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WASHINGTON - Strolling beside the Reflecting Pool with the Lincoln Memorial in the distance, it's easy to overlook a gentle rise in the landscape a few yards to the north.

The torchbearers included soldiers, firefigh ...

A plane taking off from New Delhi's main airport caught fire forcing all 241 passengers to escape through the emergency exit, according to media reports Friday.

The House voted yesterday to triple money to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis around the world, giving new life and new punch to a program credited with saving or prolonging millions of lives in Africa ...

Violent storms in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire on Thursday destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead, authorities said as police and firefighters went ...

More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the government reported Thursday in its first national tally of those deaths.

With 120 mph winds and horizontal rain from Hurricane Dolly smugglers have been trying to use the chaos of the hurricane to move drugs and people.

July 24 - A strong earthquake jolted northern Japan early Thursday, injuring at least 99 people and affecting output at some high-tech factories.

A pet rabbit is credited with saving a couple from a fire that swept through their home in the southern city of Melbourne.

A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast early Thursday, injuring at least 91 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of people, officials said.

A three-alarm fire destroyed a northeast Portland roofing supply warehouse Wednesday and sent people in nearby homes and businesses scrambling.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the northern part of Japan's main Honshu island on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

It said the quake, at a depth of 66.5 miles, was centered 40 miles east of Morioka, in northern Honshu.

(Reporting by Sandra Maler)

A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist ...

If an influenza pandemic swept through the United States, nursing homes might not be prepared to deal with patient overflow from hospitals, say researchers who looked at more than 400 nursing homes in Michigan ...

MAPLEWOOD, Mo. - Authorities on Tuesday recovered what they believe to be charred remains from the rubble of a burned house from which a gunman may have ambushed emergency workers, St.

Firefighters continued to work Tuesday to control a 150-acre wildfire burning five miles southwest of Parachute in western Colorado.

Union Pacific Railroad Co. will pay $102 million to settle a federal lawsuit over damage from a massive California wildfire sparked by railroad employees in 2000, officials said Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Cristobal is now accelerating his northeastward track into the north Atlantic.

The state's second-largest storage reservoir will end this year with the lowest amount of water in more than 30 years, Department of Water Resources Director Lester Snow said Monday.

Fire crews battled a brush fire in a canyon in Encinitas Monday, officials said.