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Storms rip through Oklahoma

(AP) — Thunderstorms ripped across Oklahoma prairies Thursday night as severe weather was expected to intensify Friday and bring the threat of powerful tornadoes to multiple states in the nation’s heartland. Powerful storms were forming Friday afternoon from North Texas all the way to Michigan, where a tornado warning was issued southwest of Kalamazoo. There were no immediate reports of any tornado on the ground. In an eerie scene captured on video Thursday, a first responder drove straight at a storm near the western Oklahoma town of Fairview, where flashes of lightning ...

Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, Hawaii Senate trailblazer, dies at 74

HONOLULU (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who was the first woman to serve as president of the Hawaii State Senate, has died. She was 74. Hanabusa died early Friday after a five-month battle with cancer, said Mike Formby, her friend and former chief of staff in the U.S. House. In announcing her death Friday, Gov. Josh Green ordered the U.S. and Hawaii flags to be flown at half-staff until sunrise Monday. She “broke barriers” as the first woman president of the state Senate and “spent decades advocating for her community with strength, determination and heart,” ...

A $220M ad blitz and a public split with Trump mark the end of Noem’s DHS tenure

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a one-minute video, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, decked out in Western riding gear and a cowboy hat, rides a horse through a pine forest near Mount Rushmore. She trumpets her department’s hard-line message: “You cross the border illegally, we’ll find you.” The ad was one of the many times the outgoing secretary made herself the public face of her department. In the end, that approach led to her undoing. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he was firing Noem, a decision that came on the heels of back-to-back hearings in Congress this ...

Horoscope

What does it mean to be young at heart? Not a performance of innocence, but a willingness to meet life as though it were a brand-new world. Venus entering Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, restores the heart’s original courage: to want, to initiate, to risk delight. Think you already know? Maybe just forget it for a moment, long enough to begin again, trading maturity for wonder. ARIES (March 21-April 19). People will be drawn in by your easygoing ways. You don’t rush the moment or push an agenda. You accept life’s tempo and become part of the music. That relaxed presence ...

From retired accountant to uninvited inspector

Dear Annie: My 72-year-old father retired from his accounting job two years ago and appointed himself “Director of Operations” of my household. He lives 15 minutes away and stops by unannounced at least three times a week. He’s reorganized my garage (“Your shelving system was illogical”), corrected how my kids load the dishwasher and replaced the batteries in our smoke detectors without asking. Last week, I came home to find he had trimmed our hedges because they were “inviting rodents.” He insists he’s “just helping.” My wife is annoyed but tries to stay polite. ...

Who will win at the Oscars?

(AP) — The Oscars just got more interesting. With a few late-game curveballs, courtesy of the Actor Awards, the broadcast of the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 15, may have more drama and heartbreak than expected even just last week. As members of the film academy filled out their ballots before Thursday’s 8 p.m. Eastern deadline, Associated Press film writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle are making their final predictions for the top awards too. BEST PICTURE Nominees: “Bugonia”; “F1”; “Frankenstein”; “Hamnet”; “Marty Supreme”; “One Battle After ...