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OC Fisher Reservoir in West Texas has dried up into a small pool of blood-red water. This has several doomsday preachers predicting the end of times.

Tropical storm Emily is gaining strength and is expected to approach Hispaniola tonight and Wednesday.

Tropical Storm Emily may be poorly organized but it continues to make its way slowly through the Caribbean with tropical storm warning still in effect for Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and the Dominican Republic. Tropical storm watch remains in effect for U.S Virgin Islands and Haiti.

Oil fell on Monday, reversing gains as weak U.S. manufacturing data and a firming dollar hit crude prices that were buoyed earlier by a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.

Midwest cash gasoline differentials rose on Monday following cycle changes in both Chicago and Group Three markets.

Brent crude futures hit a 6-week high on Monday, topping $120 a barrel, due to a relief rally after Washington reached a last-minute deal to escape default.

Sticky heat was expected to smother much of the country's midsection in the coming days as hotter-than-usual temperatures continued to roast parts of the Midwest and South, forecasters said on Sunday.

Acclaimed climate change scientist Charles Monnett has been suspended over "integrity issues" in regards to a 2006 paper on polar bear drownings in the Arctic.

A study suggests that users of Internet Explorer have the lower IQ than the users of other Web browsers.

Tropical Storm Don has lost momentum, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported as the storm was approaching Baffin Bay with maximum sustained winds of 25 miles per hour at 10 p.m. Don has steadily been moving west-northwest at speeds of 14 mph. At 10 p.m. Friday, the center reported the tropical storm was about forty miles south of Corpus Christi, Texas.

As Tropical Storm Don fizzled out, hopes that heavy rains would provide some relief to a dry and parched south Texas suffering its worst drought in years also disappeared.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami lifted its storm warning by Friday.

The US solider charged with an attempt to stage an attack on Fort Hood Military base shouted out in court the name of the defendant in the 2009 shooting at the military camp that killed 13 soldiers. The US military leadership chose to ramp up hiring Muslim personnel in the hope of creating a more inclusive culture within the army, but recent events are casting a shadow over the success of this policy.

Torrential rains in the Mississippi River town of Dubuque, Iowa earlier this week will cause the river to go above flood stage as the water moves south, a federal official said on Friday.

Charles Monnett, a leading climate scientist whose research helped galvanize the global warming movement, has been suspended pending an investigation into his 2006 paper on polar bear drownings.

Officials with the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms did not inform the White House of a disastrous program that allowed weapons to flow to violent Mexican drug cartels.

As much of Texas suffers through one of its worst droughts, many rain-starved Texans are doing something they thought they would never do -- looking forward to the arrival of a tropical storm.

Tropical Storm Don has triggered a storm warning along the Texas coast on Thursday evening, with the storm expected to hit within 36 hours.

Gulf of Mexico producers reduced oil and natural gas output on Thursday as Tropical Storm Don churned northwest toward the Texas Coast, where it could make landfall by the weekend.

U.S. hog futures advanced on Thursday on renewed talk China may be seeking more U.S. pork, record high wholesale pork prices and higher live cash hog markets in the U.S. Midwest.

Overnight storms dumped a record amount of rain on parts of the Midwest, including more than 10 inches falling on Dubuque, Iowa, prompting fears of more Mississippi River flooding.