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Murder investigation launched after woman dies and eight others injured in house fireOne woman died in hospital, while another woman remains in a life-threatening conditionBookmarkBookmark popoverRemo...
August 19, 2026
Missouri court rejects petition proposing protections for laws passed by citizen initiativeA Missouri court has rejected a request to let voters decide in November whether to make it harder for lawmak...
August 19, 2026
How Penn State’s ‘Pablo Pledgescobar’ – an accounting blogger and alleged cocaine kingpin – was caught in frat-house stingAgostino Abbatiello, 24, is also being called ‘Austin Powders,’ ‘Nostrildamus’...
August 19, 2026
President Donald Trump is welcomed by South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun as he arrives at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on October 29, 2025. —Andrew Harnik—Getty ImagesSouth ...
August 19, 2026
The 10 supermarket items that have risen the most - and the ones that might surprise youPrice of many groceries has soared in the past five yearsBookmarkCommentsGo to commentsBookmark popoverRemoved f...
August 19, 2026
DOGE destroyed how America forecasts its weather. Everyone is mad about itFewer weather balloons and wave-monitoring buoys are being launched to collect data for weather forecastsBookmarkCommentsGo to...
August 19, 2026
United StatesWorldUnited States & CanadaUS debt hits US$40 trillion high, raising ‘doom loop’ riskTotal public debt has surged by a third in under five years, and there’s no end in sight3...
August 19, 2026
Daycare asks judge to dismiss claims in lawsuit after toddler was ‘thrown in air and dropped’Matthew Kittle and Elena Kittle sued after an employee allegedly threw their 23-month-old child in the air ...
August 19, 2026
New law will force Georgia restaurants to disclose the origin of their shrimpCheaper foreign imports have flooded the seafood market in the United StatesBookmarkBookmark popoverRemoved from bookmarksC...
August 19, 2026
Hidden gallery at National History Museum to reopen for first time since Second World WarThe hidden gallery will reopen next monthBookmarkCommentsGo to commentsBookmark popoverRemoved from bookmarksCl...
August 19, 2026
DA reduces charges against LAPD officer who secretly taped colleagues’ racist remarksOfficer Daniel Flores was initially charged with 16 felonies after he shared recordings with the LAPD's internal af...
August 19, 2026
UN aid chief warns Russian drones threaten civilians and aid work in UkraineThe U.N.'s humanitarian chief warns of the growing threat of drones against civilians and aid workers in UkraineBookmarkBook...
August 19, 2026
How Salmonella from eggs can cause deadly infections amid UK outbreakIn a small minority of patients, Salmonella crosses the gut lining and enters the bloodBookmarkCommentsGo to commentsBookmark popov...
August 19, 2026
Trump guest-starring on turncoat Stormy Daniels ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen’s podcastThe president’s former personal attorney emerged as a star witness in a hush money case that resulted in 34 guilty verdic...
August 19, 2026
analysisFlorida Republicans did what Mike Johnson is too partisan to do — they showed disgraced Rep. Cory Mills the doorCory Mills faced numerous allegations, but Johnson refused to tell him to go. Er...
August 19, 2026
The impact of the decision could have significant repercussions for Iran’s already struggling economy, an expert tells TIME.
August 19, 2026
London’s first official bathing area hit by toxic algae outbreakSwimmers in the Ham and Kingston site on the Thames left with ‘really bad rash and itchy spots’BookmarkCommentsGo to commentsBookmark po...
August 19, 2026
Google is buying up bankrupt Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AITech giant has assured former airline employees and customers that the data will be scrubbed of identifying informationBookmarkComments...
August 19, 2026
DOJ doubles down on prosecuting James Comey over ‘8647’ seashell post‘There is no serious dispute that an objective viewer of Comey’s post could read it to mean ‘Kill President Trump,’’ prosecutors sa...
August 19, 2026
'Many' Fed officials think higher rates will be needed if inflation stays highMany Federal Reserve officials think the central bank will have to lift its key short-term interest rate in the coming mon...
August 19, 2026