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Mississippi and Louisiana were hardest hit by the storms that were part of a band of severe weather stretching across the entire southeast of the country.

The chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack says by month's end they'll ask former Vice President Mike Pence to testify. They may also request testimony from Ivanka Trump.

The bipartisan measure, approved by the House, failed to win enough votes to overcome a GOP filibuster. The plan called for an independent body styled on the one that investigated the 9/11 attacks.

Biden didn't utter Trump's name but referred repeatedly to him with forceful, and at times personal, denunciations of his actions. "He's not just a former president. He's a defeated former president."

Separately, the select committee investigating the Capitol riot indicated that former Trump strategist Steve Bannon is not planning to comply with the subpoena it issued to him.

The man's daring escape, and the failure of South Korean guards to detect him, is the second embarrassing breach of the heavily fortified DMZ in recent months.

Since the clashes started last month, more than 300 protesters have been killed and 15,000 others wounded. Protesters demand overhauls to the country's political system and an end to corruption.

"I cannot say the happiness I have," the husband of a woman rescued from the rubble told The Associated Press. He says she is eight months pregnant. The collapse killed some three dozen people.

Over 6,000 octopuses have been found huddling around an extinct volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean near California, and researchers now think they understand why the octopuses find it so cozy.

The U.S. economy expanded at a decent pace in the final months of 2017. But most economists had been expecting stronger growth. This dashed hopes for three straight quarters of growth above 3 percent.