Mount St. Helens releasing lava at astonishing pace

"...the mountain has squeezed out about 102 million cubic yards of lava, more in 15 months than in the six years after the eruption."

'US planning strike against Iran'

Although Der Spiegel could not say that these plans were concrete, they did note that according to a January 2005 New Yorker report American forces had entered Iran in 2005 in order to mark possible targets for an aerial assault.

Nevada hit by worst flooding since 1997, mudslide shuts down I-80

"It looks like we might have dodged a bullet. I think the worst is over," said Jane Hollingsworth, a National Weather Service forecaster in Reno.

Wildfires continue to rage in Texas, Oklahoma

Also in Cross Plains, located about 160 miles west of Dallas, the fires claimed the town’s First United Methodist Church, where the congregation was set to celebrate its 120th anniversary.

But that will not deter the Rev. Jim Senkel from delivering his Sunday sermon this weekend—from the parking lot of the burned-out building.