Cold and snowy weather has gripped much of the northern tier of the United States since Thanksgiving, but a pattern change will torch the chance of white Christmas for many.

Arctic air is taking cold to another level this week and the US could be facing bouts of it well into December thanks to the polar vortex.

The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration, but it’s progressing at a snail’s pace, forcing many offices to ...

Heavy rain and cold weather across the Gaza Strip have caused flooding and complicated an already difficult humanitarian situation for Palestinians, the overwhelming majority of whom live in tents and ...

Two levees have failed outside of Seattle since Monday due to swollen rivers from seemingly endless heavy rain.

The Taj Mahal is the 17th-century embodiment of an emperor’s love for his wife, and it’s sacred to Hindus. A controversial new Bollywood film is turning India’s iconic marble mausoleum into a symbol ...

A new problem is threatening to worsen the affordability squeeze this winter: Natural gas prices have raced back up just as extreme cold forces Americans to crank up the heat.

• A fast-moving winter storm dumped several inches of snow across parts of the Midwest where it killed one driver, caused hundreds of crashes and slowed travel to a crawl. It delivered the first ...