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Rainy conditions were helping more than 1,000 firefighters gain ground on two wildfires in southern New Mexico on Saturday that have killed two people, destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands to flee. Firefighters using bulldozers were digging protective lines and hand crews used shovels in more rugged terrain to battle the fires near the mountain village of Ruidoso. The South Fork Fire, which reached 26 square miles (67 square kilometers), was 26% contained, while the Salt Fire, at 12 square miles (31 square kilometers), was 7% contained as of Saturday morning, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Russia bombed a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing three people and wounding more than 50 as it stepped up renewed hostilities. In May, a guided bomb attack on a hardware store killed 16 and wounded dozens.
Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426,000 health care workers to help balance the state's budget. The agreement, announced Saturday and which must still be approved by the state Legislature, would delay that increase until Oct. 15 — but only if state revenues between July and September are at least 3% higher than what state officials have estimated. The minimum wage for most people in California is $16 per hour.
A war monitor on Saturday said three pro-Iran fighters, including at least two Iraqis, were killed in an overnight air strike in eastern Syria near the Iraq border.In late March, the Observatory said 16 Tehran-affiliated fighters, including an Iranian Revolutionary Guard, were killed in strikes on eastern Syria.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says that one of its facilities in southern Gaza was damaged in the strike that is reported to have killed 25 people Friday.
Four tourists died in the past two days in Panama City Beach, Florida, putting the area on pace to be the deadliest in the nation for the second year.
The fastest-growing nicotine product in the U.S. has been increasingly hard to come by — and some customers aren’t happy.
Two teenagers went missing in the water on Friday just a few minutes after lifeguards at a busy New York City beach went off duty.
Donald Trump will address the Faith and Freedom Coalition's "2024 Road to Majority" conference, speaking to a group that advocates for a national abortion ban.
Egypt withdrew the operating licenses of 16 tourism companies and referred them to the public prosecutor, accusing them of being responsible for the deaths of Egyptian pilgrims in Mecca, a crisis unit tasked with addressing the situation said on Saturday. Medical and security sources say at least 530 Egyptians died during this year's haj pilgrimage to Mecca, while the statement from the unit, formed on Thursday and headed by prime minister Mostafa Madbouly, said 31 deaths were confirmed as a result of chronic illness. The tourism companies which facilitated the travel of those who died did not provide them with services of any kind, including medical, the statement said without naming the companies involved.
A dangerous heat wave over the eastern US is bringing sweltering temperatrues to much of the US this weekend, including over parts of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, a tropical system could develop this weekend through the southwest Gulf of Mexico. Here’s the latest:
As heat in the East and cool conditions in the West trade places before the end of the month, AccuWeather meteorologists say there will be additional opportunities for severe thunderstorms to erupt from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast during the transition. Hot conditions, combined with high humidity, can help lead to thunderstorm formation during the summer months, especially where there is terrain or subtle disturbances high up in the atmosphere that can result in rising air. This scenario
A recent fundraising email sent by a GOP political action committee said the order compels federal agencies “to act as Biden’s personal ‘Get-Out-The-Vote’ machine.”
Health officials in Gaza said Israeli air strikes on Saturday killed at least 24 people in the territory's north, a day after the International Committee of the Red Cross said 22 people were killed in shelling that damaged its office.The European Union's foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, on Saturday called for a probe into the shelling that damaged the ICRC office.
“not enough medics” to help pilgrims with heat, Hajj witnesses tell CNN
The state Senate in Massachusetts has passed a wide-ranging bill curtailing the use of plastics, including barring the purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies. The bill, approved Thursday, also bans carry-out plastic bags at retailers statewide and require stores to charge 10 cents for recycled paper bags. The move comes as a growing number of states are address concerns about plastics that harm wildlife, pollute waterways and clog landfills.
The Department of Energy has an ideal temperature setting for air conditioning it recommends. But few people follow it. Here's what to know.
Families were shopping at a local grocery store in a small Arkansas town on Friday when shoppers and passersby heard an alarming sound that some thought was fireworks and others thought was something falling, but later all they heard was police sirens and people running away.
The governor of Iowa sent helicopters to a small town to evacuate people from flooded homes Saturday, the result of weeks of rain, while much of the United States longed for relief from yet another round of extraordinary heat. Sirens blared at 2 a.m. in Rock Valley, Iowa, population 4,200, where people in hundreds of homes were told to get out as the Rock River could no longer take rain that has slammed the region. “We've got National Guard helicopters coming in where people are on their roofs — literally on their roofs or the second floor because their first floor is completely flooded,” Mayor Kevin Van Otterloo said.
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes to gain ballot access in all 50 states, Democrats are ramping up their efforts to block the independent presidential candidate by filing legal challenges seeking to get his ballot petitions thrown out in several states.