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2 days ago | usnews.com | Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

More than 50 volcanoes have erupted so far in 2025 – most notably and recently, Italy’s Mount Etna, which spewed smoke, ash and bits of rock on Monday morning, terrifying visitors to the Sicilian peak. Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has also been spouting off recently. It released a 1,000-foot plume of lava late last month as part of an ongoing eruption. More than 1,2000 volcanoes across the globe have erupted during the Holocene, our current geological period, which covers the last 12,000 years.

3 days ago | usnews.com | Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced last week that the federal government was investing more than $1.5 billion to repair roads and bridges damaged during natural disasters. The repairs target roadways and bridge spans in more than two-thirds of all states, plus some U.S. territories and Washington, D.C.But federal data shows that much more investment is needed to shore up the nation’s ailing bridges.

3 days ago | usnews.com | Olivier Knox

Ukraine carried out what appeared to be its most ambitious attack on Russian soil over the weekend, claiming to have struck air bases as far away as Siberia with fleets of drones launched from the backs of trucks and destroying aircraft including nuclear-capable bombers. “We are doing everything to make Russia feel the need to end this war. Russia started this war, Russia must end it,” Ukrainian President Volodymur Zelenskyy declared on social media.

4 days ago | usnews.com | Angie Teo

By Angie TeoTAIPEI (Reuters) -Fu Tong and his wife Elaine To were among the first demonstrators in Hong Kong to be charged with rioting in 2020 after pro-democracy and anti-China protests started in 2019 in the former British colony. After leaving for Taiwan, Fu continued his activism and is now preparing to mark this year's anniversary of Beijing's bloody June 4, 1989, crackdown on protesters in and around Tiananmen Square.

6 days ago | usnews.com | Alice Hill |Victoria Salinas

Just as Americans are entering what has been forecast to be a potentially worse-than-average Atlantic hurricane season starting June 1, the nation’s disaster safety net is unraveling. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has sought to shift responsibility for disaster preparedness and recovery to the states, slashing the federal government’s capability to forecast, respond to and recover from disasters.