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Comment on this storyCommentForecasters and the public alike had no time to waste 30 years ago this month as they confronted one of the fiercest U.S. hurricane landfalls on record.Hurricane Andrew slammed into southern Miami-Dade County around 5 a.m. Eastern time on Monday, Aug. 24, 1992. Intensifying and accelerating en route, Andrew made…

Comment on this storyCommentAnthony S. Fauci, the nation’s preeminent infectious-disease expert who achieved unprecedented fame while enduring withering political attacks as the face of the coronavirus pandemic response under two presidents, plans to step down in December after more than a half-century of public service, he announced…

Authorities at Zion National Park were still searching for an Arizona woman who vanished after flash flooding, the park said, and iconic sections of the park remained closed Sunday.Late Friday, the National Park Service received a report that Jetal Agnihotri, a 29-year-old Tucson resident, was overdue from a trip to The Narrows, an imposing…

Gates are closed, doors are locked and passengers are being directed to shuttle buses instead of train platforms. The MBTA's 30-day shutdown of the Orange Line began Friday night. Officials say they can squeeze work that would have normally taken five years into the month-long work period. Planned projects include track repairs to…

Comment on this storyCommentA federal appeals court has ordered the release of a secret Justice Department memo discussing whether President Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.The unanimous panel decision issued Friday echoes that of a lower court judge, Amy Berman Jackson, who last year…

Placeholder while article actions loadBack in April, Laney Hawes thought she had saved a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary from being purged from a North Texas school district’s libraries and classrooms. But on Tuesday morning, a school official sent an email telling principals and librarians to pull it off the shelves — along with…

Republicans have mounted an “attack on education” in 2022, according to a report, as lawmakers have introduced a soaring number of bills aimed at limiting classroom discussion of race and LGBTQ+ issues.The number of “educational gag orders” introduced has increased by 250% compared with 2021, according to PEN America, a non-profit organization…

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart scheduled an in-person hearing on Thursday in Florida regarding the unsealing of FBI records related to last week’s raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.The hearing is set to be held Aug. 18 in the West Palm Beach Division. Reinhart will discuss with the government and Trump's legal team the…

After the U.S. has baked in record heat waves this year, it seems even hotter weather is set to consume huge tracts of the country in the coming decades. More than 100 million Americans will live in an “extreme heat belt” by 2053, according to climate-risk nonprofit First Street Foundation. At least one day every year, areas in the belt will…

"He's off the ventilator, so the road to recovery has begun," Rushdie's agent, Andrew Wylie, told CNN on Sunday. "It will be long -- the injuries are severe. But his condition is headed in the right direction." "Though his life changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty & defiant sense of humor remains intact," the statement said.Rushdie…