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Firefighters are still battling a fast-moving wildfire that has burned more than 11,500 acres in southern New Jersey since Tuesday and prompted more than 3,000 evacuations, while briefly shutting down part of the Garden State Parkway, one of the state’s busiest highways. More than 1,300 structures were threatened and shelters were opened at two high…
Lori Vallow Daybell, who was convicted of the gruesome killings of her two youngest children and her husband’s former wife in July 2023, has now been found guilty of conspiring to murder her estranged fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in July 2019. On April 22, a Maricopa County Superior Court jury in Arizona found Vallow Daybell guilty…
A college student was arrested by federal authorities in Boston after being accused of throwing two Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership in Missouri in March. Owen McIntire, 19, who was in his hometown of Parkville, Mo., for spring break on March 17, is accused of driving to a Tesla dealership near Kansas City and…
Astronomers claim to have discovered the strongest signs yet of possible life on a planet 700 trillion miles away from Earth. The scientists from the University of Cambridge used a mid-infrared camera from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe exoplanet K2-18b, a planet that is not in our solar system and is eight…
Forget the Game of Thrones CGI because dire wolves are back… sort of. The extinct species has resurfaced with the help of a company called Colossal Biosciences, a biology research company based in North Texas. On Monday, the company, which describes itself as the “world’s only de-extinction company,” announced the rebirth of the once-extinct dire…
A California CEO is facing a federal assault charge after surveillance footage shows him choking a man for dancing barefoot on a Virgin Voyages cruise ship. The incident took place on March 31 in international waters on the Resilient Lady cruise ship, according to a federal criminal complaint filed on April 1. Authorities allege that…
An American YouTuber was arrested by authorities in India after he allegedly tried to make contact with an isolated Sentinelese tribe on North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands territory. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, made the illegal journey to the restricted Indian Ocean island on March 29, Indian police said. Police said…
Elon Musk announced Friday that he sold social media site X in a $33 billion all-stock deal to his own AI startup company, xAI The tech billionaire shared the news in a statement posted on X, writing, “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute,…
A Maui doctor has been charged with second-degree attempted murder after he allegedly tried to kill his wife by pushing her off a hiking trail and hitting her multiple times on the head with a rock, according to Honolulu police. Bail for the accused, Gerhardt Konig, 46, was set at US$5 million. A preliminary hearing…
Prince Harry said he was “in shock” after resigning as a patron of Sentebale, an African charity he co-founded nearly 20 years ago to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana. The Duke of Sussex said the reason for his resignation was due to conflict between members of the board and…
The It Ends With Us legal battle continues as star Blake Lively has asked a judge to dismiss a countersuit filed by her co-star Justin Baldoni, calling his claims “vengeful and rambling,” after she filed a lawsuit against him for sexual harassment and retaliation. On Thursday, Lively’s lawyers wrote in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that…
A Virginia high school track runner who was seen hitting her opponent in the back of the head with a baton last week now faces a misdemeanour charge of assault and battery. The incident took place when Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker was competing in the 4×200-metre relay at a track meet at Liberty University…
Hayden Haynes, the chief of staff to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing into a police vehicle following U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Haynes was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence after backing his car into a parked…
The biggest awards show of the year, the Oscars, is here, honouring the best movies of 2024, hosted by Conan O’Brien live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Last year, it was all about the battle of Oppenheimer and Barbie in movie theatres and at the 2024 Academy Awards. But this year the focus is…
An American woman from Arkansas is claiming that she is the real Madeleine McCann, a British girl who disappeared in 2007 while on a family vacation in Portugal. Eugenea Collins, 22, began posting her claims on Instagram in September 2024 with the username TheOfficialMadeleineMcCann, and the account features numerous side-by-side photos of Collins and McCann….
The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has doubled within the last few weeks, just like something out of a sci-fi movie. The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city, now has a higher chance of smashing into our home planet in 2032, according to NASA. In a new update, the…
Teddi Mellencamp, daughter of singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, shared that she has been diagnosed with multiple brain tumours and will be undergoing emergency surgery. Mellencamp, 43, posted a statement to Instagram on Wednesday, revealing that she received the diagnosis after being hospitalized for “severe and debilitating headaches” for the last several weeks. “Yesterday the pain was…
Spanish National Police rescued a man after he was kidnapped in the Andalucían province of Málaga and shoved into the trunk of a vehicle — by taking a photo of the abductor’s car’s steering wheel. The unnamed man managed to contact his girlfriend, without his abductors knowing, by sending her a photo of the steering…
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the real-life couple who rose to fame on hit reality series The Hills, are suing the City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power (LADWP) after losing their Pacific Palisades home in the Los Angeles wildfires on Jan. 7. The couple filed the lawsuit Tuesday in California’s…
