SEDONA, Arizona – The Pocket Fire burning in the Red Rock–Secret Mountain Wilderness of Coconino National Forest has expanded to 691 acres with 0% containment as of Wednesday afternoon, June 24, 2026. Blustery, erratic winds have forced firefighting aircraft to be grounded, limiting suppression tactics as the fire creeps closer...
AUSTIN, Texas. The 15-member Republican-led Texas State Board of Education gave preliminary approval this week to proposed K-12 social studies standards and a statewide reading list that would require Bible passages and expand instruction on Christian-influenced content, with specific grade-level directives such as third graders learning about Moses and certain...
TAMPA, Florida – The Tampa Police Department announced on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, that Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold has been arrested and booked into the Orient Road Jail in Hillsborough County. The 23-year-old surrendered to authorities in connection with a February 4, 2026 incident in the Tampa Bay area...
U.S. stock futures climbed sharply on Thursday, driven by strong earnings and forecasts from major semiconductor companies that eased concerns about a losing streak in artificial intelligence-linked shares. Nasdaq 100 futures gained about 2.2%, with S&P 500 and Dow futures also moving higher as investors rotated back into technology names....
In Washington on Wednesday, President Donald Trump had a heated exchange with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy during a private lunch with Senate Republicans, according to the Associated Press. The confrontation centered on the ongoing war in Iran and a Senate war powers resolution passed the previous day aimed at restricting...
Roseville, Minnesota. The Minnesota State Lottery reported two midrange Powerball winning tickets sold in the state this week: a $100,000 ticket at Jubilee Foods in Madison and a $50,000 ticket at a Speedway on Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis following a Wednesday drawing; the Powerball jackpot was not won and...
Russian investigators used an Israeli-made Cellebrite Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) to hack the iPhone of opposition politician Andrey Pivovarov in June 2021, according to a new investigation by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and court records published on June 25, 2026. Cellebrite had announced in March 2021 that...
United States health authorities are warning consumers about a growing multi-state outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections linked to soft and semi-soft cheeses produced by Clover Hill Dairy, LLC of Mechanicsville, Maryland. In an updated public health alert issued on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
LOS ANGELES — Kylie Jenner has been named as a defendant in a third workplace-related lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, where a former private chef alleges that grueling work conditions during a high-risk pregnancy led to a miscarriage. The civil complaint, filed on June 22, 2026, names Jenner,...
United States-based OpenAI and U.S. semiconductor company Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom-designed artificial intelligence chip, developed to accelerate inference workloads such as real-time ChatGPT responses. The application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) marks OpenAI’s most aggressive move yet to reduce its dependence on Nvidia’s dominant general-purpose GPUs and to move...
