We all know it’s hot — and getting hotter. According to NOAA and NASA, the 10 warmest years globally since 1850 have all occurred in the past decade. In less than 200 years, when the Industrial ...

The climate crisis is shifting temperature averages and changing the definition of "extreme" heat. The National Weather Service is prototyping a heat risk warning scale that would communicate heat ...

BOISE, Idaho — Crisis standards of care were expanded Thursday by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to the entire state, as COVID-19 infections continue to outpace medical providers' ability ...

There’s a widespread perception that Americans are inadequately prepared for retirement – they don’t save enough when they’re working, and in retirement their puny pension income forces them to rely ...

Has the firing of James Comey precipitated a constitutional crisis? The day after the firing, law professors began a vigorous debate. At Politico, and at greater length in The New York Review of Books ...