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More than 140 million Americans were under alerts Monday for high winds, extreme cold, and a new winter storm after a weekend storm path moved out.

Harsh cold descended on the nation's midsection Monday as a polar vortex gripped the Rockies and Northern Plains after winter storms pummeled the eastern U.S. over the weekend, killing at least 17 ...

The National Weather Service warned of “life-threatening cold” as wind chills dropped to minus 60 Fahrenheit (minus 51 ...

Winter storms have brought dangerous wind gusts topping 160 mph to an iconic but infamously deadly American mountain range.

Many of the deaths were caused by cars getting swept away or stuck in floods, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said. Hundreds of people had to be rescued.