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As temperatures break records, Australians are suffering from heat-related illnesses, power has been cut to preserve supplies, and more than 90 horses were found dead in a dried reservoir.

Once the world's tallest waterslide, the behemoth was closed after the 2016 incident. Now, the Kansas park and its ride's designers have been slapped with charges including second-degree murder.

Also in this week's education roundup, a new study suggest that a high-crime neighborhood can have an effect on student attendance.

"America sees this as an existential fight," writes former CIA analyst Aki Peritz, who argues in this case, the classic insurgent strategy of bleeding a better-resourced adversary is doomed to fail.

Immigrants with specialized skills are being denied work visas or seeing applications get caught up in lengthy bureaucratic tangles under federal changes that some consider a contradiction to President Donald Trump's promise of a continued pathway to the U.S. for the most talented foreigners.

President Trump and his supporters portray antifa as the left's equivalent to deadly far-right extremists. Domestic terrorism data show just one fatality is linked to antifa — the attacker himself.

The smaller boat was carrying 35 people — 33 tourists and a Hungarian crew of two. All seven of the dead are South Korean tourists.

The author of And Then They Stopped Talking To Me tells NPR, "I expected middle schoolers to be these sorts of monsters. And they weren't. They were just kids."

Edward Victor Shell, 54, was resentenced Thursday to a term of 21 years and four months, the amount of time he has spent behind bars at Folsom State Prison for a series of holdups he committed in 1991 and again in 1997 at area restaurants. He was convicted and received the life sentence due to California's Three Strikes Law.

More than 12 million pounds of meat are now included in the recall. Officials say some 250 people have been sickened. They fear contaminated beef may remain in people's freezers.