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For a second day in a row, survivors and relatives of victims of the August 2019 Walmart massacre in El Paso, Texas, will come face-to-face with the man being sentenced for fatally shooting 23 people and wounding 22 others.

The man facing murder charges in the shootings of five people in a Philadelphia neighborhood earlier this week "obviously planned" the rampage, but the investigation into other factors of the case could take months as authorities dig for more details, a district attorney said.

Jurors are due to begin a fourth day of deliberations Thursday in the trial of the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school -- a rare trial focused on law enforcement response to a mass shooting.

Dangerous air quality and hazy skies persist from Toronto to Washington, DC, as smoke from Canada's raging wildfires drifts south — with more than 120 million under air quality alerts within the US.

US medical professionals will analyze "presumed human remains" that were found in the Titan submersible's wreckage in the North Atlantic Ocean as probes continue into the vessel's catastrophic implosion.

Investigators are continuing to scour the ocean floor for any insight into how a "catastrophic implosion" killed all five passengers of a Titanic-bound submersible that suddenly lost communication with its mother ship over the weekend, officials said.

Tropical Storm Bret continued to strike eastern Caribbean islands early Friday, pelting the region with stiff winds and heavy rain that could cause flooding and dangerous surf.

At least three people were dead in a northwestern Texas town after a tornado struck it Wednesday, an official said, part of storms that pummeled parts of the western and central US and drew at least 11 tornado reports across four states.

The amount of oxygen on a missing submersible with five people on board is becoming a vital issue, some experts say, as more advanced equipment is rushed to the North Atlantic Ocean in a complex international search operation now at its most critical juncture.

Severe weather capable of producing wind gusts up to 90 mph, hail up to 5 inches in diameter and tornadoes is expected Thursday, for the sixth day in a row for portions of the South and Plains.

Crews in Philadelphia are on track to complete demolition work Thursday on the section of Interstate 95 that crumbled last weekend after a tanker truck hauling gasoline crashed and burst into flames, but it could take months before the overpass is reconstructed, Pennsylvania's governor said.

US officials lowered the warning level for Hawaii's erupting Kīlauea volcano on Thursday, saying the burst of lava spewing from within one of its craters has lowered.