Michael Biesecker

President Donald Trump, left, listens as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Sunday, July 6, 2025, en route to Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Donald Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts

July 9, 2025 at 8:55 a.m.

Deadly weekend flooding in central Texas has drawn a spotlight to budget cuts and staff reductions at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, two agencies...

Officials ride a boat as they arrive to assist with a recovery effort at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area Sunday, July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods

July 7, 2025 at 1:16 p.m.

Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives.

Police and coast guard boats are seen around a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pilots have long worried about DC’s complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe

January 30, 2025 at 7:29 p.m.

The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead to catastrophe.

People donate blood for those who were injured by their exploded handheld pagers, at a Red Cross center, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

What to know about the two waves of deadly explosions that hit Lebanon and Syria

September 18, 2024 at 3:40 p.m.

Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second...

Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Man accused of trying to kill Trump wrote a book urging Iran to assassinate the ex-president

September 16, 2024 at 3:31 p.m.

Ryan Routh portrayed himself online as a man who built housing for homeless people in Hawaii, tried to recruit fighters for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia, and described his...

Former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage by U.S. Secret Service agents at his campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Three days after attempted assassination, Trump shooter remains an elusive enigma

July 17, 2024 at 9:10 a.m.

After three days, an enigmatic portrait emerged of the 20-year-old man who came close to killing former President Donald Trump with a high-velocity bullet: He was an intelligent loner with...

A campaign rally site for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is empty and littered with debris Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Authorities hunt for clues, but motive of man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump remains elusive

July 15, 2024 at 8:41 a.m.

The 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump first came to law enforcement’s attention at Saturday’s rally when spectators noticed him acting strangely outside the campaign event....

A bloodied Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa, on July, 13, 2024. The former president was escorted off the stage by Secret Service agents and into his motorcade just minutes into his rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, after a series of pops that sounded like gunshots rang out. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

Authorities hunt for clues, but motive of man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump remains elusive

July 14, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.

The FBI early Sunday named Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the shooter in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The agency said the investigation...

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Secret Service is investigating how a gunman who shot and injured Trump was able to get so close

July 14, 2024 at 3:17 p.m.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a...

Members of the Texas Campaign for the Environment prepare to deliver more than 2,300 letters from Texas families to the Environmental Protection Agency's Region VI office in Dallas, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. The letters are calling for saving federal cleanup programs under the Trump Administration.

EPA orders corporations to pay for cleanup at Texas toxic site flooded by Harvey

August 22, 2019 at 6:15 a.m.

The Trump administration has handed a rare victory to environmentalists, ordering two big corporations this week to pay $115 million to clean up a Texas toxic waste site that may...

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