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A 4-year-old girl and her 2-year-old brother died Tuesday after they were swept downstream in a fast-moving San Bernardino National Forest creek near Forest Falls, California, authorities said.

The facts of the case do not favor former president Donald Trump. When he reluctantly left the White House in January 2021, it was rushed. His weeks-long insistence that he hadn’t lost and got to stay president meant that his team had less time to transition out of the building. He departed Jan. 20, taking boxes of souvenirs and documents with him to Florida. Other boxes went to a transition office in Virginia before being shipped to him at Mar-a-Lago.

A quick-hitting but intense surge of heat for this time of year is expanding across the South and will peak Wednesday into Thursday. Numerous records for warmth are anticipated from Texas to Florida and northward into the Mid-Atlantic.

It wasn’t just you who rolled over and hit the snooze button this morning. Americans are now sleeping more than at any point in the past two decades, a trend that accelerated during the pandemic, a Washington Post analysis found. 

Donald Trump’s Florida trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them has been pushed back indefinitely, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled Tuesday, increasing the chance that the former president’s ongoing New York criminal trial may be the only one to happen before the November election.

A large, destructive tornado tore through the cities of Barnsdall and Bartlesville in northeastern Oklahoma on Monday night, as dangerous storms swept across the Plains.