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First reported Maui fire may have been caused by damaged power lines, independent report claims
Whisker Labs CEO Bob Marshall (ABC News) (NEW YORK) — Maui’s first reported wildfire last week may have been caused by damaged power lines, according to newly released research conducted by a power monitoring company. [Read More…]
Cost of security prompted by Idaho college killings tops $1.2M for university
Heather Roberts/ABC News (MOSCOW, Idaho) — The financial costs to the community continue to climb in the aftermath of the killing of four Idaho college students last fall. Nine months after the King Road quadruple [Read More…]
Trump’s legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources
Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County DA’s Office is now very much in doubt, multiple [Read More…]
Majority of Americans think Trump’s charges in Georgia election interference case are serious: POLL
Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a week where former President Donald Trump was indicted for a fourth time, a majority (63%) of Americans say that the charges approved by a [Read More…]
Special counsel raises new conflict of interest concerns for De Oliveira’s lawyer
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Special Counsel Jack Smith raised new conflict of interest concerns Wednesday about another attorney representing one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in his classified documents case in Florida, according [Read More…]
Donors still sticking with DeSantis despite campaign struggles
Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has gone through several internal and external challenges, but many of his donors say they are standing beside the “only candidate who [Read More…]
People step up to help pregnant, postpartum moms amid Maui wildfire devastation
Courtesy of Aubrey Vailoces (NEW YORK) — Aubrey Vailoces, a mom of three, was breastfeeding her 10-month-old daughter in her Maui home last week when she said alarms started going off and she saw her [Read More…]
Starbucks ordered to pay extra $2.7M to employee who said she was fired for being white
RapidEye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New Jersey federal judge has ordered Starbucks to pay a former employee who was awarded $25.6 million in a wrongful termination suit an extra $2.7 million in damages. Shannon [Read More…]
Clayton Echard talks new show ‘Pickleball Paddle Battle’, shares advice for the ‘Golden Bachelor’
John Fleenor/ABC via Getty Images As one of the fastest growing sports, Pickleball is taking over the United States — and soon our televisions. The beloved sport is now the premise of the new reality [Read More…]
Family of two children allegedly assaulted at NC pool files a federal lawsuit
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (GREENSBORO, N.C.) — The family of two Black children who were allegedly assaulted at a pool by an apartment complex manager in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Aug. 2 filed a federal discrimination [Read More…]
Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction
The Ocean Cleanup (NEW YORK) — Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, saw [Read More…]
Appeals court wants limits on abortion pill access, sending case to Supreme Court
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The abortion drug mifepristone should be more tightly regulated than it is now, with limits on the drug at seven weeks of gestation and requirements that patients obtain the pill [Read More…]
Rival GOP campaigns throw their hands up at Trump indictment
Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Normally, four-time indicted politicians would have their presidential ambitions dashed, not boosted. But former President Donald Trump is no traditional politician — and rival campaigns are making their [Read More…]
Democrats celebrate 1-year anniversary of signature legislation, and more trail takeaways
Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats took a victory lap Wednesday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act into law, the legislation they hope will help propel them [Read More…]
Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into brain-dead patient 1 month ago is still functioning, doctors say
Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health (NEW YORK) — Doctors at NYU Langone in New York City announced Wednesday that they have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a human who was declared brain dead, in [Read More…]
FX’s ‘American Horror Stories’ to return on Hulu October 26
FX Just in time for Halloween, FX has announced its anthology spinoff American Horror Stories will debut on Hulu Thursday, October 26. The spinoff of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s award-winning hit anthology series American [Read More…]
Blinken speaks to Paul Whelan, American wrongfully detained by Moscow, sources confirm
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke over the phone with Paul Whelan, a wrongfully imprisoned American citizen who has been jailed by Moscow since 2018, according to sources familiar with the [Read More…]
Disappearing glaciers will give way to emerging, ‘novel’ ecosystems, new research finds
Jean-Baptiste Bosson (NEW YORK) — Scientists are beginning to better understand the consequences of melting glaciers on humans, species of all kinds and the ecosystem in which they live. Glaciers are disappearing all over the world [Read More…]
Maui wildfires live updates: Only 1,300 households registered with FEMA
FILE — chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Officials say the wildfires that erupted on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Aug. 8 have become the deadliest natural disaster in state history. The blazes spread [Read More…]
6th victim dies in Pennsylvania house explosion: Officials
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (PLUM, Pa.) — A sixth person has died days after a house exploded in Pennsylvania, officials said. Paul Oravitz, 56, died earlier Wednesday at a local hospital, Plum Borough officials and the Allegheny [Read More…]