Photo gallery: Billion-dollar U.S. weather disasters in 2017

By Alex DeMarban21 May 2015 DEADHORSE (Alaska Dispatch News) – Unprecedented flooding continues to interfere with daily operations on the North Slope oil patch after surging waters wiped away swaths of the Dalton Highway and isolated a section of Deadhorse,...

U.S. household credit card debt, 2003-2018. Data: New York Federal Reserve. Graphic: Bloomberg By Alexandre Tanzi 5 March 2019 (Bloomberg) – U.S. credit card debt hit $870 billion -- the largest amount ever -- as of December 2018, according to...

By Raymond Colitt; Editing by Stuart Grudgings24 May 2011 BRASILIA (Reuters) - An Amazon rainforest activist and his wife were shot dead in northern Brazil on Tuesday as the country's Congress debated a divisive land bill that threatens to fuel...