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People from Texas and Oklahoma may want to take a trip to the Great White North soon to get some heat. A cut-off low over the southwestern U. S. is plunging the two states in an October cooldown, with some major cities experiencing temperatures 10-15 degrees below seasonal. Meanwhile, Alberta and Saskatchewan are expected to be up to 10 degrees above seasonal. On Friday and Saturday, a low-pressure system cuts off from the jet stream to form a cut-off low over the Four Corners (where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet). The cut-off low is expected to bring heavy rain across the Southwest, followed by the cold front on the backside to send temperatures plummeting. Friday into Saturday will see the cold front pass, bringing a temperatures plummet to 10-15 degrees below seasonal. Content continues belowIt will be colder in cities like El Paso, Wichita and Oklahoma City than in parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan on Friday and Saturday. A ridge of high pressure forms across Alberta and Saskatchewan Friday, bringing sunshine and warmth back into the region. The southerly flow brings temperatures up to the high teens, and even to the 20s, across the region.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

What researchers uncovered through lab testing and surveillance footage, prosecutors said, was a plot by his fellow graduate student to intentionally poison him.

Omar’s legal team says the search violated safeguards designed to protect constitutional rights of members of Congress. Lawyers for Democratic United States Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have demanded the return of property seized in a federal raid of her Washington, DC home, accusing the US Department of Justice of conducting a politically motivated investigation and failing to follow judicial instructions during the search. “The political motivations behind this pre-election investigation and search are clear as day,” Omar’s lawyers wrote in a letter sent to federal prosecutors on Friday and obtained by The Associated Press news agency.