You know it's hot when Death Valley, California, breaks high temperature records.A long-duration, dangerous heat event is setting up for parts of the West that will begin Friday and last into next week.More than 34 million people are under excessive heat watches and warnings across California and the Southwest. Most of the heat alerts go…
CLOSE It's important to take these steps before hurricane season. USA TODAYTropical Storm Josephine formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday morning, forecasters from the National Hurricane Center said.The storm, which is the 10th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph.Josephine shattered the early-season formation record for the J-named…
Evangelist Franklin Graham, a prominent evangelical supporter of President Trump, is calling on Christians to take note of one issue presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris both adamantly support.The son of the late Rev. Billy Graham notes, Biden-Harris "are labeled as the most pro-abortion presidential ticket in the history of our nation."PRO-LIFE JOURNALIST…
President Trump has defended his response to the coronavirus, and has pursued a range of sometimes contradictory attacks against Joseph R. Biden Jr.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesPresident Trump and his allies have spent the months since Joseph R. Biden Jr. emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee cycling through a variety of messages in hopes of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…