Tulsa Fire Department/Facebook (TULSA, Okla.) — A dog in Tulsa, Oklahoma, started a house fire after biting into a lithium ion battery, fire officials said. The Tulsa Fire Department recently released dramatic footage of the fire, which took place in May, showing the portable cellphone battery sparking and bursting intoRead More →

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The two astronauts who went up to the International Space Station (ISS) on Boeing’s Starliner may have to come home on a different spacecraft, NASA officials said during a press conference Wednesday. Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, who performed the first crewedRead More →

Ascension Michigan (DETROIT) — A man in an “intimate relationship” with a Michigan neurosurgeon has been charged in the doctor’s slaying, authorities announced Wednesday. Dr. Devon Hoover, 53, was found shot dead in his Detroit home on April 23, 2023, prosecutors said. He was shot twice in the head andRead More →

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the hours after Vice President Kamala Harris announced Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, allies of former President Donald Trump rushed to denigrate the Minnesota Democrat, seizing on criticism of his handling of the riots in the wake of George Floyd’s murder inRead More →

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Nevada man awaiting trial for charges stemming from his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was taken into custody this week for a series of threatening statements prosecutors say he made targeting public officials, including SupremeRead More →

Democratic Presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during the Sigma Gamma Rho’s 60th International Biennial Boule at the George R. Brown Convention Center on July 31, 2024 in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris secured enough Democratic Party delegate votes to becomeRead More →

Democratic Presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during the Sigma Gamma Rho’s 60th International Biennial Boule at the George R. Brown Convention Center on July 31, 2024 in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris secured enough Democratic Party delegate votes to becomeRead More →

Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee, during a campaign event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — With Tim Walz joining Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on the campaign trail as her newly selected running mate, criticsRead More →

adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — One of former President Donald Trump’s so-called “fake electors,” Loraine Pellegrino, pleaded guilty to a single “reduced charge” in the Arizona 2020 election case, according to the online docket. Her attorney said in a statement she was sentenced to unsupervised probation and community service. Pellegrino, oneRead More →

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally with and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at Girard College, on Aug. 6, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris spent this past weekend interviewing the top contenders on herRead More →