Student fatally shot by woman he stopped to help
A 22-year-old man was fatally shot in a national forest in Alabama last week by a woman pretending to be a stranded driver after the...
UPS drivers say ‘brutal’ heat is endangering their lives
As blistering heat waves swept across the United States this summer, workers delivered America’s packages, often in trucks that have no cooling mechanisms for drivers.
California fire and floods turn a river to ‘sludge,’ killing fish, possibly threatening salmon runs
According to local tribal leaders, the McKinney Fire has led to a mass fish kill in the Klamath River, near the border with Oregon.
Driver hits family in Montana and opens fire, killing father and toddler
The gunman also critically injured two other members of the family; one of them fatally wounded him after he attacked her with a knife.
U.S. accuses Russia of war crimes, alleging hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian deportations
Russian authorities have “interrogated, detained, and forcibly deported” Ukrainian citizens from their homes into Russian territory, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
How to save an ancient, giant tree from a wildfire
More than a century ago, naturalist John Muir took President Theodore Roosevelt to camp beneath an ancient, gnarled tree in Yosemite National Park.
First, the fish fell from the sky. Then they washed ashore
The happenings might seem bizarre, or even biblical, but scientists say they have a perfectly rational explanation: The anchovy population off the California coast is...
Disney apologizes after employee thwarts marriage proposal
An employee at Disneyland Paris interrupted the special moment, grabbed the ring and directed the couple to a different spot. Ultimately, though, "She said yes."