A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma lumbered eastward into southern U.S. states overnight, prompting governors ...

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Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is halting operations temporarily due to an incident that prompted an aircraft to abort takeoff.

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Hong Kong schools are seeing a surge in flu outbreaks, health authorities have said, with the city’s forecaster issuing a ...

Firefighters are battling to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged ...