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Air raid sirens and loud booms sounded across Israel Saturday evening after Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones at the country in a retaliatory attack, but Israeli officials said the assault was almost entirely thwarted by air defense systems and with the help of the U.S. and Israel’s other allies. More than […]
Japan’s Transport Safety Board on Thursday judged that a cargo ship that spilled 1,000 tons of fuel oil into a pristine marine environment off the coast of Mauritius in 2020 was travelling off course in search of a cell phone signal. From a report: The MV Wakashio was en route from Lianyungang, China to a […]
Wagner Group leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin was “likely” killed in a plane crash Wednesday, according to an initial U.S. assessment, Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon spokesman, told reporters at a news conference. U.S. intelligence officials are considering the possibility that the plane crashed after an explosion aboard, according to U.S. officials familiar with the […]
CNN — Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a failed uprising against the Kremlin exactly two months ago, was on board a plane that
Serhii Smolientsev/Reuters A residential building damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, July 23, 2023. CNN — Russian strikes on Odesa overnight damaged at least six residential buildings, a Ukrainian Orthodox Church and “architectural monuments,” according to Ukraine’s southern Operational Command.
SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST, Minn. — Forest officials have determined a wildfire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was caused by a human. The U.S. Forest Service said the exact cause remains under scrutiny, but investigators determined Saturday that human actions sparked the fire. The wildfire on June 14, 2023. US Forest Service The fire […]
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Comment on this story Comment MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Friday that U.S. families were to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don’t hug their kids enough. The comment by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador caps a week of provocative statements from him about . . .
During the first year of the pandemic, the United States saw a spike in the number of Black infants who died suddenly—worsening a longstanding disparity, a new government study finds. The increase was seen in what’s called sudden unexpected infant death, or SUID. It’s a term used when a baby younger than 1 year dies […]
During the first year of the pandemic, the United States saw a spike in the number of Black infants who died suddenly—worsening a longstanding disparity, a new government study finds. The increase was seen in what’s called sudden unexpected infant death, or SUID. It’s a term used when a baby younger than 1 year dies […]