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A five-alarm fire erupted at a commercial building on Foundry Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, on Friday afternoon, sending thick black smoke across the area and drawing a large emergency response. The blaze broke out…
A New Mexico state court judge ordered social media giant Meta to pay $567 million into a specialized youth abatement fund. The massive financial penalty follows a previous jury determination that the corporate parent of…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced an immediate emergency fuel waiver across multiple regions experiencing extreme heat waves to prevent severe gasoline shortages and distribution bottlenecks. Federal reg…
Lawmakers and water officials in Arizona, California, and Nevada have formally pushed back against proposed federal reductions to water withdrawal allowances from the drought-stricken Colorado River. The opposition follo…
The University of North Carolina football program was thrown into sudden disarray following an announcement that defensive coordinator Steve Belichick has been placed on an immediate medical leave of absence. The 39-year…
Researchers at Forescout Research - Vedere Labs have discovered fifteen previously unknown vulnerabilities affecting the zero-touch provisioning process in TP-Link Omada networking equipment. The findings were detailed a…
A federal judge in Boston cleared the way for the administration of President Donald Trump to terminate temporary protections against deportation for South Sudanese nationals living in the United States.U.S. District Jud…
Oscar-nominated British actress Minnie Driver revealed she is recovering after surviving a serious, near-fatal car accident in France. The 56-year-old actress shared a three-minute video on social media from her bed whil…
On August 7, 2026, law enforcement authorities in Spokane County, Washington, confirmed that 37-year-old Aaron F. Farinacci is now facing five counts of first-degree arson following the escalation of catastrophic wildfir…
LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - In private credit markets this week, Apollo Global reported easing redemption requests, business development companies BCP Investment and Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund posted weaker second-…
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Progressive Democratic proposals including "Medicare for all" and new taxes on billionaires have powered insurgent candidates including Abdul El-Sayed to primary victories this year, shakin…
Aug 7 (Reuters) - Airbnb (ABNB.O), opens new tab shares surged 14% to a more-than-four-year high on Friday as the vacation-rental firm's raised annual revenue forecast eased worries over the fallout on global travel dem…
OnlyFans model Celina Powell was arrested in Miami on Thursday afternoon after law enforcement officers surrounded her bubblegum-pink Lamborghini Urus. Video footage captured multiple police cruisers gathered near a Targ…
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says they have arrested a man connected to a recent assault on a woman in Dilworth after videos of it circulated on social media. Driving the news: Di-Quan Schafar Hunt, 32, was id…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to equip its officers with body cameras within the next two months, but agency policy grants leadership extensive control over which footage is made public, stipulating that rel…
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has fallen to a historic low water level, according to data published by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Water levels dropped to 1,040.5 feet, breaking the previous …
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation implementing a 15% tariff and a series of minimum import prices on polysilicon and its derivative products. The executive action utilizes Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Ac…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. & ATLANTA - Dream Finders Homes, Inc. (NYSE:DFH) announced today it will acquire Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE:BZH) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion in enterprise value. U…
The concert scheduled for Thursday night at San Francisco's Chase Center featuring co-headliners Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire was abruptly postponed due to a serious medical emergency involving a member of Earth,…
California Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a State of Emergency for Calaveras County in response to the rapidly expanding Gann Fire. The wildfire, which ignited on August 3, 2026, just before 5:30 p.m. near Hogan Dam Ro…
Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean has left the company after 27 years to launch a new research organization named Discovery Loop, alongside fellow veteran engineer Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. Alphabet w…
OpenAI filed a 31-page motion in a U.S. federal court asking a judge to dismiss the trade secrets lawsuit filed against it by Apple. The legal filing describes Apple’s complaint as baseless and pretextual, arguing that O…
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook stated that the U.S. central bank is running out of policy space and stands prepared to raise benchmark interest rates if inflation fails to show sustained movement toward the 2% target…
On August 7, 2026, United States President Donald Trump signed a national security presidential proclamation imposing a 15 percent ad valorem tariff and establishing mandatory minimum import price floors on polysilicon a…
SEATTLE — Major League Baseball has suspended Seattle Mariners reliever Gabe Speier for three games following an incident in Wednesday night's game against the Detroit Tigers at T-Mobile Park. The announcement was issued…