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Damage from a major storm in Lena, Illinois, is shown on Friday, April 17, 2026 in Lena, Ill. (Rachel Nemon via AP)

Powerful winds and reported tornadoes rip through Illinois and the Midwest, leaving heavy damage but no deaths

April 18, 2026 at 4:18 p.m.

“We are extremely fortunate that this storm did not result in loss of life or serious injury,” Stephenson County Sheriff Steve Stovall said of the storm that hit Lena, Illinois,...

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Humberto on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (NOAA via AP)

US braces for storm expected to hit the East Coast as Hurricane Imelda in coming days

September 28, 2025 at 9:34 a.m.

A weather system that is forecast to become Tropical Storm Imelda later in the day before approaching the coast of South Carolina as a hurricane early next week was causing...

FILE – Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Florida Everglades, on July 4, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Florida must stop expanding ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration center, judge says

August 22, 2025 at 8:20 a.m.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting further expansion of an immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades.

FILE – A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320-232 takes off from the Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Fla., May 15, 2014 (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara, File)

2 bodies are found in the landing gear of JetBlue plane at Florida airport

January 7, 2025 at 4:12 p.m.

Two bodies were found in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue aircraft at a South Florida airport, authorities said.

ARCHIVO – Un Airbus A320-232 de JetBlue Airways despega del Aeropuerto Internacional de Tampa, en Tampa, Florida, el 15 de mayo de 2014 (AP Foto/Chris O’Meara, Archivo)

Hallan dos cuerpos en el tren de aterrizaje de un avión de JetBlue en aeropuerto de Florida

January 7, 2025 at 11:17 a.m.

Las autoridades informaron en hallazgo de dos cuerpos en el compartimento del tren de aterrizaje de una aeronave de JetBlue en un aeropuerto del sur de Florida.

Democratic candidates, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, left, and unincorporated Miami-Dade voters dance to the sounds of the Bahamian Junkanoo band during a festive visit to the polls at the Joseph Caleb Center during the “Souls to the Polls” event on the last day of early voting Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Miami. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)

Kamala Harris, Obamas and voting rights leaders work to turn out Black voters in run-up to Election Day

November 3, 2024 at 7:59 p.m.

A key strategy in Harris and Democrats’ Black voter outreach includes dispatching the first Black president and his wife, the former first lady, to battleground states where winning may come...

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