A relatively weak tornado produced a record-breaking and more-than-mile-wide swath of damage in Iowa. Here's how that stacks ...

A large rotation hovered over Carlsbad, on Saturday, April 19, as a tornado watch was in effect for several counties in Texas. Footage captured by storm chaser Chad Casey shows what Casey described as ...

The world's largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as Trump pursues his signature campaign ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In her 28 years working for the federal government, Shea Giagnorio provided day care for the children ...

Buried beneath the sun-baked rock of Big Bend National Park, a colossal secret lay hidden for millions of years—until a group of geology students recently unearthed the rare bones of the park's latest ...

A recent report estimated that vultures are worth $1.8 billion a year to certain ecosystems in southern Africa. Here's why.

Pope Francis emerged from his convalescence on Easter Sunday to bless people in St. Peter’s Square and treat them to a surprise popemobile romp through the square.

Longtime readers of this weekly effort may recall my affection for the word "woodenheadedness." It comes from The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman's 1984 book about "the pervasive presence… of ...