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One of Aric Harding's sons is an avid piano player and was concerned the family's piano would be destroyed by flood water.

Search-and-rescue teams in California retrieved the bodies of two people missing for weeks after a car swerved off a road in the Sierra Nevada and plunged into a raging river, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.

The Department of Justice will retry a woman whom prosecutors say disrupted Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing for attorney general by laughing.

While much of the United States' focus is still on Texas and the destruction left behind by Hurricane Harvey and its historic rainfall, powerful Hurricane Irma is rapidly intensifying in the open Atlantic and poses a major threat to the Caribbean and potentially the United States next week.

Dressed in waders, Bill Wolfe braves waist-deep water as furniture floats around his Houston living room.

Colorado's Democratic governor John Hickenlooper and Ohio's Republican governor John Kasich unveiled a bipartisan health care reform plan today.

One August in America tested the nation's mettle. Years from now, that's what historians will say.

What began as a story about flooding, environmentalist groups say, has become about preventable environmental disaster.

Days after Harvey struck, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner struck an optimistic tone on Thursday, declaring the city "is open for business." The mayor and other officials pointed to small signs of recovery, such as fewer people in shelters, more bus lines resuming and the city's shipping channel reopening on a limited basis.

Former FBI Director James Comey drafted a statement exonerating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for running her government emails through a private email server before completing the investigation, according to two Republican senators.