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ilbusca/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Republican-led Georgia State Election Board on Friday passed a major rule change just a few weeks before the November election requiring the hand-counting of all ballots, prompting fears from both sides of the aisle of potential long delays in the reporting of election results. The rule, passed 3-2 with the […]
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (PAWLET, Vt.) — A son has been arrested for the murder of his father, his father’s wife and her teenage son, who were found shot to death at their Vermont home, police announced Friday. The triple homicide was discovered early Sunday. Officers responded to a report of a “suspicious person” and […]
KABC (IRVINE, Calif.) — Eight firefighters were hurt — including two critically — when the fire truck they were in rolled over while returning from a 12-hour shift battling the Airport Fire wildfire, one of several large blazes raging in Southern California, officials said. The truck crashed on State Route 241 in Irvine just before […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Magazine placed its Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, on leave this week after it learned she allegedly “had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign,” the outlet said in a statement. According to the […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (SELMA, Texas) — A man initially interviewed as a witness at the scene of a murder has now been arrested over a year later in the apparent road rage slaying, authorities in Texas announced. Jacob Daniel Serna, 29, was arrested on Thursday for the murder of Joseph Banales, according to police in […]
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (HARRISBURG, Penn.) — Three Mile Island, the shuttered Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that was the site of a 1979 reactor accident that remains the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history, is reopening to generate power for artificial intelligence. Constellation Energy will restart Three Mile Island Unit 1, […]
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon’s southern village of Kfar Kila on September 20, 2024. — Rabih Daher/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A key Hezbollah commander and his chain of command were killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut on Friday, according to the Israel Defense Forces, as […]
Halfpoint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While body mass index (BMI) has long been a go-to measure of a person’s health, used by doctors and health insurers alike, a new approach is taking hold. Body roundness index, or BRI, is gaining prominence as a way of predicting one’s health risk by taking into account more […]
adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The 2024 voting season officially kicked off Friday, as voters in three states can now line up at early voting polling sites or election offices to cast their ballot. Early in-person voting sites opened throughout Virginia, on Friday, marking the first state to offer their voters that option. The state’s early […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Earth’s temperature continues to rise, lives could be at stake. A new study found deaths related to extreme temperatures may triple by the middle of the century, hitting minority communities the hardest. University of Pennsylvania researchers looked at the relationship between average temperatures and number of deaths across […]