The deal imposes a 15% import tax on 70% of European goods exported to the U.S. But officials have left blank key areas such as wine and spirits as well as steel.

RODANTHE, N.C. — Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster storm slowly ...

Far-north spiders and daddy longlegs go into what is known as diapause, or suspended animation, during winter.