As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II battle against the Japanese Army — approaches on March 26, one of the battle’s veterans is reaching his own milestone. On ...

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Crews are battling brush fires on New York's Long Island amid dry conditions and strong wind gusts. An official estimate Sunday said the wildfire in Westhampton, Suffolk County is 80% contained ...

Firefighters are making progress battling a series of brush fires on Long Island that burned over 400 hundred acres of land and prompted evacuations east of New York City, local officials say.

Wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend ... numerous calls from officials looking to help him battle the multiple brush fires that erupted.

Fire crews battled a blaze at a business park in the Highlands overnight after a car was deliberately driven into a premises before being set alight. Shortly after midnight on Sunday, a Skoda Octavia ...

The last of four blazes that began in Suffolk County on Saturday has been put out, but Long Island and the Hudson Valley still faced a high fire risk on Sunday, officials said. By Chelsia Rose ...

But as the sunny Islands battle unprecedented weather, what is the cause of this flash flooding? Here's everything you need to know about this dangerous weather phenomenon. The National Weather ...

Fear of a Taiwan war rekindles bitter memories here of the Battle of Okinawa, in which about 200,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, were killed. Historians say the army sacrificed Okinawa to ...