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The National Weather Service confirmed at least two tornadoes in the south suburbs. Ground stops shut down both Chicago airports, and NIPSCO lost 60 percent of its Indiana customers at once.
A Homeland Security notice published Monday says the agency wants the devices in officers' hands by March. The solicitation for a no-bid contract could appear as early as Friday.
Robert Gilman, 32, was arrested on a train in Voronezh in January 2022 and watched a three-and-a-half-year sentence grow to ten. He was flown out Tuesday on a State Department plane with his mother beside him.
WatchCall-in letters began arriving in Springfield on July 27, days after a federal court lifted the last hold on ending Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians. Advocates say the GPS bracelets are being issued to people who entered the country legally.
WatchTehran's price for reopening the world's most important oil chokepoint was reparations and sanctions relief. Trump's counteroffer was a bill of his own, and Brent crude blew past $87.
The press corps and part of the staff flew home on a decoy Air Force One with the cabin shades ordered shut. By Monday night officials were furious the ruse had leaked.
The 9th Circuit held that Section 230 is a defense against losing a case, not a shield against being sued at all. Meta's bid to pause the attorneys general trial was denied the same day.
NOAA's number beats July 1936 and July 2012 by a tenth or two of a degree. The nighttime record was not close: America's warmest month ever also refused to cool off after dark.
WatchAn Associated Press investigation counted 52 cases in which immigration officers took the immediate family of a service member into custody — at green-card appointments, at check-ins, and once outside a Walmart in front of a 6-year-old.
WatchThe U.S. Geological Survey put the epicenter beneath San Jose del Palmar in the jungle department of Choco. The deaths are concentrated in Cali, Pereira and the coffee belt.
A report commissioned by Interlochen Center for the Arts covers six decades. One former student, abused at 16 by a teacher who later pleaded guilty, is speaking publicly for the first time.
Air Space Intelligence's Flyways system saves one airline a million gallons of fuel a year. Now it has to work for the busiest airspace on Earth.
WatchMore than 30,000 firefighters are spread across 94 large blazes from Washington to Colorado, and three people working the fire lines have died since Friday.
WatchTehran's security chief laid out six conditions for reopening the world's most important oil chokepoint. Fewer than 10 ships a day are getting through a waterway that used to carry 130.
WatchIn an interview published late Friday, the former president's son gave the most detailed public account yet of Joe Biden's condition, calling it "very painful and very debilitating." Biden, 83, disclosed the diagnosis in May 2025.
WatchA telecommunications failure knocked out radar and radio at the FAA's Minneapolis Center on Thursday, forcing controllers to declare they could no longer control anything. Aircraft were diverted out of the region and delays ran past three hours.
A letter from deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, dated Aug. 5, is the administration's attempt to satisfy the due-process requirement the Supreme Court imposed when it blocked the Fed governor's removal in June.
NV Energy, which powers 90% of Nevada, says developer Tract is trying to settle in private arbitration who pays for $1 billion in grid upgrades — a question that would land on every ratepayer in the state.
The state health department reported nine confirmed Vibrio vulnificus infections in 2026, all requiring hospitalization, against a ten-year average of seven cases and one death per year.
The Section 232 proclamation sets minimum import prices of $21 a kilogram for raw polysilicon and 38 cents a watt for solar modules, and takes effect December 4.
WatchRepublican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana broke a weeks-long holdout Friday and said he would vote to confirm the acting attorney general, minutes after Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she would not. With Mitch McConnell still recovering at home, Blanche could afford to lose only two Republicans.
A July payrolls report that came in more than 100,000 jobs below expectations convinced traders the Federal Reserve is done raising rates. The Nasdaq gained 4.86% on the week — the strongest five days for major indexes since mid-April.
Judge Bryan Biedscheid's remedies ruling follows a March jury finding that Meta knowingly harmed children's mental health. Most of the money goes to treatment services for young people.
More than 180,000 accounts across San Juan and six neighboring municipalities entered rationing Friday after Puerto Rico's driest July in more than 120 years.
WatchEconomists had penciled in 83,000 new jobs. Instead payrolls shrank for the first time in five months, wage growth fell to 0.1%, and the share of Americans in the workforce hit its lowest level since February 2021.
About 850 buildings are gone and 67,000 people are still out of their homes. The Spokane County sheriff says the evacuation zones are not coming down 'for many, many more days.'
The directive covers 1,429 planes worldwide and targets a structural reinforcement above the forward galley door. Every crack found so far has been on an older 737 — but the Max shares the design.
Moderna's mFlusiva beat a standard flu shot by 26.6% in a 40,805-person trial. Against hospitalizations and ER visits, the gap was 47.9%.
WatchThe FAA says an Envoy Air regional jet and the president's helicopter lost required separation over Washington on Tuesday. Controllers were supposed to halt departures three minutes before Marine One lifted off — and air traffic audio shows the pilots called the tower at least three times.
WatchDefense officials tell CBS News the American arsenal of ATACMS and Precision Strike Missiles is all but empty, and an independent tally says Patriot interceptors have fallen by roughly two-thirds since the fighting began.