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ABC News (NEW YORK) — Helene — which has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane — is taking aim at Florida, where it’s forecast to make landfall along the Big Bend area on Thursday night. Here’s how the news is developing: Hurricane Helene is now a Category 4 storm As Hurricane Helene nears landfall in […]
Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu via Getty Images (RIO DE JANEIRO) — Scientists have quantified how much more fire-prone South America has become in recent decades, as several parts of the continent experience severe wildfires. Some regions in South America are experiencing many more days with extreme fire conditions, putting some of the continent’s most important ecosystems — […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — A former Memphis police officer testified Thursday at the federal trial of three ex-officers facing charges related to the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols that he believes he panicked during the encounter. “I lost my composure,” Desmond Mills Jr., who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the […]
Ramiz Dallah/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL-AVIV, Israel) — Israel said it killed another top Hezbollah commander — Muhammad Hussein Srour, the commander of Hezbollah’s Aerial Command — in a “precise” strike on Beirut Thursday. At least two people were killed, and 15 others were injured in a strike on Dahieh in Beirut, according to the […]
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On the brink of trial, the cable news channel Newsmax on Thursday reached a settlement with voting machine company Smartmatic, bringing an end to a defamation lawsuit that accused the network of spreading multiple false claims surrounding the 2020 election. Smartmatic had accused Newsmax of publishing […]
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (GREENBELT, Md.) — As Democrats in Maryland tell it, the state’s key Senate race isn’t about any particular person — even the candidates themselves. On the campaign trail, you’ll hear Democrats vying to keep an open Senate seat blue knock former Gov. Larry Hogan, the GOP nominee. But you’ll also hear lamentations […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Helene — which has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane — is taking aim at Florida, where it’s forecast to make landfall along the Big Bend area on Thursday night. Here’s how the news is developing: Latest forecast Hurricane Helene is forecast to make landfall as a major hurricane between […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With just six weeks until Election Day, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are campaigning in battleground states on Wednesday. Vice President Kamala Harris is delivering remarks on the economy — a key 2024 issue that polls show Trump leading on with voters — in Pennsylvania. Later this […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — The federal judge who oversaw Hunter Biden’s conviction on gun charges in Delaware has again agreed to delay his sentencing. At the request of prosecutors, Hunter Biden’s sentencing in Delaware will be pushed back one week, from Dec. 4 to Dec. 12, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika ordered on […]
CDC/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY (NEW YORK) — A rise in rates of sudden unexpected infant deaths may have been linked to an off-season surge of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in 2021, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal JAMA Open Network. Sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID) includes deaths of infants under one year […]
