Dozens of Tornadoes Tear Through 5 States
A quiet tornado season across the U.S. was violently interrupted when twisters ripped through the Great Plains and Midwest, spurred by a storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota.
A quiet tornado season across the U.S. was violently interrupted when twisters ripped through the Great Plains and Midwest, spurred by a storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota.
Authorities this week battled fast-moving flames devouring thousands of acres of brush and threatening hundreds of homes along the Pacific Coast Highway in Ventura County.
Torrential rains across the central United States forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to close about a dozen locks on the Illinois River and the Mississippi Rivers north of St. Louis late last week.
An immigration bill being written in the U.S. Senate aims to clamp down on illegal crossings along the southwestern border with Mexico while maintaining a 13-year timetable for existing illegal residents to win citizenship. The …
While Pentagon regulations have long barred women from close-in combat, like infantry and armor units, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is announcing the beginning of the end of those rules on Thursday. Here are some photographs of …