Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana made major contributions toward increasing the national average. Each of these states recorded their hottest summers ever, with the average summer temperature in Texas being 86.8 degrees. In Oklahoma, the average was 86.5 degrees.
Tropical Storm Maria is on a slightly altered path that takes it closer to the U.S. East Coast.
Hurricane Katia will impact northwest Europe as a extratropical storm Sunday to Tuesday, forecasters say, with gales and heavy rain spreding from Ireland and Scotland starting late Sunday through Tuesday.
The flooding that's occurring in the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas are bordering on the lines of history, as rivers are now nearing levels that haven't been seen since Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
Aggressive drugs could be more effective by without being combined to invasive surgery to prevent a common type of stroke, a new study has found.
Norman Mailer once advised another author to wait 10 years before writing about the attacks of September 11 because it will take that long for you to make sense of it.
The countdown to twin GRAIL spacecraft mission to Moon is moving ahead toward a lift-off at 8:37 am EDT, NASA said in a statement. Forecasters still are calling for a 40 percent chance of good weather at the scheduled launch time.
Among arrested was a Detroit doctor who allegedly billed Medicare for services provided to dead people. Seventy of the defendants were charged this week and other 21 were charged in recent weeks.
A nationwide law enforcement crackdown has charged 91 people with participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving $295 million in false billing.
NASA's Juno spacecraft, while traveling to Jupiter, managed to capture a rare image of the Earth and Earth's Moon.
Republican Michele Bachmann's presidential bid is teetering under a challenge from Texas Governor Rick Perry that has created tension within her team and clashes with advisers over fundraising and strategy.
The race for the Republican presidential nomination definitively turned into a two-person race between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry after a NBC News and Politico sponsored debate at Ronald Reagan's presidential library.
NASA releases photos of human activity on the moon ahead of GRAIL mission launch.
Cummins is certainly not the first TV meteorologist to get in serious criminal trouble.
Tropical Storm Maria has formed in the Atlantic, becoming the 13th named system of the 2011 season. The storm isn't likely to increase to explosive strength, but it could possibly threaten the U.S. East Coast, forecasters say.
As it turns out, a man's ring finger can tell a lot about him.
NASA and Russia have less than two months to decide whether to abandon $100 billion International Space Station (ISS) for a period of time following the failure of the Russian Soyuz rocket last month.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Air Force One, carrying President George W. Bush, got warning of a mysterious jet flying too close to it, the pilot says.
A lawyer targeted by California's attorney general for allegedly defrauding homeowners has responded with multiple lawsuits against the state, according to a press release.
The Jacksonville Jaguars surprisingly released veteran starting quarterback David Garrard Tuesday, just five days before their opening game of the National Football League season.
Darden Restaurants Inc (DRI.N), parent of Red Lobster and Olive Garden, warned that Hurricane Irene dented earnings in its fiscal first quarter, and its shares fell almost 5 percent in after-hours trading.
Oklahoma held on to its spot at No. 1 while LSU moved up to No. 2 in the most recent Associated Press Top 25 poll.
