On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

The Schoolchildren's Blizzard of 1888, which killed an estimated 235 people, was one of the most deadly disasters. But the ...

As data for the final days of last year trickles in from around the country and around the ...

The good news is the Green Bay Packers have experienced so many thrills of victory that they’ve reached the playoffs most ...

In the ashes of Lirquén: How a small town is rising from Chile's devastating wildfires - Wildfires continue to devastate ...

Floods, droughts and heatwaves continue to dominate headlines around the world and in Australia. In the past few days, ...

On 15 April 1989, there was a crowd crush at a football match in Sheffield, England, which led to the death of 97 fans. It was the semi-final of the FA Cup between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest and ...

It was one of those “one-in-one-hundred-year’’ weather events we hear so much about that it has become a statistical cliche.

We must declare this a national disaster so that we can soften the regulations, such as that only the state can do the ...

The LA wildfires last January helped push the nation's "billion-dollar disasters" to a near record last year, even without a ...

For two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has faced a challenging world. Some of its responses have advanced U.S.

Students often asked me those two questions when I was a college professor teaching U.S. foreign policy. To my good fortune, ...