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Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump's deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives. After torrential rains and flash flooding struck Friday in the Texas Hill ...

The 2015 Paris agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was thought to be the threshold for averting severe climate change impacts. But new research says even that level is too high to prevent the catastrophic consequences . ...

How did a 'health drink' from the early 1800s spawn so many names and variations? An expert in American dialects explains.

President Donald Trump went to Iowa on Thursday to start the countdown to the nation's 250th Independence Day next year. To mark the anniversary, the nonpartisan Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress is looking at 250 years of U.S. ...

The newest visitor is 416 million miles from the sun, out near Jupiter, and heading this way at a blistering 37 miles per second. It's officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system and poses no threat to Earth, NASA ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged that scientists are not part of his workforce reduction efforts. But many scientists recruited for their expertise at the nation's top health agencies have either already lost ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making techniques and pictorial writing systems. While resemblances in dental structures suggested possible ancestral links, the .. ...

Spanish authorities say two people have died in northeastern Spain in a wildfire that spread quickly before firefighters brought it under control.

Provisions in the GOP policy bill would end a host of tax credits for renewable energy, including one that allows homeowners to recoup 30 percent of the cost of a rooftop solar system. Businesses say it could deal a serious blow to the industry. ...

The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.