Southern California wildfire stalls as Santa Ana winds ease
Evacuation orders were issued for about 7,000 residents on the west side of the community of Fallbrook and for some Camp Pendleton…
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San Diego County wildfire prompts evacuations at Camp Pendleton and nearby area
A wildfire in northern San Diego County has grown by nearly 1,300 acres — burning a total of 4,276 acres — and prompted mandatory…
Continue Reading This team of high schoolers is building accessibility with free, 3D-printed prosthetics
For this first time in his life, Pete Peeks was able to use both hands to hang Christmas lights outside his house this year — thanks to the…
Continue Reading Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder claims he’s being extorted by one of team’s minority owners
Dan Snyder, the majority owner of the NFL’s Washington Football Team, claimed in a court filing Wednesday that he’s being extorted by one…
Continue ReadingDemocrats Ossoff and Warnock each raise more than $100 million for Georgia Senate runoffs
Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff each brought in more than $100 million in a two-month period, setting a blistering fundraising pace in their…
Continue Reading Every US coronavirus death is preventable, health expert says
The sad part about the thousands of Americans that will die in the coming weeks of the coronavirus pandemic is that they don’t have to have to…
Continue Reading The four 2020 Heisman Trophy finalists hail from Alabama, Clemson and Florida
Alabama quarterback Mac Jones, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith and Florida quarterback Kyle Trask are the…
Continue Reading Columbus, Ohio, police chief moves to terminate one officer, investigate others in fatal shooting of Andre Hill
The chief of the Columbus Division of Police in Ohio announced he is moving forward with terminating one of the department’s officers after the…
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Frustrated Trump met with Pence before holiday break
Hours before President Donald Trump retweeted a message for his vice president to “act” in stopping the ratification of the Electoral…
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Large winter storm system dumps rain on Northeast, snow in other parts of East
A large winter storm that brought blizzard conditions to the Midwest was hitting much of the East Coast on Christmas Eve, bringing snow to parts of…
Continue ReadingUSPS agrees to treat Georgia runoff ballots as express mail
The US Postal Service has agreed to take extraordinary measures to deliver mailed ballots for Georgia’s upcoming Senate runoff elections,…
Continue Reading World-renowned virologist warned in 2008 about future epidemics
Virologist and infectious diseases expert Nathan Wolfe warned 12 years ago that the world didn’t understand how to handle infectious diseases.…
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Incredible life-saving rescue caught on body camera
A dramatic rescue captured on…
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California becomes epicenter of coronavirus crisis
It’s Christmas Eve in the middle of a crisis. With nearly 120,000 Americans hospitalized with coronavirus, patients in California fill hallways,…
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Coronavirus relief remains in limbo
The $600 checks once set to go out before New Years, are now in limbo.…
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Arizona health officials release weekly coronavirus report
The coronavirus continues to spread across the state at an alarming rate. That’s the news from the Arizona Department of Health Services’ (ADHS)…
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Hunting for ‘Disease X’
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Showing early symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, the patient sits quietly on her bed, wrangling two…
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Body cam footage shows fatal police shooting of unarmed Black man in Columbus, Ohio
Body camera footage released Wednesday shows a Columbus, Ohio, police officer fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in a garage within seconds of…
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US coronavirus deaths are projected to reach 567,000 by April, even amid vaccine rollout
More than 1 million people have received their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, but an influential coronavirus model projects the US death toll will…
Continue Reading Petitions for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are the most signed pleas of all time at Change.org
It’s been a challenging year: a global pandemic claimed millions of lives, a national reckoning on race put a spotlight on police brutality in…
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