On this day, on May 25, 1955, the town of Udall in Cowley County was devastated by an F5 tornado, the deadliest in Kansas history.
Here are historical photos from The Eagle’s archives that show the aftermath:
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the swing state’s nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted for removal by Republican lawmakers over the 2020 presidential election, can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and confirmed by the state Senate. Republicans who control the state Senate tried to fire Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe in 2023, leading the commission to sue in an effort to keep Wolfe on the job.
Russia said Friday its forces had seized the mining town of Toretsk in east Ukraine after months of heavy fighting, the biggest town Moscow claims to have taken in recent months.Once a bustling coal mining town, Toretsk has been decimated by fighting which has intensified since last summer.
A senior US official visiting Beirut warned Friday against any Hezbollah presence in Lebanon's new government, saying the Iran-backed group was "defeated" in its war with Israel."Hezbollah was defeated by Israel and we are grateful to our ally Israel for defeating Hezbollah," Ortagus said.
Access to health care is a big one as rural hospitals close. Two researchers who focus on rural issue explain how the federal government could help.
The United States added fewer jobs than expected in January while unemployment ticked down, government data showed Friday, marking resilience in the labor market heading into President Donald Trump's new term.The data indicate the US economy remained relatively healthy heading into Trump's second presidential term, which began on January 20.
Israel and Hamas are due to exchange more hostages and prisoners Saturday, but the backlash over President Donald Trump's proposal for a US Gaza takeover casts doubt over the fragile truce's future.Hamas and Israel are due to carry out a fifth swap of hostages and prisoners on Saturday under the January 19 ceasefire.
President Trump has moved to fire Ellen Weintraub, the Democratic chair of the FEC, but she says her termination is invalid and won't step down.
The plane operated by Bering Air was carrying nine passengers and a pilot from Unalakleet to Nome in western Alaska when it went missing about 12 miles offshore, officials say.
How Elon Musk brought fringe views about USAID into the mainstream.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Friday that its forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defenses are creaking. Ukrainian officials did not immediately make any comments on the Russian claim. Russia's much-larger army has conducted a sustained yearlong campaign along the eastern front, gradually loosening the short-handed and weary Ukrainian forces’ grip on its strongholds as the war approaches its fourth year later this month.
Crews in Alaska are searching for a plane that went missing with 10 people on board while over Norton Sound off Nome.
The U.S. economy added fewer jobs in January than economists had forecast, although the jobless rate edged lower.
The gain in jobs was less than economists had expected, but the job counts for November and December were revised upward by a combined 100,000.
the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Eagle flight over the Potomac River late last month was flying with a safety system turned off, Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters after a briefing from the FAA and NTSB.
This Sunday will be a boon to the top brands behind chicken wings, pizza, and beer.
What access Elon Musk has to closely-guarded government data – including sensitive information it has collected about and from the American public – is a key battlefront in the ongoing and quickly-moving legal war over how President Donald Trump has sought to drastically transform the federal bureaucracy.
Forced leaves began in Washington and worldwide Friday for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as federal workers associations turned to the courts to try to roll back Trump administration orders that have dismantled most of the agency and U.S.- funded aid programs around the world. Under the administration's plan, the agency is to be left with fewer than 300 workers out of thousands. Two current USAID employees and one former senior USAID official told The Associated Press of the administration's plan, presented to remaining senior officials of the agency Thursday.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 143,000 jobs last month after rising by an upwardly revised 307,000 in December, the Labor Department said on Friday. The payroll gain wasn’t great, but it was decent especially considering the jump in payrolls in November and December.
A series of earthquakes near Santorini, Greece has prompted tourists to flee the area and the country to declare a state of emergency.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis insisted Friday there was no "immediate danger" from an unprecedented wave of quakes on the tourist island of Santorini that has forced thousands of residents to leave.Schools on more than a dozen islands in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea were shut this week as a precaution, prompting many people with children to leave Santorini until the quake scare eases.
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