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AP IMPACT: Deficient levees found across America
Inspectors taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the federal government have found hundreds of structures at risk of ...
Utah avalanche survivor recounts experience
A 43-year-old Utah woman who survived an avalanche says she felt a "strange serenity" while trapped under the snow before she went unconscious.
House approves $50.5 billion in Sandy aid
More than 10 weeks after Superstorm Sandy brutalized parts of the heavily populated Northeast, the House approved $50.5 billion in emergency relief ...
House approves $50.7b for Sandy aid
The House has approved a $50.7 billion measure for Superstorm Sandy victims. The 241-180 vote sends the measure to the Senate which is expected to ...
House votes to add $33.7b to Sandy aid
The House has voted to add $33.7 billion to legislation to help victims of Superstorm Sandy, the late-October storm that was one of the worst ever to ...
Sandy aid package moving toward House votes
The House moved toward action Tuesday on a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeast lawmakers hoped could be approved despite ...
Critics complain Sandy aid tied to other projects
Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a "not-so-fast" campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern ...
Haiti quietly marks quake's 3rd anniversary
President Michel Martelly urged Haitians to recall the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in a devastating earthquake three years ago, ...
Volcano erupting in Russia's Far East
A volcano erupting in Russia's Far East is sending plumes of gas and ash high into the sky and creating a lava lake. The Plosky Tolbachik volcano is ...
NY storm commission urges flood walls for subways
A commission formed to examine ways to guard against storms like Sandy released a report Friday that calls for flood walls in subways, water pumps at ...
Haiti plans subdued memorial 3 years after quake
The Haitian government plans a low-key ceremony Saturday for the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the country and killed hundreds ...
USDA: Drought cut corn crop by about one-fourth
For farmers like Earl Williams, last year couldn't have started out better or ended much worse as a warm, sunny spring that let him plant early gave ...
A view of post-quake Haiti, on the run
Six days a week, the rail-thin athlete sets off at daybreak, his neon-green running shoes glowing in the grey light of dawn. It's hard not to notice ...
NYC firm hit hard on 9/11 gives $10M in Sandy aid
Dozens of New Yorkers from a neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy lined up in a school auditorium Thursday to receive $1,000 debit cards from a ...
Milder temperatures ease Australian wildfire fears
Record temperatures across southern Australia cooled Wednesday, reducing the danger from scores of raging wildfires but likely bringing only a brief ...
US seared during hottest year on record by far
America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U
Sandy report details NY's storm needs
Floodgates for tunnels, subways and airports, as well as a network of safe havens like old civil defense shelters, should be among quick, simple ...
Quake in Aegean Sea shakes Turkey and Greece
An earthquake centered beneath the Aegean Sea shook cities and islands in Turkey and Greece on Tuesday, causing panic in some areas but no injuries ...
Reid says he misspoke with disaster comparison
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that he misspoke when he suggested in a Senate speech that damage from Superstorm Sandy was worse than ...
Sandy-battered NJ residents allowed to return home
The utterly mundane task of bringing a garbage can back from the curb put a broad grin on Guy Mazzanti's face Monday. Seaside Heights' retired police ...
Obama signs bill for Sandy flood insurance claims
President Barack Obama has signed into law a $9.7 billion bill to pay flood insurance claims from Superstorm Sandy. The law increases the borrowing ...
Strong earthquake shakes parts of Alaska, Canada
A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging ...
Congress approves $9.7 billion in Sandy flood aid
The new Congress on Friday rushed out $9.7 billion to help pay flood insurance claims to 115,000 people and businesses afflicted by Superstorm Sandy, ...
Congress to vote Friday on Sandy flood aid
Many home and business owners flooded out by Superstorm Sandy could get insurance payouts soon through congressional action expected Friday on a $9.
Holiday storms have limited impact on US drought
Holiday storms that pounded much of the nation with snow and rain did little to ease the overall grip of the worst U.S. drought in decades. The weekly ...