U.S. weather officials on Thursday predicted unprecedented flooding this spring throughout the country as the Midwest responds to already record water levels. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declared a state of emergency on Thursday. “The rising floodwaters are affecting more Missouri communities and farms, closing more roads and threatening levees, water treatment plants, and other critical infrastructure,” Parson said in a statement. The Missouri River swelled from this month’s heavy rains and snowmelt and is expected to crest Friday in St.

Dutch prosecutors said Thursday they will charge Gokmen Tanis, the main suspect in a shooting on a tram in Utrecht, Netherlands, with offenses that include murder or manslaughter with a terrorist intent. Investigations so far indicate the alleged gunman acted alone in Monday’s attack that killed three and left three others seriously injured. Investigators are looking into whether the shooter’s actions “flowed from personal problems combined with radicalized ideology,” the prosecutors’ office said in a statement.

The U.S. Department of Education announced last week it will stop enforcing a ban on working with religious contractors to provide services to at-risk private school students. In an official notice to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Education Secretary Betsy DeVos explained that under the Supreme Court’s 2017 ruling in Trinity Lutheran vs. Comer, the ban was a form of religious discrimination.

National Guard troops rescued stranded motorists in Colorado after a massive late-winter storm swept across more than 25 states on Thursday, bringing blizzards, high winds, floods, and a tornado. The “bomb cyclone,” or rapidly developing low-pressure system, triggered a blizzard that caused widespread power outages in Colorado. The storm caused airlines to cancel hundreds of flights at Denver International Airport, and about 200 vehicles were disabled on Interstate 25 near Colorado Springs. Cpl.

Ethiopia will send the in-flight data recorder from Sunday’s deadly plane crash to an unidentified European country for analysis, an Ethiopian Airlines spokesman said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) faces increasing criticism as the United States remains one of the few countries that hasn’t grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8, the plane that went down just minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.

Airlines and nations around the world are grounding a new Boeing jet, as officials and experts investigate the cause of a crash Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that killed all 157 people on board. The Boeing 737 Max 8 owned by Ethiopian Airlines went down in clear weather six minutes after taking off for Nairobi.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in a case about a giant cross in Maryland that could affect public monuments and displays throughout the United States.