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HOUSTON — The death toll from severe weather that lashed the Texas city of Houston has risen to seven, authorities said Friday.

The three additional deaths came after Houston, the fourth-largest U.S. city, was hit Thursday by heavy rain and winds up to 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour, leaving downtown streets covered in glass from blown-out windows.

Downed trees and power lines littered residential areas and the National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down in the suburb of Cypress....

As a brutal winter storm bears down on Iowa, former President Donald Trump is one of many candidates forced to cancel campaign events ahead of the caucuses next week, reported NBC News on Friday evening.

"Former President Donald Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson were all forced to cancel campaign events," said the report. However, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is attempting to move forward with campaign events regardless.

Meanwhile, according to the report, "DeSantis plans to fly to South Carolina, not New Hampshire, immediately after the Iowa caucuses."
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Typhoon Mawar, packing potentially catastrophic winds, was on Wednesday heading for a direct hit on Guam, a US territory in the Pacific that is home to a crucial military outpost. A National Weather Service report said Mawar was intensifying into a Category Four super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour (225 kilometers per hour). "I am worried for the safety of our people. This is the first storm of this magnitude for 20 years," Guam Governor Lou Leon Guerrero said. On its current trajectory, Mawar will pass directly over the island of 170,000 people,......

Los Angeles (AFP) - Extreme weather in Alaska that has brought record high temperatures and torrential downpours has left authorities in the far northern US state warning of "Icemageddon". Huge sheets of ice are blocking roads and choking traffic in Fairbanks, Alaska's second largest city, reported the state's transportation department, which has coined the neologism -- a play on "Armageddon" -- to describe the chilly impasse. "We're experiencing an unprecedented series of winter storms," the department tweeted. Scientists say the unchecked burning of fossil fuels and other human activity is c......

Dawson Springs (United States) (AFP) - Work crews were hauling away tons of debris on Tuesday in western Kentucky towns pulverized by deadly tornadoes as traumatized residents turned to rebuilding their shattered lives. "Total devastation," said Ashley McKnight, a 41-year-old schoolteacher, pointing to the remains of her neighbors' homes in Dawson Springs. State Governor Andy Beshear said the death toll from the powerful twisters that struck late Friday remained at 74 but he expected more victims to be found in the rubble. In total, at least 88 people died, with fatalities also recorded in Ten......

Mayfield (United States) (AFP) - Dozens of devastating tornadoes ripped through five US states overnight, leaving more than 70 people dead Saturday in Kentucky -- many of them workers at a candle factory -- and inflicting deadly damage at a sprawling Amazon warehouse in Illinois.  The western Kentucky town of Mayfield was reduced to "matchsticks," its mayor said. The small town of 10,000 people appeared post-apocalyptic in drone footage posted by storm-chaser Brandon Clement: city blocks leveled, with almost nothing salvageable; historic homes and buildings beaten down to their slabs; tree tru......