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The good that comes from taking action in times of crisis, as many have done in Harvey's wake, creates a healing halo — for those who are suffering and for those who are able to help, writes the former President.

Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath have dumped trillions of gallons of rain across Texas and Louisiana over six days. Homes, office buildings and other structures along the Gulf Coast and in Houston's Harris County, were flooded, their occupants forced to find higher ground. To reach safety, most local residents waded through the murky streams, in some cases for hours.

Almost 12 years to the day after her babies nearly succumbed to the hellish aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Alexandra Wheeler finally got to thank the man she credits for saving their lives.

One of Aric Harding's sons is an avid piano player and was concerned the family's piano would be destroyed by flood water.

Search-and-rescue teams in California retrieved the bodies of two people missing for weeks after a car swerved off a road in the Sierra Nevada and plunged into a raging river, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.

The Department of Justice will retry a woman whom prosecutors say disrupted Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing for attorney general by laughing.

While much of the United States' focus is still on Texas and the destruction left behind by Hurricane Harvey and its historic rainfall, powerful Hurricane Irma is rapidly intensifying in the open Atlantic and poses a major threat to the Caribbean and potentially the United States next week.

Dressed in waders, Bill Wolfe braves waist-deep water as furniture floats around his Houston living room.

Colorado's Democratic governor John Hickenlooper and Ohio's Republican governor John Kasich unveiled a bipartisan health care reform plan today.

One August in America tested the nation's mettle. Years from now, that's what historians will say.