, injuring six people, including two children, authorities said. Local police said the shooters fled the scene on foot and they believe the shooting is possibly gang-related. Officers responded…
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the "worst case scenarios" for the economic impact of a full closure of the U.S.-Mexico border "are off the table," but added that President Trump's threats to shut down ports of entry should…
Elizabethon, TN (WDEF) - A joint investigation with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and investigators with the Carter County Sheriff’s Office has resulted in the arrest of an Elizabethton man, charged in the death of his mother. On April 6th,…
New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Congress is "entitled to see all" of special counsel Robert Mueller's report, doubling down on his demand that the Justice Department provide his committee with the…
President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said he's "not worried" about the looming release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's 400-page report, saying the president wants "maximum transparency." "I guarantee you, except for little quibbles, I'm not…
What does a guy who is worth (according to all the magazines) $41 billion do? If you're Steve Ballmer, who at age 63 ranks as one of the wealthiest people in the world, he buys the Los Angeles Clippers basketball…
Call it the original "Great Escape." On May 13, 1862, just over a year into the Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls, who labored on a Confederate steamer in South Carolina's Charleston harbor, set into motion a daring…
As a military veteran and proud transgender woman, the Trump administration's attempted ban on transgender people in the military hits home for me. It's personal. For over three years, I carried caskets in Arlington National Cemetery. I folded American flags…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was named the recipient of this year's Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. The award, which has been called the Nobel Prize for public figures, is given for an act, or…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell says the Senate will be in the “personnel business” this year. But the majority leader’s focus on confirming President Donald Trump’s nominees is coming at the expense of any big legislative priorities. Nearly 100 days…
HAVANA (AP) — On Sunday morning a group of animal-lovers will march a mile down one of Havana’s main thoroughfares waving placards calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba. Short, seemingly simple, the march will write a small…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration wants up to two years to find potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the border before a judge halted the practice last year, a task that it says…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s appearance before the Republican Jewish Coalition (all times local): 8:30 p.m. Republicans are hoping to narrow the gap in 2020 with Jewish voters, who have traditionally backed Democrats by a…