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Strong storms last night left hundreds of thousands without power from Wisconsin and Michigan to Virginia and New York.

Ohio was the hardest hit.

According to PowerOutage.us, more than 300,000 customers are without electricity there.

There are also a slew of power outages in Hawaii, where a state of emergency remains in effect from what's called a Kona storm.

It began dumping rain on the islands this week.

Richard Grinnell will soon be departing his position as president of the Kennedy Center.

Under Grinnell's leadership, the center has seen numerous artists cancel performances, staff departures, and plummeting ticket sales.

Here's NPR's Elizabeth Blair.

Juergen Abramov is being remembered as one of the world's most influential philosophers.

and a key intellectual in his native Germany.

Arba Masa's publisher says he died today.

He was 96.

I'm JL Snyder, NPR News.

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

The FBI is praising a group of ROTC students for bringing a classroom shooting at Virginia's old Dominion University to an end.

FBI Special Agent Dominic Evans.

The FBI is also investigating Thursday's attack on a synagogue outside Detroit.

The suspect was found dead after he crashed his truck into the synagogue.

One guard was injured.