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(NEW YORK) -- A spring storm system will move east over the next three days, bringing a variety of dangerous and life-threatening weather, including tornados and large hail, from the Heartland to the East Coast.From late Saturday evening into Saturday night, severe storms will take shape from Oklahoma City to Kansas City, according to the forecast. The biggest threat with these storms will be damaging winds and large hail, but […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge in Boston ruled that Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk cannot be deported until she decides whether she has jurisdiction to rule if Ozturk was lawfully taken into custody.Judge Denise Casper said Friday that Ozturk "shall not be removed from the United States until further Order of this Court."The government revoked Ozturk's visa due to her pro-Palestinian activism, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who […]

(TEXAS) -- At least three people have died after heavy rain brought record-breaking flooding to South Texas, according to officials.The deaths occurred in Hidalgo County, where officials issued a disaster declaration as a result of the flooding. The county, which includes the city of McAllen, saw some of the heaviest rain accumulations over the last 24 hours.There was no further information about the three deaths immediately available, but officials said […]

(FIFE, Wa) -- A man was charged for posing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Washington state, according to police.Ilya Kukhar, 26, was charged on Thursday for impersonating an ICE officer after he allegedly drove a vehicle that "displayed prominent emblems with large letters spelling 'I.C.E' along with a pseudo-seal of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security," the Fife Police Department said in a statement on Thursday.At approximately 5 p.m. […]

(TEXAS) -- A large part of South Texas is reeling from life-threatening flooding that began overnight and continued into Friday morning.Thunderstorms began Wednesday, with another round of heavy rainfall on Thursday afternoon and evening. The rain is expected to continue through Friday afternoon, forecasts show.The National Weather Service issued flash flooding emergency warnings multiple times on Thursday and overnight for South McAllen and Harlingen -- both located in the Rio […]

(NEW YORK) -- The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 400, with 73 cases reported over the last three days, according to new data released Friday.Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or in individuals whose vaccination status is unknown, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). At least 41 people have been hospitalized so far.Children and […]

(NEW YORK) -- Police in New York are searching for two individuals who were caught on video surveillance vandalizing a Tesla Cybertruck in Brooklyn.At approximately 1 a.m. on Thursday, two unidentified suspects "carved the word 'Nazis' and a swastika on the doors of a parked unoccupied Tesla," the New York Police Department said. The incident, which occurred in front of 730 Monroe Street in Brooklyn, was captured on video surveillance.After […]

(ASHEVILLE, N.C.) -- Strong winds and low humidity could create significant problems for firefighters in the Carolinas on Friday, as wildfires continue to rage throughout both states, officials said.Red flag warnings are in place for the western Carolinas on Friday with wind gusts reaching 30 mph and a relative humidity as low as 20%, officials said.“We’ve never had a fire quite like this," South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said during a press […]

(WASHINGTON) -- If allowed to go into effect, the Trump administration's new policy on transgender soldiers would be a "de facto blanket prohibition" that seeks "to eradicate transgender service," a federal judge wrote Thursday in issuing a preliminary injunction against the policy.In a 65-page opinion issued late Thursday, U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle became the second federal judge to block the policy, which he described as discriminatory and disconnected from the goals of "military […]