Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reportedly spent the weekend hitting tourists spots in Europe while a devastating Lone Star State flood killed at least 90 campers in the Hill Country.

The Republican lawmaker, who infamously fled his home state for Mexico in 2021 when a freezing winter storm shut down Texas’ power grid, was spotted in Greece checking out ...Read more

Tropical depressions may sound minor compared to hurricanes, but both weather events can cause major damage.

Chantal made landfall as a tropical storm in South Carolina and was later downgraded to a tropical depression.

The depression brought heavy rain to North Carolina late Sunday and early Monday, flooding parts of Orange, Durham and ...Read more

Three days after cataclysmic floods tore through a stretch of the Texas Hill Country, officials have confirmed the deaths of 27 children and counselors who had been missing from a girls’ summer camp. Authorities counted more than 90 deaths statewide and said the number was almost certain to climb as rescuers sorted through mounds of debris.

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AUSTIN, Texas — The devastating Texas floods that killed scores of people on July 4 weekend sparked a spreading controversy on Monday over President Donald Trump’s cuts to the weather forecasting and disaster agencies, which critics say may have worsened the catastrophe.

As the death toll rose to nearly 100, some elected officials and ...Read more

Before dawn Friday morning, Dalton Rice went for a jog along the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. Rice, the city manager, finished his run around 4 a.m. as a light rain set in. An hour later, he began receiving emergency calls: the river had flooded out of control.

Torrential rains dumped into the Guadalupe, and in just 45 minutes, it ...Read more

Before dawn Friday morning, Dalton Rice went for a jog along the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. Rice, the city manager, finished his run around 4 a.m. as a light rain set in. An hour later, he began receiving emergency calls: the river had flooded out of control.

Torrential rains dumped into the Guadalupe, and in just 45 minutes, it ...Read more

Tropical Storm Chantal moved inland Sunday morning, bringing rain and flood threats after striking the Carolina coast with 50 mph winds.

As of the National Hurricane Center’s 11 a.m. advisory, the storm had diminished into a tropical depression with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph as it moved into eastern North Carolina. It was located ...Read more

More than 50 people have died and dozens of children are missing in Texas Hill Country after catastrophic flooding, leaving officials struggling to explain if they had done enough to warn people of the fast-rising waters.

At least 27 campers from Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, remain unaccounted ...Read more

At least 43 people have died and dozens of children are missing in the Texas Hill Country after catastrophic flooding, with officials warning the casualty count will climb as forecasts call for more rain and the risk of further flash floods in the coming days.

Among those unaccounted for were at least 27 campers from Camp Mystic, an all-girls ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Chantal formed Saturday and picked up speed later in the day as it moved in the Atlantic toward the Carolinas, according to the National Weather Service.

What had been Tropical Depression Three that formed off the coast of Florida on Friday grew into the season’s third named storm by 8 a.m.

As of the National...Read more

At least 32 people have died and dozens of children are missing in the Texas Hill Country after catastrophic flooding, with officials warning the casualty count will climb as forecasts call for more rain and the risk of further flash floods in the coming days.

Among those unaccounted for were at least 27 campers from Camp Mystic, an all-girls ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Chantal formed Saturday as it slowly moved in the Atlantic toward the Carolinas, according to the National Weather Service.

What had been Tropical Depression Three that formed off the coast of Florida on Friday grew into the season’s third named storm by 8 a.m.

As of the National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. ...Read more

At least 32 people have died and dozens of children are missing in the Texas Hill Country after catastrophic flooding, with officials warning the casualty count will climb as forecasts call for more rain and the risk of further flash floods in the coming days.

Among those unaccounted for were at least 27 campers from Camp Mystic, an all-girls ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A tropical depression formed in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Friday headed for the Carolinas and expected to become a tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.

In the NHC’s initial 5 p.m. advisory for Tropical Depression Three, its center was located about 100 miles east-northeast of ...Read more

Powerful thunderstorms that swept through New Jersey on Thursday killed at least three people and knocked out power to thousands, officials said.

In a social media post late Thursday night, Gov. Phil Murphy said he had been briefed on the “severe thunderstorms that hit Central Jersey … and resulted in fatalities.”

Without providing ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center on Thursday upped its prediction a system could form off the coast of Florida and develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical advisory, the NHC said an area of low pressure is forecast to develop on Friday or Saturday over the Florida ...Read more