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Rescue efforts have been underway throughout southeastern Texas as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to pour down rain on this area. Many remain stranded in their homes awaiting help.

As the nation's opioid abuse problem soars, so do health problems associated with drug use like hepatitis C, which is placing a major burden on Alaska's Medicaid program.

The U.S.-based environmental activist group says it will not send ships because Japan has improved technology to avoid the vessels and has toughened its anti-terrorism laws.

Some people in Japan woke with unease to a text saying: "Seek shelter," while in South Korea, the response was defiant. In the U.S., President Trump said Pyongyang's message landed "loud and clear."

With thousands of people displaced, health workers are trying to address the immediate medical needs of evacuees as well as mental health issues made worse by the disaster.

A new report provides a state-by-state catalog of laws regarding child marriage. The goal: spur policymakers to put in place more "meaningful safeguards."

Sam Brody, a professor at Texas A&M at Galveston, talks with Ailsa Chang about how Houston area levees, reservoirs, dams and bayous have been holding up during the storm.

We ride in a boat with rescuers searching for stranded families in the Houston area.

The death tally left by the now-tropical depression rose Wednesday as recovery workers in Harris County were able to reach a white van that a rescued man had told them held several family members.

We hear from some of the thousands of people who are staying at Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center.