DISASTERS

Angelina Jolie penned a lengthy essay encouraging Americans to treat the global refugee crisis as a singular fight that does not stop at U.S. borders.  

Even though the six-month Atlantic hurricane season lasts as long as a typical Major League Baseball season, a Florida congresswoman thinks it needs to be longer.

Five employees at the hurricane hunter reconnaissance base in Florida have tested positive for coronavirus as the Sunshine State continues to see a surge in new infections.

A local politician in Germany died after he was struck by lightning Saturday while taking a reported bathroom break as a severe storm slammed the region.

Severe weather blasted through the Calgary metro area on Saturday, dumping tennis ball-sized hail that punched holes in the siding of homes and unleashed flash flooding on the region. 

Nine cows on a farm in Ireland were killed after they were struck by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm on Sunday.

Five more people have died in China after rainstorms spawned major flooding that's caused destruction throughout the southern region of the country. 

At least 19 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured after a tanker truck exploded in southeastern China on Saturday, according to officials.

Dozens of new coronavirus infections were reported on Sunday in China's capital as the country where the deadly virus originated from in December tallied it's highest daily total of new cases in two months. 

Protests erupted and destruction in Atlanta on Saturday night in response to the police-involved shooting death of a 27-year-old man outside a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant.