A powerful earthquake hammered the southern Philippines early yesterday, killing at least five people and rattling areas already reeling from two tremors in the past two weeks. The 6.5-magnitude quake struck at around 9 am in Mindanao, an island the … Read More
More than 44,000 acres have been consumed by the fires, the largest of which was just 10% contained on Sunday. Terrifying videos taken in parts of California are offering a firsthand glimpse of the incredible destruction left by several wildfires … Read More
Conservative Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren said members of the migrant caravan will bring diseases like HIV into the United States, according to a tweet from the media intelligence coordinator at Media Matters for America. “There are three confirmed cases of tuberculosis, … Read More
LOS ANGELES— A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults, Caltech scientists say in a new study … Read More
At least 10 people were killed and 16 missing as a powerful typhoon slammed Japan, causing major flooding and landslides across the central and eastern parts of the country and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. More than 120 people … Read More
The threat of widespread flooding and landslides compounded by an earthquake in nearby Chiba prefecture. Damaged caused by typhoon Hagibis in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. Photograph: Jiji Press/EPA Evacuation orders were issued to more than 800,000 households in Tokyo … Read More