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1 day ago | whec.com | Tara Copp

WASHINGTON (AP) — The deep penetrating bombs that the U.S. dropped into two Iranian nuclear facilities were designed specifically for those sites and were the result of more than 15 years of intelligence and weapons design work, the Pentagon’s top leaders said Thursday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a press briefing that they are confident the weapons struck exactly as planned.

4 days ago | whec.com | Ghaith Alsayed |Kareem Chehayeb

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a church in Syria at the weekend has risen to 25, state media said Monday. The attack Sunday on the Mar Elias Greek Orthodox church during a Divine Liturgy in Dweil’a, near Damascus, was the first of its kind in Syria in years, and comes as Damascus under its de facto Islamist rule is trying to win the support of minorities.

5 days ago | whec.com | Glenn Johnson

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Depends on your tolerance for this type of weather, but for some folks, today the was the first day of an oppressive amount of heat and humidity. Most communities measured a high temperature near 90 degrees with a heat index near 100 degrees. The heat index is the comfort level when combining the temperature and humidity. This will be a three-day event of mid-summer conditions with Monday likely being the peak of the steamy weather.

6 days ago | whec.com | Glenn Johnson

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The most uncomfortable weather of the season is set to arrive for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It will be the combination of hot temperatures and high humidity that will create oppressive conditions for all of Western New York. High temperatures will be in the low to middle 90s which will challenge the records for each day. The heat index, which is the combination of temperature and humidity, will make it feel like 100 degrees at times.

1 week ago | whec.com | L. David Wheeler

The day's major News events, business reports, sports updates, Rochester area weather information and tomorrow's forecast are presented by the News10NBC Team. NEWARK, N.Y. – Nearly one year after Wilson Augustave Jr. drowned in the Erie Canal, his peers honored him at what would have been his high school graduation on Friday. A family friend shared pictures of the graduation ceremony at Newark High School.