Hello Friend: Amid dozens of accusations by women who say he drugged and raped them, for the first time yesterday comedian Bill Cosby was charged with sexual assault based on a woman’s accusation that he drugged and assaulted her in his …

Weather Report: The Mississippi River is rising at an alarming rate, threatening to break the records of flooding set in 1993 when the water breached 800 levees in Missouri. Floodwaters have already cut off some highways and Missouri Gov. Jay …

Winter: Eastern states from Pennsylvania through Maine are under winter weather advisories this morning as a system of rain and messy snow moves through. Flooding is possible from Oklahoma northeast through southern Illinois. Snow fell overnight on Southern California’s notorious …

Heavy Weather: At least a third of the country is under blizzard and winter storm warnings this morning as winter makes its late arrival. A winter storm is expected all the way from Central Oklahoma through Northern Michigan, bringing ice …

Heavy Weather: At least eight people were killed in the Dallas area last night as 11 tornadoes touched down in North Texas. Cars were tossed and homes destroyed. A twister ripped through an RV park. Five of the deaths took …

Permawar: OK, sorry. It’s back to reality. While billions of people celebrated Christmas around the world, some definitely did not. The leader and several of his lieutenants commanding one of Syria’s most powerful rebel groups were killed in a rocket …

Merry Christmas! Let’s dispense for today with the usual mayhem and destruction. It’ll hold and there will plenty for another day. The NORAD Santa Tracker says Santa Claus delivered 7,282,439,471 gifts. The Weather Outside: It’s a strangely warm Christmas, so warm …

Heavy Weather: At least eight people were killed yesterday as tornadoes ripped through Mississippi and Tennessee. A dozen tornadoes touched down and thunderstorms rolled over the Southeast as tornado warnings were issued in more than a dozen states Hundreds of …

Not a Lot Like Christmas: Record-breaking warm weather has moved into the central and eastern states just before Christmas with temperatures running as much as 20 degrees above normal. Christmas day in some cities could be the warmest on record. …

Final Frontier: After a series of failures, SpaceX took a big step for private space exploration last night, successfully launching a Falcon 9 supply rocket from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station and safely landing the booster stage on …