On July 22, 1979, Iraq's new president, Saddam Hussein, convened a Baathist Party meeting, accusing members of plotting ...

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The hurricane that tore through the Caribbean this week broke records, rapidly intensifying and surprising some ...

Hurricane Melissa is now among the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record. The monster storm tied a record for the ...

Lightning flashes in the eyewall of Category 5 Melissa are a marker of how strong the storm is. It reached a central pressure ...

The U.S. Air Force’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron captured footage of the towering walls inside the eye of Category 5 ...

Hurricane Melissa is the strongest storm to hit Jamaica in recent history. It has already caused fatalities in Haiti and the ...

"Almost Famous" director Cameron Crowe is working with Joni Mitchell on a movie about her life, but teases that it's not "a ...

Jamaicans will do it again. Jamaica recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Charlie in August 1951. We will recover from ...

The gooey, sticky and often-homemade plaything slime was enshrined into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with ...

While most attention is usually paid to Atlantic Basin hurricanes, an Eastern Pacific hurricane set a global and hemispheric record 10 years ago, but then had little impact at landfall. On Oct. 23, ...