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Gregory Bull / AP A Chemical Plant Catches Fire After Harvey Flooding
Houston is the petrochemical capital of the U.S., which makes it especially vulnerable to such accidents after a natural disaster.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Why Keep State Department Special Envoys?
The secretary of state’s plan to eliminate or merge several high-profile positions has many supporters.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Will Brexit Lead to a 'Brexodus'?
The U.K. has yet to leave the European Union, but some Europeans have started leaving the U.K.
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Ina Fassbender / Reuters Trump Administration Puts on Hold an Obama-Era Desegregation Effort
The rule would have helped poor Americans move to more expensive neighborhoods with better schools.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Trump's Business Dealings Come Back to Haunt Him
A failed attempt to start a development in Moscow—which the president has denied—shows the dangers of intertwining business and politics so closely.
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David J. Phillip / AP How a Disaster’s Economic Impacts Are Calculated
Providing an early estimate of a storm’s costs is generally a pretty rough science, and Harvey is a particularly tough case.
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Jim Salter / AP How St. Louis Workers Won and Then Lost a Minimum-Wage Hike
After a Missouri law took effect on Monday, the wage floor in the city was reduced to $7.70 per hour after three months at $10 per hour—the latest case of a state cracking down on a city that had enacted a progressive policy.
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Reuters The Houston Hospital Running Out of Food
Ben Taub Hospital is surrounded by water, and an evacuation attempt failed Sunday night.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters Will Flooding in Texas Lead to More Mosquito-Borne Illness?
Long-term damage from Hurricane Harvey could create more breeding grounds for the insects.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters NASA's New Space Telescope Is in Harvey's Path
Here’s how they’re protecting the $8.6 billion project.
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David J. Phillip / AP The Unprecedented Flooding in Houston, in Photos
Hurricane Harvey has dropped historic amounts of water on southeastern Texas.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters A Catastrophe for Houston's Most Vulnerable People
Within cities, poor communities of color often live in segregated neighborhoods with higher flood risks. This is especially true in Houston.
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Bob Coates / AP What Health Reform Means to the American Territories
A Q&A with U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp on how health care works for the country’s insular areas, and how the ongoing debate over health policy affects the millions of citizens who live there
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The White House Formalizes Its Military Transgender Ban
In a memo released Friday, President Trump announced the rollback of an Obama-era order allowing transgender individuals to be recruited by and serve in the United States armed forces.
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Scott Olson / Getty Images President Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Trump picked the notorious Arizona lawman for his first-ever act of presidential absolution.
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Mark Humphrey / AP 'The Republican Party Is Unified in Revulsion'
The Republican National Committee unanimously approved a resolution Friday condemning white supremacy.
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Jim Hollander / Reuters Is Russia Really Arming the Taliban?
Why would Moscow reengage in a country where it was humiliated?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Foreign Fascination With Trump's White House
Palace intrigue knows no borders
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LM Otero / AP A Court Strikes Down Texas's Voter ID Law For the Fifth Time
By finding legislators intentionally discriminated, the ruling could put state elections laws back under control of the Department of Justice.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Mattis's Mission to Reassure Ukraine
He'll be contending with a stalled Minsk process, unclear direction from Washington, and a still-hot war with Russia in the east.
