Officials in Texas said the toll includes six people in Harris County, home to Houston; one person in Rockport, near where Harvey made landfall; and another person in La Marque, near Galveston. The toll is expected to rise as the rescue effort continues, and officials warned that more than 30,000 people would be forced from their homes.
First responders have been overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster, and FEMA and the Coast Guard are trying to bolster the local and state response to the disaster.
Areas near Houston could see storm totals near 50 inches, as torrential rains begin to expand into Louisiana, where double-digit rainfall totals are also likely.
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Americans watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans. Twelve years later, social media allowed many Houstonians to take their fate into their own hands.
The country’s fourth-largest city is paralyzed, as floodwaters continue to rise to rooflines all over Houston and residents frantically call for help. Here’s a continuing guide to coverage by Washington Post journalists, both the latest developments and the stories you may have missed.
Policymakers are expected to begin discussing an emergency aid package likely to reach into the billions in a year when they have agreed on little else, let alone spending priorities.
A 2016 email from Michael Cohen, a Trump attorney and executive vice president for the Trump Organization, to Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s top press aide, shows the Trump business official directly seeking Kremlin assistance in advancing Trump’s business interests during the campaign.
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The group of more than 100 hooded protesters turned up at what had been a largely peaceful protest against hate and attacked at least five people, including the leader of a conservative group who canceled an event a day earlier in San Francisco amid fears of violence.
In separate, jaw-dropping comments that made news over the weekend, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis took giant steps backward from their boss.
The lawsuit, filed in Maryland on behalf of six active-duty members of the Armed Forces, argues that the ban is unconstitutional because it discriminates against transgender people and treats them unequally.
A tropical disturbance near the northeastern Florida coast could become tropical storm Irma and bring disruptive weather to the Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware beaches Tuesday.
From the American Revolution through today, women have been leading a long-burning rebellion to gain rights not originally guaranteed under the Constitution.
