Forty people have drowned trying to cool off, two small children died in a hot car, and France just recorded its warmest night on record. The heat is now a body count, not a forecast.

Across nearly six decades he turned unknowns into stars and stars into institutions, from Janis Joplin to Whitney Houston to Alicia Keys.

Pixar's fifth outing set a franchise record and the year's biggest debut, but the rebound it is fueling rests almost entirely on familiar IP.

A solstice-week heat dome pushed France toward a national record and shut hundreds of schools, with Britain's peak still days away.

Woody and Buzz haven't lost a step: the fifth “Toy Story” posted the year's biggest opening and the largest start in the franchise's history.

Spain braces for 44C, France curbs festival drinking and Britain faces its hottest June day on record as the heat builds toward a Monday peak.

A heat dome has settled over Western Europe for the summer solstice, with France warning Monday could be its hottest day on record and 53 departments already under an orange alert.

The Obama Presidential Center opened to the public on Juneteenth after a star-studded Jackson Park dedication where the former president made democracy, not nostalgia, his theme.

The tree that legend casts as Robin Hood's hideout failed to leaf this spring. The RSPB blames crowds, propping and drought.

The Obama Presidential Center opens in Chicago with a star-studded June 18 ceremony, ahead of its public debut on Juneteenth.

The system may or may not earn a name. The flooding threat from the Texas coast into the Deep South is already here, the hurricane center says.

The 12-year-old future king will leave Lambrook for Eton, following William and Harry, ending months of speculation about his schooling.

With a disturbance brewing in the Gulf and rain already falling, Texas shifted its emergency operation to round-the-clock footing ahead of the worst of the week.

The former host says Netflix cut a three-and-a-half-hour interview to 16 minutes and rebuilt it into a false story, in a defamation suit that turns on a single edit.

The famous claim that returning wolves healed Yellowstone from the top down rests on a 1,500% willow figure that a new analysis calls a modeling artifact.

The EPA transmitted four California vehicle and equipment emission waivers to Congress on Friday, arguing they qualify for fast-track repeal under the Congressional Review Act.

Gene Shalit, the bushy-haired, mustachioed film critic who reviewed movies on NBC's 'Today' show for four decades with a fondness for puns, has died at 100, his family said Friday.

The choreography barely changes, and that is the point: a monarchy staging its own permanence on Horse Guards Parade, one year at a time.

A patch of ocean south of Greenland keeps cooling while the planet warms. New observational work says the explanation runs deep, and so do the stakes.

The Pacific has flipped into its warm phase, and the agency’s new measuring stick says this one could be big. Here is what an El Niño winter usually brings.