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On January 23rd, 1789, Georgetown College became the first Catholic college in the United States.

With western states deadlocked in negotiations over how to cut water use along the Colorado River, the Trump administration has called in the governors of seven states to Washington to try to hash out a consensus.

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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves issued a “state of emergency” on Thursday in advance of a winter storm expected to cripple the Deep South with freezing rain and snow.

The announcement Thursday afternoon means state ...Read more

CHICAGO — With frigid temperatures sweeping into the region, Chicagoans are being asked to take precautions and make alternate plans as the brutal cold closes area schools and sinks plans for a weekend polar plunge.

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have been racing against the clock to fund the government and avoid another shutdown by the month’s end, but they are now facing an irregular opponent: Mother Nature herself.

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NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday the city is bracing for potentially massive winter storm, doing everything it can to prepare for bitter cold and as much as a foot of snow forecast to hit New York starting ...Read more

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated.

“We’d like to get to the ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were uttered by pilot Michael Smith.

The seven members of mission 51-L, the 25th space ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Sunday before last, Blake DeBok snowmobiled out to nine wild horses he was told were stranded in deep snow north of Mammoth Lakes.

“As soon as I saw them, it really confirmed that they were in a very...Read more

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ill. — Bill Rosborough and his son Jon stopped their pickup truck near a 40-acre cornfield and pointed to a white PVC pipe that rose 5 feet from the snow-covered ground on a windy December afternoon.

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On January 22nd, 1905, Bloody Sunday took place in in St. Petersburg.

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One winter night when I was 22 years old, I was driving on an icy Massachusetts road when my car spun around 180 degrees. This...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein issued a state of emergency Wednesday in advance of a winter storm forecast to wallop the state and much of the country over the weekend.

The state of emergency allows ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson has asked President Donald Trump for a major disaster declaration along with $21.3 million in individual assistance for people whose homes were damaged in December’s catastrophic ...Read more

Dozens of the world’s major rivers are so heavily tapped, they often run dry before reaching the sea. More than half of all large lakes are shrinking, and most of the world’s major underground sources are declining ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore metro area is bracing for a snowstorm that could be its biggest since the blizzard of 2016, with forecasters warning that heavy snow, ice, and bitter cold could grip the region beginning late ...Read more

BOSTON — The weekend is set to see dangerously cold temperatures across Boston, as well as a potential storm with a “pretty good dumping” of snow.

“Make sure that you’re bundling up and limiting your time ...Read more