A mass of Arctic air split from the polar vortex and barreled into the eastern United States on Monday, December 15, 2025, plunging approximately 70 million people into life‑threatening cold and ...

This Pew Research Center analysis looks at reasons why people identify as Catholic or switch out of Catholicism. It is part of a broader report that focuses on patterns in religious switching in the ...

About half of American adults who were raised Catholic and stayed in the Church said the faith continues to “fulfill their spiritual needs,” according to a Pew Research Center report. The Dec. 15 ...

Another round of bone-chilling air from the polar vortex could invade the central and northeastern US this weekend and potentially produce the first significant snowstorm of the season for the ...

A disruptive polar vortex is set to usher in three successive waves of Arctic air across the central and eastern United States through mid-December, bringing dangerously low temperatures and the ...

A map of the polar vortex that is bringing frigid temperatures to parts of the U.S. (AccuWeather) The first of three rounds of cold Arctic air from a shifting polar vortex has sent temperatures ...

Multiple states registered subzero temps on Friday, Dec. 5. The polar vortex has broken, and severe temperatures are dominating even in southern sates like Texas, which saw record breaking lows in the ...

A Polar vortex has covered the Philadelphia region under a canopy of frigid temperatures, but many people may not realize what a Polar vortex actually is, and the dangers — like frostbite — such ...

As one blast of Arctic air pushes out to sea, already a new surge of cold air, driven by a breakdown of the polar vortex, is likely to expand from central Canada and through the midwestern and eastern ...

Just a few days into December, an arctic air mass has swept into the United States, bringing subzero morning lows and daytime highs stuck in the teens for 30 million Americans in the Northern Plains, ...

A shifting polar vortex is expected to bring three waves of Arctic air to the central and eastern U.S. Tennessee is forecast to experience winter weather, including a mix of snow and ice, in early ...