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Taylor Swift is donating $500,000 to flood relief in Nashville. The money will go directly to various flood relief organizations in the city rocked by deadly storms and flooding that killed 30 in three states, including 20 in Tennessee. The gift was announced by the show's host after Swift finished an interview from her tour stop in Des Moines, Iowa. Swift moved to Nashville when she was 14.

The houses lie vacant with their triangular rooftops peeking through the brown, murky water. Abandoned cars dot impassable highways, while rotting furniture floats through city streets.

More than a third of the contiguous United States faces a high or above average flood risk this spring, the National Weather Service says.

At least 32 people have been killed by floods and mudslides caused by an unusually violent rainstorm on the Portuguese resort island of Madeira, officials said on Saturday.

The strongest storm of the week was rolling into Southern California this morning, bringing heavy, sustained rains that will last into the evening.

At least 76 people have died in flooding and mudslides in Brazil's three largest states over the past four days, O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported on Sunday.

Officials at Reagan National Airport are evacuating part of a terminal and are closing a baggage claim area after a problem ...

A wet pre-winter storm threatens to dump more than a foot of snow on parts of the mid-Atlantic region this weekend, with New Jersey expecting up to eight inches.

Muslim pilgrims holding white umbrellas against the blazing sun clambered up a rocky desert hill for prayers Thursday during the annual hajj, a day after torrential rains that killed at least 77 people.

British soldiers conducted house-to-house searches for those trapped by floods as deep as 8 feet.