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RUNAWAY BAY, Texas — A tornado-producing thunderstorm left at least two people dead in northern Texas and displaced at least 20 families, with many homes sustaining major damage, authorities said Sunday. At least one person was killed and numerous homes were damaged Saturday night in the town of Runaway Bay, said Wise County Judge J.D. Clark, who serves as the county’s chief executive. Emergency responders worked to clear debris to reach damaged homes and provide medical care where needed, Judge Clark said. “Access has been difficult due to blocked roadways and downed utilities, but crews have continued pushing forward to reach…

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. rode to the rescue of illegal immigrant Dreamers six years ago by ruling that President Trump’s attempt to roll back the Obama-era DACA program broke the rules. Mr. Trump will be back at the Supreme Court this week with another case asking the justices to bless his attempt to curtail Temporary Protected Status, another program that grants migrants protection from deportation. President Biden used the Temporary Protected Status program to shield more than 1 million migrants from deportation. Mr. Trump’s team has been pushing to end the status for more than a dozen countries,…

BOSTON — For decades, the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – now valued at more than $500 million – has remained unsolved. It remains the largest art theft in history – far surpassing more recent museum thefts, including a daylight heist at the Louvre that involved far fewer works and was resolved more quickly. In 2013, the FBI said it knew who was responsible for the Boston museum heist but declined to name them, fueling speculation that persists today. A former FBI agent who led the investigation for more than two decades is now…

Disease and cold temperatures killed nearly 30 sloths at a Florida animal import warehouse in 2024 and 2025, according to a report from state wildlife authorities. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation inspection report from August found that 21 sloths imported from Guyana died at an Orlando facility called Sanctuary World Imports in December 2024 when temperatures dropped into the 40-to-55 degree Fahrenheit (4.4 to 12.8 degrees Celsius) range. Sloths are unable to regulate their body temperature as well as other mammals and do best in the 68-to-85 degree Fahrenheit (20 to 30 degrees Celsius) range, according to the United…

DENVER — The wife and children of the suspect in a Molotov cocktail attack in June were flown back to Colorado after a frenetic weekend in which they were re-arrested by federal agents, then put on a plane to Detroit before a judge ordered the flight returned to Denver. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery on Saturday issued an emergency order blocking the Trump administration from deporting members of Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s family, who were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hours after they arrived in Colorado following 10 months at a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Attorney Eric Lee…

WASHINGTON — When President Ronald Reagan left the Washington Hilton Hotel and headed for his waiting limousine on a gray March afternoon, he was exposed for mere seconds. That was all it took for a would-be assassin to take aim and fire. Reagan was hit in the chest and nearly died. Forty-five years later, another gunman is accused of trying to storm into the same hotel’s ballroom during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night. The suspect fired at least one shot, authorities said, before being subdued in a chaotic scene that forced the evacuation of President Donald…

NAHUNTA, Ga. — One of two large wildfires in southeastern Georgia continues to grow and now exceeds 31 square miles (80 square kilometers), officials reported Sunday. The Highway 82 Fire has been burning since April 20 and as of Saturday had destroyed at least 87 homes. On Sunday morning, officials said it was only 7% contained. Highway 82 in Brantley County is about 35 miles (56.3 kilometers) north of the state line with Florida. “The fire basically doubled last night in size,” Brantley County Manager Joey Cason said Sunday in a Facebook post. “It is a dynamic fire event that…

Journalists in the nation’s capital are accustomed to chasing stories. But on Saturday night, the story came to them – hundreds of them, gathered as President Donald Trump prepared to speak, thrust suddenly into chaos when a gunman tried to storm the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. In the aftermath, safety and coverage blended as some of the nation’s most powerful reporters and editors tried to figure out what was unfolding in front of them. Or in many cases, above them. Many of the journalists, clad in tuxedos and gowns, had ducked for cover in fear, bewilderment or just…

RUNAWAY BAY, Texas — A tornado-producing thunderstorm left at least two people dead in northern Texas and displaced at least 20 families, with many homes sustaining major damage, authorities said Sunday. Emergency responders worked through Saturday night and Sunday in the town of Runaway Bay to clear debris in order to reach damaged homes and provide medical care where needed, Wise County Judge J.D. Clark, who serves as the county’s chief executive, told a news conference. “Access has been difficult due to blocked roadways and downed utilities, but crews have continued pushing forward to reach those in need,” Clark said.…

TORRANCE, Calif. — The California man arrested in the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer opposed to the policies of President Donald Trump. A photo of Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, posted to social media last year shows him in a cap and gown after graduating with a master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills. His face appears to match the appearance of the alleged attacker taken into custody at the dinner Saturday night in Washington that was attended by Trump and top…