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It is evident that we are not facing common criminals. We are facing true terrorists who have surpassed not only the limits of the law but basic common sense and respect for life, Calderon said in a speech Friday.

Green Days' lead guitarist, Billie Joe Armstrong, was recently kicked off from the plane for not pulling his pants up.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Republicans not to play politics with federal disaster aid as he toured flood-stricken New Jersey and pledged to do everything possible to help states recover after Hurricane Irene.

James Taylor once sang, I've seen fire, and I've seen rain, and Texas was seeing some of both on Sunday, courtesy of Tropical Storm Lee.

Tropical Storm Lee barreled into southern Louisiana's coast on Sunday, as New Orleans prepared for one of the biggest tests of its flood defenses since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005.

Tropical Storm Lee has begun to barrel down the Gulf Coast as heavy rains and strong winds lashed the southern part of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday.

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There's a mandatory evacuation in place for three towns in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish as heavy rains from Tropical Storm Lee began pounding southern parts of the state on Saturday morning. Lee is still lingering a ilittle offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, but it is surely gathering strength and packing maximum sustained winds of about 60 mph.

Workers active at 169 production platforms and 16 drilling rigs have been evacuated till now and the shutting-in procedures have been activated at all the production platforms.

The large storm that was churning in the Gulf of Mexico grew as Tropical Storm Lee, on Friday, is bringing up to 20 inches of rains to parts of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Six years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans may need to brace for Tropical Storm Lee, which is inching northward up the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and is expected to creep upon the coast of southern Louisiana this weekend.

Tropical Depression 13 has now upgraded to Tropical Storm Lee and is threatening to bring heavy rainfall to the New Orleans areas over the Labor Day weekend, as bands of thunderstorms pass over the region in the next couple of days. Lee is located just 200 miles southeast of Cameron, La., and 210 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Lee is now packing maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and is moving northwest at 2 mph.

A virus that appears to be a new strain of swine flu separately infected a boy in Indiana and a girl in Pennsylvania, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Oil and an oil sheen covering several square miles of water are surfacing near the site of last year's BP Macondo Well disaster, prompting concerns that the well might not be plugged as Tropical Storm Lee gathers strength.

This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been jam-packed, with 12 named storms in three months -- the total number of named storms seen in a normal six-month season. Why is 2011 proving more active than 2009 or 2010?

Katia weakened slightly to a tropical storm, but could still head towards the U.S. coast as a major hurricane. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Lee is expected to hit the Louisiana Gulf Coast this weekend.

Tropical Depression 13, which continued to move toward the Gulf Coast on Friday, has winds up to 35 miles per hour, but the region can't rest easy. The storm may not be packing hurricane-force winds when it hits New Orleans, but it could drench the city with up to 20 inches of rain and cause severe flooding.

Oil and an oil sheen covering several square miles of water are surfacing near the site of last year’s BP Macondo Well disaster, prompting concerns that the well might not be plugged.

Tropical Katia is not expected to strengthen much on Friday, as wind shear clips the system, but forecasters say the storm will likely regain hurricane strength and perhaps cut a path toward the U.S. coast by the middle of next week. At 8 a.m. Friday, Katia was in the Atlantic, 700 miles east of the Leeward Islands. The storm is moving northwest at 15 miles per hour with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour, just below hurricane strength.

A California man who hacked into hundreds of women’s and teenage girls' computers, for extorting sexually explicit videos and photos from them, has been sentenced to six years in prison.

Mexican authorities have arrested a police officer in connection with an attack last week on a Monterrey casino that killed 52 people, the attorney general's office said Thursday.