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In an aerial view, workers make emergency repairs to a road that was washed out heavy rains Friday in Soquel, California.

Two dead as nearly 13 inches of rain drench Central California

Severe rain and warmer temperatures created a dangerous combination, posing risks of flooding, mudslides and avalanches. In Monterey County, a breached levee submerged a small town.

Storage tanks are seen at the North Jiddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 21, 2021. Oil giant Saudi Aramco said Sunday, March 12, 2023, it earned a $161 billion profit last year, attributing its earnings to higher crude oil prices.

Four takeaways as oil giant Saudi Aramco reports a huge $161 billion profit

The world's biggest oil company has announced it made $161 billion in profits in 2022, a whopping figure for the corporation and its main shareholder, the Saudi government.

Ryuichi Sakamoto posing for a portrait in 1996.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, a godfather of electronic pop, has died

The influential Japanese composer died March 28 from cancer. A wide-ranging musician, the Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder was a synth-pop idol and the writer of sweeping movie scores.

Vet the Vote is a national campaign to recruit military veterans and families to volunteer as poll workers.

Vetting the Vote: Military veterans volunteer as impartial poll workers

A group called Vet the Vote is encouraging military veterans to help with the critical shortage of election workers in an atmosphere filled with heated rhetoric and threats against poll workers.

Korean pop star Luna comes to Broadway in 'KPOP'

The South Korean cultural phenomenon is now a new musical, starring actual K-pop idols.

Here's why the risk of a nuclear accident in Ukraine has 'significantly increased'

The head of the world's atomic watchdog warned that the reactors at Zaporizhzhia might have to be shut down. That would start a clock ticking at the site.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg Monday announced that the department is assessing fines totaling $7.5 million against six airlines ordering them to pay refunds to hundreds of thousands of customers.

U.S. fines airlines $7.5 million and they must refund customers for canceled flights

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced action against six airlines, but only one is a U.S. carrier; the others are foreign. "It's too little and too late," one consumer advocate says.

Shana Alesi administers a COVID-19 booster vaccine to Marine Corps veteran Bill Fatz at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Ill., in 2021. A new round of boosters could become available for some people this spring.

Some adults can now get a second shot of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

Older adults and others at high risk are now able to get a second shot of the COVID-19 booster that targets omicron.

Justin J. Pearson stands with state Rep. Gloria Johnson during a rally in Memphis, Tenn., before a vote to reinstate him to the Tennessee House on April 12, 2023.

Both Black Tennessee lawmakers have been reinstated after being expelled by GOP

Less than a week after Republicans expelled him from the state House after leading a protest in the legislature calling for gun law reforms, Justin J. Pearson gets his seat back.

Garland names special counsel in Hunter Biden investigation

David Weiss, a Trump appointee as U.S. attorney who was retained during the Biden administration, has been investigating Hunter Biden since 2019.

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