Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images (WEATHERFORD, OK) — A tornado-producing storm was tearing through southwestern Oklahoma early Monday, with at least one confirmed tornado, the National Weather Service said. The storm was near Granite, a town with a population of about 1,600, at about 3:37 a.m. CST, the service said. Tornado warningsRead More →

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen.-elect Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., expressed concern Sunday that some of President-elect Donald Trump’s selections of national security Cabinet positions could be beholden to his political preferences rather than an objective interpreting of intelligence. Slotkin, a current U.S. representative and former CIA officer and Pentagon official, toldRead More →

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time in days, the Northeast was under no red flag warnings, but officials cautioned that fire danger in the region remains high as drought conditions persist. All red flag warnings, which signal critical fire weather conditions like strong windsRead More →

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal appeals court has granted Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request to pause his appeal of President-elect Donald Trump’s classified documents case until Dec. 2. Smith asked for a delay earlier this week to assess the “unprecedented circumstance” of Trump’s election and impending presidential inauguration.Read More →

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawmakers running for reelection loathe tough votes. And for senators up in purple states in two years, those tough votes are coming early. President-elect Donald Trump is moving at a lightning pace to stock up his administration, mixing in conventional picks like Florida Sen. MarcoRead More →

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sean Combs’ new application for bail should be denied because the music mogul “poses serious risks of danger and obstruction” to his criminal sex trafficking case, federal prosecutors argued in an overnight court filing. Prosecutors took aim at Combs’ activities from behind bars where,Read More →

Lightvision, LLC/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump has ambitious plans to utilize U.S. federal lands for the extraction of natural resources. But Trump – who promised at the Republican National Convention in July to “drill, baby, drill” if he were to be reelected – may not be able toRead More →

Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images, Pool (SANTA ANA, Calif.) — Samuel Woodward, a California man found guilty of murdering his former classmate in 2018 in a hate crime, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday. Blaze Bernstein — a 19-year-old gay, Jewish studentRead More →