Downpours, severe thunderstorms and flooding have battered the South Central states in recent days. In Missouri, Springfield received 2.68 inches of rain on Friday and Saturday.

The threat of tornadoes moved east into the Mississippi Valley and the south on Saturday, just a day after a massive storm in several central states.

The Antarctic cold wave in South America was a reminder of both nature’s unpredictability and the continent’s potential.

USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) will depart Miami on Wednesday for a South and Central America deployment. The Mercy-class hospital ship will visit Grenada, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica and the ...