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FAIR BLUFF, N.C. — It’s been almost five years since Hurricane Matthew flooded this small town on the coastal plain of North Carolina. But somehow, the damage keeps getting worse.The storm submerged Main Street in four feet of water,…

A Texas law banning most abortions after about six weeks of gestation went into effect Wednesday, despite the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling establishing a constitutional right to the procedure governing the state's access to abortion services…

Another fund will compensate 130,485 individuals and families of those who suffered from addiction or died from an overdose, in amounts ranging from $3,500 to $48,000. Guardians of about 6,550 children with a history of neonatal abstinence…

Climate change is the quiet force behind a sudden decline in the population of North Atlantic right whales, according to a new study that bolsters a growing body of research into why the critically endangered animals have veered from slow…

The FDA is also expected to address the question of whether to approve coronavirus vaccines for children under the age of 12 in an emergency shortly.Last week, the agency fully approved the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine for people ages 16 and…

The FDA is also expected to address the question of whether to approve coronavirus vaccines for children under the age of 12 in an emergency shortly.Last week, the agency fully approved the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine for people ages 16 and…

"When you look at a watershed, especially in the southwest, you have all these tributaries and ephemeral streams connected like capillaries," said Gillespie. “And the Trump Rule broke us all because we are all downstream of these…

Whenever I got stuck on math homework while growing up, I would go looking for my mother. Often I would find her on the living-room couch unwinding after work, catching up on the news with both the local Cantonese news station blaring on…

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Monday overturned a Trump-era environmental rule that drastically restricted federal restrictions on polluting millions of streams, wetlands and swamps across the country.The Biden administration had already…

The strongest hurricane ever to hit Louisiana swept over one of the largest chemical, oil and gas centers in the country. And while it may take days or weeks to see the full extent of the storm's impact, early damage reports have…