Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like  —  In all of U.S. history, there's never been a storm like Hurricane Harvey.  That fact is increasingly clear, even though the rains are still falling and the water levels in Houston are still rising.  —  But there's an uncomfortable point that …

Joel Osteen church denies reports it closed its doors to flood victims  —  (CNN)Pastor Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch says it's opening its doors Tuesday to residents displaced by flooding.  —  Lakewood Church, which was founded by Osteen's father in the 1950s, posted on social media Monday …

Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause  —  Even before the devastation from Harvey, southeastern Texas was enduring a year unlike any before.  —  The daily surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico last winter never dropped below 73 degrees.  You can probably guess how many previous times that had happened: Zero.

Hurricane Harvey Greatly Complicates The Government Shutdown Calculation  —  Congress and the president almost certainly will agree to substantial additional federal funds for aid to the areas ravaged by Hurricane Harvey.  That's as certain as anything can be in Washington these days.

Trump on North Korea's missile launch: ‘All options are on the table’  —  North Korea's most recent ballistic missile test “has signaled its contempt” for its neighbors and the international community, President Donald Trump said in a statement Tuesday morning, reiterating his threat that “all options are on the table.”