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A `gustnado' churns across a Michigan lake. Experts say these small whirlwinds rarely cause damage 05/28/2024 02:01pm • GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) ��� An unusual weather phenomenon called a ���gustnado,��� which looks like a small tornado but is actually a type of whirlwind kicked up by thunderstorm winds, brought some dramatic moments to a western Michigan lake over the weekend. Video posted on social media shows the Driver charged with DUI-manslaughter for farmworkers' bus crash in Florida now faces more charges 05/28/2024 01:47pm • OCALA, Fla. (AP) ��� A driver already charged with DUI-manslaughter after his pickup truck crashed into a bus and killed eight farmworkers in central Florida is now facing additional charges for the injuries of 11 other farmworkers on the bus, authorities said, Eleven counts of DUI with serious bodi Virginia-based tech firm settles allegations over whites-only job listing 05/28/2024 12:03pm • ASHBURN, Va. (AP) ��� A northern Virginia tech company is paying $38,500 to settle claims that it discriminated by posting a job listing seeking white, U.S.-born candidates for an opening as a business analyst. The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had reached a settlement agreement with Recovery of Brazil's Spix's macaw, popularized in animated 'Rio' films, threatened by climate change 05/28/2024 11:21am • CURACA, Brazil (AP) ��� All Spix���s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past their home, the couple can readily identify bird No. 17 by its smooth feathers and can tell No. 1 'Son of Sam' killer Berkowitz denied parole in 12th attempt 05/28/2024 10:32am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� ���Son of Sam��� killer David Berkowitz, who set New York City on edge with late-night shootings in the 1970s, was denied parole after his twelfth board appearance. Berkowitz, 70, was rejected after a Board of Parole prison interview on May 14, according to information listed Today in Sports - Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb���s record 05/28/2024 10:00am • May 29 1922 ��� The Supreme Court rules organized baseball is primarily a sport and not a business and therefore not subject to antitrust laws and interstate commerce regulations. 1946 ��� Two-year-old fillies Chakoora and Uleta become the first thoroughbreds to complete a transcontinental flight. T Tornado strikes Culpeper County, injuring 4 in Virginia 05/28/2024 09:50am • A tornado with peak winds estimated at 95 mph struck part of Culpeper County, Virginia, leaving four people injured Sunday night, a county official told WTOP. The rotating severe thunderstorm developed into an EF-1 tornado, traveling 4.8 miles and was 100 yards wide, according to the National Wea At least 17 are killed when a stone quarry collapses in India���s northeast. 12 others remain missing 05/28/2024 08:16am • GUWAHATI, India (AP) ��� A stone quarry collapsed Tuesday in India���s northeast due to heavy rain triggered by a tropical storm, killing 17 quarry workers and leaving 12 missing, officials said. Senior police officer Rahul Alwal said rescuers recovered the bodies of those killed in the quarry in M Popular California beach closed for the holiday after shark bumped surfer off his board 05/28/2024 07:32am • SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) ��� A 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) stretch of a popular Southern California beach was closed for the Memorial Day holiday after a shark bumped a surfer off his board the night before, authorities said. The 24-hour closure at San Clemente was announced after the surfer came out of Typhoon leaves at least seven people dead and thousands displaced in the Philippines 05/28/2024 05:27am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A typhoon has finally moved away from the Philippines, leaving at least seven people dead, mostly due to floods or toppled trees, and forcing the closures of several seaports, stranding thousands of passengers, officials said Tuesday. Typhoon Ewiniar crept by the country At least 22 dead in Memorial Day weekend storms that devastated several US states 05/28/2024 03:07am • A series of powerful storms swept over the central and southern U.S. over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, killing at least 22 people and leaving a wide trail of destroyed homes, businesses and power outages. The destructive storms caused deaths in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky and were ju A tropical storm floods villages and cuts power to millions in parts of Bangladesh and India 05/27/2024 11:40pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� The weakening tropical storm Remal flooded dozens of coastal villages and left nearly 30 million people without power Monday in southern Bangladesh and eastern India. At least 10 people died in Bangladesh. About 3.7 million people along the coast were affected, said Bangla Canadian evacuees head home after wildfire evacuation order ends 05/27/2024 09:16pm • VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ��� Residents in the western Canadian city of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, were given permission Monday to return home after more than 4,700 were evacuated from the community for more than two weeks due to wildfires. The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality and t At least 2,000 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide. These are some challenges rescuers face 05/27/2024 08:50pm • BANGKOK (AP) ��� The Papua New Guinea government said more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive in a landslide in the South Pacific island nation, after the side of a mountain came down in the early hours of Friday morning when the village of Yambali was asleep. The settlement i Ukraine's Zelenskyy gets more air defense missiles from Spain to fight deadly Russian glide bombs 05/27/2024 08:26pm • MADRID (AP) ��� Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday secured from Spain a pledge of additional air defense missiles to help fight the about 3,000 bombs that he says Russia launches every month at Ukraine in the third year of the war. However, Ukraine still urgently needs another seven U