After a brutal heat wave baked the U.S. East Tuesday, smashing at least 50 records, a precipitous drop in temperatures is now ...

Meteorologists are describing the intensifying weather pattern as a heat dome, a high-pressure system that traps air and leads to steadily rising thermal readings.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was briefly hospitalized Wednesday due to dehydration as extreme heat scorched ...

Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! It looks like we won’t be seeing a merger between Shell and BP just yet, as Shell denies that it is looking to take over its British rival. This week’s heat ...

Sunday marked the second straight day of extreme heat across the Midwest and East Coast. Heat indexes on Sunday hit 103 F (39 ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was hospitalized and treated for dehydration June 25 after 'feeling lightheaded' at the ...

From Atlantic beaches to New England hamlets, humidity surged to extremes and temperatures soared to records that overpowered ...

Thursday is expected to be the last day of the sweltering heat wave that settled over the D.C. region — though it’ll still be toasty.

WASHINGTON − Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, was hospitalized June 25, after feeling lightheaded in the gym ...

As previous disasters have laid bare the US’ vulnerabilities to other types of extreme weather, this week is revealing ...

Even as the heat dome enters its finale, 18 states from the Ohio Valley to the Deep South and the Carolinas to the Mid-Atlantic remain under heat alerts Thursday.

At least eight states were expected to see temperatures that would feel hotter than those in Death Valley—often referred to ...