A steady line of slow-moving thunderstorms that battered Oklahoma in recent weeks has set multiple rainfall records across the state and helped ease drought conditions.

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Slow-moving thunderstorms dropped record rainfall across much of southern Oklahoma and northern Texas Wednesday, triggering flash flooding and forcing evacuations, as residents in Pennsylvania and Ohio picked up from a powerful storm that left more than half a million customers in the dark.

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The Supreme Court's conservative majority Wednesday indicated it would be open to allowing the country's first religious charter school, with some hesitancy from Chief Justice John Roberts. Why it matters: The Oklahoma bid,