Collateral Damage: Two explosions have been reported at the Arkema chemical plant 30 miles northeast of Houston. The company had warned that floodwaters created the danger and Harris county had ordered the evacuation of a 1.5-mile radius around the plant. …

The Storm that Won’t Go Away: Tropical storm Harvey made a second landfall overnight in southwest Louisiana while Houston area homes and streets remain under water and shelters are overflowing with people. Louisiana could get 8 to 12 inches of …

Biblical: The storm that brought catastrophic flooding to Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast still threatens to dump as much as 20 more inches of rain on areas where roads are already under several feet of water and homes are …

Harvey: Flooding in the Houston area and the Texas Gulf Coast is now described as “catastrophic” with more rain continuing this week, a storm total of as much as 50 inches forecast in some areas. City streets have become deep …

Category 4: Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast last night with heavy rain and 130 mph winds just northeast of Corpus Christi. It was the first Category 4 to hit Texas since the 1960s, but it was quickly downgraded to …

Opening for Business: Portions of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, as well as three other national monuments, would be opened to mining and drilling under a proposal submitted to President Trump by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. It’s a …

Fit to be Tied: President Trump’s angry speech in Phoenix Tuesday night ratcheted up the talk about whether he’s fit to be President. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on CNN, “I found this downright scary and disturbing. …

Stratego: President Trump last night laid out what he described as a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan and security issues in all of South Asia, promising to decisively defeat terrorist organizations with new rules of engagement in combat …

Collision: Ten US sailors are missing and five injured after a guided missile destroyer collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore early this morning. It is the second fatal collision between a US warship and a civilian …

Boston: A Boston rally to promote “free speech” was vastly outnumbered by as many as 40,000 mostly-peaceful counter protesters marching against white supremacy and Nazism. A few scuffles broke out in the event that was heavily patrolled and monitored by …