We'll admit it: We're suckers for ways to reimagine the political boundaries of the United States. Below, we have a four-decade-old attempt from California State University geography professor C ...

Nearly all of California has a more than 95% chance of a damaging earthquake in the next century, according to a new United States Geological Survey map. The new USGS National Seismic Hazard Model ...

The states with the highest rate of unemployment are: District of Columbia (5.7 percent), Nevada (5.5 percent) and California (5.3 percent), while South Dakota (2 percent), Vermont (2.2 percent ...

Let your eyes wander to the areas of this map that deepen into red. They are the places in the lower 48 United States most likely to have plants and animals at high risk of global extinction.