The central United States is once again on heightened alert as severe storms, which could produce life-threatening impacts such as long-track tornadoes and flash flooding, ignite across the region through Monday night.

May 20 (UPI) -- Elections officials and leaders at tech companies Facebook, Google and Twitter are set to testify later this week at a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on election security, lawmakers announced Monday.

May 20 (UPI) -- Measles cases in the United States rose to 880 last week, to the highest level in 25 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

May 20 (UPI) -- Ford Motor Co. said Monday it is planning to layoff white collar 7,000 workers, with 800 coming this summer -- most in the Detroit area.

May 20 (UPI) -- More than 300,000 people have died from HIV and AIDS in Russia over the last three decades, the nation's national consumer watchdog said Monday.

May 20 (UPI) -- China may be increasingly using entertainment media to control public perceptions of the United States

May 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. food company has issued a recall for 2,000 pounds of hot dogs over concerns they may contain bits of metal.

May 20 (UPI) -- A rights group said Monday it wants the U.N. to look into how India responds to uprisings in the territory of Kashmir, saying forces there routinely use torture to subdue dissent.

May 20 (UPI) -- North Korea Workers' Party officials are to meet with their Russian counterparts in Moscow later this month, according to Russian media.

May 20 (UPI) -- Amid peace talks between the United States and Afghanistan leaders, the United Nations mission in the war-scarred nation said in a study Monday sustained efforts are still needed to weed out corruption there.