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Two firefighters were killed Saturday in Arizona as wildfires raged through the West, threatening California's overburdened power grid during an oppressive heat wave and ongoing drought. The firefighters were killed in a plane crash while conducting aerial reconnaissance over the Cedar Basin Fire near the Prescott National Forest, the Bureau of Land Management said in a statement. "Our hearts are heavy tonight with sincere condolences to families, loved ones and firefighters af...

Confirmed deaths rose to 90 in the recovery efforts after the collapseof a Miami Beach-area condominium building as crews continue to sift through the debris more than two weeks after Champlain Towers South fell in the middle of the night. At least 71 of the victims have been identified with their families' having been notified, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday morning. Search efforts accelerated in the last week after officials demolished a ...

The highly transmissible delta variant is now the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. As of July 3, the latest date for which data was available, the delta variant accounted for 51.7 percent of new Covid-19 cases that had been genetically sequenced in the country. Two weeks earlier, on June 19, the variant accounted for just over 30 percent of new cases. During a news briefing Tuesday, Presid...

Emergency workers gave up Wednesday on any hope of finding survivors in the collapsed Florida condo building, telling sobbing families that there was “no chance of life” in the rubble as crews shifted their efforts to recovering more remains. The announcement followed increasingly somber reports from emergency officials, who said they sought to prepare families for the worst. “At this point, we have truly exhausted every option available to us in the search-and-rescue ...

The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant. The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world’s wars since 1982, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo. The toll is three times the number of peo...

On the last day of Javier Vilca’s life, his wife stood outside a hospital window with a teddy bear, red balloons and a box of chocolates to celebrate his birthday, and held up a giant, hand-scrawled sign that read: “Don’t give up. You’re the best man in the world.” Minutes later, Vilca, a 43-year-old struggling radio journalist who had battled depression, jumped four stories to his death — the fifth suicide by a COVID-19 patient at Peru’s overwhelm...

Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble of a Florida condominium collapse vowed Thursday to keep up their search for victims until they cleared all the debris at the site. Earlier, a fire official told family members at a meeting that crews “will not stop working until they’ve gotten to the bottom of the pile and recovered every single of the families’ missing loved ones,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said at an evening new...

An already struggling and chaotic Haiti stumbled into an uncertain future Thursday after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, followed by a gunfight in which authorities said police killed four suspects, detained two others and freed three officers being held hostage. Officials pledged to find all those responsible for the pre-dawn raid on Moïse’s home early Wednesday in which the president was shot to death and his wife, Martine, critically wounded. She was f...

The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed 22 million jobs in wealthy countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In a report Wednesday warning of the risk of a rapid rise in long-term joblessness, the Paris-based organization said that employment across OECD countries is not expected to recover to its pre-pandemic level before 2023. "The strong economic recovery underway across OECD countries is yet to fully tra...

The Justice Department unveiled a major indictment Thursday against five Floridians accused of attacking at least seven police officers during the US Capitol insurrection. Prosecutors say the defendants, all from the Tampa Bay area, repeatedly attacked members of Washington, DC's police force. They allegedly used stolen riot shields and flagpoles to assault officers in the head and neck, and later resorted to punching, kicking, and elbowing the officers. The indictment includes...

Missouri, Arkansas and Nevada are leading the U.S. in new COVID-19 cases and low vaccination rates in those states raise concerns about the Delta variant's ability to find unvaccinated individuals and spread in communities. States with high vaccination rates have seen a significant decline in cases and the vaccines have proven to be a good defense against the Delta variant. The mutation is of concern to health officials because of its ability to infect people at higher rates and in Mis...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared gun violence in his state a disaster emergency during a news conference on Tuesday. To fight the issue, Cuomo issued an executive order that he said will provide necessary resources to curb what he called a public health crisis. He also compared gun violence to COVID-19. "We went from one epidemic to another," he said. "We went from COVID to the epidemic of gun violence and the fear, and the death, that goes...

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which compiled data from cities across the country showing hundreds of injuries and deaths over a 72-hour period, the Fourth of July weekend was the most violent weekend in the United States so far this year. Roughly 233 people were killed in the U.S. and hundreds more injured — from 5 p.m. Friday through Monday, according to the GVA data. The organization reported numbers exceeding 600 injuries as of Tuesday morning and is still finalizin...

The Delta variant has been identified among people who were linked to a huge COVID outbreak at a church camp, according to Texas health officials. Galveston County Health District (GCHD) officials confirmed the highly spreadable Delta variant had been identified in three test samples linked to a huge church camp coronavirus outbreak on June 27. More than 125 COVID cases were identified after campers from grades 6 through 12 associated with the Clear Creek Community Church of L...

The Indonesian Industry Ministry has been asked to give 90 percent of the nation's oxygen production to hospitals in order to keep up with high demand during the COVID pandemic. "We have identified oxygen needs in each hospital, and set up oxygen task forces in each province," Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin told a parliamentary health commission, the Associated Press reported. The country is facing a major oxygen scarcity as COVID-19 cases surge. Wednesday was Indones...

Aspike in COVID-19 cases in Missouri largely attributed to the Delta variant and a low vaccination rate forced one hospital to borrow ventilators during the Fourth of July weekend and beg for help from respiratory therapists on social media, the Associated Press reported. A newly formed federal "surge response team" began arriving to help suppress the outbreak in the Springfield area that has been hit hard. Ashley Kimberling Casad, vice president of clinical services at Cox So...

The US government is deploying a Covid-19 surge team to provide public health support in southwest Missouri, where the spread of the virus is filling up hospital beds once again. The surge of Covid-19 cases is so high in the city of Springfield, Missouri, that the CoxHealth hospital system began transferring patients infected with the virus to other facilities to provide better staffing. At Cox South, a Springfield hospital, 12 Covid-19 patients were transferred to othe...

The Surfside, Florida, condo collapse search and rescue efforts have transitioned to a recovery operation, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Wednesday. "To share this news with the families this evening who are still missing their loved ones was devastating and it's also difficult to share with all of you," she said in an evening news briefing. The transition will take place at midnight, she added. "Our team has developed a very detailed plan to gui...

A Covid-19 outbreak stemming from a Texas church summer camp has grown to about 160 cases, including infections of the highly contagious Delta variant, the Galveston County local health authority said. More than 450 people attended the camp for sixth through 12th graders in late June, hosted by Clear Creek Community Church. The camp took place at Tejas Camp & Retreat in Giddings, Texas. Of the roughly 160 people infected, six (about 3.7%) had been vaccinated, said Dr. Phil...

An explosion on a container ship docked at Dubai's Jebel Ali port late Wednesday caused a large fire and was felt across the city, authorities said. There were no reported deaths or injuries and the fire was brought under control, authorities said. The Comoros Islands-owned ship was docked at the port when the blast occurred in a container holding cleaning products, according to Dubai's Civil Defense chief Rashed Al Matroush. The Dubai Media Office posted a video of firefighters...

More than 50 years after Frank Serpico testified about endemic corruption in the New York Police Department, the department finally recognized his service and injury in the line of duty with an official certificate and inscribed medal of honor. The former undercover detective, 85, received the honor in the mail Thursday, the New York Daily News reported. Serpico testified in December 1971 to a panel appointed by Mayor John Lindsay to investigate police corruption, breaking the &ldq...

Before he was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police officer, Amir Locke had been making plans. The 22-year-old Black man had filed paperwork to start a music business, his mother said, and had already designed a logo. Next week, he planned to move to Dallas, where he would be closer to his mom and — he hoped — build a career as a hip-hop artist, following in the musical footsteps of his father. His death inside a Minneapolis apartment where police were serving ...

The death of a young Black man at the hands of a Minneapolis police SWAT team is shining new light on how police carry out no-knock warrants. Attorneys and the family of 22-year-old Amir Locke said Friday that officers basically “executed” Locke, and that they were “flabbergasted” that Minneapolis police haven’t learned from the botched no-knock raid in Louisville, Kentucky, in which Breonna Taylor was killed. And they were dismayed that Locke died at pol...

A Navy SEAL candidate who who died just hours after completing the grueling Hell Week test was identified Sunday as a 24-year-old sailor who joined the military last year. Seaman Kyle Mullen died at a San Diego area hospital on Friday after he and another SEAL trainee reported experiencing symptoms of an unknown illness, the Navy said. The other sailor, whose name has not been released, was hospitalized in stable condition, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Sunday. The cause of de...

A caravan of vehicles drove through Minneapolis demanding justice in the death of Amir Locke, the 22-year old Black man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police as officers served a no-knock search warrant. Sunday’s caravan of about 50 vehicles was organized by the Racial Justice Network and other police accountability groups. Some in the caravan then gathered in a neighborhood outside what’s believed to be the home of interim Police Chief Amelia Huffman. Th...

A record number of law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2021, according to a report from the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund Wednesday, with most losing their lives to COVID-19. In 2021, 458 law enforcement officers died -- up 55% from 2020, according to the report. In 2020, 295 federal, state, local and tribal officers died in the line of duty. The closest number to 2021's was recorded was in 1930, when there were 312 law enforcement deaths. Th...

A Minneapolis city council committee held a hearing on no-knock warrants Monday afternoon following the death of Amir Locke, who was fatally shot in an apartment by Minneapolis police officers on Wednesday during the execution of a "no-knock" warrant. Law enforcement and criminal justice experts as well as activists and attorneys for the Locke family offered research and perspective on the impact and harm of no-knock warrants to the city council as talks of legisla...

Nearly a year after a deadly winter storm left Texans freezing and in the dark, state officials say they know the final death toll. The Texas Department of State Health Services adjusted the number of people who died from last February's storm to 246 people — up from July's tally of 210. The victims, who spanned 77 counties in Texas, ranged in age from less than one year old to 102. Last February's massive winter storm spread ice, snow, and freezing temp...

Opening arguments have begun in the federal hate crimes trial of the three Georgia men charged in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger whose 2020 shooting fueled protests and calls for racial justice. The Justice Department has charged Travis McMichael, his father, Greg McMichael, and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping of the 25-year-old. All three defendants are white, while Arbery was Black. Th...

Scores of people in the South and Midwest are believed dead after severe weather that caused multiple tornadoes struck late Friday night and early Saturday morning, tearing through Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas. At least 70 people are likely to have died in Kentucky alone, the governor said, and the death toll may rise to more than 100. President Biden approved the state's emergency declaration in order to provide federal funds for relief efforts. He ca...

Twelve people, including eight children, were killed Wednesday morning after flames ripped through a Philadelphia rowhouse, fire officials said. Officials had previously said that at least 13 were killed. Firefighters arrived at the three-story structure at 869 N. 23rd St. in the city's Fairmount neighborhood about 6:40 a.m., according to the Philadelphia Fire Department. It took about 50 minutes to control the blaze, the department said. Even hours after f...

New York City Fire Commissioner Dan Nigro said a malfunctioning electric space heater caused the Bronx apartment fire that killed 19 people, including nine children, and injured dozens of others Sunday morning. The late-morning fire quickly expanded because a door in the two-level second-floor unit where the blaze started was either left open or did not automatically close after residents fled, he said. "The marshals have determined through physical evidence, through firsthand acco...

Police in Colorado have identified and are searching for a man suspected of a shooting inside a church that left one woman dead and two men injured. Aurora police said Sunday that a warrant for first-degree murder had been issued for Jose De Jesus Montoya Villa. Montoya Villa, 31, is accused of opening fire inside Iglesia Faro De Luz on Friday night while about 20 people were at the church for an event, police said. A 36-year-old woman was pronounced dead on the scene. A 40-year...

The man accused of driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing six people and injuring dozens, said Wednesday that he feels like he’s being “demonized.” Darrell Brooks Jr., in an interview with Fox News from the Waukesha County Jail, offered no details about a possible motive. “I just feel like I’m being monster — demonized,” Brooks said, according to the Fox report. According to a criminal co...

A Wisconsin man was arrested and accused of driving an SUV into crowds at the Waukesha Christmas parade on Main Street as revelers watched in horror, officials said Monday. The man, Darrell E. Brooks, 39, was booked on suspicion of five counts of intentional homicide, Waukesha Police Chief Daniel Thompson told reporters. City officials identified the four women and the man who were killed as Virginia Sorenson, 79, LeAnna Owen, 71, Tamara Durand, 52, Jane Ku...

A Wisconsin jury on Friday found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty in the fatal shooting of two men during protests in Kenosha last year, capping a trial that touched on issues of gun rights and race. Rittenhouse, 18, from nearby Antioch, Illinois, was cleared on all five charges related to his actions on Aug. 25 last year, during protests over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white Kenosha police officer. Rittenhouse was charged with reckless homicide in the...

A woman was pushed to her death in front of an oncoming train in New York City on Saturday morning. New York City police said the incident occurred at around 9:30 a.m. in a Times Square subway station near 42nd Street and Broadway. The 40-year-old woman was shoved onto the tracks and struck by a southbound R train, a police spokesperson said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The man believed responsible fled the scene but turned himself in to transit police a short time later, P...

A former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for hitting a kneeling protester in the back of the head with a riot baton during a 2020 demonstration over Breonna Taylor’s death, federal officials said. Cory P. Evans, 34, had previously pleaded guilty to violating the Constitution and using unreasonable force on May 31, 2020, while working as part of the Louisville Metro Police Department’s Special Response Team. Evans tried t...

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (born 30 September 1964) is an Italian actress and model. She began her career as a fashion model, modelling for Dolce & Gabbana and Dior, before making a transition to Italian films and later American and French films.   Bellucci played a Bride of Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror romance film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and Malèna Scordia in the Italian-language romantic drama Malèna (2000). She was in the contro...

Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke (born 23 October 1986) is an English actress. Known for her work on screen and stage, she has received a number of accolades, including an Empire Award, a Saturn Award, in addition to nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a 2019 place on the Time 100. She studied at the Drama Centre London, appearing in a number of stage productions. Her television debut was a guest appearance in the BBC One medical soap oper...

A former New York police officer has been indicted in the death of his mother, who was found nearly decapitated in her home in Queens last year. The man, Osvaldo Diaz, 46, "allegedly stabbed and slashed" his mother, Maria Diaz, 78, to death with a machete on Feb. 24, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Thursday in a news release. “The defendant allegedly attacked his mother with a machete — to the point of near-decapitation," Katz said in the ...

The girlfriend of a police officer who died after he was found battered and hypothermic on a suburban Boston roadside is out on $50,000 bail after pleading not guilty to vehicular homicide and manslaughter. Karen Read, of Mansfield, is accused in Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe's death and striking him with her car in Canton about Jan. 28, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. Read, 41, allegedly asked a witness: "Did I hit him, did I hit him?" and investigators said...

Kansas officials released body camera footage Tuesday in the death of 17-year-old Cedric Lofton, a foster child who became unresponsive while being restrained facedown for more than 30 minutes at a Wichita juvenile center in September. The video appears to show officers taking Lofton to the center, returning after a medical emergency call and finding staff doing CPR. But they do not clearly show what occurred at the facility before the teenager stopped breathing Sept. 24. Lofton died Se...

A woman was pushed to her death in front of an oncoming train in New York City on Saturday morning. New York City police said the incident occurred at around 9:30 a.m. in a Times Square subway station near 42nd Street and Broadway. The 40-year-old woman was shoved onto the tracks and struck by a southbound R train, a police spokesperson said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The man believed responsible fled the scene but turned himself in to transit police a short time later, P...

Relatives of a Black man who was fatally shot on a camping trip last month in rural Pennsylvania called his death a “lynching” and have expressed frustration that several people were detained but not arrested or charged. The man, Peter Bernardo Spencer, 29, of Pittsburgh, was shot multiple times at a Rockland Township residence Dec. 12, Pennsylvania State Police said this month. “The four individuals who were present at the time of the shooting were questioned a...

 A woman fell to her death from a mast on a historic ship that’s featured at a Texas museum after her safety harness somehow came unclipped, police said. The 58-year-old woman died Saturday after falling from a mast on the tall ship Elissa, which is berthed at Galveston’s seaport museum, the Galveston County Daily News reported. “We’re not sure exactly what happened that she wasn’t double-clipped in,” Port of Galveston Police ...

A woman fell to her death Sunday when a draw bridge in West Palm Beach, Florida, was raised as she was walking across with her bike, according to police. The woman, who has not been identified, was walking across the Royal Park Bridge, which stretches from Lakeview Avenue in West Palm Beach and connects to the island of Palm Beach, at around 1 p.m., West Palm Beach police said. She was about 10 feet away from the end of the bridge when it raised and she fell through a gap in the ro...

Seth Rogen blasted Team USA after sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson was prohibited from running the 100-meter race at the Olympics after a positive marijuana test. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said Richardson accepted a one-month suspension.  "The rules are clear, but this is heartbreaking on many levels; hopefully, her acceptance of responsibility and apology will be an important example to us all that we can successfully overcome our regrettable decisio...

She is a liberal icon and was America's first female secretary of state, but not everyone at a California college is thrilled that “white feminist and repeated genocide enabler” Madeleine Albright has been lined up to give next month’s commencement address. Soon after officials at all-female Scripps College, in Claremont, Calif., announced Albright would speak to graduates, an article in the school paper derided the Czech-born diplomat for her skin color and previous ...

At least dozens of General Electric employees walked out of a South Carolina factory on Thursday to protest a federal government mandate stating that employees with federal contracts must be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Roughly 100 people lined the street outside a GE plant in Greenville Thursday, according to The State with a handful of them wearing GE uniforms and ultimately driving away from the property. Protesters could be seen carrying sig...