As we approach one year since the Marshall Fire, the Colorado Division of Insurance is advising those affected to ask for an extension for additional living expenses before they expire.
Hamas says Israel's brazen raid to save 4 hostages killed almost 300 people. Moamen Mattar says his 12-year-old brother was one of them.
Russian prosecutors have sent the case of detained U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich to court after concluding that he collected information for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency about a Russian tank factory, they said in a statement on Thursday. The office of Russia's General Prosecutor said it had approved the indictment and that Gershkovich's criminal case would be heard by a court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, where the reporter was arrested in March 2023 on suspicion of espionage. Gershkovich and his employer reject the espionage allegation as false and the Biden administration has demanded that Moscow release him.
An estimated 200,000 people in Pakistan could be affected by the upcoming monsoon season, which is expected to bring heavier rains than usual, a top U.N. official warned on Thursday. The United Nations, with help from local authorities, has prepared a contingency plan, with $40 million set aside to respond to any emergencies, said Mohamed Yahya, the newly appointed Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Pakistan. Yahya told journalists in Islamabad that the weather forecasters in Pakistan are projecting above-normal rainfall in the coming weeks.
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign on Thursday called on top Republicans to drop litigation seeking to curtail aspects of mail balloting now that Donald Trump has begun to embrace the method. At the same time, the Republican National Committee, newly under the former president's control, has sued or joined lawsuits seeking to limit certain aspects of mail voting. “If Donald Trump is serious about finally recognizing that mail voting is a great option for voters to utilize this November, he should demand the RNC and his MAGA allies drop every one of these lawsuits throughout the country,” Biden's campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said in a statement, referring to Trump's “Make America Great Again” movement.
Preparations are being made in case Donald Trump won't be able to attend the Republican National Convention. Florida deals with flooding after historic rainfall.
The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone. It's cool flip side, La Nina, is likely to breeze in just in time for peak Atlantic hurricane season, federal meteorologists said. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Thursday pronounced dead the El Nino that warms parts of the central Pacific.
El Niño is officially over, federal forecasters announced Thursday, but we're not quite in a La Niña yet. We're in the middling "ENSO-neutral" phase.
From misting systems to heat-reflective road coverings, Saudi officials are trying to aid hajj pilgrims in coping with heat, but scientists caution that climate change may outpace these efforts.Since last year, roads used by the faithful have been covered in a white cooling material that Saudi officials say reduces the temperature of the asphalt by 20 percent.
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits jumped to the highest level in 10 months last week, another possible sign that the labor market is loosening under the weight of high interest rates. Unemployment benefit applications for the week ending June 8 rose by 13,000 to 242,000, up from 229,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Weekly unemployment claims are seen as a stand-in for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week and a sign of where the job market is headed.
Former President Donald Trump is back in Washington for the first time since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee, holding a pair of significant, closed-door meetings with key congressional allies, vice presidential hopefuls and even a few former outspoken opponents – all of whom are expected to line up behind him this fall.
Wholesale price increases fell in May, the latest sign that inflation pressures in the United States may be easing as the Federal Reserve considers a timetable for cutting interest rates. The Labor Department reported Thursday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.2% from April to May after rising 0.5% the month before, pulled down by a 7.1% drop in gasoline prices. Overall, it was the biggest drop in producer prices since October.
It was an emotional graduation ceremony for high school seniors in Newtown, Connecticut, who observed a moment of silence for their 20 classmates who were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Principal Kimberly Longobucco read the names of the first graders who were killed on Dec. 14, 2012 along with six educators as the class of 2024 and their families looked on Wednesday, Hearst Connecticut Media reported. “We remember them for their bravery, their kindness and their spirit,” Longobucco said.
Lawson learned in India how to resist racism and subsequently trained his students on the systematic use of nonviolence to fight injustice.
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
Turning excess office space into apartments isn’t a panacea for the housing shortage, but it’s producing thousands of new units yearly and is more sustainable and economical than new construction.
A year after one of the Mediterranean's worst migrant shipwrecks killed more than 600 people, lawyers for survivors pursuing a criminal case against the Greek coastguard gave fresh details on the case Thursday.The independent Greek ombudsman's office has launched a disciplinary investigation into the case, after the coastguard saw no grounds to do so, the lawyers said Thursday.
Two people were allegedly electrocuted while inside a hot tub at a beach resort in Puerto Peñasco. A man died, while a woman is hospitalized.
The judge in the trial of two leading Russian theatre figures accused of "justifying terrorism" approved a request from prosecutors on Thursday to ban journalists and members of the public from attending the remainder of the case. Director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk were arrested in May last year over their production of "Finist, the Brave Falcon", which tells the story of Russian women who married Islamic State fighters. The case represents a legal landmark in Russia and a test of the limits of artistic freedom.
The graduation ceremony at Newtown High School included a moment of silence for the victims of the Dec. 14, 2012, mass shooting, who would have been receiving their diplomas.
An estimated 756,000 people in Sudan could face catastrophic food shortages by September, according to a preliminary projection used by United Nations agencies and aid groups to determine whether to officially declare a famine. The preliminary results, as of June 1 and seen by Reuters, reflect a rapidly deteriorating situation in the war-torn country. The most recent previous projection, released in December, showed that 17.7 million people, or 37% of the population, faced high levels of food insecurity, but none were considered in a catastrophic situation.
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