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Woman who survived lightning strike near White House speaks out
Amber Escudero-Kontostathis, 28, was the lone survivor of a lightning strike that killed three others. "I don't feel good about being the only survivor," she said, and also described the last thing she can recall doing before the lightning hit.

Forecasters monitoring southwestern Gulf of Mexico
Even if this new area of tropical interest doesn’t become a tropical depression or storm, more heavy rain will douse parts of South Texas that were just drenched by a tropical rainstorm.

'What a morning!' Huge waterspout churns offshore as lightning flashes
The photogenic waterspout, which fortunately didn’t approach land, made for one heck of a wake-up call Tuesday morning.

Explore this hurricane-beaten ghost town where time has all but stopped
Bearing the scars from centuries of ferocious East Coast hurricanes, one eerie North Carolina island sits desolate and decrepit. But for one resident, his ancestral island is a diamond in the rough.

Webb space telescope glimpses most distant star known to exist
Named after a "Lord of the Rings" character, the star is 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth and was first discovered using the Hubble's gravitational lensing ability.

The tools you need to maintain your garden through the rest of summer
From gardening tool kits to hedge shears and rain barrels, here are several things that will come in handy for your outdoor home improvement projects.