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With a 50/50 chance that the Mississippi River will reach major flood stage by mid-April, the city of St. Paul has declared a local flood emergency in advance of anticipated spring flooding. For now, the declaration is mostly procedural, as it empowers the city to mobilize resources in a hurry if waters rise high enough to impact residents and infrastructure. That’s still an “if,” but recent

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) devoted part of her Mother's Day to an interview with Margaret Brennan, host of CBS's "Face the Nation." The topic was abortion -- the leak of a draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue back to the states to decide.

"This is about something so serious and so personal and so disrespectful of women," Pelosi said:

OMAHA, Neb. − If Tennessee baseball had any dreams that it would have more success against Paul Skenes in its second time against him, the LSU ace turned those visions into nightmares Saturday. Skenes silenced the Vols' lineup, rendering Tennessee largely lifeless in its College World Series opener. Tennessee tumbled into the elimination side of its CWS bracket with a 6-3 loss to the Tigers at

Brandon Johnson defeated Paul Vallas in the highly contentious 2023 Chicago mayoral runoff election, taking the mantle from incumbent Lori Lightfoot and bringing an end to the battle between Democrats in the city. Johnson will become the fourth black mayor of Chicago, following Harold Washington, who served as mayor from 1983 to 1987, Eugene Sawyer, who served from 1987 to 1989, and Lightfoot