Hot stuff in the Labor Day forecast as a late-summer heat wave intensifies across the central and southern United States, a new panel finds recent NYC heat wave uncovers economic and health inequality in New York, and a Kentucky jobs initiative aims to boost second-chance employment.

The U.N. warns this year's El Niño effect is becoming "Supersized," bringing drought, flood, and extreme weather risks, a new report finds Texas petrochemical expansion lacks rewards for coastal cities, and after two years of Kentucky camping ban, more fines and arrests.

The US war in Iran is now into its 7th month, with Washington and Tehran trading the largest exchange of strikes since July, the 'Spokane 3" still in legal limbo over participation in an anti-ICE demonstration, and farmers strained by rising costs and weak prices as the Senate fails to advance the Farm Bill.

More than 20 people missing after Grand Canyon flooding, while the death toll in Nepal tops 1,000, Muslim civil rights groups hail indictment in San Diego mosque attack, and Indigenous allies in North Dakota seek action beyond FBI rewards.

At least 1 person dead and a dozen missing after catastrophic flash flooding in the Grand Canyon, U.S. colleges and universities brace for the loss of international students, Virginia candidates, advocates call on the GOP to rescind Medicaid, ACA cuts.