September 4, 2024, 2:17pm Latest News
A growing wildfire in Northern California forced hundreds of people to evacuate Wednesday as a heat wave threatened to make fire conditions worse. In the Midwest, another wildfire kept residents of South Dakota’s second-largest city on edge, ready to flee if flames moved dangerously close. Read story
September 4, 2024, 2:03pm Latest News
A new report on the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century details steps communities can take to reduce the likelihood that grassland wildfires will turn into urban conflagrations. Read story
September 4, 2024, 11:41am Nation & World
Jimmy McCain, a son of former Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, said this week he has registered as a Democrat and will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, a valuable nod of support for the Democratic nominee in a battleground state. Read story
September 4, 2024, 11:34am Nation & World
More than two months after the first contingents of Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti to head a largely U.S.-funded multinational security force, the Biden administration is exploring the possibility of transitioning to a traditional United Nations peacekeeping operation. Read story
September 4, 2024, 11:29am Nation & World
The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also said more than two-thirds of it comes from the Global South. Read story
September 4, 2024, 11:28am Nation & World
About 20 migrants are believed to be missing after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean this week, the U.N. refugee agency and the Italian coast guard said Wednesday. Read story
September 4, 2024, 11:28am Life
Boeing will attempt to return its problem-plagued capsule from the International Space Station later this week — with empty seats. Read story
September 4, 2024, 9:49am Nation & World
A federal judge on Tuesday swiftly rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, spurning the former president’s attempt at an end-run around the state court where he was convicted and is set to be sentenced in two weeks. Read story
September 4, 2024, 9:40am Nation & World
For more than a week, hundreds of Israeli forces have carried out the deadliest operation in the occupied West Bank since the war in Gaza began. Their focus has been the Jenin refugee camp — a bastion of Palestinian militancy that has grown more fervent since the Hamas attack on… Read story
September 4, 2024, 9:39am Nation & World
Two Phoenix officers were shot and wounded by a person suspected of breaking into a vehicle, one in critical condition and the other stable, likely saved by his ballistic vest, police said Tuesday. Read story
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