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Washington — Former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in federal court in Washington, D.C., on charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, his first appearance in the latest case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. Trump’s plane took off from New Jersey shortly after 2 p.m. to head […]
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, CALIFORNIA — Aided by rain, firefighters fought to contain a massive blaze that swept through the California desert into Nevada and threatens the region’s famous spiky Joshua trees. The York Fire that erupted last Friday is California’s largest wildfire this year. As of early Wednesday it had burned through more than 333 […]
Elon Musk has unveiled a new black and white “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. Musk replaced his own Twitter icon with a white X on a black background and posted a picture […]
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday restricted some agencies and officials of the administration of President Joe Biden from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, according to a court filing. The injunction came in response to a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who alleged that […]
U.S. President Joe Biden is celebrating the country’s Independence Day holiday with a series of events Tuesday at the White House. The president and first lady Jill Biden are holding an event with the National Education Association, and then hosting military families for a barbecue. Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks in the evening to […]
ST. LOUIS, MO. — The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics also make it an especially dangerous holiday, typically resulting in more than 10,000 trips to the emergency room. Yet fireworks remain at the center of Independence Day, a holiday 247 years […]
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine. After decades of limited success, scientists say research has reached a turning point, with many predicting more vaccines will be out in five years. These aren’t traditional vaccines that prevent disease, but shots to shrink tumors and stop cancer from coming back. […]
A county in the northwestern state of Oregon on Thursday filed a lawsuit against major fossil fuel corporations, seeking more than $51 billion for the 2021 “Heat Dome,” one of the United States’ deadliest ever weather disasters. Multnomah County, which encompasses the state’s most populous city Portland, said combined historic carbon pollution from use of […]
In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday for a submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. U.S. Coast Guard officials said the search covered 10,000 square miles (26,000 square kilometers) but […]
Forecasters warned people celebrating Father’s Day outdoors to take precautions as triple-digit temperatures prompted heat advisories across much of the southern U.S., triggered thunderstorms that knocked out power from Oklahoma to Mississippi and whipped up winds that raised wildfire threats in Arizona and New Mexico. A suspected tornado struck near Scranton, Arkansas early Sunday, destroying […]
