One of NASA's most traveled astronauts in the agency's first decade, Lovell flew four times: Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.

As any regular reader of this newsletter knows, there’s always a point in the hurricane season – most often in August – when ...

The midsummer heat we've got isn’t going anywhere in the near future. Neither is the rainfall deficit, which continues to ...

Downpours on Tuesday led to record precipitation in western North Dakota and flash flooding in the eastern part of the state.

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Texas Democrats on Monday prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump to shore up ...

When Democratic lawmakers left Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s ...

We’ve been previewing a busy start to August in this newsletter for almost a month, describing the behind-the-scenes ...

At least three people have been injured and hundreds of homes and businesses are at risk in California as a massive wildfire ...

Texas Democrats have left the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional ...

While most Californians zip between Los Angeles and Palm Springs with Joshua Tree National Park tantalizingly close yet perpetually bypassed, this otherworldly landscape patiently waits, like a secret ...

Texas Democrats are fleeing the state Sunday in an effort to keep Republicans from approving a new U.S. House map that could ...