South Carolina declares emergency ahead of storm Florence

Tropical Storm Florence is becoming a "better organized" weather system that will likely strengthen into a hurricane late Saturday, weather forecasters said. The National Hurricane Center said Saturday the storm was expected to become a "major hurricane" by Tuesday as it passes between Bermuda and the Bahamas on Tuesday and Wednesday.

8 people, 6 of them kids, killed in Chicago apartment fire

A ribbon for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs on a light post, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa. Tibbetts was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn in Jul... A Mass will be held for an Iowa college student less than a week after her body was found in a cornfield near her hometown.

The Latest: Feds: Tropical Storm Lane still dangerous

Federal officials say Hawaii residents shouldn't let their guard down now that a once-powerful hurricane that threatened the island state has become a tropical storm. The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator says that although Lane is no longer a hurricane, tropical storms themselves can still be very dangerous.

The Latest: Winds die down, rain still a threat in Hawaii

Forecasters say winds have died down but rain remains a threat on some Hawaiian Islands as tropical storm Lane churns in the central Pacific. National Weather Service meteorologist Vanessa Almanza said as much as 10 inches of rain could fall Saturday as the storm remains about 110 miles south of Honolulu and moves north at 3 mph.

Verizon fire phone snag cited by net neutrality bill backers

Just days before the Legislature is to consider a controversial net neutrality bill regulating internet service providers, a Verizon lawyer told lawmakers that those kinds of regulations are “very unrelated” to a recent incident in which his company slowed down data speeds for Bay Area firefighters actively battling a major fire. Verizon testified before an Assembly committee Friday in Sacramento, explaining why and how it “throttled” the Santa Clara County Fire Department earlier this summer during the Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest wildfire in state history.

Trump holds call with Hawaii governor over hurricane response

Donald John Trump Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull ousted by party rivals CNN's Cuomo clashes with Kellyanne Conway over Cohen hush-money payments Lawmaker who pushed to impeach Nixon: Trump 'systematically' abusing power MORE on Friday held a call with Hawaii Gov. David Ige to offer support for island residents as Hurricane Lane lashed Hawaii with intense rain. Trump and Ige discussed preparedness and emergency response measures for the Category 2 storm, the White House said in a statement Friday evening.

Verizon makes changes as lawmakers decry firefighters’ woes

In this Aug. 7, 2018 file photo, firefighters monitor a backfire while battling the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex Fire near Ladoga, Calif. A nationwide telecommunications company that slowed internet service to firefighters as they battled the largest wildfire in California history says it has removed all speed cap restrictions for first responders on the West Coast.

In one tweet, Trump confuses everything about California bushfires

Los Angeles: No one would mistake President Donald Trump for an expert on climate change or water policy, but a tweet he issued late Sunday about California's bushfires deserves some sort of award for most glaring misstatements about those two issues in the smallest number of words. Trump blamed the fires on "bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilised."

Flood insurer that covers 200K SC homes remains a political football

Rain storms triggered widespread flooding in Charleston on July 20, but other areas of South Carolina are also susceptible to water damage. "Our entire state is in the flood zone, in my opinion," says S.C. Insurance Department chief Ray Farmer.

Walden presses Congress for fire prevention

U.S. Rep. Greg Walden said he is looking to congressional colleagues and agencies including the U.S. Forest Service to provide future relief from wildfire smoke, which had only slightly improved this week by the time of his Tuesday press conference in Medford. Standing in front of an orange S-64 Aircrane helicopter flanked by county commissioners from Jackson and Josephine counties, Walden detailed legislative work he was involved in prior to Congress' summer recess to address wildfire prevention in the House version of the farm bill.

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FOX NEWS FIRST: Manafort trial to test Mueller probe; Trump open to Iran meeting with 'no preconditions' Jury selection in the federal bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort begins Tuesday in Virginia, and the trial represents a major test for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation Rudy Giuliani tells FOX News' Sean Hannity that Trump's legal team is leaning toward ignoring Mueller's questions, saying they don't believe prosecutors have a 'legitimate' investigation A Northern California wildfire is now one of the state's most destructive as authorities also battle other blazes across the region CBS has chosen not to take immediate action against CEO Les Moonves amid sexual harassment allegations after a board meeting Monday and is seeking outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation THE LEAD STORY - MANAFORT ... (more)

Colorado cleans up after storm spawns at least 3 tornadoes

This Sunday, July 29, 2018, photo provided by Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner shows damage from a storm just after it hit the area near Brush, Colo. People on the plains of northeastern Colorado were cleaning up Monday from a powerful storm that swept through the state, ripping off roofs, flipping trucks and damaging crops.

Pa.’s Newest US Attorney Wants More – of Everything P.J. D’Annunzio…

After nearly four months on the job, U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain has concluded that the nine-county region of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania needs more-of just about everything. In an interview with The Legal, McSwain said more new hires, more prosecutions, more cooperation with the media, and the creation of new units are all part of his plan to dial up the office's productivity and boost its public profile.

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A 70-year-old woman and her two great-grandchildren died in a mobile home leveled by the wind-driven wildfire ravishing Northern California near Redding, raising the death toll now at six. More than 3,000 firefighters were battling the blaze, which grew over the weekend to 140 square miles and was just 5 percent contained Sunday.