Ukraine and Russia made their boldest drone and missile strikes in months on each other, with a strike in Kyiv killing two people while a strike on ships in the Black Sea and an airport near the border lasted for hours, according to local reports.  “While the Russians have been […]

Supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are pushing back after media outlets and the White House have pushed the suggestion that the governor’s policies are somehow linked to the recent hate crime shooting in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. In the days following a mass shooting at a Jacksonville Dollar General carried […]

As detectives in Seattle investigate more than a dozen robberies against mostly elderly Asian members of the community in recent months, police on Tuesday announced these incidents are not being considered hate crimes. “We want to emphasize that we are not considering these hate crimes. We want to make sure […]

“America’s Got Talent” judge Howie Mandel was scrutinized online last week after he made a joke at Sofia Vergara’s expense, calling attention to her single status just weeks after she announced that she and her husband of seven years, Joe Manganiello, were getting a divorce. Mandel doubled down on his […]

Crews in Hawaii have all but finished searching for victims of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, authorities said Tuesday, and it is unclear how many people perished. Three weeks after the fire devastated Maui’s historic seaside community of Lahaina, the count of the dead stands at […]

Ken Jennings’ solo hosting gig for the upcoming season of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” was praised by fans as the show released a new poster promoting the show. Jennings’ co-host Mayim Bialik will not take the podium for the new season due to the ongoing writers strike, according to Variety. Jennings and […]

The U.S. State Department on Wednesday urged all U.S. citizens to leave the Caribbean country of Haiti as soon as possible.  “Given the current security situation and infrastructure challenges, U.S. citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible via commercial or private transport,” the State Department said in […]

A barefoot woman and her dog were rescued from a Utah canyon after flash floods swept the duo at least 150 feet down the gorge, officials said.  “The subject reported that she had been caught in the flood and carried ‘150-200 feet’ down the canyon,” the Grand County Sheriff’s Search […]

A pig kidney is still functioning correctly more than six weeks after surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City transplanted the genetically engineered organ into the body of a 57-year-old man, who had been declared brain-dead. This marks the longest period a pig kidney has functioned in a […]

Virginia lawmakers will reconvene in Richmond next week to consider a compromise General Assembly negotiators recently reached on the long-delayed state budget. Gov. Glenn Youngkin has called the part-time Legislature into session Sept. 6 to consider the deal, his office said in a news release Tuesday. “To make Virginia more […]