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Storms knock out power in the Midwest and disrupt Chicago flights, high heat expected in East
Damaging storms are sweeping through the Midwest, disrupting flights at Chicago airports and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers More »
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El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed More »
The man accused of killing a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband is due to change plea
The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, as well as the attempted murders of a state senator and his wife, is due to appear in federal court to change his not-guilty plea, after federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty against him More »
Alabama asks appeals court to let it continue nitrogen gas executions
Alabama is waging a last-minute legal fight to execute a man with nitrogen gas on Thursday night More »
Judge considers arguments in challenge to New Mexico's universal childcare program
It is up to a New Mexico judge to settle a challenge over the legality of New Mexico’s fledgling universal childcare program, an ambitious and closely watched effort to eliminate daycare costs for all working families More »
FBI seizing evidence at California plant where chemical tank overheated and forced evacuations
Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate because authorities feared an explosion More »
A burning cross in a Chicago park shocks residents and has police searching for who did it
Chicago police are urging residents to come forward with any information about a cross burning in a public park More »
Prosecutors paint Palisades Fire suspect as a premeditated arsonist in opening statements
Prosecutors in the federal trial of the man accused of sparking last year’s deadly Palisades Fire have laid out a narrative for jurors of a premeditated arsonist who tried to cover his tracks More »
A key congressional race in California will test progressives' appeal in a Republican district
Randy Villegas, a populist insurgent, has won the Democratic primary for a House seat representing California’s Central Valley More »
Teens' reading and math scores have stagnated, US test results show
Younger students have regained academic ground lost during the pandemic, but older students' test scores remain stagnant More »
