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Iuliia Burmistrova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The active ingredient found in popular medications for Type 2 diabetes and weight loss, including Ozempic and Wegovy, may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study published Thursday finds. Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, looked at three years of […]
Volunteers fight a wildfire near Penteli, on August 12, 2024. Greece’s civil protection authorities ordered the evacuation of several towns in the north-eastern suburbs of Athens, threatened by a violent fire that started the day before and is spreading. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Hundreds of firefighters battled dozens of wildfires into submission […]
Steve Prezant/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Active shooter incidents in the U.S. declined by 4% from 2022 to 2023, according to new statistics released by the FBI on Monday. In 2023, the FBI designated 48 shootings as “active shooter incidents,” compared to 50 in 2022, according to the FBI’s 2023 Active Shooter Report. Last year […]
john finney photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Wednesday was another day of severe weather across the country with more than 200 severe storm reports from New York to Texas. Wednesday’s severe weather included three reported tornadoes in Texas, with some of the worst damage in Bell County between Austin and Waco. So far, 2024 has […]
mbbirdy/Getty Images (PITTSBURGH) — Police are at the scene of an ongoing “active shooting situation” in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood, according to authorities. Officers are working to evacuate people from houses in the area, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety. People inside are urged to shelter in place and call 911. The shooting began from inside a […]
makenoodle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Active shooter incidents in the United States in 2022 decreased, while the number of people shot increased, according to statistics released by the FBI on Wednesday. The FBI, which defines an active shooter as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Several parts of the country will experience extreme weather this week, days after lines of tornadoes killed at least 26 people in several states. Severe activity on Sunday will include critical fire danger, strong tornados, wind damage and hail in Texas and spring snowfall along higher elevations in the Northeast, forecasts […]
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