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WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Investigators worked Friday to determine the exact reason a man with a rifle crashed into a largeMichigan synagoguein what federal officials are saying was an attack carried out by a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon.

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Ayman Mohamad Ghazali was killed by security afterramming into Temple Israelin West Bloomfield Township near Detroit, Michigan, and driving down a hallway in a vehicle that then caught fire, according to authorities.

The FBI, which is leading the investigation, described the attack on one of the nation's largestReform synagoguesas an act of violence targeting the Jewish community.

The synagogue's staff, teachers and 140 children at its early childhood center were not injured, according to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard.

Ghazali came to the U.S. in 2011 on an immediate relative visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen and was granted U.S. citizenship in 2016, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

In the minutes after the attack, smoke billowed from the synagogue. One security officer was hit by the vehicle and knocked unconscious but did not suffer life-threatening injuries, Bouchard said. And 30 law enforcement officers were treated for smoke inhalation.

Cassi Cohen, director of strategic development at Temple Israel, was in the hallway where the crash happened. She described hearing a loud bang and said she grabbed a few staff members, ran into her office and locked the door.

"When I heard the crash, I knew it was bad," Cohen said.

She said the crash happened near a classroom and, in addition to the children, there were also more than 30 staff members in the synagogue.

Rabbi Arianna Gordon, from Temple Israel, thanked the security team, law enforcement and early childhood teachers for getting the children out safely and reunited with their parents.

About a dozen parents sprinted to get their children soon after authorities cleared the building. Other families were reunited at a nearby Jewish Community Center.

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Allison Jacobs, whose 18-month-old daughter is enrolled in Temple Israel's day care, said she got a message from a teacher saying the children were OK even before she knew what happened.

"There are no words. I was in complete and utter shock," she said.

Synagogues around the world have been on edge and ramping up security since the U.S. and Israel launched a war with Iran with missile strikes on Feb. 28.

The FBI has warned that Iranian operativesmay be planning drone attackson targets in California. Two menbrought explosivesto a far-right protest outside the New York mayoral mansion on Saturday. Investigators allege they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group.

And anassailant drove a carinto people outside an Orthodox synagogue in Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. He stabbed two people to death before officers shot and killed him.

President Donald Trump said he had been fully briefed on the attack, calling it a "terrible thing."

Steven Ingber, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Detroit, said Thursday: "I'd love to say that I'm shocked, that I'm surprised, but I'm not."

The attack was the second at a house of worship in Michigan within the past year. Last September, a former Marine fatally shot four people ata church north of Detroitand set it ablaze. The FBI later said he was motivated by "anti-religious beliefs" against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Oakland County is Michigan's second-largest county with roughly 1.3 million people. The majority of Detroit-area Jewish residents live there. Temple Israel has 12,000 members, according to its website.

Durkin Richer reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press reporters Ed White in Detroit; Todd Richmond in Madison, Wisconsin; John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio; Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C., and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed.

Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be.

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Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill.

This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash already hit much of the East. On Wednesday, Washington, D.C. residents walked around in shorts in record-breaking 86 degrees Fahrenheit (about 30 Celsius). On Thursday, it snowed.

"All of the country, even if you're not necessarily seeing extremes, are going to see generally changing from cold to warm, or warm to cold to warm," said meteorologist Marc Chenard of the weather service's Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.

Former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Ryan Maue said he expects extreme weather in all 50 states.

Triple-digit heat persists in Southwest

A heat dome will form early next week and park over the Southwest, baking temperatures to triple digits that haven't been seen this early in the year, Maue and Chenard said.

Some forecasts see 98 (almost 37 Celsius) in Phoenix on Tuesday, followed by 103, 105 and two days of 107 (almost 42 C). In 137 years of record-keeping, Phoenix never hit 100 before March 26 and usually hit its first 100-degree day in early May, according to the weather service, which warned people: "Since we are not acclimated to this level of heat this early in the year, it will be more impactful than usual."

It has already started in Los Angeles withunusual 90-degree March weatherthat had people in shorts and tank tops seeking shade anywhere they could get it, even if it was as slender as a light post.

Shane Dixon, 40, usually runs about 5 miles near his home in Culver City without much effort, he said, his face glistening with sweat and his T-shirt tucked into his shorts. But Thursday was hard because of the heat, and he had to cut it short.

"The back of my neck was melting," he said. But he preferred it to the cold and snow that will hit elsewhere.

"I could go literally soak myself and walk out in the sun and I'll make it home fine. If it was freezing cold I could not do this," he said.

Single-digit cold invades North

Around the same time as the heat starts blasting Phoenix, the polar vortex — a system that usually keeps frigid air penned up near the North Pole — is forecast to send its chill deep into the Midwest and East, even bordering some of the Southeast, Maue said

Minneapolis will hover around zero for a low, and Chicago will be in the single digits Tuesday. The next day "temperatures in the teens and 20s in the northeast and 20s in the Mid-Atlantic," Maue said. Even Atlanta could drop to the 20s.

One-two snowstorm punch

Two storm systems in a row — one Friday, then another Sunday into Monday — will chug along the country's northern tier and Great Lakes and between them could dump 3 to 4 feet of snow in places, Maue said.

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That bigger second storm system will see its barometric pressure drop so quickly and sharply — meaning it is intensifying and winds are strengthening — that it will qualify as a bomb cyclone, which is quite unusual to develop over land. Normally bomb cyclones get their energy from warm ocean waters, but this one will draw power from the polar vortex.

Even Alaska and Hawaii aren't quite right

Maue said Hawaii is getting an atmospheric river that will have such persistent heavy rain that flooding will be a major issue. Oahu is under a flash flood warning.

And Alaska is normally frigid now, but it will be about 30 degrees colder than usual, he said.

It is "the time of year where we can see stuff like this," Chenard said. "But this does seem even anomalous from what you would typically see. I mean, some of these areas will be setting records. Record-high temperatures for March and maybe multiple times."

In the past week or so, tornadoes have killed at least eight people inOklahoma, Michiganand Indiana. The forecast for severe storms doesn't look as big or widespread for the next week, but dangerous thunderstorms could pop up "anywhere from the Mississippi Valley toward the East Coast" on Sunday or Monday, Chenard said.

The jet stream goes nuts

Underlying this is a jet stream gone wild, Maue and Chenard said.

The jet stream is the river of air that moves weather from west to east on a roller-coaster-like path. Usually the plunges are as mild as a kiddie roller coaster. But now that jet stream is going on near-vertical, scream-inducing drops following by straight-up ascents.

"Which means you get a lot of extremes next to each other," Maue said. Storm fronts coming from the Pacific hit that high pressure heat dome in the Southwest and are pushed north to climb that mountainous jet stream peak, "grab access to that cold air reservoir up there" and bring it back down south down the other side of the hill, he said.

Numerous studies have connectedunusual jet streamandpolar vortexactivity to shrinking Arctic sea ice andhuman-caused climate change.

But there is hope.

"The first day of spring is 20th (of March), and then after that we get recovery," Maue said.

Associated Press writer Dorany Pineda contributed from Los Angeles.

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Kylie Jennernever misses the chance to get the internet talking, and this time she has done it by debuting a bleached brow look. The beauty mogul graces the cover of Vanity Fair's Spring 2026 issue. Photographed by Mert Alas, she delivered her take on the bleached brow and bra-as-top trends.

Kylie Jenner takes the internet by storm with shocking bleached brow look for Vanity Fair

Take a look at Kylie Jenner with her bleached brows:

Jenner paired a structured black bra with Hermès khaki pants cinched by a black Balenciaga belt at the waist. She completed the look with inky knee-high riding boots, another piece from Hermès. Together, the boots and the pants helped her lean into the horse girl aesthetic.

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The most striking part of her look, however, was her makeup featuring the bleached brows. Makeup artist Ariel Tejada used a blurred matte lip, saturated blush, and mascara to achieve that bleached look. All products were from Kylie Cosmetics. She sat on a bed with her knees spread as she lit a cigarette while staring at the camera.

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"If you live a long life and you get to the end of it without ever once feeling crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention."

So opinesDaniel Radcliffein the solo showEvery Brilliant Thing, which just opened at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. It's a deep quote in a story centered around a very deep topic — suicide. Yet the play's secret is managing to confront the issue head-on while also offering a life-affirming alternative in the form of a constantly growing list of seemingly trivial things that make every day worth savoring.

Radcliffe's unnamed narrator began making the list at 7 years old after his mother attempted to take her own life. But instead of Radcliffe reading the list items to the audience, the trick is that the audience actually reads the items back to Radcliffe. The actor will shout out a number and then — in an impressive display of audience amplification by sound designer Tom Gibbons — a reply emanates back from somewhere in the theater. Sometimes from the orchestra. Other times, the mezzanine. And occasionally from on stage, where people are seated in the round.

On the list could be anything: The even-numberedStar Trekfilms. When a concert crowd keeps singing the melody after the band have left the stage. Peeing in the sea without anybody knowing. Spaghetti bolognese. And the star reacts to it all with whimsical delight, as if he is cherishing the memories all over again.

And that is just the beginning of the audience participation, as theater goers are picked out to play key roles such as the narrator's father, girlfriend, librarian, and professor along the way. Not only does it inject a bit of improv into the proceedings as Radcliffe must react to how his amateur thespians play the scene, but it also creates a mad pre-show scramble that is just as entertaining as the actual play itself.

From the moment the house doors open, right up until the show officially begins, Radcliffe stalks the aisles of the theater — chatting with attendees and handing out assignments. The star has always projected as a celebrity completely unimpressed with his own celebrity, and watching one of the most famous faces on planet Earth literally work the room — bouncing manically from row to row and enthusiastically thanking those who agree to participate — is an absolute delight and sets the perfect tone for what is to come.

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Every Brilliant Thingwas written in 2013 by Duncan Macmillan (who directs this production with Jeremy Herrin) and Jonny Donahoe (who was the original performer; you can watch a filmed version of his take on HBO Max). It has since appeared worldwide and starred folks likeMinnie DriverandPhoebe Waller-Bridge, but it's hard to imagine anyone tackling the role with more energy and ebullience than Radcliffe, who at one point during a drum and bongo solo from Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up" proclaims, "I'm going to high-five the entire room!" And then proceeds to go and do it… before eventually making his way back on the stage and noting, "The high fives were a mistake. There are too many of you."

And the flurry of Hudson Theatre high-fives is not the only time Radcliffe is quick on his feet. During one performance, the two books he retrieved from audience members for a key scene happened to be none other thanPercy Jackson and the OlympiansandTwilight. Upon reading the words "Soon to be a major motion picture" on theTwilightcover, the former Harry Potter slyly ad-libbed, "Nothingevergoes wrong with adaptations to major motion pictures."

Any one-person show is obviously dependent on the magnetism of its performer, and Radcliffe is in total command of both the material and the room. While Donahoe's original narrator was a bit more tender and subdued, Radcliffe is a frenetic force. Where Donahoe walked around his stage, Radcliffe bounces. Which is what makes his energetic narrator's own spiral at one point into a depressive state all the more impactful, as both he and we learn that all the lists and ebullience in the world can't fully protect you from the demons within.

It seems almost incongruous to talk about what a great time you will have watching a play centered around depression and suicide, but whatEvery Brilliant Thingdoes is create almost a communal support group filled with constant reminders of the things that make life worth living. And with Radcliffe as our guide, this show definitely makes the list.Grade: A–

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