The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. Air Force has evacuated air refueling tankers from their base in eastern England due to a threat from Iran. The newspaper reported that two tankers stationed at RAF Mildenhall were diverted to Germany on Monday, and several other tankers were relocated to other bases in Europe later in the day. The newspaper cited people familiar with the decision. A European Command spokesperson wouldn’t confirm the report when contacted by The Associated Press, saying only that the service rotates aircraft between locations “for a variety of reasons including training and real world requirements.”

Thunderstorms with heavy rain have caused flash flooding in parts of north Georgia and inundated the small town of McCaysville with high water. Emergency teams used boats to rescue residents overnight Wednesday into Thursday. The National Weather Service said Thursday morning that storms dropped 3 to 5 inches of rain in McCaysville, leading to life-threatening flooding. The McCaysville Police Chief told local television station Atlanta News First that more than 30 rescues were conducted overnight. The Fannin County Emergency Management Agency says swift water rescue teams evacuated residents, but many remained stranded Thursday morning. The agency warned that floodwaters remain extremely dangerous.

Another round of heavy rains and flash flooding has triggered evacuations along rivers in parts of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. The water's receding now in one Colorado tourist town, but other rivers are still rising. The San Juan River crested Sunday night in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, reaching close to a level that devastated the town back in 1911. The flooding has closed some Election Day polling sites in the Southwest, forcing changes in some voting plans. Arizona officials ordered evacuations along Oak Creek in Sedona, and in Tucson, Arizona, a meteorologist said they're getting several months’ worth of rain in just a couple of days.

Flash flooding has prompted mandatory evacuation orders in parts of the U.S. Southwest. Officials in Sedona, Arizona, on Sunday ordered residents in areas near Oak Creek to leave immediately as flood waters were rising rapidly and multiple people were already trapped in their homes. In southwestern Colorado, officials in Pagosa Springs warned in a Facebook post of potentially catastrophic flooding as the San Juan River is forecast to crest at more than 19 feet Sunday night. Pagosa Springs officials say anyone in low-lying areas along the San Juan, Rio Blanco, Navajo, and Piedra Rivers should head to a designated shelter at a local church.

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Natalia Diadiuk, 53, a local resident, reacts as she refuses to be evacuated during a localized ceasefire linked to a humanitarian aid mission to Oleshky, in the village of Kozatske, Kherson region, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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A crew member of the Liberian-flagged container ship Contship Jet, which was attacked by drones, is evacuated and transported to the port of Varna, Bulgaria, aboard the Bulgarian Navy rescue ship "Proteo", late Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Petko Momchilov)