Closely 21,000 federal firefighters are at work, more than double the number sent to contain forest fires at this time a year ago.

Afghan government forces are collapsing even faster than in the worst-case scenario sketched out by U.S. military leaders when President Biden ordered a full military withdrawal.

A raging wildfire that swept through a tiny Northern California mountain town leveled most of its historic downtown and left blocks of homes in ashes.

Police say the van, designed to hold 15 passengers, was carrying 29 migrants and speeding when it crashed.

A gas station, a hotel and a local bar burned to the ground in the small town of Greenville.

The federal judge orders the state not to allow state troopers to stop vehicles carrying migrants on the grounds that they may spread COVID-19.