Florida rushed to prepare for a possible direct hit on the Miami area by the Category 5 storm with potentially catastrophic 185 mph winds. Nearly every building on the island…
Debris from a flood-ruined house in Spring was on Tuesday piled up in the now-dry front yard. On Aug. 28, the same property was submerged under floodwaters that nearly reached…
Ky Zimmerman and his Labrador, Tobias, search for nests of Argentine ants on Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Southern California in this June 21, 2017, photo provided by…
The Trump administration’s options are going from bad to worse as Kim Jong Un’s military marches ever closer to being able to strike the U.S. mainland with nuclear weapons. Just…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying the program was unconstitutional but giving lawmakers in Congress six months to pass legislation…
Throughout South Florida, officials readied evacuation orders and people raided store shelves, buying up water and other hurricane supplies. Long lines formed at gas stations and people pulled shutters out…
It was one of dozens of wildfires burning in Western U.S. states that sent smoke into cities from Seattle to Denver – prompting health warnings and cancellations of outdoor activities…
to be delayed six months to give Congress change to act
Lawmakers return to D.C. with a lot on their plates
Locals in Port Aransas, Seadrift and Sargent awoke on Aug. 25 expecting a hurricane along the lines of Bret and Dolly, storms weak enough to have their names recycled by…
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said her country would circulate a resolution this week with the goal of getting it approved next Monday. “The United States will look at every country…
Supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, lay out a banner as they demonstrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington on Sunday. After months…
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., accompanied by the committee’s ranking member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. speaks on Jan. 31 on Capitol Hill in…
The “Man” burns in the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man in 2013 near Gerlach, Nev. A Nevada sheriff says a man who ran into the flames at the Burning…
North Korea claimed “perfect success” in an underground test of what it called a hydrogen bomb – potentially vastly more destructive than an atomic bomb. It was the North’s sixth…
The Bureau of Land Management announced plans to offer drilling rights on about 145 square miles in a December online auction. The agency cited President Donald Trump’s goal of increasing…
A visitor walks by a TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea.Lee Jin-man/Associated Press As part of North Korea’s work…
La Tuna Fire burning, left, and the Hollywood sign seen at sunset from Los Angeles. Several hundred firefighters worked to contain a blaze that chewed through brush-covered mountains, prompting evacuation…
At stops in Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Saturday, the president planned to survey storm damage, talk with residents and meet with volunteers. Those elements were missing from Tuesday’s…
Hurricane Harvey evacuee Lakeithia Bankhead, accompanied by son Russell McCoy, tosses items into the back of a vehicle as she leaves a mass shelter in Houston bound for home on…
It raged through neighborhoods rich and poor, black and white, upscale and working class. Across Houston and surrounding communities, no group sidestepped its paralyzing deluges and apocalyptic floods. “Harvey didn’t…
The Los Alamos Monitor reports the village of Jemez Springs is hosting the Bigfoot BBQ & Blues Fest on Saturday to celebrate rumors the ape-like creature hangs around the forests…
Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga celebrate in Uhuru Park after hearing the verdict in Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday. Kenya’s Supreme Court nullified President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election win last month…
Not real Joel Osteen Sails Luxury Yacht Through Flooded Houston To Pass Out Copies Of ‘Your Best Life Now’ The facts The televangelist defended himself this week against criticism that…
The mayor announced that ongoing releases of water from two reservoirs could keep thousands of homes flooded for up to 15 days and told residents that if they stayed and…
Analysts say lines mainly due to people topping off their tanks
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks in Mountain View, Calif., on Aug. 10. Mattis said Thursday he has signed orders to send additional troops to Afghanistan.Jeff Chiu/Associated Press file Mattis told…
