At least 13 toxic waste sites in Texas were flooded or damaged by Hurricane Harvey, adding on to the challenges as the area begins clean up efforts following the deadly storm.
Hurricane Irma is swirling in the Atlantic, giving few indications of a future path and denying forecasters a chance to catch their breaths after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.
More than 5,000 acres have burned in the intense La Tuna brush fire near Burbank, California, forcing people from their homes, shutting down an interstate and sending massive plumes of smoke in the air, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Australia is having a worse flu season than usual this year, with 93,711 laboratory-confirmed cases reported to its National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System as of August 18, government data show.
Patricia Holloway hovered over her 15-year-old triplets crouched in the closet and prayed as the wind whistled and a tornado ripped shingles off the roof.
Another big exit from the Trump White House, a mystery of sorts about possible immigration policy twists, updates on congressional Russia investigations, two bellwether governor's races and Michael Bloomberg's war on soda -- it's all in this week's "Inside Politics" forecast.
A man has died after running into the towering blaze for which the Burning Man festival is named, according to the Pershing County Sheriff's Office in Nevada.
Following North Korea's latest nuclear weapons test, one of President Donald Trump's most outspoken Republican critics expressed confidence in Trump's team, but not the commander in chief himself.
When lawmakers return this week from the August recess, they'll face a bevy of must-do tasks, but chief among them is a long-held Republican agenda item: comprehensive tax reform.
For more than a week, the world watched as grim images from southeast Texas were broadcast on television and social media -- homes along the coast torn apart by hurricane winds, inland communities flooded by a record-setting tropical storm.
President Donald Trump is getting a second chance at the post-natural disaster presidential visit, embracing the role of "comforter in chief" in a multi-stop tour of areas hard-hit by Harvey.
Salt Lake City police apologized Friday for arresting a nurse who, citing hospital policy, refused to let officers draw blood from an unconscious accident victim. The arrest of Alex Wubbels, who was later released without charge, was captured on body camera video that the police chief said was alarming.
A week after Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast, some residents are returning home to assess the storm's damage while others are bracing for rising water levels.
The good that comes from taking action in times of crisis, as many have done in Harvey's wake, creates a healing halo — for those who are suffering and for those who are able to help, writes the former President.
Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath have dumped trillions of gallons of rain across Texas and Louisiana over six days. Homes, office buildings and other structures along the Gulf Coast and in Houston's Harris County, were flooded, their occupants forced to find higher ground. To reach safety, most local residents waded through the murky streams, in some cases for hours.
Almost 12 years to the day after her babies nearly succumbed to the hellish aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Alexandra Wheeler finally got to thank the man she credits for saving their lives.
