Mario Tama/Getty Images (MAUI, Hawaii.) — Thursday marks one year since the start of the devastating wildfires in West Maui that left 100 people dead or missing, destroyed thousands of structures and parched the local landscape. The historic town of Lahaina, the former capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, wasRead More →
Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden penned a letter to commemorate one year since the fatal fires in Maui. In the letter, he reflected on the devastation he saw in his visit to the island and how the flames impacted the communities in Lahaina and Kula. “We saidRead More →
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Debby is slamming the Southeast with heavy rain after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday. At least six people have been killed in Florida and Georgia. Here’s how the news is developing: Debby makes 2nd landfall in SouthRead More →
Getty Images – STOCK/MoMo Productions (NEW YORK) — Lawmakers in a suburban New York county approved a bill to ban masks in public spaces, saying concealing your identity is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to a year of jail time and a $1,000 fine. Proponents of the Mask TransparencyRead More →
PixelsEffect/Getty Images Georgia Schools Superintendent Richard Woods announced on Wednesday that the state will restore public funding for Advanced Placement (AP) African American studies to be taught in public schools after seeking “guidance and clarity” from the state’s attorney general regarding whether state law permits its inclusion in the state-approvedRead More →
Gaston County Sheriff’s Office (GASTONIA, N.C.) — A North Carolina man accused of fatally poisoning his wife with eyedrops is now being accused of attempting to poison their 11-year-old daughter with the same substance, resulting in her hospitalization, according to court documents. Joshua Lee Hunsucker’s was booked on Tuesday andRead More →
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 →
