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A plane slated to fly from London to Charlotte, North Carolina, had to double back and make an emergency landing after being struck by lightning. American Airlines Flight 735 took off from London Heathrow Airport just before 3:30 p.m. local time Wednesday, headed for Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The plane made a U-turn for London Heathrow while still flying over the U.K., landing back at its airport of origin just over an hour after taking off, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.  While mid-flight, the plane was struck by lightning, leading the pilots to send out a “code 7700” message,…

An Indiana man who scratched what appeared to be a $100,000 prize from a new state lottery game was informed it had been validated at only $20, as the Hoosier Lottery acknowledged a printing error, suspended sales of the game and said it is reviewing how to resolve affected tickets. Mike Fields, a forklift driver, purchased four tickets for the Space Invaders Cash Invasion scratch-off, which launched June 2. When he scanned what appeared to be a winning ticket — the game’s rocket ship symbol is supposed to trigger an instant prize — he was told the ticket was worth…

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Saturday that he will appoint one of his personal lawyers to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan after the attorney who holds the job was tapped this week for the role of director of national intelligence. James M. McDonald, a former federal prosecutor who served in the White House counsel’s office during President George W. Bush’s administration, is part of the legal team handling Trump’s pending appeal of felony convictions in New York related to hush money payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election. Trump said Saturday he…

No nationwide environmental standards for artificial intelligence data centers will be implemented by the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said this week. Instead, he offered that responsibility to states and local governments to restrict water usage and air pollution. “Ten times out of 10, I’m not going to sit inside of an agency building in Washington, D.C., and that we say that we know that local community in Georgia or Florida or Arizona or elsewhere, better than everyone there locally,” Mr. Zeldin said at the POLITICO Energy Summit in Washington on Wednesday. Because each data center’s environmental…

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order calling for the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks to not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” The preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Massachusetts also orders a pause on any additional changes, writing that the plaintiffs have shown that these efforts are meant “to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen.” “History cannot be faithfully told while excluding the experiences of communities whose contributions, struggles, and achievements form an important part of our Nation’s story,”…

NEW YORK — The Manhattan architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer has spent the past three years alone in a segregated cell, reading crime novels and occasionally being visited by his lawyers or family, according to the sheriff who oversees the jail. Rex Heuermann also struck up a brief correspondence with Keith Hunter Jesperson, the infamous “Happy Face Killer ” who confessed to killing eight women across the country in the 1990s, said Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon. The sheriff said it was Jesperson, who is serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of…

The Trump administration has barred Los Angeles County’s main homelessness agency from accessing federal funds while it investigates the agency’s alleged “wanton mismanagement of public funds.” The move puts at risk almost $200 million that LA area service providers count on to help California’s largest homeless population. In a letter Thursday to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development accused the LA agency of fraud, while also blaming it for failing to decrease homelessness. The agency failed to record when people left their motel housing, misused government money by using it to pay…

A judge on Friday denied a request from the Kennedy Center to pause a ruling ordering President Trump’s name removed from the building. Unless the Kennedy Center decides to appeal the decision from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, the decision raises the prospect that Trump’s name will be removed from the building. In his ruling last month, Cooper said only Congress could institute a change to the Kennedy Center’s name and ordered that references to Trump be removed by Friday. A Kennedy Center spokesperson didn’t immediately comment on the ruling. Workers were seen building scaffolding around a section of the…

Residents in tornado-ravaged areas in Illinois and Indiana were grappling with the damage to their homes and neighborhoods on Friday, after the strong line of storms barreled through communities south of Chicago and left trails of destruction. Cleanup efforts were underway, and utility companies said power restoration efforts could extend into next week. Thursday’s storms ripped roofs off of buildings, flattened homes, brought down scores of trees and power lines and caused hundreds of thousands of power outages and major air traffic disruptions. Officials said there were no reports of deaths or life-threatening injuries, though there were several people treated…

A San Diego man is recovering from multiple surgeries and mounting medical bills after a grizzly bear attacked him on one of Glacier National Park’s most popular trails last month, dragging him across a snow-covered mountainside before fellow hikers and an airlifted rescue team got him to a hospital. Daniel Crago, 32, was wrapping up a weeklong trip to the park on May 28 when the attack occurred on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, a roughly 10-mile out-and-back route in the Many Glacier area on the park’s east side. Mr. Crago and a friend had hiked about 3.5 miles when the…