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Mammoth hurricanes have become more destructive and more common. Does climate change play a role? Here’s everything you need to know: Are hurricanes worsening?Last year brought a trio of devastating Category 4 and 5 hurricanes: Harvey dumped a record-breaking 27 trillion gallons of rain on Texas; Irma was the most intense storm to hit the […]

By LUKE MEREDITH and SCOTT MCFETRIDGE, Associated Press Wendy Karina Martinez (left); Celia Barquin Arozamena. (Associated Press) AMES, Iowa (AP) — It was decades ago, but Sara Schwendinger remembers perfectly the panic she felt when she realized a car was following her as she ran along a country road at dusk, just outside her small […]

Reis Thebault | The Washington Post A South Carolina congressman kicked off an election debate Thursday with a joke – which got a few laughs inside the room, but drew condemnation from observers across the state and country who didn’t find it funny at all. “Did y’all hear this latest late-breaking news on the Kavanaugh […]

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A thermal spring near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park has erupted for the fourth time in the last 60 years, a park official said Thursday. Ear Spring on Yellowstone’s Geyser Hill went from being dormant on Saturday to spewing steam and water between 20 and 30 feet high, a height […]

Peter Holley | The Washington Post A 24-year-old Dallas man who died after falling off a Lime electric scooter was killed by blunt force injuries to his head, county officials said Thursday, likely making him the first person to die while riding the electric mobility devices that have swept across the nation this year. The […]

By DAVID McFADDEN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) — A woman working a temporary job at a drugstore warehouse in Maryland got into an argument at work Thursday morning and began shooting colleagues, killing three before fatally turning the gun on herself, authorities and witnesses said. Workers at the Rite Aid distribution center in […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Nine people, including seven who were in the U.S. illegally, were killed in a head-on collision on an Arizona highway, authorities said Thursday. The crash occurred around 10 p.m. Wednesday when a car struck an SUV carrying nine people on State Route 79 south of Florence and about 60 miles southeast of […]

Wendy Karina Martinez shows off her engagement ring. (Martinez family via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — A man has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a woman who was jogging Tuesday night in a residential neighborhood of the nation’s capital, police say. Anthony Crawford, 23, is believed to be the man caught on surveillance video […]

California beats climate goals AND has a growing economy Re: “Walters: What cost to state for Gov. Jerry Brown’s legacy?” (Mercurynews.com, Sept. 16): The two recent acts by Gov. Jerry Brown to drive down fossil fuel emissions are aggressive (signing SB 100 to reach 100-percent carbon-free energy by 2045, and his executive order to be […]

By Kyle Swenson | The Washington Post Pink abounds. Pink flowers. Pink balloon arches. Pink couches. Pink triple-decker cakes. Pink cutouts of the number seven. The color’s whole spectrum – from cotton-candy to medium-rare steak – is on display. Life-size cutouts of Barbie, the blond-haired, bleached skin monument of girlhood, stand sentinel on the party […]

China becomes richer and more technologically advanced every day. America’s strategy to slow that momentum? Massive and onerous tariffs. This is pure folly. At best, this course of action means near-term pain for U.S. businesses and consumers. But the bigger risk is that a distracted America, beset by populist politics, will neglect the deep strengths […]

Twice in less than a year, the federal government has lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children after placing them in the homes of sponsors across the country, federal officials have acknowledged. The Health and Human Services Department recently told Senate staffers that case managers could not find 1,488 children after they made follow-up calls […]