Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo says it could take “weeks” for power to be restored in some parts of Houston following fierce storms with winds of up to 100 miles per hour. At least four people were killed after the storms Thursday swept through Harris County, which includes Houston. The National Weather Service said it confirmed a tornado with peak winds of 110 miles per hour touched down near the northwest Houston suburb of Cypress in Harris County. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said crews were still trying to determine the extent of the damage and the number of casualties.

A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week says that product safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company. Jan Leike had run OpenAI’s “Super Alignment” team alongside a company co-founder who also resigned this week. On Friday, Leike wrote on the social media platform X that he joined the San Francisco-based company because he thought it would be the best place to do AI research. But he says he's been disagreeing with the company's leadership about its “core priorities” for some time until they finally reached a breaking point. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company has a lot more to do and is committed to doing it.

When an upside-down U.S. flag flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, it was largely seen in connection with the false claim by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters that the 2020 election had been marred by fraud. The revelation this week about the flag flying at Alito’s home was the latest blow to a Supreme Court that was already under fire as it considers unprecedented cases against Trump and some of those charged with rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Alito has said the flag was briefly flown by his wife amid a dispute with neighbors and he had no part in it.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo were meeting Friday in this Mexican border city to tackle issues of shared interest, foremost among them immigration. Arévalo, who took office earlier this year, noted that they were meeting in the same city where his father Juan José Arévalo, a former president of Guatemala, had met with his Mexican counterpart, Manuel Ávila Camacho, in 1946. Both countries are under pressure from the United States to increase control of their shared border to help control the flow of migrants north. The border also carries security concerns, as so many do.

Teams of 35 international doctors, including 22 Americans, are trapped in Gaza after Israel's seizure of the main crossing into Egypt sealed off their way out. Meant to be on a two-week mission, the volunteer doctors describe a situation far worse than they had imagined in Gaza's decimated health system. They tell of multiple amputations on children, rampant infections and local Palestinian medical staff exhausted and overwhelmed. Now living in the hospital where they work, they are waiting for negotiations to get them out of the devastated territory — and for other teams to take their place.

Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues have joined Roger Fortson’s family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff’s deputy. People lined up well before the start of Friday's service at the church in Stonecrest to file past the open casket to say their goodbyes to Fortson. He was shot May 3 by a deputy responding to a possible domestic violence situation at Fortson’s apartment complex. Fortson’s face and upper body were visible in his Air Force uniform, with an American flag draped over the lower portion of the casket.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Milwaukee's director of elections was not removed from her position for vote rigging in the 2020 presidential election.  Election officials say internal matters led to the change, noting there “was no indication of election impropriety” in Milwaukee’s vote. Inflation was not at 9 percent when President Joe Biden took the oath of office, it was 1.4 percent, having risen from a low of 0.1% in May 2020, two months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses owned by white men are allowed to bid on a redevelopment project at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, $2.3 billion in contracts awarded to minority- and women-owned businesses are being misrepresented.