As climate change warms the planet, drives up sea levels and energizes hurricanes, one of the most dangerous impacts is expected to get supercharged: powerful flooding from storm surges. These maps reveal the possible damage in three East Coast cities.
Sen. Joe Manchin has reversed course and agreed to a climate and taxes bill. The deal falls far short of the broader Build Back Better plan Democrats began negotiating last year, but signals a major expansion of their plans since Manchin spiked earlier spending talks.
Is the U.S. in a recession? Today's GDP report will give us clues, and experts are concerned that the numbers will show the economy contracted for the second quarter in a row — a common definition of a recession. Still, only this board of eight economists can make the definition official.
Nursing homes across Rochester, N.Y., have been routinely suing their residents, and even their friends and family. Medical debt has touched more than half of all U.S. adults in the past five years, and analysis shows litigation is a frequent byproduct.
An international team of scientists published two extensive, peer-reviewed papers in Science offering the strongest evidence to date that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in animals at a market in Wuhan, China.
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For more than 40 years, the Georgia Guidestones monument served as an unusual rural roadside attraction and a testament to the region's granite industry. Its destruction this month left the community grappling with conspiracy theories.
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James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism, died on his 103rd birthday.
Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver in the TV show Leave It To Beaver, has died at 77, according to the gallery owner who represented Dow as a sculptor.
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