The State Department says South Africa’s ambassador to the United States has until Friday to leave the country.

Remarks by South Africa's ambassador to the United States about President Donald Trump were "unacceptable," a State Department spokesperson told reporters on Monday after Washington last week made the decision to expel the envoy.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome in our great country.”

Darren Atchison loaded his all-terrain vehicle with granola bars and sports drinks, avoiding downed trees Monday as he delivering supplies to a neighborhood pummeled by one of the many deadly tornadoes that ripped through the U.

Residents and work crews in the South and Midwest are beginning to clean up and survey the destruction from a series of storms that kicked up wildfires, tornadoes and dust storms

"Get to the sturdiest structure you have access to and remain in place until the storms pass," the NWS told residents in Alabama on Saturday night, when multiple tornado warnings were issued. At least 250,