Severe storms battered the northeastern United States on August 20, 2026, producing rare tornadoes on Long Island, New York, and in Dover, Delaware, alongside intense flash flooding that stranded motorists. In Atlantic Beach, New York, a waterspout moved ashore at the Sun and Surf Beach Club, damaging approximately 50 cabanas...
A federal court has upheld the Trump administration's order authorizing Sable Offshore Corp. to resume oil pumping through the Santa Ynez pipeline system off the California coast. The ruling overrides state regulations and a 2020 federal court consent decree that kept the infrastructure offline following the 2015 Refugio Beach oil...
A prolonged heat wave is gripping the Southwest and South-Central United States, with the National Weather Service warning of dangerously high temperatures and heat-related illness risks. An Extreme Heat Warning issued Friday covers Death Valley, the lower Colorado River Valley and parts of Arizona, California and Nevada, where temperatures may...
A civilian-contracted Cessna 441 crashed near the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site in western Alaska on Thursday, killing all eight people on board . The aircraft, operated by Security Aviation and chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, departed from Anchorage and crashed around 12:15 p.m. local time...
Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana entered a ninth day without electricity on Thursday after a deadly derecho swept through the region on August 11, causing widespread destruction . Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) reported approximately 68,000 customers still lacked power, with full restoration in hard-hit Gary...
The Food and Drug Administration has elevated a Whole Foods guacamole and dips recall to its highest risk level, "Class I," over potential Salmonella contamination. The designation, applied to approximately 13,000 units, indicates there is a reasonable probability that consuming the products could cause serious health consequences or death ....
Governor Patrick Morrisey declared a State of Emergency for all 55 West Virginia counties on Tuesday after severe storms brought excessive rainfall, flash flooding, and mudslides across the state from August 16 to August 18 . The slow-moving storm systems dumped near-record rainfall in several areas within hours, causing significant...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially designated the recall of GreenWise Organic frozen blueberries and mixed berries as a Class I recall, the agency’s highest-risk warning. The action follows an ongoing investigation into a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O145:H28 infections linked to products...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported 15,716 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis since May 1, marking the nation's worst year for the foodborne illness on record. The outbreak has spread to 47 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, with only Delaware, New Mexico, and...
Hawaii was assessing damage from Hurricane Lala on Thursday while forecasters monitored Tropical Depression Two-C, a new system expected to strengthen and pass south of the islands this weekend. The National Weather Service’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center said Two-C could bring 5 to 15 inches of rain to the Big...
