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(NEW YORK) — Four people were killed and at least 35 were injured after a powerful tornado devastated Greenfield, Iowa, state police announced Wednesday. Officials in Iowa’s Adair County made the announcement about 24 hours after the twister hit the small town of Greenfield. The names and ages of those killed in the severe weather […]

(NEW YORK) — One day after lawyers for American Airlines argued a 9-year-old child acted negligently when she was recorded by a hidden camera in an airplane lavatory, the airline is backpedaling that defense. FBI agents knocked on the 9-year-old’s family home almost a year after the alleged incident in January 2023 to inform her […]

(NEW YORK) — A wrongful conviction hearing for a Missouri man who has served 33 years in prison for a murder he claims he did not commit is underway. Now his wife is sharing her hopes for the outcome. Christopher Dunn, 52, was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder […]

john finney photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Wednesday was another day of severe weather across the country with more than 200 severe storm reports from New York to Texas. Wednesday’s severe weather included three reported tornadoes in Texas, with some of the worst damage in Bell County between Austin and Waco. So far, 2024 has […]

(NEW YORK) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in California have discovered more than 1,400 packages of methamphetamine worth over $18 million inside a shipment of squash, officials said. The discovery happened early Monday morning at approximately 6:47 a.m. when CBP officers working at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility in California encountered a 44-year-old […]

(HOUSTON) — Many states are adopting a drastic approach to address what they judge to be under-performing schools. They’re assuming control of how the schools are run, including appointing new administrators. Texas did that this school year with the Houston Independent School District’s (HISD), when the Texas Education Agency, which oversees public education in the […]

(UVALDE, Texas) — Nineteen families whose loved ones were killed or hurt in the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting announced they’ve reached a settlement with the city and county of Uvalde. “For two long years, we have languished in pain and without any accountability from the law enforcement agencies and officers who allowed our families to […]

(WASHINGTON) — Prosecutors plan to use Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as evidence in an upcoming trial to help them prove that the president’s son unlawfully obtained a firearm in 2018. Special counsel David Weiss wrote Wednesday that “the defendant’s laptop is real (it will be introduced as a trial exhibit) and it contains significant evidence […]

(MIAMI) — A hearing in former President Donald Trump’s federal classified documents case got heated at times on Wednesday as prosecutors with special counsel Jack’s Smith’s office became frustrated with what they called “nonsense” arguments presented by Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta in his effort to have the indictment against Nauta dismissed. “That was difficult to […]

(NEW YORK) — One person died and at least 85 people were admitted to hospitals after a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore experienced severe turbulence Tuesday. Deaths from turbulence are extremely rare. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, 163 passengers and crew on U.S. flights have been seriously injured by turbulence between 2009 […]