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Gunfire wounded eight people, including four children, during a Fourth of July cookout in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood, police said. The shooting happened late Saturday in a courtyard near the Coney Island boardwalk. New York Police Department officials said the

Venezuela’s earthquake death toll has risen to 2,645 after twin quakes struck the country on June 24, authorities said. The disaster injured more than 12,000 people and left about 15,000 homeless. The Communication and Information Ministry released the latest figures

Three California drivers filed a proposed class action on June 22 accusing major fuel retailers and pricing software provider Kalibrate of using artificial intelligence to raise gasoline prices across the state. The complaint in U.S. District Court in Sacramento says

Twelve people died Sunday when a skydiving plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Butler Memorial Airport in western Missouri. The dead included 11 skydivers and the pilot. Authorities said there were no survivors. The crash happened near Butler, about 65

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of 73 United Nations personnel held by the Houthis in Yemen. The demand came as the United Nations marked two years since a June 2024 wave of detentions. Guterres also

Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of the 2026 eastern Pacific hurricane season, formed over open waters west southwest of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and maintained 40 mph maximum sustained winds late Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Eleven people have been confirmed dead after a chemical tank ruptured and imploded at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging pulp and paper mill in Longview, Washington, with crews recovering the last of nine missing workers after several days of searches through debris at

WASHINGTON, D.C. / Content Syndication Services / — U.S. President Donald Trump named Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, as special presidential envoy to Syria and Iraq, adding Iraq to a regional diplomatic brief that already included Syria. Trump announced the

California authorities kept a state of emergency in place in Orange County after an overheated storage tank containing methyl methacrylate at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove forced large evacuations and a hazardous materials response. The incident began May

More than 17,000 people remained under evacuation orders in Southern California after the Sandy Fire burned through dry hills above Simi Valley, threatening neighborhoods in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles and prompting a large firefighting response across rugged terrain.