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78 dead in Nepal as flooding wreaks havoc in South Asia

Monsoon flooding and landslides continued to cause havoc in South Asia on Tuesday, with the death toll rising to 78 in Nepal ...

Final blast of torrential rains unleashed by weakened Barry

Tropical Depression Barry spared New Orleans and Baton Rouge from catastrophic flooding, but even as it weakened and moved ...

Lois Bergeron, Steve Bergeron

Barry's flood threat lingers as storm slowly sweeps inland

Tropical Depression Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, sparing New Orleans from ...

Agencies boost efforts to stop wildland firefighter suicides

Shane Del Grosso spent some 30 summers crossing smoke-shrouded mountains and forests to fight increasingly devastating ...

Heavy rain leaves scores dead in Nepal, India, Bangladesh

Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have killed at least 50 people in Nepal in the past few days, with more ...

Ashley Boudreaux

Hurricane Barry's rain and floods hammer Gulf environment

Hurricane Barry could affect the environment of the Gulf coast and Lower Mississippi Valley in numerous ways, from ...

Martha Young, Patricia Glen Plishka

The Latest: National Guard trying to rescue family of 5

The Latest on Barry (all times local): ___ 11:40 p.m. Authorities are trying to rescue a family of five who are trapped by ...

Weakened Barry rolls into Louisiana, drenches Gulf Coast

Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy ...

Louisiana faces triple threat of storm surge, river, rain

When it comes to water, New Orleans faces three threats: the sea, the sky and the river. Tropical storms and hurricanes send ...

Alan Dot Richardson

'It's powerful': Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana

Homeowners sandbagged their doors and tourists trying to get out of town jammed the airport Friday as Tropical Storm Barry ...

As Barry approaches, New Orleans residents debate evacuation

Go or stay? It is a question people in and around New Orleans ask themselves every time a threatening storm lurks in the ...

New Orleans' levees face a hard test as storm bears down

Even as Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Mississippi River's levees held up when those in other parts of the ...

New Orleans area braces for first hurricane of the season

Thousands of Louisianans broke out sandbags or fled to higher ground Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry threatened to turn into ...

The Latest: Trump approves federal declaration due to Barry

The Latest on a tropical weather system in the Gulf of Mexico (all times local): 10:45 p.m. President Donald Trump has ...

Kristalina Georgieva

Ex-UN chief concerned over monsoon floods in Rohingya camps

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern that monsoon floods could threaten the lives of Rohingya ...

Flooding swamps New Orleans; possible hurricane coming next

A storm swamped New Orleans streets and paralyzed traffic Wednesday as concerns grew that even worse weather was on the way: ...

'History on a stick' signs disappearing too fast to keep up

Hurricanes, thievery and wrecks are taking out North Carolina's popular historical highway markers faster than the state can ...

Rains strand Washington drivers, flood White House basement

A slow-moving rainstorm Monday washed out roads, stranded drivers and soaked basements, including the White House's, during ...

Multiple walls collapse in India monsoon rains, killing 31

Heavy monsoon rains in western India caused at least four walls to collapse onto huts and city shanties, killing at least 31 ...

Alex Bowman, Martin Truex Jr.

The Latest: Bowman earns first NASCAR Cup Series win

The Latest on the NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway (all times local): 8:17 p.m. Alex Bowman has raced to his ...