An 8-year-old Calif. girl tragically died on the Fourth of July in an incident involving illegal fireworks.

It’s not just Texas and North Carolina. Intense rain is falling more frequently in many areas of the U.S. — though where it occurs and whether it causes catastrophic flooding is largely a matter of ...

“Sometimes nature provides [its] own fireworks,” Jacobson wrote of the photo. “A field comes alive with fireflies (lightning ...