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At least 11 storm-related deaths were reported overnight in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after severe storms and tornadoes swept the region Saturday.

Miss USA Savannah Gankiewicz said she has received death threats and hateful messages since taking the crown in the wake of Noelia Voigt’s shocking resignation and allegations against the pageant’s CEO.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says an increase in flight turbulence is an effect of climate change.

Psychiatrists are writing the first prescriptions for zuranolone, which got approved last year.

Murray withdrew from the Charles Schwab Cup Challenge on Friday and died on Saturday.

Since 1999, 28 of the last 34 Scripps National Spelling Bee champions have been Indian American. And most of those winners are the offspring of parents who arrived in the United States on student or work visas.

The 2024 cicada emergence is underway in Illinois. A rare, blue-eyed female Magicicada cassini cicada was spotted Friday at The Morton Arboretum in suburban Chicago.

Rethinking your relationship with your smartphone can help you stay focused and curb mental illness.

Powerful storms killed at least 18 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S.

As young people enter the job market, it behooves them to note which skills companies are most looking for. Accounting and virtual assistant are in high demand.

The International Organization for Migration has increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670. Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the U.N. migration agency’s mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll is based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provinci...

Rocket sirens sounded across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, for the first time in months on Sunday, as Hamas claimed to have fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza. The militants have continued to fire projectiles at communities around Gaza more than seven months into the war but have not fired longer-range rockets in months. There were no im...

Shayne Patrick Burke wrote that at one point he feared he would die as he waited for help. “I recorded a short video telling my people that I loved them,” he said in his Instagram post.