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Disaster assistance for victims of last month’s deadly Oklahoma tornadoes has topped $25 million, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa about fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden over the phone Saturday, a senior White House official told NBC News.
Three passengers died when their small plane crashed near Alaska’s Summit Airport on Friday, authorities said.
Chris Hall, a teacher at a school in Dorchester, Mass., and a member of the Boston Teachers Union/AFT Local 66, is making art with students with autism—and his students are making impressive strides, thanks to his unique teaching gifts.“Chris brought something out of my child and out of our kids at the Lee School. He made the impossible possible,” said Liz Gomes. Her son, nine-year-old Mason, is one of Hall’s students. Non-verbal until the age of five, Mason deals with autism and ADHD.
At least one woman was presumed dead after her mobile home was swept away by the swollen Mohawk River on Friday as flooding brought on by heavy rain forced evacuations in upstate New York.
Two women who challenged the law that had barred same-sex marriage in California were married Friday afternoon after a federal appeals court dissolved its stay blocking same-sex marriage in the state.
