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Torrential rains and swollen rivers caused massive floods and dangerous landslides in Tibet and Nepal on Wednesday, sweeping away villages and destroying crucial roads and bridges.

A new Inspector General report has made it official that the then-Biden-run Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “skipped homes during the response to Hurricane Milton due to the presence of political signage supporting then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump, violating FEMA policy and the Hatch Act of 1939.”

New Yorkers don’t expect to have a day at the shore capped by a tornado, but that’s what happened when a funnel cloud scraped two Long Island beach clubs early Thursday evening.

Emergency crews in central Indiana have been rescuing people, pets, and farm animals over the weekend as storms and flooding have devastated community members.

Six people are dead and many more are missing as torrential rain spawned destructive high water across Indiana in what authorities are calling “once-in-a-lifetime floods.”

Authorities in Colombia continue to struggle to meet the needs of the tens of thousands estimated to have been injured, displaced, or otherwise affected by the devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week, telling local media on Thursday that hospitals near the epicenter are totally overwhelmed and city streets are in a state of “total chaos.

Abelardo de la Espriella declared a state of economic emergency in Colombia to address the aftermath of this week’s earthquake.

Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in China on Sunday, held together better than meteorologists were expecting, and pushed inland, bringing heavy rains and flooding to central China and raising severe weather alerts in the national capital of Beijing. As the storm advanced, Chinese Communist Party censors worked furiously to delete “flood-related rumors” that were alleged generated with artificial intelligence.

The Geological Service of Colombia confirmed a magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocking the country around 7:34 a.m. local time in the western region of Chocó, potentially causing significant damage.

Southwestern Japan suffered an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on Tuesday, causing at least 18 fatalities and 62 injuries.

A powerful earthquake registering at 6.8 magnitude — 7.0 in the most affected areas — devastated Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, on Tuesday, resulting in widespread fires, building damage, and, in one case, preceding an explosion tearing the facade off of a shopping mall.

A 42-year-old sex offender has been found guilty of having started one of California’s largest wildfires, the flames consuming a staggering 430,000 acres and destroying more than 700 structures.

First an epic heatwave and now rampant wildfires have made for one miserable summer for Western Europe, with blazes in popular tourist destinations in France and Spain resulting in the evacuation of some 60,000 people.

An earthquake shook the panhandle of Texas early Thursday, and people felt it more than 100 miles away in Kansas.

The U.S. Gulf Coast is bracing for Tropical Storm Bertha, as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warns of possible “life threatening storm surges” to come.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott updated the public on the State’s response to damage from the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas and the Hill Country, highlighting rebuilding efforts now underway. The historic flooding last week came less than two weeks after the one-year anniversary of a similar flood that took the lives of 139 people in the region.

Tragedy struck Ohio this past weekend when five people died trying to save a struggling swimmer in the Scioto River.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) suspended the U.S. Virgin Islands’ housing-finance authority from federal funding Monday, alleging years of fraud and mismanagement tied to nearly $2 billion in hurricane relief.

Flash flooding from a torrential rain caused a few hours of shock and frustration across New York City Saturday.

Just two weeks after the one-year anniversary of the devastating flooding that occurred on July 4, 2025, which claimed 139 lives in and around Kerrville, catastrophic flooding has returned. So far, authorities say two people died from flooding in the region, including one man whose mobile home was swept away in the flood waters.

Fast-moving wildfires in Ontario, Canada, destroyed an entire indigenous community this week whose leaders said politicians delayed evacuation orders.

President Donald Trump called the smoke pollution from Canada’s wildfires affecting the United States from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic “totally unacceptable.”

Just two weeks after the one-year anniversary of the devastating flooding that occurred on July 4, 2025, which claimed 139 lives in and around Kerrville, the area is bracing for the potential of another catastrophic flood event. The National Weather Service is warning of the potential for life-threatening flooding in the area through Thursday evening.

State governments throughout the Midwest and Northeast warned millions of Americans on Wednesday that they would soon face the dangerous plumes of wildfires raging in Canada, where the federal government has neglected wildfire management for decades and has no national firefighting or equivalent emergency service.

Far-left Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) claimed in a sermon on Sunday that God sent a thunderstorm to the National Mall in Washington, DC on July 4 to force people who were “telling themselves a bunch of lies” about the greatness of the United States into the African-American History Museum.

Army National Guard troops in eight Blackhawk helicopters rescued hundreds of young campers from catastrophic flooding in southeastern Missouri Friday, while other first responders saved stranded residents using boats or choppers to snatch them off rooftops.

Hundreds of venomous snakes escaped a breeding farm in China when a tropical storm dropped heavy rainfall, causing devastating flooding.

Super Typhoon Bavi intensified over the Pacific on Thursday and is bearing down on Taiwan and southern China, packing several feet of rain and winds of up to 124 miles per hour.

The roof and ceiling on a BJ’s Wholesale Club store in New Jersey collapsed during severe weather on Monday.

A crowd of Americans did not let a severe weather warning stop them from partying at the Salute to America event in Washington, DC, on the Fourth of July.

President Donald Trump has directed that the Salute to America celebration on the National Mall reopen its doors at 9:45 p.m. ET after it was evacuated earlier Saturday evening due to weather, and his keynote speech for America’s 250th birthday is now scheduled for 11:00 p.m. ET.

Venezuelans denounced the disappearance of an earthquake rescue volunteer who criticized the socialist regime.

An international team of rescue workers from several countries on Thursday successfully rescued Venezuelan 43-year-old man Hernán Gil, who remained trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building for eight days after the deadly June 24 earthquakes.

The city of Kerrville, Texas, will celebrate America’s 250th birthday with a music festival, children’s activities, and one of the Texas Hill Country’s largest fireworks displays on Saturday evening. The holiday will begin, however, with a much more somber tribute to the lives lost one year ago in one of the deadliest flooding events in Texas history.