French police officers stand guard during an anti-terrorist operation in July 2016 in Argenteuil, in the northwestern suburbs of Paris. (Matthieu Alexandre/Getty Images) Emergency laws entail the ...

The misuse of prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications resulted in an estimated 358,000 trips to U.S. emergency departments in 2016 — and almost half of those cases involved young people ...

Emergency department visits increased by nearly 10 million patients in 2016 compared to the previous year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The total of 145.6 ...

Tom Lynch was attending a conference in San Francisco on the morning of Dec. 2 when he got a message that emergency responders dread seeing. The first report told of three active shooters — and more ...

Texting is so ‘90s, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer, who wants to modernize the country’s emergency alert system. Schumer slammed the wireless emergency alert system run by the Federal Communications ...

Researchers at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois Chicago have found that cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a vomiting condition tied to chronic cannabis use, rose ...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus says a three-month-long state of emergency, declared after Turkey’s failed military coup, has been extended by three more months. Speaking to reporters ...

FLINT, Mich. (WXYZ) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that the 2016 emergency order on Flint’s drinking water is now lifted. According ...

France wants to extend the state of emergency, which has been in place since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, for further two months to include the Euro 2016 football championships, according to Prime ...

The images eerily blur together. The latest appeared in August, this time with Emirates Flight 521 in Dubai. But they resembled British Airways Flight 2276 in Las Vegas and Delta Flight 1086 in New ...

Earthquakes, wildfire, and blizzards are just some examples of how Mother Nature can fool with you. There isn’t much you can do to prevent them, but at least you can be prepared to deal with the ...