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MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Road conditions were deteriorating Saturday in the central U.S. as a winter storm brought a mix of snow, ice and plunging temperatures, with forecasts calling for the dreaded combo to spread eastward in the coming days. “Winter returned,” said Bob Oravec, lead forecaster at the National Weather Service in College Park, […]
An Arctic blast gripped the northern Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes Saturday morning, with millions of Americans under freeze warnings. On Saturday, 16 million are under winter alerts across the Great Lakes and the Central Plains to the Appalachians, while roughly 9 million people are under freeze warnings in the South. The National Weather Service […]
When people say that music can change the world, they don’t usually mean songs that capture with bright, sharp intimacy how girls feel. They mean protest songs, political songs, anthems against the Vietnam war; not the soundtracks to aching teenage summers or to eight-year-olds’ dance routines in the playground. They don’t, in short, mean Taylor […]
DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — After causing deaths and shattering records in the West over the weekend, a long-running heat wave will again grip the U.S. on Monday, with hot temperatures also predicted for large parts of the East Coast and the South. The dangerous temperatures caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley. […]
Millions of Americans prepared to sweat through yet another scorching day, with the potential for rolling storms later Sunday to bring relief from the sweltering heat for at least some. Floodwaters inundated parts of the Midwest, including a town in Iowa whose own water-level gauge was submerged. From the mid-Atlantic to Maine, across much of […]
By Will Grant, Central America correspondent & James Gregory BBC News 1 hour ago Image caption, A coalition of gangs in Haiti have united in an attack against the state The US says it will contribute a further $100m (£78m) to an international security force in Haiti as violence grips the country. US Secretary of […]
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