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1 day ago | 
usatoday.com | George Petras |Janet Loehrke |Jim Sergent
President Donald Trump ordered a travel ban Wednesday, barring residents of 12 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East, from entering the U.S. as risks to national security. The ban takes effect on Monday. Partial restrictions were imposed against citizens of seven other nations. It was the first travel ban issued by Trump in his second presidential term. Trump ordered three travel bans against predominantly Muslim nations during his first administration.
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1 day ago | 
usatoday.com | George Petras |Janet Loehrke
A massive military parade on the streets of Washington will showcase troops, tanks, weapons, aircraft – and music performers including country singer Scotty Hasting, a former Army infantryman who was wounded in Afghanistan. Country singer Noah Hicks of Nashville and DJ Nyla Symone, one of New York's youngest DJs, will perform at the U.S. Army's Grand Military Parade in Washington.
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2 days ago | 
usatoday.com | Jim Sergent |Janet Loehrke
In a rare atmospheric convergence, the East Coast will experience both drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires and a sweeping plume of Saharan dust during the next few days. While residents in the Midwest recently endured the worst of the wildfire smoke—bringing air quality to near-dangerous levels—conditions are now improving. According to AccuWeather, air quality in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa is expected to clear following the recent haze.
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2 days ago | 
dnj.com | Janet Loehrke |Ramon Padilla |Karina Zaiets |Yoonserk Pyun
Smoke from Canadian wildfires is engulfing much of the eastern and central United States and will last through the week. The wildfires are releasing large amounts of smoke into the atmosphere. Over the Great Plains, the high-level flow of winds has been pushing the smoke south, and shifting upper-level winds from the west will drag the smoke over the eastern states, according to The Weather Channel.
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2 days ago | 
usatoday.com | Janet Loehrke |Ramon Padilla |Karina Zaiets |Yoonserk Pyun
Smoke from Canadian wildfires is engulfing much of the eastern and central United States and will last through the week. The wildfires are releasing large amounts of smoke into the atmosphere. Over the Great Plains, the high-level flow of winds has been pushing the smoke south, and shifting upper-level winds from the west will drag the smoke over the eastern states, according to The Weather Channel.
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2 days ago | 
mpnnow.com | Janet Loehrke |Ramon Padilla |Karina Zaiets |Yoonserk Pyun
Smoke from Canadian wildfires is engulfing much of the eastern and central United States and will last through the week. The wildfires are releasing large amounts of smoke into the atmosphere. Over the Great Plains, the high-level flow of winds has been pushing the smoke south, and shifting upper-level winds from the west will drag the smoke over the eastern states, according to The Weather Channel. Where Canadian smoke blankets the U.S.Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them.
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4 days ago | 
usatoday.com | Janet Loehrke
Several videos online have shown people fleeing as smoke and ash billowed from the side of the volcano. Mount Etna, located on Sicily, joins Hawaii's Kilauea volcano as one of 47 volcanoes actively erupting this year. According to a Facebook post by Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology the eruption was "probably produced by the collapse of material from the northern side of the Southeast Crater."Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Janet Loehrke
The aurora's are back! And may be visible throughout the weekend. The University of Alaska and NOAA track auroras using the Kp-index, a global auroral activity indicator which has a scale from 0 to 9. It measures the fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field, tied to specific geographic locations. Several states in the northern U.S. are forecast to have the finest views by the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Janet Loehrke
As the summer months approach, lightning activity will soon ramp up. More than 70% of lightning-related deaths take place in June, July and August. Those months are also when people spend the most time outdoors. Nearly one-third of annual lightning deaths come in July alone, according to the National Weather Service data from 2006 to 2024. Lightning is the second-leading cause of storm-related deaths in the United States, according to the National Weather Service.
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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Janet Loehrke
As the summer months approach, lightning activity will soon ramp up. More than 70% of lightning-related deaths take place in June, July and August. Those months are also when people spend the most time outdoors. Nearly one-third of annual lightning deaths come in July alone, according to the National Weather Service data from 2006 to 2024. Lightning is the second-leading cause of storm-related deaths in the United States, according to the National Weather Service.
