Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, including three 9-year-old children.
Images from 400 days of fighting in Ukraine after Russia launched an all-out invasion by land, air and sea, the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two.
Twelve atmospheric rivers have pounded California since late December, inundating parts of the drought-stricken state with raging floods and gusty blizzards.
Bakhmut, a small eastern city that has for months been the target of a Russian offensive, has seen intense fighting and destruction in what has become the longest, bloodiest battle of the war.
The impoverished small town of 1,900 in western Mississippi was clobbered by a ferocious tornado on Friday night, destroying many of the community's 400 homes.