CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A mother, father, and child were killed when a tree fell on their car during heavy rain and flooding in Tennessee, where submerged roads also led to dramatic rescues of people trapped in their cars, authorities said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House promised a ramp-up of National Guard troops and federal officers on the streets of the nation's capital around the clock starting Wednesday, days after President Donald Trump's announcement that his administration would take over the city's police department for at least a month.

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — Moments after an explosion erupted at a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, company firefighters, local responders, and employees raced in to rescue people from the smoldering wreckage.

Sections of Alaska's capital city watched anxiously on Wednesday as record floodwaters from rainwater and snowmelt released by the nearby Mendenhall Glacier flowed downstream and began pooling in local streets and the yards of riverfront homes.

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — An explosion rocked a steel plant outside Pittsburgh on Monday, leaving two dead and 10 others injured, including a person who was rescued from the smoldering rubble after hours of being trapped.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he’s taking over Washington's police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard across the city in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city officials stressed that crime is already falling in the nation’s capital.

CLAIRTON, Pa. — An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh left one dead and dozens injured or trapped under the rubble Monday, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue victims, officials said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, won’t be released, a judge decided Monday.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Flash flooding canceled the final day of the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday as continued heavy rainfall in half a dozen Midwest states led to water rescues, power outages, and road closures.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A split appeals court panel tossed out a judge’s contempt finding against President Donald Trump's administration on Friday in a case over deportations to an El Salvador prison.

Most Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods, those super-tasty, energy-dense foods typically full of sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats, according to a new federal report.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — Rising temperatures on Wednesday posed new challenges for firefighters who have made incremental progress against a massive wildfire in central California that injured four people as it became the biggest blaze in the state so far this year.

A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people, the tribe said in a statement.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — More than 800 structures are threatened by a massive wildfire in central California that left at least three people injured as it burned through Los Padres National Forest.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The 2023 Titan submersible disaster that killed five people could have been prevented, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday, but OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush ignored safety warnings, design flaws, and crucial oversight that could have resulted in criminal charges — had he survived.

Texas Democrats fled the state Sunday in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps for the 2026 midterm elections.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s Starliner trouble blasted off to the International Space Station on Friday, getting a lift from SpaceX.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman says “common sense” led him to ask the NCAA to restore all records, titles and recognitions to female athletes who were defeated by biological males.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas police charged a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the killing of a married couple who were hiking with their children at Devil’s Den State Park, finding him in a nearby city after a five-day search and public pleas for trailgoers to look through their photos.

A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam was hit by serious turbulence, sending 25 passengers to hospitals and forcing the flight to divert to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the airline said.

DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Republican city councilman in Virginia was seriously injured Wednesday when a man stormed into his office at a local magazine, doused him in gasoline, and set him on fire — an attack that authorities say was rooted in a personal dispute, not politics.

FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — Two girls and an adult missing since a huge explosion tore through a Nebraska biofuels plant are confirmed dead, officials said Wednesday, as firefighters were still battling smoke and flames smoldering in the wreckage nearly a day later.

Investigators probing the January midair collision of a passenger plane and an Army helicopter over Washington that killed 67 people found the chopper was flying higher than it should have been, and the altitude readings were inaccurate.

NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman who killed four people inside a Manhattan office tower blamed his mental health problems on the National Football League and intended to target its headquarters, but took the wrong elevator, officials said Tuesday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina's most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered his brain through his nose.