Hurricane Erin weakened to a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, its outer bands lashing the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, as forecasters warned the storm was rapidly growing in size and would gain new...

Hurricane Erin is beginning its upward movement along the Atlantic coast as of Aug. 19, and is expected to be a few hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina by Thursday, Aug. 21.

Rounds of record heat and a lack of widespread rainfall for the West have led to drought conditions nearly doubling in a year.