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Cape Canaveral, Fla.—SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft—the workhorse capsule that ferries astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station—has been th...
Tornado warning sirens echoed across Missouri on Wednesday evening as a fresh line of severe thunderstorms marched east, producing at least one confir...
SUBHEAD: Alarming discovery of hyper-mutating yeast R. fluvialis worries medical community in Beijing, Shanghai and beyond Chinese researchers have c...
Phoenix saw a surprise soaking to open June, snapping a 111-year streak of rain-free June 1sts. Sky Harbor measured 0.24″ Sunday and another 0.07″ ear...
Lead paragraph A high-profile federal case involving two Chinese nationals accused of smuggling the crop-killing fungus Fusarium graminearum into th...
A ‘large and extremely dangerous’ tornado hits Kansas City The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that a “large and extremely dangerous” torna...
UPDATED 3:10 p.m. CDT — The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued multiple tornado warnings across the Kansas City metro this afternoon, triggerin...
Residents across the Upper Midwest are breathing the worst air of the year this week as smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires drifts south, trigge...
By Washington Correspondent Jane Ellison | June 3, 2025 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is scrambling to reassure coastal communities ...
Washington, D.C.—Confusion rippled through the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week after acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson reported...
Big Bear Lake, Calif. — At precisely 10:46 a.m. PT on Monday, Sunny, the elder of Jackie and Shadow’s two famed bald-eagle chicks, unfurled her slate-...
[Intro] Thousands of wildlife fans watching the Big Bear Eagle Cam were rewarded this morning when “Sunny,” the older of Jackie and Shadow’s two 202...
Sicily’s iconic Mount Etna roared back to life early Monday, 2 June 2025, unleashing a towering column of ash, scalding gases and incandescent lava th...
Europe’s tallest and most active volcano roared back to life just before dawn on 2 June 2025, when Mount Etna hurled incandescent lava fountains hundr...
A surge of solar energy racing toward Earth is setting the stage for an unusually vivid display of the northern lights tonight and tomorrow, and forec...
A strong, shallow magnitude-6.3 earthquake rattled Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido at 03:51 local time on 2 June 2025 (18:51 UTC, 1 June), acc...
SEATTLE—Skywatchers in the Emerald City may be treated to a rare aurora borealis display tonight and early Monday thanks to an unusually strong geomag...
En français Un printemps de flammes : la France multiplie les incendies avant la saison estivale Les services d’incendie français sont déjà mis à r...
Seattle could witness a rare burst of aurora borealis color as a severe G4 geomagnetic storm sweeps over the Pacific Northwest tonight, pushing the “v...
Former “Sports Science” Host John Brenkus Dies at 54 After Private Battle With Depression Key Points • John Brenkus, six-time Emmy-winning creator an...
A series of powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the Sun between 29 – 31 May are barreling toward Earth and are forecast to trigge...
Residents across Florida are assessing damage after a pair of separate May twisters reminded the Sunshine State that tornado season is far from over. ...
The modern fast food restaurant is reinventing itself faster than a drive-thru timer can count. From AI-powered ordering lanes to compostable burger w...
Residents across the Mid-Atlantic and portions of the Carolinas are on alert this evening as the National Weather Service (NWS) has placed millions of...
H2: Millions Under Flash Flood Warnings as Spring Storms Stall Across the U.S. A slow-moving storm system is drenching large portions of the South, M...
The first major heatwave of 2025 is surging across the American West, and the National Weather Service (NWS) has escalated alerts to an “Extreme Heat ...
Lead paragraph The dramatic implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible in June 2023—5 days after it began its ill-fated dive to the RMS Titanic—cont...
DEUTSCHE VERSION Ein Dorf unter Geröll: Was in Blatten im Lötschental geschah Blatten im Schweizer Kanton Wallis erlebt zurzeit die schwerste Natur...
Lead A newly released video has brought the world chillingly close to the exact moment the OceanGate Titan submersible catastrophically imploded duri...
HOUSTON—Rain-soaked commutes and booming afternoon thunderstorms are back in the forecast as a slow-moving disturbance parks over Southeast Texas toda...
Residents across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma are on high alert today as the National Weather Service (NWS) issues multiple fl...
Elon Musk’s whirlwind week underscores his outsized influence on everything from Wall Street to the launchpad. Return-to-Office Decree Re-energizes T...
Central Texans awoke to muggy 80 °F air and rumbling skies as a slow-moving cold front triggered heavy early-morning thunderstorms across Austin, brin...
South Texans woke up to rumbling skies again this morning, and the unsettled pattern that flipped the script on May’s drought is not done yet. Accordi...
Texans from the Hill Country to the Gulf Coast are bracing for another round of volatile spring weather after a nocturnal squall line knocked out elec...
Starship Flight 9’s launch ignites today in South Texas, marking the ninth full-stack test of SpaceX’s colossal Starship–Super Heavy system. Liftoff i...
SpaceX is set to ignite global attention this evening as it attempts the ninth integrated flight test of its colossal Starship-Super Heavy system from...
Updated CDC Guidance Narrows COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations: What It Means for Parents, Pregnant Women and High-Risk Groups Key takeaways • Healthy...
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket is set to ignite the South Texas sky tonight, opening a pivotal 60-minute launch window at 7:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. lo...
Lead: Automakers, tech firms, and regulators are accelerating the shift toward electric and self-driving cars in late May 2025, marking one of the ind...
The Class of 2025 steps into a job market that is transforming faster than any graduating cohort has seen, shaped by artificial intelligence, shifting...
Subtropical high pressure parked over the West is sending the mercury soaring, and the National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory for large p...
Longtime Little Rock residents are mourning the loss of beloved weather authority Ed Buckner, former chief meteorologist at THV11, who died early Tues...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has become the week’s focal point after consumer-genomics company 23andMe Holding Co. announced plan...
Richmond, Va. — A sudden operational failure at Richmond’s sole water-treatment plant early Tuesday, 27 May 2025, has triggered a localized boil water...
Richmond, Va. — Thousands of residents from Carytown to Scott’s Addition woke up Tuesday to the words no tap-water user wants to hear: “Boil Water Adv...
SpaceX is gearing up for its ninth Starship flight test, and excitement is building fast ahead of the evening launch window in South Texas. The compan...
SpaceX is primed to ignite the evening sky over South Texas as Starship Flight 9 targets liftoff from Starbase on Tuesday, 27 May, at 6:30 p.m. CDT (2...
U.S. health officials are preparing for another round of COVID-19 vaccinations this fall after the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisers vot...
Emergency boil water advisory in Richmond: what residents need to know right now Which neighborhoods are affected? The City of Richmond says ever...
Rocket Lab USA Inc. (NASDAQ: RKLB) is packing the late-May news cycle with a string of catalysts that are keeping space-sector investors glued to thei...
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is tracking Invest 90-E, a broad low-pressure area several hundred miles south-southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, that...
Thousands of spectators and millions of online viewers are counting down to SpaceX’s next Starship flight test, the ninth overall and the most ambitio...
The 1987 murder of Peggy Hettrick in Fort Collins, Colorado, is back in the national spotlight this week after true-crime juggernaut Crime Junkie rele...
SpaceX’s stainless-steel Starship is poised for its ninth integrated test flight, with liftoff from Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas targeted for Tuesday, ...
Martes 27 de mayo de 2025 La expresión más buscada hoy en la web ―“clima de hoy”― se explica por un panorama atmosférico muy contrastante entre el ...
(New York, May 27 2025) — Nearly five years into the pandemic, COVID-19 continues to evolve, and so do the symptoms patients are reporting. Health off...
Surge in Pneumonia Cases Across Asia Raises Global Health Alert Hospitals in several northern Chinese provinces have reported a sharp rise in childr...
UPDATED OUTAGE NUMBERS AND AREAS HARDEST HIT Before daybreak Tuesday, severe thunderstorms pushed across the Gulf Coast and knocked out electricity ...
HOUSTON—A fast-moving line of severe thunderstorms left more than 104,000 CenterPoint Energy customers without electricity across the Houston metro ea...
Residents across central and southeast Texas are facing an active Severe Thunderstorm Warning tonight as a potent line of Memorial Day storms sweeps e...
Severe storms returned to Indiana over the weekend, spawning at least two EF-2 tornadoes that ripped across the Wabash Valley and left behind a trail ...
San Antonio’s municipally owned utility, CPS Energy, is back in the spotlight this week as severe spring storms, a landmark courtroom verdict and fres...
Legendary singer-songwriter Sir Elton John has blasted the UK government’s draft plan to let technology companies train generative artificial-intellig...
San Antonio woke to shattered skylights, dented cars, and lawns littered with grapefruit-sized ice after an intense hail storm barreled across the met...
HOUSTON—Pre-dawn thunderstorms packing 60-mph wind gusts and cloud-to-ground lightning knocked out electricity to tens of thousands of CenterPoint Ene...
Byline: Austin, TX – May 27, 2025 Intro Grapefruit-sized hail — some stones measuring more than 6 inches across — battered parts of Texas and the s...
CenterPoint Energy accelerates grid-hardening ahead of the 2025 hurricane season Houston’s dominant electric and natural-gas utility, CenterPoint Ene...
San Antonio residents endured a dramatic Memorial Day finale Monday night as a fast-moving supercell unloaded hail ranging from golf-ball to grapefrui...
Updated 27 May 2025—San Antonio, Texas Early-Week Storm Recap Flashing lightning, booming thunder and pockets of golf-ball-size hail swept across S...
Humidity-heavy Gulf air and a slow-moving frontal boundary are turning the normally sunny Alamo City into a storm corridor this week. The National Wea...
SAN ANTONIO – A volatile weather pattern is taking hold of South-Central Texas, and the latest forecast shows the Alamo City bracing for several round...
Millions under flash flood warning as storms drench Memorial Day weekend H2: Warnings stretch from Texas to Florida The National Weather Service (N...
Updated 4:15 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, May 27 2025 Severe Weather Snapshot A Tornado Watch is in effect until 10 p.m. CDT for much of Central and East Texas...
Updated Monday, May 26 2025 — A tornado watch is in effect for Austin and the broader South-Central Texas region until 10 p.m. CDT, covering Travis, W...
A fresh shot of Canadian air is poised to chill parts of Minnesota overnight, triggering a frost advisory for the Arrowhead and portions of northeaste...
A late-season chill is poised to sweep across Minnesota this week, and the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued multiple Frost Advisories that co...
Hawaii’s restless Kīlauea volcano dazzled locals and visitors again Sunday night, unleashing lava fountains that soared an estimated 1,000 feet into t...
Early Summer Rush Sets Record Pace at Yellowstone National Park Visitor numbers traditionally spike after Memorial Day, but rangers report that May ...
LATEST ACTIVITY AT A GLANCE Lava fountains soared over 1,000 ft (300 m) from two vents inside Halemaʻumaʻu crater on 25 May as Episode 23 of Kilauea...
HILO, Hawaii — Kīlauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, roared back to life late Sunday, May 25, unleashing spectacular lava fountains that ...
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a series of coastal flood advisories up and down the Mid-Atlantic as astronomically high tides collide w...
Houston residents woke up to steamy Memorial Day air, with temperatures hovering near 84 °F and humidity above 70 percent by late morning. Southerly w...
New research is sounding the alarm on the beloved “snooze” button—and on the millions who rely on it to steal “just nine more minutes.” A large-scale ...
Houston weather will crank up the heat and the hype this Memorial Day as temperatures soar into the mid-90s, the heat index flirts with 100 °F and a f...
Mauritius Secures Historic Chagos Sovereignty Deal With UK—What It Means for the Indian Ocean PORT LOUIS/LONDON—Mauritius has signed a landmark £3.4 ...
Central Texas Braces for Wet Holiday as Spring Storm Pattern Strengthens AUSTIN—Meteorologists are tracking a surge of Gulf moisture that will turn M...
H1: Publix Updates 2025: Memorial Day Hours, Q1 Earnings, New Stores, and Sustainability Moves H2: Publix Will Be Open on Memorial Day 2025 If you ...
HILO, Hawai‘i — Kīlauea has surged back to life, launching incandescent lava fountains up to 1,000 ft above Halemaʻumaʻu’s crater floor and painting n...
Kilauea’s fresh eruption on Hawaiʻi Island is sending fountains of lava soaring nearly 1,000 feet into the night sky, reminding residents and traveler...
Fort Worth, Texas — A soggy start to the week greeted residents Monday morning as rounds of thunderstorms rolled across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metrople...
SEVERE STORMS SOAK FORT WORTH OVERNIGHT Fort Worth woke up to rumbles of thunder, sheets of rain and multiple weather alerts as a potent storm comp...
Cases of Lyme disease are climbing sharply across the United States as an unusually warm spring accelerates tick activity, public health agencies warn...
A volatile Memorial Day weather pattern is unfolding across the South and Southern Plains today as the National Weather Service (NWS) issues multiple ...
Updated Dallas Weather Forecast: Thunderstorms Early Week, Steadier Heat by Memorial Day North Texans woke up to rumbles of thunder as a potent spr...
Updated Visitor Outlook for Summer 2025 at the Grand Canyon North Rim Reopens for the 2025 Season After a snow-packed winter, the Grand Canyon’s No...
Intense late-May storms have triggered a string of flash flood warnings across parts of Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and neighboring states just...
Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park — May 26, 2025 Kīlauea is once again commanding the world’s attention after the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) ...
New Orleans residents battled sweltering Memorial Day weekend heat when a sudden, large-scale power outage left more than 100,000 Entergy customers in...
Thousands of Entergy customers across New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish are enduring a widespread power outage that began Sunday afternoon ...
Residents across Southeast Louisiana felt the heat in more ways than one Sunday afternoon as a sudden wave of New Orleans power outages plunged more t...
[Versión en español] Un hallazgo de otro mundo en Buga, Valle del Cauca La tranquila ciudad de Buga, en el suroccidente de Colombia, se ha converti...
Residents of Buga in Colombia’s Valle del Cauca province are abuzz after a gleaming metallic sphere reportedly plunged into nearby woodland, sparking ...
Heavy downpours from a slow-moving storm system have triggered flash flood warnings across large sections of the Midwest and Appalachians tonight, pla...
As Formula 1 gears up to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the World Championship, the FIA has rubber-stamped a record-equalling 24-round 2025 F1 sche...
The global conversation around unidentified flying objects (UFOs)—now officially labeled UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena)—has surged again afte...
Indianapolis woke up to a blanket of low clouds and a crisp northeasterly breeze this Sunday, May 25, 2025, as temperatures hovered near 50 °F at sunr...
U.S. funeral directors are entering a pivotal year as three forces—economic pressure, shifting consumer preferences, and rapid tech adoption—converge ...
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—Sky-watchers who stepped outside just after 10 p.m. Pacific Time were treated to a fiery streak—and a startling sonic boom—as Spac...
Southern California residents were jolted awake Saturday night when a thunder-like crack rolled across the region—a sonic boom generated by SpaceX’s D...
Tulsa, OK—Eastern Oklahoma is bracing for a volatile stretch of weather through Memorial Day, with the National Weather Service warning of multiple ro...
A colossal near-Earth asteroid, officially cataloged as 387746 (2003 MH4), will make its closest approach to our planet this Saturday, 24 May 2025, th...
SpaceX lit up Florida’s Space Coast this weekend with a flawless Falcon 9 launch that delivered 23 next-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth or...
A mild but widely-felt earthquake rattled parts of the Los Angeles metropolitan area late Saturday night, prompting a surge of online reports from Lon...
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule wrapped up its CRS-32 mission overnight, splashing down safely off the coast of California at 1:45 a.m. PT on Sunday, 25...
Residents across Southern California were rattled Monday morning, April 14, when a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck near the mountain town of Julian, a...
Southern Californians are flocking online to find KTLA’s latest reports after a rapid succession of high-profile stories sent search interest for the ...
Residents from Los Angeles to Orange County were jolted awake last Saturday night by what many first mistook for an earthquake. In reality, the thunde...
For readers searching “earthquake now,” here is the latest on seismic activity worldwide, compiled from authoritative monitoring agencies and breaking...
SpaceX’s latest Falcon 9 roar out of Vandenberg Space Force Base lit up West Coast skies on 23 May, deploying 27 fresh Starlink internet satellites du...
Residents across the western United States and parts of Canada were dazzled this week by a brilliant green meteor—technically a fireball—that streaked...
A light but widely-felt earthquake rattled parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast overnight, reminding millions why “earthquake near me” searches spike the mome...
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket could roar back to life as soon as Tuesday, May 27, with liftoff targeted for 7:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. CT) from Starbase i...
California’s fault lines jolted back into the spotlight this week as a cluster of small-to-moderate earthquakes rippled from the Central Valley to the...
SpaceX accelerates its 2025 launch cadence with two headline-grabbing milestones just days apart: FAA clearance for the ninth Starship test flight and...
Key points at a glance • Strong M6.2 earthquake struck north of Crete, Greece, at 03:19 UTC on 22 May 2025, depth 64 km; felt across eastern Mediter...
As search interest in “hurricanes” spikes with the official start of the 2025 Atlantic season, forecasters are warning that the basin could see anothe...
Wild wolves are surging back into the spotlight across the United States this spring, and new technology, fresh pups and shifting management plans are...
A sharp drop in overnight temperatures across Minnesota is rekindling worries about frost damage just weeks after many areas logged one of the earlies...