Patrick Smith

The first named storm of the hurricane season is threatening the Gulf Coast of Mexico and Texas with flooding and tropical-storm-force winds.

Residents in the New Mexico village of Ruidoso were told to immediately flee Monday due to a wildfire that had grown to more than 1,300 acres, officials said.

As the solstice approaches, a strong heat wave is hitting the East Coast and Midwest. It's expected to last through Friday and beyond.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Monday called on Congress to require a tobacco-style warning for visitors to social media platforms.

Boeing and Airbus, the two biggest commercial airline makers, may have used titanium sold using fake documents, according to evidence from a supplier that has triggered a Federal Aviation Administration investigation.

Police caught a Texas inmate-turned-fugitive armed with a knife early Friday, after he escaped following a court appearance in Houston.

A federal investigation is underway into how a Southwest Airlines passenger jet suffered substantial damage after experiencing a rare phenomenon known as a Dutch roll at almost 38,000 feet.

NASA has been forced to reassure the public that there is no emergency aboard the International Space Station after audio of a medical drill was accidentally played on a livestream Wednesday night.

Torrential rains pounded South Florida on Wednesday as officials warned residents to steer clear of "life threatening flooding" in some of the state's most populous regions.

Pope Francis has again been accused of using a highly offensive term to describe gay men in a closed-door meeting, two weeks after the Vatican apologized for his use of the same slur.

Four American instructors from a small Iowa college were injured in a stabbing attack while on a teaching trip to China, their school and U.S. officials said.