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Days of heavy rainfall produced a devastating landslide in the Central Darfur region of Sudan on Sunday, wiping out a village called Tarasin and killing over a thousand people.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara tried and failed to move hearings on insurance rate hikes online on Wednesday, citing supposed dangers since the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024.

A towering wall of dust rolled through metro Phoenix on Monday in a blinding storm that left thousands without power in its wake.

Hurricane Erin was deemed a Category 2 on Tuesday but it is expected to grow as it moves over the Atlantic Ocean.

Meet Izzy Gardon — the press flack behind the “@GovPressOffice” account that has begun imitating and mocking President Donald Trump, with the state still needing $40 billion in federal aid for fire victims.

Hurricane Erin, the first hurricane of the 2025 season in the Atlantic, was graded a Category 3 on Sunday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday that he is sending emergency resources and personnel to Puerto Rico, over 3,000 miles away — even though tens of thousands of Californians are still displaced by fires.

President Donald Trump knocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, over the slow pace of rebuilding after the Palisades and Eaton Fires, which occurred in January.

Parts of Wisconsin were hit with flash flooding over the weekend with photos and videos showing cars nearly submerged and one person swimming to safety.

The Canyon Fire near Lake Piru in Ventura County, California, just north of Simi Valley and east of Santa Clarita, has grown to over 1,000 acres.

At least four people are confirmed dead, and almost a hundred are missing, after a flash flood wiped out the small riverside village of Dharali in northern India.

Los Angeles County has almost no money for disaster response — despite the frequency of natural disasters in the most populous county in America, and despite the presence of a large and valuable property tax base.

The heat from wildfires burning in Arizona and Utah are creating intense “fire clouds.”

California Insurance Commissioner Ricard Lara announced Thursday that he is taking action against the so-called “FAIR Plan” for inadequate coverage for smoke damage due to fires — three years after investigating it.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is obsessed with politics, to the point that he is gerrymandering the state’s congressional districts — a waste of time, money, and effort that would be better spent helping fire victims.

Florida has released its hurricane plan for Alligator Alcatraz — the illegal migrant processing facility in the Florida Everglades — as critics continue to bash the facility as inhumane.

The fire-ravaged community of Pacific Palisades notched a political victory Tuesday when Governor Gavin Newsom (D) agreed to issue an executive order exempting fire zones from urban densification legislation.

The massive 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s coast Tuesday night, which prompted tsunami warnings as far away as southern California, is one of the largest ever recorded.

The tsunami unleashed by the massive 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula reached Japan on Wednesday morning.

Accusations a private road running through Oprah Winfrey’s estate on the Hawaiian island of Maui remained closed as local residents attempted to move to higher ground following a tsunami warning overnight were rebutted Wednesday morning.

Gridlock erupted on the freeways in Hawaii on Tuesday following Tsunami warnings that sent people fleeing to higher ground.

Several tsunami alerts have been sent out for Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, states on the West Coast of the United States, and Guam after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Russia.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert for Japan’s Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from the powerful, magnitude 8.0 quake that hit on Wednesday morning near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

Humanity and charity still prevail in the U.S., evidenced by an Arizona heating and cooling company that stepped in to replace a 95-year-old woman’s air conditioning unit after she ended up in the hospital with a severe heat illness.

The National Weather Service issued heat advisories for a large swath of the East Coast from central Florida to Virginia through much of the weekend.

Fire Aid may be flawed, but it’s not Fyre Festival, the notorious fraud. Many — not all — of the recipient groups are doing good work.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Wednesday that she had issued two new executive orders aimed at speeding up the rebuilding effort in Pacific Palisades, including the fast-tracking of “pre-approved” designs.

Southern California Edison is reportedly offering to pay residents of Altadena and northern Pasadena whose homes were destroyed or damaged by the Eaton Fire, rather than facing them in court and paying even more.

Money raised by Hollywood for victims of the Los Angeles fires through FireAid went to some worthy causes – and some controversial nonprofit groups.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that she wanted to “heap praise” on the Trump administration for its response to the Palisades and Eaton wildfires earlier this year — contradicting Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

Questions are being raised about how the roughly $100 million raised by “Fire Aid” concerts in the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires earlier this year is being spent — with some claiming victims are receiving nothing.

Several people in Maryland were rescued from their vehicles after they were stuck in floodwaters as a result of heavy thunderstorms in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia that have brought flash flooding.

Five hikers were swept away by a flash flood in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles this weekend but luckily were rescued by firefighters, according to a report.

A tsunami warning for the Russian peninsula was issued after two earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 7.4, struck in the nearby Pacific Ocean on Sunday.