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Mandatory evacuations were ordered for communities across San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, as the so-called Line Fire raged through woodland and burned through more than 23,700 acres by Monday night. The fire in the foothills of the San Bernardino National Forest was 5% contained as of around 8 p.m. PT Monday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire. March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, just south of San Bernardino County, reached 105, according to the National Weather Service. “The triple-digit weather down here is nasty.”Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for San Bernardino County Saturday night. State officials said vegetation is critically dry in San Bernardino County and temperatures reached more than 100 degrees on Saturday, with relative humidity ideal for the fire to spread.
Persons: CalFire, Gavin Newsom, Eric Thayer, Dan Munsey, Smiley, , , Steven Michael King, Michael Lee, Lee, ” Lee, ” Newsom, Firefighters Organizations: San Bernardino National Forest, PT, California Department of Forestry, Gov, National Guard, Unified, Redlands Unified, National Weather Service, San Bernardino Fire Protection, Downtown, Air Reserve Base, Angeles National Forest, Running, Associated Press, AP, San Bernardino Locations: San Bernardino County, Los Angeles, Forest, California, Orange County, Running Springs, Calif, Running, Downtown Los Angeles, Riverside County, L.A, Lake, Highland, Clearlake City, San Francisco
The officer knocks on the driver’s side window and asks why Hill does not have a seat belt on, and Hill tells him several times, “Don’t knock on my window like that.”A Miami-Dade motorcycle officer forcibly extracts Tyreek Hill from his vehicle Sunday. The window then goes up, prompting the officer to knock on the rolled-up window again and tell Hill to keep it down. an officer — not the one who pulled Hill over and knocked on his window — appears to say as Hill is on the ground, the video shows. In the video, Hill is saying something while he is on the ground, but the audio of what he says is hard to make out. "'What if I wasn’t Tyreek Hill?’ is a question that will carry with resounding impact."
Persons: Hill, We’re, he'll, , , ” Hill, Jonnu Smith, Calais Campbell, Campbell, handcuffing Campbell, It's, Drew Rosenhaus, Stephanie Daniels Organizations: NFL, Miami Dolphins, Dade, Miami Dade Police, Dolphins, NBC News, ” Dolphins, NBC South, Dade Police Locations: Miami Gardens, Miami, NBC South Florida, Tyreek
“We still don’t know with full certainty what transpired and what happened, and that’s why we are working to get as much information as we can," State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said. They called for an independent U.S.-ordered investigation and said an Israeli investigation would not be enough. Patel said that Israel is conducting an investigation and that the State Department expects a formal process for releasing findings. The bodies of six hostages, including Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, were recovered in a tunnel under Rafah late last month. In Gaza, local officials have said more than 40,000 people have been killed since Israeli forces launched its offensive in response to the Hamas attacks.
Persons: , Vedant Patel, , Patel, Israel, ” Patel, Philippe Lazzarini, ” Lazzarini, Hersh Goldberg Organizations: West Bank, State Department, Department, University of Washington, International Solidarity Movement, Israeli Defense Forces, Justice Department, Hamas, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UN Locations: Israel, American, U.S, Seattle, Gaza, East, Rafah
A tropical storm warning was issued Friday for Hawaii’s Big Island as the storm known as Hone approached with 50 mph winds, forecasters said. Tropical Storm Hone is forecast to pass near or south of the island Saturday night into early Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said. A tropical storm warning was issued for Hawaii County, and swells could cause life-threatening surf and rip currents across the island chain on Saturday, the agency said. Hawaii’s Big Island could see around 10 inches of rain, the hurricane center said in a 5 p.m. local time (11 p.m. There are no coastal watches or warnings in place because of that storm, named Hurricane Gilma.
Persons: Hone, Storm Hone, Gilma Organizations: National Hurricane Center, Emergency Management Agency Locations: Hawaii County, Hilo, Hone
MUNICH — At least three people are dead and four others were injured in a knife attack Friday in the western German city of Solingen, where a celebration of the city’s anniversary had been taking place, the mayor and a police spokesperson said. We all wanted to celebrate our city’s anniversary together and now we have to mourn dead and injured people,” Mayor Tim Kurzbach said in a statement. “It breaks my heart that there was an attack on our city. The attack happened Friday night local time at a celebration for the city’s 650th anniversary. Emergency services and police are deployed Friday to an attack at the 650th anniversary festival for the German city of Solingen.
Persons: Tim Kurzbach, , Thomas Banneyer, Kurzbach Organizations: Police Locations: MUNICH, German, Solingen, Dusseldorf, Cologne
He called it “a historic settlement to resolve all tort claims arising from the Maui wildfires.”The wildfires are the deadliest in modern American history and caused damages estimated at $5 billion. "This Global Settlement of over $4 billion will help our people heal," Green said in a statement. Burned cars and buildings in Lahaina, Hawaii on Aug. 13, 2023. Hundreds of suits have piled up against Hawaiian Electric, accusing the company of negligence and ignoring repeated warnings of the possibility of a catastrophic inferno igniting on the island. Hawaiian Electric is a for-profit, investor-owned company that serves 95% of the state’s electric customers.
Persons: Josh Green, Green, Matthew Thayer, Mengshin Lin Organizations: Maui News, Electric, Kamehameha Schools, Maui Land Co, Charter Communications, Legislature, The Washington, Getty, Hawaiian Locations: Hawaii, Maui, Lahaina, Waiola, Lahaina Hongwanji, Hawaii , County, Lahaina , Hawaii, West Maui
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday ordered more destroyers and other military forces to the Middle East following this week’s assassination of Hamas’ political leader in Iran, the military said. The U.S. military statement does not specifically mention Haniyeh's killing. "The Department is also taking steps to increase our readiness to deploy additional land-based ballistic missile defense," the Pentagon statement said. Israel declared war against Hamas and its leaders after the Oct. 7 attacks launched from Gaza, which Hamas controls. Israel’s military has declared the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, a "dead man walking."
Persons: Lloyd Austin, Theodore Roosevelt —, Ismail Haniyeh, Sabrina Singh, Haniyeh, , Singh, Austin, Israel, Yahya Sinwar, Yoav Gallant, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: USS Lincoln, Department of Defense, Pentagon, Hamas, U.S . European Command, U.S . Central Command, USS, Israel, Defense Department Locations: Iran, , U.S, Israel, Gaza, USS Lincoln, Lebanese
A man died after trying to parachute off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on Thursday, officials said. The man tried a BASE jump around 7:30 a.m. from Yavapai Point in Grand Canyon National Park, and his body was found around 500 feet below the South Rim along with a deployed parachute, park officials said. It is not allowed anywhere in Grand Canyon National Park. The man’s body was found Thursday and rangers reached it and recovered it Friday, the National Park Service said in a statement. Yavapai Point overlooks the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, and it's around a vertical mile from the rim down to the river there.
Persons: Dean Potter, Graham Hunt Organizations: National Park Service, Coconino County Medical Locations: Yavapai, Grand, Coconino County, Yosemite, California, San Diego
Two weeks after she broke the record for women, Caitlin Clark has become NCAA Division I basketball's overall top scorer, period. The Iowa Hawkeyes star went into Sunday's game against the Ohio State Buckeyes needing 17 points to break "Pistol Pete" Maravich's record of 3,667 career points, which stood for more than 50 years. Clark, 22, earned the women's record Feb. 15 when she scored eight points in a game against Michigan and passed Kelsey Plum's 3,527 career points in her career, which ended in 2017. She put up 33 points against Minnesota on Wednesday to cement her place atop the all-time career points among women to play for major colleges. Maravich's NCAA men's scoring record was 3,667 points, which he set playing for LSU from 1968 to 1970.
Persons: Caitlin Clark, Pete, , Clark, Kelsey Plum's, I'm, Lynette Woodard, Woodard, Maravich Organizations: Iowa Hawkeyes, NCAA, Michigan Wolverines, Carver, Ohio State Buckeyes, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Association for Intercollegiate Athletics, Women, LSU, NBA, Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz, Boston Celtics Locations: Iowa City , Iowa, Kansas, West Des Moines, Pasadena , California
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA - FEBRUARY 08: Former Indiana Hoosiers Head coach Bob Knight on the court during halftime of the game against the Purdue Boilermakers at Assembly Hall on February 08, 2020 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)Bobby Knight, the Indiana University basketball coach who guided the Hoosiers to three NCAA championships, has died at 83, his family said. The Hall of Fame coach died Wednesday surrounded by his family at his home in Bloomington, Indiana, his family said in a statement. Knight was called "a legend among coaches" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, where he was inducted in 1991. Knight was Big Ten coach of the year five times and a four-time national coach of the year.
Persons: Bob Knight, Justin Casterline, Bobby Knight, Knight, Big, Knight's Organizations: Former Indiana Hoosiers, Purdue Boilermakers, Hall, Indiana University, Hoosiers, NCAA, of Fame, Basketball Hall of Fame, Ohio State Buckeyes, Indiana Hoosiers, U.S, Summer Games, NIT, Alzheimer's Association, Marian University Locations: BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, Bloomington , Indiana, Los Angeles, Massillon , Ohio
Jimmy Buffett of Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performs during the 2022 New Orleans & Jazz festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on May 08, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jimmy Buffett, the singer-songwriter who drew millions of fans with his folksy tales of living and loving on tropical sandy beaches, frozen concoction in hand, died Friday night. But it was in Key West, Florida, in the 1970s that Buffett "found his true voice," according to his website. As time went on, Buffett also appeared on TV, movies and his work became a musical. There was also a Broadway show based on Buffett's music, " Jimmy Buffett's Escape to Margaritaville," which debuted in 2017.
Persons: Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy, Buffett, Hank Williams, Alan Jackson, , Jerry Jeff Walker, margarita, Tom Selleck, Jimmy Buffett's, Joe Merchant, Jane Slagsvol, Cameron, — Christopher Cichiello Organizations: Reefer, Orleans & Jazz, Forbes, Alabama's Auburn University, University of Southern, Billboard Magazine, Key West, University of Miami, Men's, Associated Press Locations: Orleans, New Orleans , Louisiana, Pascagoula , Mississippi, University of Southern Mississippi, New Orleans, Nashville , Tennessee, Key West , Florida, South Florida, Margaritaville, Pitcairn, Savannah
More tire manufacturers are trying to go green with their products and also make versions for EVs. You're looking to climb into an electric vehicle because it's better for your wallet , better when it comes to maintenance , and better for the planet . The company plans to make tires from only sustainable materials by 2050. Part of the push for better tire ingredients is also coming from regulators. "If we can find ways to just help keep tires better maintained, we can have a really big impact as well on emissions or downtime," Helsel said.
Persons: There's, Chris Helsel, We're, EVs, Helsel Organizations: Morning, Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear Locations: tailpipes, California
A U.S. soldier who had served in South Korea crossed the military demarcation line separating the two Koreas into North Korea without authorization. North Korea commented Tuesday for the first time about a U.S. soldier who ran into the isolated country's territory last month. North Korea also alleged that King said he decided to cross into North Korean territory. North Korea had offered a very brief response to United Nations officials about King, the Pentagon's spokesman said Aug. 1. North Korea has also six times conducted nuclear tests, which are also banned by the U.N.
Persons: KCNA, Travis King, Lloyd Austin, King, Jonathan Franks, Claudia Gates, Gates, today's, Travis, Franks, Martin Meiners, Private King, Meiners, Patrick Ryder, Ryder Organizations: Security Area, DPRK, Democratic People's, U.S . Army, Army, Korean Central News Agency, . Defense Department, Private, United Nations, Pentagon, Air Force, Command, Joint Security Agency, United Nations Command, North Locations: Paju, South Korea, U.S, North Korea, Panmunjom, Korea, Korean, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North, DPRK, KCNA
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a report by the New York Post titled "RFK Jr. says COVID was 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews," video appears to show Kennedy speaking at a dinner in Manhattan. In a discussion on bioweapons and "ethnically targeted microbes," Kennedy claimed that "Covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately." An overwhelming portion of American Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, who are descended from Jews who lived in Central and Eastern Europe. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews," Kennedy wrote on Twitter.
Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Faulkner, Covid, RFK, COVID, Kennedy, Anne Frank Organizations: Fox News Channel Studios, Democratic, New York, NBC News, Twitter Locations: New York City, Manhattan, Central, Eastern Europe
Called by Russia a "private military company" the Wagner Group is called a proxy force by U.S. officials and others, while others label it a mercenary group. Worldwide effortsThe Wagner Group has also been involved in other parts of the world, including Africa. Senior Western diplomats have said that the Wagner Group took control of a gold mine there. Human Rights Watch said in a report that suspected Wagner Group forces have committed atrocities, including executing unarmed men. watch nowThe U.S. in January designated the Wagner Group a transnational criminal organization.
Persons: Maksim Konstantinov, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, general's, Vladimir Alekseev, RBK, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, John Kirby, U.N, Kirby, Prigozhin Organizations: PMC, Private Military Company, PMC Wagner Center, Lightrocket, Wagner Group, Telegram, NBC, Wagner, Prigozhin, U.S . National Security, Strategic, International Studies, U.S . Department of Defense, Central African, Rights Watch, U.S . Treasury Department, U.S . National Security Council, Russian Defense Ministry Locations: St . Petersburg, Ukraine, Russia, U.S, Washington, Russian, Africa, Libya, Central African Republic, Senior
Mega retailer Target is pulling some of its merchandise that celebrates Pride month after threats to employees, the company said Tuesday. "Since introducing this year's collection, we've experienced threats impacting our team members' sense of safety and wellbeing while at work," a Target spokesperson said in a statement. Target did not say which items were being removed or immediately provide more details about the threats. The Target spokesperson did not answer whether those bathing suits were among the products in question. The retailer said that it has offered products to go along with Pride month for more than a decade.
Persons: Bud Light, Dylan, Mulvaney, Joe Biden Organizations: Target Corp, Mega, Target, Associated Press, Pride, Anheuser, Busch Locations: Chicago , Illinois, Chicago
Abandoned vehicles sit in a flooded street on April 13, 2023 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesAn additional 2 to 3 inches of rain fell Thursday, the National Weather Service said. Runways at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport are flooded after heavy rain in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on April 13, 2023. Ron DeSantis on Thursday declared a state of emergency for Broward County, where Fort Lauderdale is, and the county government also declared a local emergency. Santiago Rojas salvages some items from his flooded home on April 13, 2023 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Two U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters crashed during a training incident in Kentucky on Wednesday night, officials said. The command is currently focused on caring for the servicemembers and their families," the Army base Fort Campbell said in a statement early Thursday. They were involved in a training incident when they crashed around 10 p.m. in Trigg County, which is to the west of Fort Campbell, according to base officials. "We've got some tough news out of Fort Campbell, with early reports of a helicopter crash and fatalities are expected," Beshear tweeted. Nicknamed the "Screaming Eagles," the 101st Airborne Division is the only air assault division of the U.S. Army.
Vanessa Bryant, the widow of late NBA legend Kobe Bryant, has reached an almost $30 million settlement with Los Angeles County over photos taken of the scene of the deadly 2020 helicopter crash, an attorney for the county said. The settlement is for $28.85 million and resolves all claims involving the county, Mira Hashmall, lead trial counsel for Los Angeles County in the case, said in a statement. Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant, 41; his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant; and seven other people died in the crash in Calabasas, near the Southern California coast, northwest of Los Angeles. The almost $30 million settlement includes the $15 million awarded to Vanessa Bryant by a jury in August, Hashmall said. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the settlement, she said.
A 36-year-old Florida woman used a romance scam to defraud a Holocaust survivor of his $2.8 million life savings, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. She also faked emails pretending to be from TD Bank and faked invoices to give to the victim’s bank to explain the large transfers, the indictment says. It stopped in October 2021 when the man told his son he'd given his life savings to the woman but was promised he'd be repaid and the son said he'd been scammed, according to the indictment. Stergo spent the money on a home, a condo, a boat, trips, cars and Rolex watches, prosecutors said. People lost more than $1 billion in romance scams across the U.S. in 2021, the FBI said in February.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is in the initial phases of an investigation into Southwest Airlines' travel meltdown, and the agency will look at whether executives overscheduled flights, a spokesperson said. The Department of Transportation is “probing whether Southwest executives engaged in unrealistic scheduling of flights which under federal law is considered an unfair and deceptive practice,” the agency spokesperson said. Southwest Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday evening. “DOT will leverage the full extent of its investigative and enforcement power to ensure consumers are protected and this process will continue to evolve as the Department learns more,” the department spokesperson said Wednesday. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called the cancellations unacceptable and said his department would look at its scheduling system.
A second hiker has disappeared on California’s Mount Baldy, the same mountain where actor Julian Sands vanished on Jan. 13, officials said Monday. Jin Chung, 75, failed to return from a hike and meet two others as planned Sunday, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. Helicopters and drones with infrared devices were used to try to find Sands over the weekend; high winds prevented aircraft from being used Monday, the sheriff’s department said. He was supposed to return and meet them at 2 p.m., the sheriff’s department said. His family, in a statement released by the sheriff's department, thanked the searchers who are looking for him.
Police shot and killed an attacker in a gun battle after he shot a person inside an Indiana Walmart on Thursday, an Evansville police spokesperson said. The victim, who was shot at the Walmart in Evansville in southern Indiana just before 10 p.m., was alive when officers arrived. Walmart said it would be supporting its employees in the wake of the shooting, and it thanked first responders. Police said the call about a shooting at the store came in at 9:59 p.m. local time (10:59 p.m. Evansville is a city of around 117,000 in southern Indiana, near the border with Kentucky.
A sailor was rescued by the Colombia’s navy after what he said was a 24-day ordeal in which he only had a bottle of ketchup and some seasoning to eat. Elvis Francois, 47, a national of Dominica, said in a video released by the navy that he spent 24 days with no sight of land before his rescue in the Caribbean Sea. Colombian Navy press office via APHe had written “help” on the hull of the boat, which was spotted by air, the navy said. In video released by the Navy and distributed by news services The Associated Press and Reuters, Francois tells medical staff he is doing OK.“Twenty-four days, no land. Francois said in the video he tried to go back to port, but couldn't, and he tried to call friends but lost service.
Last week’s massive flight disruption that grounded thousands of planes was caused after “contract personnel unintentionally deleted files,” the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday. On Jan. 11, the FAA halted all departures nationwide after an outage to the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system. The FAA said in a statement that the files were deleted by accident as the contractors were "working to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database." The NOTAM system sends pilots vital information they need to fly. On Jan. 11, the FAA sent out a tweet at 7:20 a.m. ordering the airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m.
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