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Tornadoes in Kansas and Oklahoma wreak havoc, with more storms forecast

Deadly thunderstorms, including several tornadoes, ripped across the Great Plains and Corn Belt on Tuesday - capping an abnormally active week and month for twisters in the central states. A violent tornado in Kansas killed one person and injured three more, while a family of tornadoes - including a deviant vortex that spun backward - danced in the dark in southwestern Oklahoma.
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‘He’s like a Talented Mr. Ripley’: Serial scammer Joey Cipolla faces sentencing for life of fraud

By outside appearances, Joey Cipolla was living large. The 30-something Chicago businessman had seemingly made a small fortune buying and selling luxury cars and leasing private airplanes. He was living in a 12,000 square-foot mansion in west suburban Bloomingdale with a Lamborghini and Bentley in the driveway. He piloted his own Cessna, spent money like water and gambled thousands of dollars at a time in Las Vegas and at local casinos. 
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Greene says she’ll trigger motion to vacate next week

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she’ll call for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson the week of May 6, escalating her long-running feud with the speaker over his bipartisan dealmaking and decision to put a Ukraine aid package on the House floor.

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Almost 300 protesters arrested in N.Y.; LAPD on UCLA campus

Police arrested about 300 protesters at Columbia University and the City College of New York, authorities said Wednesday morning, after officers in riot gear entered Columbia’s campus Tuesday night, breaching the Hamilton Hall building occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.
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8 major newspapers join legal backlash against OpenAI, Microsoft

Eight major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Tuesday, joining the backlash to artificial-intelligence companies that have used copyrighted work to train their algorithms without compensating content owners.
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Biden speaks to Egypt and Qatari leaders to press for cease-fire

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden spoke Monday with the leaders of Egypt and Qatar as he sought to increase pressure on Hamas to accept a deal that would result in a temporary cease-fire in the war in the Gaza Strip and the release of some of the hostages held there.
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Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas schools to defy federal nondiscrimination rules

WASHINGTON — Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday the state will ignore new federal regulations that require government-funded schools to protect gender identity under rules prohibiting sex discrimination. Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination at universities and K-12 schools that receive federal money, but Abbott said the new rules go too far. “I am instructing the Texas Education Agency to ...
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Ex-NSA employee in Colorado sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to sell secrets to Russia

DENVER — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in federal prison in connection with his attempt to sell American secrets to the Russians. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, of Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty in October to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government. A federal judge sentenced him ...
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8 officers shot, 4 fatally, while serving warrant in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Multiple law enforcement officers were shot Monday in east Charlotte, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department said. The residence in the 5000 block of Galway Drive where it happened was cleared and the area deemed safe, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said around 5 p.m., about three hours after the shooting. Residents no longer need to shelter in place. At ...
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Columbia begins to suspension of student protesters

NEW YORK – After a day of protest and confusion on its Manhattan campus, Columbia University announced Monday evening that it had begun to suspend students who had not left a pro-Palestinian encampment by a 2 p.m. deadline.
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For Jewish students, protests stir fear, anger, hope and questions

The protests outside her window at Columbia University were loud, and Dahlia Soussan lay awake all night, tossing in her dorm room bed, a little bit scared. As a Jewish student, some of the chants felt threatening, like she was being targeted because she supports the existence of the state of Israel.