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A prolonged winter storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Upper Midwest was continuing its assault on the region on Thursday, as portions of Southern California...

A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman on Wednesday morning in Orange County, Fla., returned to the scene later in the day and went on a shooting spree, the authorities said,...

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers, returning from a pair of official trips to Taiwan aimed at bolstering ties with the self-governing island, called on Wednesday for the U.S. government to speed up weapons...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Former President Donald J. Trump will visit on Thursday afternoon the site of a train derailment that spewed toxic chemicals in this Ohio town, stepping into an intensifying...

Three climbers who were attempting to reach the peak of a mountain in Washington State over the weekend were killed after a climber in their group triggered an avalanche as they ascended,...

Polar bears in the Arctic and plankton in the Pacific. Cardinals in Atlanta and crocodiles in South Africa.While concern about PFAS compounds, also known as “forever chemicals” because they break down very...

It sounds like an obvious fix for California’s whipsawing cycles of deluge and drought: Capture the water from downpours so it can be used during dry spells.Pump it out of flood-engorged rivers...

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. — For years, when students at Vermont Law and Graduate School came to Shirley Jefferson with objections to the murals in the student center, and their depictions of Black...

A major winter storm will unfold over the northern part of the United States this week, bringing a mixed bag of precipitation that will be “extremely disruptive,” forecasters said.On Tuesday morning, the...

WASHINGTON — As the train rumbled across the Ukrainian countryside through a long night, the view outside the window left little to see, just the occasional streetlight or shadows of buildings in...