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BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — An Arizona woman charged in connection with the Jan. 6 onslaught of the U.S. Capitol bragged in a Snapchat video that she was recently recruited by a Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys, a neofascist organization that describes itself as “Western chauvinists” and has long forbidden female members. Felicia Konold’s […]

A deadly winter storm pummeling the country’s South and the heartland left millions without power in Texas early Tuesday and spawned a possible tornado that killed at least three people in North Carolina. More freezing weather and dangerous travel conditions were predicted in the coming days. The suspected tornado that hit North Carolina’s Brunswick County […]

More than 4 million Texans have lost power after a weekend storm crippled the state’s energy infrastructure. The storm, which Gov. Greg Abbott declared a statewide disaster Friday, has led to at least 25 deaths, most of them in Texas, a state whose energy infrastructure was not built for weather of this magnitude. At least […]

Antonio Ornelas-Velazquez is accused of igniting the deadly fire that burned more than 1,000 acres in 2019. A California garbage truck driver has been arrested in connection with the 2019 Sandalwood fire that killed two people and burned more than 1,000 acres, authorities said. Antonio Ornelas-Velazquez was taken into custody on Saturday by peace officers […]

Across the Rockies on Valentine’s Day, avalanches killed three people in three separate incidents, according to local authorities. Just before noon on Sunday, an avalanche in Beehive Basin, near Big Sky, Montana, swept two splitboarders away and partially buried one. The partially buried splitboarder was injured as snow pushed him through trees. Later identified by […]

The criminal case against a white woman recorded on video calling police to claim that a Black bird-watcher was threatening her in New York City’s Central Park was dropped Tuesday. Prosecutors in Manhattan Supreme Court, the main trial court, announced that they were no longer pursuing a misdemeanor charge against the woman, Amy Cooper, who […]

My fiancé and I wouldn’t normally make a big fuss on Valentine’s Day. Usually we’d just go to our local pub but in these strange times we’ve decided to go all out, restoring our dining table from a make-shift office to its former glory. The supermarkets have some brilliant dine in for two deals to […]