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Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city is taking steps to remove homeless people who have been sleeping in O'Hare International Airport, calling their presence a risk to security.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Power levels in Terminal 1 of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City were returned to normal on Saturday after the facility was temporarily closed due to major outage this week.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- More than 20,000 students at Michigan State University have signed a petition to delay the return of classes after three students died in a mass shooting this week.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Former President Jimmy Carter, who led the country from 1977 to 1981, has chosen to receive hospice care at home "to spend his remaining time," the Carter Center announced Saturday.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- At least 17 people were hospitalized and hundreds more evacuated after a fire spread through a high-rise apartment building in Silver Spring, Md., authorities said Saturday.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Nine children, including a five-year-old boy, were shot and injured outside a Georgia gas station, authorities said Saturday.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been detected in Santa Barbara County, Calif., as worries about the disease's spread to mammals continued to mount.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The Biden administration has moved to reestablish the legal underpinnings used to enforce federal mercury emissions standards for power plants first set during the Obama administration.

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- SpaceX on Friday completed its second launch of the day, sending a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit from Florida as part of its Inmarsat program.

Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday announced more than $1M in fines paid by a Wisconsin-based meat-packing company that violated child labor laws in eight states.

Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced $50 million to help promote clean energy use on tribal lands.

Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A shooting in the small community of Arkabutla, in Tate County Mississippi, left six people dead Friday, local authorities said.

Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Several U.S. House Republican committee chairs have sent letters to Biden administration officials requesting all documents, communications and information related to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Friday charged former NBA player Paul Pierce for touting EMAX cryptocurrency tokens without disclosing he was paid to do it. The SEC also said he made false statements.

Feb. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Central Command said Friday it killed senior Islamic State leader Hamza al-Homsi during a helicopter raid in northeastern Syria late Thursday in a mission that left four U.S. soldiers and a service dog injured.

Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A leading index on the trajectory of the U.S. economy is pointing toward a recession, with expectations of lackluster consumer spending going forward, The Conference Board said Friday.