Des Moines — The Des Moines Fire Department and the National Fire Sprinkler Association hosted a fire prevention open house Saturday at Fire Station One featuring live sprinkler demonstration trailers, while separate incidents in West Hartford and Chesapeake saw firefighters respond to apartment and house fires on Saturday and Sunday,...
Cincinnati. The city hosted its 53rd annual Pride festival Friday and Saturday, with organizers estimating about 300,000 attendees downtown and a parade that stepped off at 11 a.m. from 7th and Central toward Sawyer Point; Friday night began with the Pride Party at Elm Street Plaza featuring live music, performances...
United States — The 2026 World Cup group stage is nearing completion, and Saturday’s slate in the United States features six matches across three groups, all carrying significant implications for the round of 32. In the 5 p.m. ET window, England face already-eliminated Panama in New Jersey as they look...
HOUSTON is seeing a rapid expansion of cricket as baseball fields give way to new pitches and indoor centres, reflecting the influence of immigrant communities from India, England, the West Indies, Australia and South Africa. Local organiser Surya Saladi, who founded the Triggers Cricket Consortium (TCC) in 2004 as an...
SPIELBERG, Austria, June 27 (Reuters) - George Russell secured pole position for Mercedes in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix at Spielberg on Saturday, clocking a lap 0.236 seconds faster than Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc as the session ended in chaos. Lewis Hamilton, Leclerc’s teammate at Ferrari and winner of the...
Texas authorities and U.S. federal agencies are responding to an outbreak of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite not seen in U.S. livestock for nearly 60 years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the first case on June 3, 2026, in a three-week-old beef calf in Zavala County, Texas, near...
Anthropic has accused Chinese technology conglomerate Alibaba of organizing what it calls the largest known artificial intelligence distillation attack against its Claude models, according to a June 10, 2026 letter sent to US Senate Banking Committee leaders and shared with the White House. The company alleges operators linked to Alibaba...
The United States and Iran have carried out direct military strikes against each other over the past 48 hours in the Persian Gulf region, raising fears for a fragile ceasefire agreed in June 2026. The confrontation began Thursday when an Iranian drone attacked the Singapore-flagged cargo ship M/V Ever Lovely...
A large swath of the central and eastern United States is forecast to experience a dangerous and potentially life-threatening heat wave beginning Sunday, June 28, 2026, and lasting through the July 4 Independence Day weekend. A strong high-pressure “heat dome” is expected to push daytime temperatures into the 90s and...
SEATTLE, Washington — Egypt advanced to the knockout stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup for the first time in the country’s history after a 1-1 draw against Iran in Seattle, Washington, on Friday night. The group-stage match at Seattle Stadium ended level, but the result was sufficient to guarantee...
