Lightning

The strike occurred in Lafayette Park, just a few dozen feet from the White House.

State officials said Wednesday a majority of the wildfires currently tearing through California were caused by more than 10,000 lightning strikes over the last 72 hours.

Your kid is exactly as likely to be struck by lightning as he or she is to be randomly abducted. So why are we permanently branding parents as neglectful or abusive for letting their kids go to the park by themselves?

China has declared a massive crackdown on a so-called religious cult in the wake of a brutal murder of a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant.

At least 18 people were killed in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa this week when tornadoes ravaged the area. See photos of the aftermath and the people now tasked with rebuilding.

Was it a lightning strike, an electrical failure, or violent turbulence? As possible debris of Air France 447 surfaced 600 miles off the coast of Brazil on Tuesday morning, The Daily Beast tracked down seven expert theories on the cause for the mysterious crash that killed all 228 on board.

The 228 people on an Air France flight that disappeared over the Atlantic this morning are now presumed dead—possibly the victim of a lightning strike. Aviation expert Clive Irving on why that’s the most troubling theory of all.