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The FAA is restricting 5G at 50 American airports.

A series of fleeting choices and troubling circumstances fueled a staggering tragedy — the fire at a Bronx apartment building that left 17 people dead.

A mass of arctic air swept into the Northeast, bringing bone-chilling sub-zero temperatures and closing schools across the region for the second time in less than a week.

Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million.

Philadelphia fire officials say two sisters and several of their children were among 12 people killed when a fire tore a rowhome that apparently had no working smoke detectors.

Chicago schools have canceled classes after the teachers union voted to switch to remote learning due to record COVID-19 levels.

A German shepherd named Tinsley successfully led New Hampshire state police to the site of its owner’s rollover crash.

Virginia officials are defending their response to the snowy gridlock that resulted on Interstate 95 after a winter storm dumped nearly 11 inches of snow.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he'll push for a new state law that would loosen the state's handgun requirements.

The waiting is over for the last of the drivers who got stranded overnight on an interstate highway in Virginia.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the nation’s third-largest city will require proof of coronavirus vaccination at restaurants, bars, gyms and other indoor venues.

U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation’s founding during the first year of the pandemic.

Authorities say the body of a Kentucky teenager has been found after a tornado ravaged her neighborhood.

A man from Colorado and another from Florida who are accused of assaulting police officers in separate incidents during the Jan. 6.

California is exempting San Francisco from a rule that takes effect Wednesday requiring all people to wear masks indoors in a bid to contain a troubling rise in coronavirus cases.

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 800,000.

A new app may help authorities bust retail theft crime rings.

A sheriff says one person has died and 13 others were injured in a drive-by shooting during a candlelight vigil near Houston.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at saving Americans time and frustration when dealing with the federal government.

A Michigan judge has declined to move the 15-year-old charged with killing four students at Oxford High School out of an adult jail.

Autumn Kirks and her boyfriend, Lannis Ward, were both working the night shift at a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, when a massive tornado struck.

Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing and other items left Americans enduring their highest annual inflation rate since 1982.

The president of California’s medical board says a group of anti-vaccine activists stalked her at home and followed her to her office where four men confronted her after work in a dark parking garage.

Coronavirus survivors held an emotional reunion at a hospital in Southern California with the nurses, respiratory therapists and doctors who saved their lives at a time when little was known about the virus.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level in 52 years, more evidence that the U.S. job market is recovering from last year’s coronavirus recession.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew braved poor visibility and frigid rapids to reach a car partly submerged in water near the brink of Niagara Falls, then lowered a rescue swimmer on a hoist who pulled out the driver trapped inside.

The U.S. has reached a COVID-19 milestone of 200 million fully vaccinated people, but cases and hospitalizations are still spiking, even in highly immunized pockets of the country like New England.

A cruise ship that carried at least 17 passengers and crew members with breakthrough COVID-19 infections when it docked in New Orleans has set sail again with new passengers.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says all private employers big and small in the city will have to require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 27.

A new poll finds that the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic have been especially hard for younger Americans, in particular when it comes to their education and social lives.

The family of the British woman charged with helping the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein exploit underage girls has asked the U_S_ attorney general to improve the treatment she is receiving during her trial “in the interest of justice and common humanity.”.

Pearl Harbor survivors and World War II veterans are gathering in Hawaii this week to remember those killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack.

Alaska State Troopers say DNA and genome sequencing have identified a body found decades ago on Fire Island just west of Anchorage.

Michigan prosecutors are charging a teen with terrorism in a deadly mass shooting at his high school, a novel approach made possible by a law enacted after the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago.

The four teenagers killed by a fellow student at Oxford High School in Michigan are being remembered for their commitment to athletics, art and family.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder and terrorism for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at a Michigan high school.

New York City says the first officially authorized safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics have been cleared to open in the city in hopes of curbing deadly overdoses.

The Los Angeles County coroner has identified the victims in the brutal slaying of a grandmother and her four grandchildren, including a boy not yet 2 years old, in the Southern California high desert.

Stocks sank Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly falling more than 1,000 points, as a new coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa appeared to be spreading across the globe.

On this year’s Black Friday, things almost seem normal.

The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for millions of federal workers seems to be working, with no apparent disruption to law enforcement, intelligence-gathering or holiday travel.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to the lowest level in more than half a century, another sign that the U.S. job market is rebounding rapidly from last year’s coronavirus recession.

President Joe Biden has ordered the release of 50 million barrels of oil from America’s strategic reserve.

Laundrie's skeletal remains were found in a Florida nature preserve last month.

The U.S. is in better shape approaching its second Thanksgiving of the pandemic, thanks to the vaccine.

Participants like the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies were in the holiday spirit as they stepped off for the Waukesha Christmas Parade.

Authorities say Malikah Shabazz, one of six daughters of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, was found dead in her home in New York City.

President Joe Biden is ordering a record 50 million barrels of oil released from America's strategic reserve to help bring down energy costs.

Groups of thieves ransacked jewelry and high-end clothing stores throughout the San Francisco Bay Area over the weekend, shocking holiday shoppers and prompting concerns about the busy retail season.

Police say they have tied a car used in the killing of rapper Young Dolph to a shooting that left a woman dead and wounded another person days before the ambush on the hip-hop artist.

Singapore’s top court has postponed the appeal hearing for a Malaysian man on death row believed to be mentally disabled, after he was diagnosed with COVID-19

The ruling concerns hundreds of thousands of immigrants with TPS who originally entered the U.S. unlawfully.

WASHINGTON The U.S. government is set to sketch its latest picture Thursday of the layoffs that have left tens of millions of people unemployed but have slowed as states increasingly allow businesses to reopen. Even with companies calling some laid-off employees back to work, millions more likely filed for unemployment benefits last week after nearly 39 million sought aid in the previous nine weeks as the coronavirus paralyzed the economy. The pace of layoffs has declined for seven straight weeks, a sign that the cratering of the job market may have bottomed out. The job cuts reflect an economy that was seized by the worst downturn since the Great Depression after the virus forced the widespread shutdown of businesses. The economy is thought to be shrinking in the April-June quarter at an annual rate approaching 40%.

A protester runs away from where police deployed chemical irritants near the 3rd Precinct building in Minneapolis on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, during a protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody earlier in the week. (Christine T. Nguyen/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news:1. VIOLENCE AGAIN ROCKS MINNEAPOLIS Protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody rock the city again, with protesters looting stores and setting fires. CHINA ENDORSES HONG KONG NATIONAL SECURITY LAW Activists in the semi-autonomous territory say the law will undermine civil liberties and might be used to suppress political activity. SURVEILLANCE BILL IN DOUBT Legislation extending surveillance authorities that the FBI sees as vital in fighting terrorism has run into bipartisan opposition, dooming its prospects.

click image Photo courtesy Other Music/Facebookthe National, TV on the Radio, Interpol and Vampire Weekend. Originally set for a full theatrical release today,is instead premiering online in partnership with a group of independent record stores and theaters. There's another cinematic treat being virtually released this weekend (today, in fact) to benefit independent record stores and theatersincluding Orlando's own Park Ave CDs and Enzian Theater and it's a documentary about iconic NYC record store Other Music Before its untimely demise in 2016, the Other Music shop was a famed hub and clearinghouse for sounds on the fringe. The store gave early boosts to the careers of musicians likeis available to stream with the purchase of an $11.50 ticket today (Friday, April 17) only. Half of the proceeds from tickets purchases go toward the local record stores and theaters participating in this screening event.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. A baby hippopotamus born at the San Diego Zoo last month has a name. The zoo says the river hippo calf will be called Amahle (pronounced ah-MA-shay), which means beautiful one in Zulu. Amahle is the ninth hippo calf born at the zoo and the 13th to her mother, Funani. Amahle's father, Otis, is an East African hippo who arrived at the zoo in 2009 specifically to breed with Funani, zoo officials said. Zoo visitors can see Amahle and her mother in the hippo habitat on Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends, officials said.

Days after completing a battery replacement mission outside the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will talk about being the first all-women spacewalking team. NASA will air a news conference Monday at noon on NASA TV and NASA.gov during which Koch and Meir will talk about their historic extra-vehicular activity or EVA. During the spacewalk, the astronauts took a call from President Donald Trump. "We don't want to take too much credit because there have been many others -- female spacewalkers -- before us," Meir told the president. While women have been spacewalking since 1984, it took two decades for women to catch up with men in the spacewalking arena.

After all the years of recorded named storms, one has to wonder: What happens when we run out of names? The World Meteorological Organization came up with a six-year rotating list of names for hurricanes, Gross said. Now we arrive at our initial question: What happens when we run out of names? So, lets say we have a storm named Walter. The first and last instance in which the Greek alphabet was needed was in 2005, during the busiest hurricane season on record, when there were 28 named storms.