YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP | | | |
Here's a glimpse at Monday's news: |
Dozens dead as powerful weather crushes multiple US states |
At least 37 people are dead after dozens of tornadoes, high winds and dust storms pushed across the United States over the weekend, decimating homes and other structures in several states. |
Dust storms. Tornadoes. Wildfire. Snow: Deaths were reported in Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Alabama and Missouri, where three people died Friday when an EF-3 tornado with peak winds of 140 mph hit. | John Green talks about pulling his friend's body from a building in Plantersville, Alabama, on Sunday. Mickey Welsh, Advertiser via USA TODAY NETWORK |
Democratic anger reaches a new boiling point |
The Democratic base has turned its ire on a new target: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the nine Democratic senators who voted to advance a Republican funding bill rather than shut down the government. After days of mounting pressure – and lively intraparty fights behind closed doors – Schumer announced Thursday night that he would vote for the funding extension, clearing the path for other senators to join him. Now other House Democrats and New York politicos are urging Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to mount a primary challenge to him when he is next up for re-election in 2028. |
Hey neighbor, can we borrow some eggs? |
America is going to its neighbors to stock the pantry. The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations to ask if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices. The request from the U.S. Department of Agriculture coincides with a raft of new U.S. tariffs on countries, including in Europe, and the threat of more. President Donald Trump has also threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark hands over control of Greenland to the United States. The Danish Egg Association said there is no surplus of eggs in Europe. |
How is it possible Girl Scout cookies may contain heavy metals? |
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed earlier this week blames the Girl Scouts of the USA for the presence of heavy metals and the herbicide glyphosate in its famous cookies, citing a study that wasn't peer reviewed of a small sample size of cookies purchased in three states. In those cookies, four out of five heavy metals tested for were present in all the cookie samples, and most of the 25 cookie samples tested had all five: aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury. Experts credit more sensitive testing technology to detect contaminants in many household food products. |
Time to make your brackets! |
Selection Sunday revealed one of the least controversial NCAA men's tournament brackets in recent history thanks to a bubble-bursting final stretch of the regular season. The No. 1 line has Duke, Auburn, Florida and Houston. On the No. 2 line are Michigan State, Tennessee. For the women's tournament, surprise, praise and criticism — mainly from South Carolina — came swiftly, as UCLA earned the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament. Read USA TODAY Sports' recap of the men's bracket and women's bracket. |
Photo of the day: Hello, Starliner friends! | The arrival of the mission's crew signals a significant milestone for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who flew to the station in June on the doomed Starliner spacecraft. NASA TV |
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