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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 […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (FORT BLISS, Texas) — Travis King, the U.S. Army private who ran across the border from South Korea to North Korea last year will plead guilty on Friday at a general court martial hearing being held at Fort Bliss, Texas. “He faces 14 charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice but will […]
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) — As scores of rockets flew from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Friday, officials with the U.S. and other international leaders urged Hezbollah and Israel to seek […]
EyeWolf/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Thursday said former President Donald Trump and others are “wrong” to question the Postal Service’s ability to deliver ballots ahead of the presidential election. Asked by a reporter, at a virtual preview of the 2024 election, to respond specifically to Trump’s claim that the Postal Service […]
In this Jan. 25, 2024, file photo, a used Narcan brand Naloxone nasal spray rests on the street after paramedics and police responded to a suspected fentanyl drug overdose in Portland, Oregon. — Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (ATLANTA) — The estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have been dropping […]
KABC (IRVINE, Calif.) — Eight firefighters were injured when the fire truck they were driving in rolled over as it returned from battling the Airport Fire wildfire, one of several large blazes raging in Southern California. The vehicle crashed while traveling north at about 6:50 p.m. on State Route 241 near Portola Parkway in Irvine, […]
Judge Kevin Mullins — Letcher County Government (WHITESBURG, Ky.) — Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Kentucky District Judge Kevin Mullins, who was killed in his chambers on Thursday, according to police. Mullins, who presided over Letcher County, was shot and killed at the Letcher […]
