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Midwest storms blamed for Iowa death, power outages and flight delays while heat hits the East

By DAVE COLLINS
Jun 11, 2026 6:43 pm - Severe storms that swept through the Midwest knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, damaged buildings and canceled flights, while officials warned of a new round of severe storms and possible tornadoes into Thursday night.
Trump threatens new DC takeover if democratic socialist mayoral candidate wins

By Paul Schwartzman and Jenny Gathright
Jun 11, 2026 6:37 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday waded into D.C.’s mayoral race for the first time, saying he is opposed to Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist, winning next week’s Democratic primary.
Trump administration identifies ‘super-sponsors’ of migrant children in a possible prosecution tack

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and VALERIE GONZALEZ
Jun 11, 2026 6:24 pm - The Trump administration has identified more than 15,000 cases of adults gaining custody of multiple immigrant children who enter the U.S. without a parent, officials said Thursday, signaling a potential push to prosecute prolific child sponsors.
Iran war is the worst hit to the global economy since COVID, World Bank says

By David J. Lynch
Jun 11, 2026 6:15 pm - The global economy — tested by years of war, pandemic and trade tension — is beginning to fray, as fallout from the U.S.-led war on Iran dents prospects for growth, the World Bank said in a new forecast.
El Niño is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Jun 11, 2026 4:21 pm - El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.
Man pleads guilty to killing a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband while posing as an officer

By TIM SULLIVAN and HANNAH FINGERHUT
Jun 11, 2026 4:14 pm - A Minnesota man who pounded on Democratic lawmakers' doors in the middle of the night while posing as a police officer, killing the state House speaker and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday so that federal prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.
FISA spy powers are almost certain to expire after Congress fails to act

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM
Jun 11, 2026 4:03 pm - A key surveillance tool that allows the United States to collect intelligence abroad appears certain to expire after Congress on Thursday failed to temporarily extend the program, in a protest of President Donald Trump 's temporary pick to head the nation's intelligence agencies.
Trump plans to nominate US Attorney Jay Clayton to be national intelligence director

By COLLIN BINKLEY, LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK
Jun 11, 2026 3:58 pm - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence.
Opening of Canada-US bridge in Detroit that Trump threatened to block is delayed

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Jun 11, 2026 8:16 am - WASHINGTON — The opening of a Canadian-U.S. bridge across the Detroit River that President Donald Trump previously threatened to block has been delayed due to “outstandin...
US jobless aid filings rise to 229,000 last week, remain historically low despite Iran war headwinds

By MATT OTT
Jun 11, 2026 7:53 am - U.S. applications for jobless aid rose modestly last week, but remain at a historically low level despite economic headwinds brought on by the war in Iran.

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