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A massive EV3 tornado ripped through St. Louis on Friday afternoon killing five people and damaging thousands of homes and businesses. Clayton, The Central West End near Forest Park, and North St. Louis off of Kingshighway were devastated by the massive tornado. St. Louis Tornado May 2025 – Jim Hoft photo The tornado left thousands homeless in North St. Louis, a poor minority area. Power lines were down throughout North St. Louis following the tornado. Homes were leveled. The tornado ripped across Forest Park, down Lindell Boulevard and veered into North St. Louis. St. Louis Tornado damage – May 2025…

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA – MAY 18: Alex Caruso #9, Cason Wallace #22 and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander #2 … More of the Oklahoma City Thunder react during the fourth quarter against the Denver Nuggets in Game Seven of the Western Conference Second Round NBA Playoffs at Paycom Center on May 18, 2025 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Joshua Gateley/Getty Images)Getty Images In a series that shouldn’t have extended this long in…

John Steenhuisen, leader of the Democratic Alliance, an opposition party that entered a governing coalition with the ruling African National Congress (ANC), says Afrikaner refugees made a “mistake” by leaving. A charter flight of 49 Afrikaner refugees arrived in the U.S. last week, the first of some 70,000 who have applied, citing racial discrimination and the threat of expropriation. South Africa’s Sunday Times reported Steenhuisen’s remarks, which were made at a farming convention: “We can’t determine where people live and what their life choices are. I think they’ve made a mistake,” he said. … Steenhuisen said South Africa is not experiencing…

Now that the tables have turned with professors starting to use AI chatbots like ChatGPT in class, some students are calling it hypocritical. One student at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, even demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was using ChatGPT to providing feedback on her work. Earlier this year, Northeastern University student Ella Stapleton was reviewing lecture notes her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, when she noticed that halfway through the document, he seemingly forgot to delete his query to ChatGPT, according to a report by the New York Times. The apparent instruction from the professor to…

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said Sunday on ABC’s This Week” that it was an “economic fallacy” that the United States having trade defects with other nations means anything. Host Jonathan Karl said, “Let me turn to tariffs. The president also announced a temporary reduction to those big China tariffs, still 30% tariffs on goods coming in from China as he negotiates, tries to negotiate a new deal. Walmart has warned this will result in higher prices. What is your assessment?” Paul said, “Well, tariffs are taxes and when you put a tax on a business, it is always passed through…

The Telegram founder has said election meddling can’t be stopped by interfering further in campaigns Elon Musk has voiced support for fellow tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov after the Telegram founder said he had rejected a request from the French government to block conservative political content on the messaging platform.Durov said Sunday that a Western European government had asked him to take down Romanian Telegram channels ahead of the country’s presidential runoff. He declined, arguing that, “you can’t ‘fight election interference’ by interfering with elections.” Musk, the majority stake owner of the social media platform X, responded to Durov’s remarks with…

A police officer begged for her life after a man disarmed her in Fountain Valley, California. Newly released body camera footage showed the intense Jan. 24 incident unfold, KABC-TV in Los Angeles reported. The Fountain Valley Police Department received reports that day about a man trying to break into an occupied vehicle. When police arrived (male and female partners) they told 26-year-old Osean McClintock to sit down on the curb, according to The Orange County Register. “I don’t have to!” McClintock said. “In Jesus name I pray forever, amen!” When he took off, the male officer chased McClintock on foot,…

New York Yankees’ Cody Bellinger gestures as he runs the bases after hitting a grand slam during the … More eighth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets Sunday, May 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. On Saturday afternoon, Pete Alonso invoked a reference anyone familiar with driving in New York City could relate to when he said how a Subway Series between the Mets and Yankees would be epic and it would ensure avoidance of the Van Wyck Expressway. Thinking ahead to a possible third series…

The moderators of the Reddit community dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest shut down the page entirely for 12 hours after the Grand Final in the early morning hours of Sunday due to “hate speech and strong emotional reactions.” A barrage of online comments fuming about the results of the competition on Saturday focused on Israel’s nearly successful run to the top of the rankings, winning the popular vote but ultimately coming in second place to Austria. People cheer as they watch the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest finals being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May…

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has publicly mourned the loss of two sailors who were killed in Saturday’s tragic Brooklyn Bridge crash. As Breitbart News reported, a Mexican navy ship with over 270 people aboard hit iconic New York City bridge on Saturday evening, with the losses attributed to the massive 150-foot masts on the vessel, known as the Cuauhtémoc Training Ship, hitting the crowded decks as they fell. The Mexican navy said in a post on the social platform X that the Cuauhtemoc was an academy training vessel. It said a total of 22 people were injured, 19 of whom needed medical treatment.…