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WatchUtilities from Plymouth to Braham were forced into manual operation this week after the controllers that run their pumps and towers were compromised. Federal agencies say similar attacks have now surfaced in at least seven states.
A Georgia judge handed down the sentence two days after 16-year-old Colt Gray got life without parole for the Apalachee High School massacre. Prosecutors had asked for 80 years.
WatchU.S. Central Command said the overnight barrage struck Revolutionary Guard command centers, missile plants and coastal defenses in retaliation for an attempted Iranian strike on American forces in Jordan. Iran answered by threatening every country helping Washington.
Federal prosecutors in Buffalo said Matar spent months preparing to carry out a 1989 Iranian fatwa. He faces a potential life sentence on Nov. 3, on top of the 25 years he is already serving.
WatchCENTCOM says every Iranian missile launched at 5:45 p.m. ET Tuesday was intercepted. Hours later, American and Saudi fighter jets struck weapons sites across eastern Iraq, shattering a two-day lull in a war that had appeared to be cooling.
The Bench Fire has burned all the way to the edge of the Warm Springs Reservation, destroying six homes and forcing a boil-water order. Gov. Tina Kotek called the statewide response 'all hands on deck.'
Temporary Protected Status expires Monday after a federal appeals court bought Haitians three extra days. Immigration agents plan to move quickly, and deportation flights can only land in one Haitian city.
Indiana-based Midwest Poultry Services recalled roughly 1.6 million dozen shell eggs sold at Kroger and Brookshire stores. Twenty-six people have been hospitalized since November.
WatchThe driver fled on foot after the white van struck a tree in Tiergarten park, and Berlin police say they have identified a suspect known to the city's Islamist scene but have not arrested him.
The blaze started on the first floor of a 1930s wood-frame house on 41st Road and jumped to neighboring buildings within two hours, displacing multiple families.
Nathan Matthews, 43, of Lincoln, Nebraska, died Friday of burn injuries suffered on June 27, when his crew deployed emergency shelters as flames closed every escape route in Mesa County.
WatchA preliminary federal report says an air traffic controller had already cleared an American Airlines jet for takeoff, then forgot — and a false cockpit warning turned a routine departure into one of the year's closest calls.
WatchU.S. Central Command announced no new attacks after 13 consecutive nights of bombing, and an Iranian Health Ministry spokesman said the country had "a peaceful night." Trump insisted the military remains "locked and loaded."
The 16-year-old admitted to killing two students and two teachers in Winder, Georgia, in September 2024. A judge will decide between life with parole and life without it.
Students learned by email late Wednesday that the university would no longer hold their spots. Some say they had scholarship money in hand that had not yet cleared.
A 57-year-old Asian man was stabbed in the back and a 50-year-old Jewish man had a screwdriver driven into his chest within minutes of each other near Central Park. Both are expected to survive.
WatchThe Defense Casualty Analysis System dropped four service members — three killed in Jordan and one in northern Iraq — in the space of a day. Military officials said the deaths were struck because they came after President Trump declared a cease-fire in April.
WatchBrent settled at $100.69 after jumping 6.1% — its first close above $100 since May — as the national gasoline average hit $4.09 a gallon and Wall Street sold off across the board.
None of the four officers who confronted Ruiz were wearing body cameras. Demonstrators seized the microphone at a police news conference and held it for 20 minutes.
The storm came ashore near New Orleans, but its worst rainfall landed 800 miles inland — six inches in 12 hours around Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
Google's parent beat on revenue and posted a record profit, but a ballooning AI spending forecast erased roughly $300 billion in market value, while Tesla slid 14% on a profit miss.
The National Weather Service has issued more than 30 flash-flood emergencies this month alone, part of a barrage of extreme rainfall events scientists tie directly to a hotter atmosphere.
Federal health officials say shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico is the likely source of a parasite outbreak that has hospitalized 94 people, even after one lab test came back a false positive.
Super Micro soared 24% and AMD gained on an Anthropic partnership, but Alphabet's plan to spend up to $205 billion this year and a Goldman warning on ballooning AI borrowing left the market uneasy about the boom's foundations.
The chipmaker began fresh layoffs in the unit at the heart of the AI boom, notifying employees just ahead of its quarterly results as Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan presses a sweeping restructuring.
WatchA team backed by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation and the Discovery series 'Expedition Unknown' located the DC-4 airliner some 2,000 feet beneath the Atlantic, solving one of aviation's oldest mysteries.
Prosecutors say Brandon Booth, unable to reach his shift past demonstrators outside Aurora's ICE Processing Center, drew a personal handgun and fired, wounding 21-year-old Emma Landis.
WatchDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended a $67 billion supplemental request before a Senate panel Tuesday, disclosing that the four-month conflict's price tag has ballooned from about $29 billion in May as the U.S. death toll climbs.
A barrage of nearly 9,000 dry-lightning strikes touched off scores of fires in a matter of days, pushing the Northwest to the nation's highest preparedness level as flames destroyed homes and choked the sky with smoke.
WatchForecasters posted tropical storm warnings from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana, with up to 6 inches of rain and a 4-foot storm surge threatening the coast through Thursday.