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A mile-wide tornado was reported to have struck east of Sioux City, Iowa, about 6:30 p.m local time (7:30 p.m. ET), the National Weather Service said in a series of tweets.At 6:37 p.m.
Someone at the Anchorage, Alaska, office of the National Weather Service has a message for Americans a week into the shutdown of the federal government:PLEASE PAY USThe message was hidden in the first paragraph of the early morning forecast for Anchorage on Friday.
Passersby on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., ripped off their shirts to help extinguish flames that were set off when a man apparently tried to set himself on fire Friday, witnesses and authorities said.
An undercover New York police officer was on the scene when a pack of angry motorcycle riders chased down and beat a Range Rover driver in front of his wife and toddler, two law enforcement officials said Friday.
An undercover NYPD officer was on the scene when a pack of angry motorcycle riders chased down and beat a Range Rover driver in front of his wife and toddler, two law enforcement officials said.
A former prisoner who had been free for only three days after serving more than 40 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana died Friday after a bout with liver cancer.
A Montana woman accused of shoving her husband of just eight days to his death off a cliff in a national park pleaded not guilty Friday to murder charges.The woman, Jordan Linn Graham, 22, of Kalispell, was arraigned in U.S.
Today is the National Day for Dignity and Respect and in 150 events a broad and diverse coalition of immigrant, faith, labor, civil rights and family groups are marching and rallying to demand Congress pass immigration reform with a road map to citizenship and policies that keep families together and protect workers’ rights.Click here to find an event near you and follow the action on Twitter at #Oct5 and #TimeIsNow.
It’s one thing for the government shutdown to sink your family vacation to Dry Tortugas National Park. But the budget fight is shifting from annoyance to hardship as thousands of federal workers get their last paychecks until — well, nobody knows.Federal pay cycles are a patchwork calendar.
The motorcycle rider whose spine was crushed when he was run over by an SUV fleeing an angry swarm of bikers is an "innocent victim" who was trying to calm the confrontation, his high-profile attorney said Friday.
