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Public housing officials in Chicago were planning wellbeing checks on residents as the heat and humidity are expected to mount to dangerous levels as part of a wave of sweltering weather covering a substantial portion of the U.S. Routine checks also will be done to make sure the temperature in housing units are at safe levels. Window air conditioners are available for emergency situations, Chicago's Housing Authority said Thursday.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:24:10 -0400

Four progressive Democratic members of Congress vilified by U.S. President Donald Trump are "fantastic", U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday. Trump tweeted over the weekend that the representatives known as "the squad" - Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts - should "go back" where they came from, even though all are U.S. citizens and three are U.S.-born. Bachelet was speaking at Geneva's Graduate Institute alongside former South African constitutional judge Albie Sachs, who was giving the inaugural Nelson Mandela human rights lecture on what would have been Mandela's 101st birthday.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:17:00 -0400

A judge has set a $100,000 bond for a Missouri truck driver facing felony charges for a highway construction zone crash in Indianapolis that killed a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters. Prosecutors on Thursday filed three counts of reckless homicide against 57-year-old Bruce Pollard, of Sturgeon, Missouri.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:10:51 -0400

Three men were convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death by a Moroccan court Thursday for the brutal slaying of two Scandinavian women hiking in the Atlas Mountains. Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, were fatally stabbed in December. The main defendants, who asked Allah for forgiveness, were carpenters Jounes Ouzayed and Rashid Afatti, and street merchant Abdessamad Al Joud.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:09:27 -0400

The U.S. Navy is conducting search and rescue operations in the Arabian Sea following reports of a missing U.S. Navy sailor from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. A "man overboard incident" was reported aboard the Lincoln while operating in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday, the Navy's Fifth Fleet said in a statement.

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:07:31 -0400