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Firefighters are battling a huge wildfire at Yosemite National Park in California. Only 7 percent of the fire has been contained. Thousands of firefighters are pitted against it, with more on the way. Thousands of residents have been evacuated.

A popular summer spot is closed indefinitely because of mysterious holes — one of which temporarily buried a boy — that open and close in less than a day. Scientists have no idea why.

Like an oddly wholesome motorcycle gang, members wear denim vests festooned with Disney trading pins on the front. Some members sport tattoos of Walt Disney himself.

Yosemite Valley is scheduled to reopen next week while firefighters continue to fight the Ferguson fire. Still, climate scientists and forest managers say change is at hand for the iconic National Park.

A judge in Florida is considering whether to extend deadlines in statewide recounts, as the U.S. Senate race moved to a hand recount and some counties struggled to update their tallies on time.

In the Senate race, GOP Gov. Rick Scott holds on to a lead of fewer than 13,000 votes over Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson. Scott is suing two counties and Nelson has responded with his own suits.

President Trump is arguing that Brett Kavanaugh should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, but with the Central Park Five and some political opponents Trump has disregarded due process.

Over 1,600 acres of old-growth rainforest have burned in Washington's Olympic National Park. As Ashley Ahearn of KUOW reports, the wildfire is expected to persist through the rest of the summer.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Tony Horwitz retraces the path of the famed Central Park architect — and discovers a deep cultural divide along the way.

A gunman on a rooftop in Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, opened fire on the crowd that came together to celebrate. At least six people were killed. Police say a person of interest is in custody.