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John Green pulled a friend's body from a building in Plantersville, Ala., on Sunday, March 16, 2025, after a a deadly overnight tornado hit the area.
Hard Numbers: US storms kill dozens, South Africa's ambassador shown the door, Astronauts to return, Club fire leaves scores dead, Trump takes aim at journalists, Mexicans remember the missing
40: Windstorms and tornadoes wreaked havoc across the Plains and the southern US this weekend, starting Friday with dust storms and multiple-vehicle pileups. Saturday brought a string of tornadoes across the South, and millions remained on alert for extreme weather late Sunday along the East Coast. At least 40 people were killed, and several areas remain without power.
72: US Sec. of State Marco Rubio declared South Africa’s ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, persona non grata on Friday, claiming that he is a “race-baiting politician” who hates America and President Donald Trump. Rasool had described the MAGA movement as “a response, not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white, and that the possibility of a majority of minorities is looming on the horizon.” The US gave Rasool 72 hours to vacate the country.
2: The two NASA astronauts, Sunita “Suni” Williams and Butch Wilmore, who blasted off for the International Space Station last June, were supposed to spend just eight days in space. But NASA determined their Boeing Starliner spacecraft wasn’t safe for the return trip, so they stayed put. Now, nine months later, they are finally set to return home — perhaps as early as this Wednesday — after NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission successfully docked with the ISS after taking off from Florida on Friday.
59: Families in the eastern town of Kocani, North Macedonia, are in mourning after a nightclub fire killed 59 revelers early Sunday. Another 155 people were injured, with 18 still in critical condition. The fire, thought to have been sparked by pyrotechnics that set the ceiling alight, spread quickly, filling the club with thick smoke. Arrest warrants have been issued against four people.
3: In a weekend email, President Donald Trump’s administration ordered journalists at Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to leave their offices and surrender their press badges and equipment. Why? The White House stated that taxpayers should not be “on the hook for radical propaganda” and has claimed that VOA “too often speaks for America's adversaries — not its citizens” and “amplified Beijing’s propaganda.” All three outlets are renowned for their international coverage.
124,000: Mexicans gathered in several cities on Saturday to remember and seek justice for the country’s 124,059 missing people, most of whom disappeared during a military-led campaign against drug cartels in the 2000s, leading to an escalation of violence. Vigils were held in the western state of Jalisco, where a mass grave has been discovered, and in Mexico City, Tijuana, Veracruz, San Luis Potosi, Guadalajara, Puebla, Veracruz, Cancun, and Colima.A man walks past a Jio-bp fuel tanker, an Indian fuel and mobility joint venture between Reliance Industries (RIL) and British Petroleum (bp), in Navi Mumbai, India, October 26, 2021
Hard Numbers: BP cuts thousands of jobs, UK drug seizures soar, Astronauts take a hike, Nigeria kills dozens of jihadists
5: Energy giant BP announced Thursday it would cut 4,700 employees and 3,000 contractors, a total of more than 5% of its global workforce. The move is part of a broader strategy that aims to bring down costs by $2 billion over the next two years.
3.66 billion:Drugs is big business, innit. In the year ending March 2024, UK authorities seized a record 119 tons of illegal narcotics, with a street value of $3.66 billion. About two-thirds of the haul was cannabis, and a fifth was cocaine. Elsewhere in Europe, drug interdictions have also surged – a massive Interpol operation last spring led to the seizure of more than 600 tons of narcotics or precursor chemicals. The UN says cocaine consumption in European cities has risen 80% since 2011.
7: If you’ve got cabin fever, go for a walk – if you’ve got space station fever, go for a spacewalk! That’s what US astronaut Suni Williams did Thursday, stepping out of the International Space Station for the first time since arriving more than seven months ago. Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore were supposed to be at the station for only a week, but spacecraft trouble has kept them stranded in space, where they’ll likely remain until April or May.
76: In recent weeks, Nigerian forces have killed 76 jihadists in the country’s northeastern state of Borno. The militants belonged either to Boko Haram or to Islamic State West Africa, whose jihadist insurgency against the Nigerian government has displaced more than 2 million people and killed as many as 30,000 since it began in 2009. Growing violence and extremism in the Sahel region (which includes Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Chad) remains one of Africa’s biggest security challenges.
A Big Day for Space
On the same day NASA announced it would — for the first time — permit private citizens to visit the International Space Station, President Trump threw cold water on American plans for a return to the moon. GZERO took a step back, and caught up with former ISS Space Commander Chris Hadfield about what it's like to work and live in space.