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In central US, levee breaches flood some communities

Crews were making a “last ditch effort” on Saturday to save low-lying parts of a small Arkansas cityfrom floodwaters pouring through a breached levee, and authorities downstream were warning people to leave aneighborhood that sits across the swollen river from the state capital.

US now seeking social media details from all visa applicants

The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social mediausernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. It’s a vast expansion of the Trump administration’s enhancedscreening of potential immigrants and visitors.

Zion National Park in Utah sees new baby condor

Park rangers said Thursday that they suspect a pair of endangered California condors has hatched their first egg because of behavior changes between the birds.

Democratic candidates web chat with rural Nevada voters

In California, Elizabeth Warren gazed into a laptop camera, resting her chin on her hand while recountingher working-class childhood for about 200 voters scattered hundreds of miles away across Nevada.

Virginia Beach shooter had security pass

Authorities in Virginia would not say whether the man believed to have opened fire on co-workers at a city municipalbuilding was facing any sort of disciplinary action related to his employment.

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Records bill survives test in Nevada Senate

An overhaul of state law governing public access to official records was rescued from near-defeat in a Senate committee late Friday, as amendments toning down its toughest provisions won unanimous consent to move it out to the full Senate.

Gun control bill advances after Senate approval

A much-amended bill on gun control advanced in the Neavda Legislature on Friday, including a provision that allows family members or police to take guns away from those who might pose a threat.

12 killed, others hurt in Virginia Beach shooting; suspect dead

A longtime city employee opened fire at a municipal building in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and sending terrified co-workers scrambling for cover before police shot and killed him, authorities said.

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