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School systems across the Southeast are dealing with weather-related school closures for the second week in a row, leading some to try remote learning while many prepare to add more school days to make up for lost instructional time. -
Forecasters warned that dangerous extra-cold conditions will persist for a huge swath of the U.S. from the Gulf Coast into New England. There were hundreds of weekend flight cancellations to North Carolina, snow flurries and falling iguanas in Florida, and more misery for thousands who are still without power from last month's ice storm in the South. -
A huge swath of the U.S. from the Gulf Coast into New England was mired in extra-cold temperatures Sunday after a bomb cyclone brought heavy snow and hundreds of flight cancellations to North Carolina, flurries and falling iguanas in Florida, and more misery for thousands who are still without power from last weekend's ice storm in the South. -
A "bomb cyclone" is starting to bring heavy snow to the Southeast and is ushering in frigid temperature to much of East Coast Saturday. About 240 million people are under cold weather advisories and winter storm warnings. -
The measles outbreak in South Carolina has surpassed the recorded case count in Texas' 2025 outbreak. Health officials have logged almost 600 new cases in just over a month, for a total of 789. The U.S. is at risk of losing its measles elimination status, earned in 2000. Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that's airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. A vaccine can prevent it. -
Demonstrators gathered in downtown Durham Saturday after an ICE officer shot and killed a man in Minneapolis. -
Federal officers shot and killed a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, according to a hospital record obtained by the Associated Press. -
An 18-year-old has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other charges for a mass shooting in North Carolina in 2022. -
Millions of Americans are bracing for a potentially catastrophic ice storm from New Mexico to the Carolinas. Forecasters say it could crush trees, power lines, and cause power outages for days. -
Austin Thompson, the teenage suspect of a 2022 mass shooting in Raleigh's Hedingham neighborhood that killed five people, will plead guilty to all charges.
