A raging industrial fire at an old paper mill in Illinois has prompted at least 1,000 home evacuations as toxic fumes spew into the air. For the second day, clouds of smoke filled the air in Morris as 180,000 to 200,000 pounds of lithium batteries continue to explode. "The biggest hazard we have is...
SURFSIDE, Fla. – A week after a 12-story condo building outside Miami collapsed, search officials vowed to press on with the rescue effort around the clock as the death toll rose to 16.Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced at a...
More than 80 teens and adult staff have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a summer camp in central Illinois that did not require masks indoors or vaccination status. Of the 85 people infected, about 70% of the cases were in...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's board of trustees is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, after weeks of mounting pressure to do so.NC Policy Watch first reported Monday...
Most states around the country are experiencing a vaccination lag, even as vaccines become more widely available. The culprit behind this lag? Most vaccine hesitancy has come from young, rural and lower-income people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
Remember Anheuser-Busch’s promise to give Americans free beer if the White House hit its goal of 70% of U.S. adults by July 4? The beer maker is keeping its word, even though the country fell just short of that...
Stuart Damon, best known for his role as Dr. Alan Quartermaine on "General Hospital," died Tuesday. He was 84. "Stuart Damon played beloved patriarch Alan Quartermaine for 30 years," Frank Valentini, "General Hospital" executive producer, said in a statement to USA TODAY. "He...
Most states around the country are experiencing a vaccination lag, even as vaccines become more widely available. The culprit behind this lag? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most vaccine hesitancy has come from young, rural, and...
Crews at collapsed Florida condo face time, weather and other challengesIn addition to weather and debris, emergency responders are fighting time, heat and water as they continue their search Wednesday for the 149 unaccounted for victims of the condo collapse in Surfside,...
Temperatures are forecast to remain in the 90s in the big cities of the Northeast through Wednesday.Heat contributed to at least four deaths in Bremerton, Washington, on Monday, officials said. A farmworker in Oregon died Saturday at a workplace...
