After the worst wildfire season ever in 2020, California is bracing for more destruction this year due to worsening drought conditions and above-normal temperatures."We had world record-breaking high temperatures in our own backyard in California... 130 degrees in our state,"…
A Pentagon police officer was charged with two counts of second-degree murder Friday in the shooting deaths of two men in Maryland this week, authorities said.Officer David Hall Dixon was off-duty at the time of the shooting. He was taken…
A Black man says officers with the Los Angeles Police Department violated his civil rights by racially profiling and wrongfully arresting him in a May 2019 incident during which he was mistaken for a man violating a restraining order, according…
As colleges and universities nationwide make plans to welcome back students in the fall, a growing number have announced they will require all students to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 before returning to campus.So far, at least 14 colleges have…
An undercover officer with the New York Police Department arrested a woman yelling anti-Asian slurs at a Chinatown nail salon, according to city officials.Sharon Williams, 50, allegedly went into the nail salon Tuesday afternoon and is accused of making anti-Asian…
A South Carolina community is reeling after a former NFL player killed five people -- including a prominent doctor, his wife and their two young grandchildren -- before killing himself, authorities said.Officers responding to a 911 call found Dr. Robert…
A gunman killed one person and wounded at least five others -- four of them critically -- at a cabinet manufacturer in Bryan, Texas, police said.The gunman, who is believed to be an employee of the company, Kent Moore Cabinets,…
More than three years after the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah was drastically shrunk in size, tribal leaders and activists are hopeful that Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland would soon recommend its restoration.Haaland is visiting the Utah monument on…
Police arrested a Brooklyn, New York, resident on assault and reckless endangerment charges after he allegedly struck a 7-Eleven worker in the face multiple times while making anti-Asian statements, according to the NYPD.The alleged assault occurred at a 7-Eleven in…
Travis Rudolph, a former wide receiver for the Florida State Seminoles, is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with a shooting early Wednesday morning, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.Deputies responded to a double shooting in Lake…
The majority of American eagles likely have rat poison in their systems, a new study reported Wednesday.Bald eagles once had faced grave threats to their survival in the 1960s due to hunting and DDT poisoning, but are now thriving thanks…
A Colorado mass vaccination site paused operations this week after 11 people experienced adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine.More than 1,700 people received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Wednesday at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a soccer stadium where the…
A renowned pulmonary critical care doctor testified Thursday morning that George Floyd died from a "low level of oxygen" when former police officer Derek Chauvin pinned him to the street and restricted his ability to breathe."This caused damage to his…
An explosion at a paint manufacturing facility in Ohio left several injured, two critically, and one person unaccounted for, according officials in Columbus.Firefighters who responded just after midnight to reports of an explosion were met by five employees evacuating the…
What are you doing with your stimulus checks? According to a new survey, American households are using most of the money to pay down debt or add to their savings.Here's what you need to know to Get Up to Speed…
A shocked South Carolina community was grieving and looking for answers Thursday after officials said a beloved doctor and four other people were shot and killed by a man who had gone from a local high school on to college…
Millions of counterfeit masks have been seized by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials since the start of the pandemic. But the last few months have seen an "exponential increase" in counterfeit mask seizures, a CBP official told CNN.Since…
More than 5,000 people attended an unauthorized and illegal event at Tonto National Forest near Phoenix on Saturday, leading to multiple violations and one person being emergency evacuated, officials said.Forest protection officers were patrolling near the Lower Sycamore Creek Recreation…
With millions of Americans being vaccinated against Covid-19 every day, a heated debate is underway -- do these people need proof of immunization in the form of a vaccine passport?Just like a national passport, a vaccine passport could allow the…
The Texan who had the world's longest nails grown by a woman can finally open a door without fear after cutting them.Ayanna Williams of Houston broke the Guinness World Record for the world's longest fingernails in 2017, when they measured…
