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Severe weather expected to last through weekend
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Threats of severe weather remain Friday — especially in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska — as more than 160 reports of damaging storms were filed on Thursday throughout the U.S. Winds in [Read More…]

Severe weather expected to last through weekend
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Threats of severe weather remain Friday — especially in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska — as more than 160 reports of damaging storms were filed on Thursday throughout the U.S. Winds in [Read More…]

Out-of-control truck smashes light poles after climbing highway median
iStock/Thinkstock(HAMPTON, Wis.) — A driver in Wisconsin was led away in handcuffs Thursday after the truck he was driving skipped up a highway median and uprooted two light poles. No one was hurt in the [Read More…]

White Yale student calls police on napping black schoolmate, college vows to become ‘truly inclusive’
Michael Marsland/Yale University(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) — Yale University needs more work to become “truly inclusive,” a dean at the Ivy League school said after a white student there called police on a black classmate who [Read More…]

Listen to the Mitchell Mayoral and City Council candidate forum
Mitchell Mayoral and City Council candidate forum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WudzUp-kU9M

‘Golden State Killer’ suspect faces 4 more counts of murder
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — The “Golden State Killer” suspect has been charged with four more counts of murder in Santa Barbara County, California. Joseph James DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer, was taken into [Read More…]

Police make arrest in ‘road rage’ killing of Air Force veteran
Courtesy Kerrie Harter(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — Missouri police have made an arrest in the killing of a 24-year-old Air Force veteran and Missouri Air National Guard reservist who was stabbed in an apparent road rage [Read More…]

Tennessee and New York feud over Long Island iced tea’s origin
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Kingsport, Tennessee, is staking a claim on the Long Island iced tea. The city of Kingsport claims the popular cocktail was created in 1920s Prohibition-era Long Island, an island in the Holston [Read More…]

Spotify scraps R. Kelly music from its playlists
Kevin Winter/Getty Images for BET(NEW YORK) — Thanks to a new “public hate content and hateful conduct policy,” Spotify has decided to remove all traces of R. Kelly’s music from its playlist offerings, reported Billboard. [Read More…]

Volcano observatory warns of further ‘explosive eruptions’ in Hawaii
U.S. Geological Survey(HONOLULU) — The threat of dangerous volcanic activity in Hawaii could continue for weeks and violent explosions could occur with “very little warning,” the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory cautioned on Wednesday. The observatory, which [Read More…]

ATF can’t save bump stock owners from Maryland ban
iStock/Thinkstock(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The state of Maryland has stumbled across a novel way to satisfy gun-control opponents: create a licensing process that cannot be put into practice. Maryland lawmakers had sought to ban bump stocks, [Read More…]

Multiple failures led to ambush of American soldiers in Niger, investigation shows
iStock/Thinkstock(NIGER, Nigeria) — An exhaustive U.S. military investigation into the deaths of four American soldiers in a deadly ISIS ambush in Niger last October found that their mission had been approved without proper authorities and [Read More…]

92-year-old set to become world’s oldest elected leader in Malaysia
Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images(KUALA LUMPAR, Malaysia) — A 92-year-old man is poised to become the oldest elected leader in the world when he is sworn in as Malaysia’s prime minister on Thursday. Mahathir Mohamad [Read More…]

North Korean media take softer tone as world awaits Kim-Trump summit
KCTV(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — Even as North Korea prepares for the upcoming summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, Pyongyang’s state media are still out to prove that the regime isn’t giving in [Read More…]

Trump to meet Kim Jong Un in Singapore for summit
Chris Kleponis/Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Thursday that a highly anticipated meeting with Kim Jong Un will take place in Singapore on June 12. “The highly anticipated meeting between Kim [Read More…]

Tom Brokaw accuser says not all sexual harassers ‘look and act like Harvey Weinstein’
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Allegations of sexual misconduct against television news icon Tom Brokaw, a figure whom so many families welcomed into their living rooms on a nightly basis for decades, shocked the nation last [Read More…]

Federal agency to investigate Tesla crash, fire that killed two Florida teens
iStock/Thinkstock(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate a deadly Tesla crash and fire that killed two Florida high school students, the agency said. Barrett Riley and Edgar Monserratt, both seniors, were [Read More…]

Seeing released prisoners from North Korea ‘one of the greatest joys of my life,’ Pence says
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — On the heels of North Korea’s release of three American citizens, Vice President Mike Pence touted Donald Trump’s leadership in the negotiation process. Pence told ABC News’ Johnathan Karl in an interview [Read More…]

Risk of severe weather stretches across upper US
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A risk of severe storms on Thursday stretches from Wyoming all the way to New Jersey. In Wisconsin on Wednesday, two tornadoes were reported. More than 40 damaging storms were reported [Read More…]

Virginia hotel worker fired after calling black customer ‘monkey’
WVEC-TV(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — A white hotel clerk in Southern Virginia was fired this week after video surfaced showing that he called a black customer a “f–king monkey.” Country Inn & Suites by Radisson in [Read More…]