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AGUANGA, CALIF. — A wildfire fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds ripped through rural land southeast of Los Angeles on Monday, forcing about 4,000 people from their homes, fire authorities said. The so-called Highland Fire erupted at about 12:45 p.m. in dry, brushy hills near the unincorporated Riverside County hamlet of Aguanga. As of late […]

Suspect in Maine mass shooting is dead, senior law enforcement sources say A 40-year-old firearms instructor who had been named a suspect in Wednesday’s mass shooting at two businesses in Lewiston, Maine, was found dead Friday, four senior law enforcement officials told NBC News. No additional details were immediately available. A news conference was scheduled […]

NEW YORK — A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten shots. The numbers, presented Thursday at a meeting held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, come from a national survey of thousands of Americans conducted two weeks ago. The data […]

Hundreds of police and law enforcement agents are continuing an intense manhunt Friday in the northeastern U.S. state of Maine in search of a 40-year-old man whom authorities linked to the shooting deaths of 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar and grill in the small city of Lewiston. Maine State Police Chief […]

Samantha Woll, the president of a Detroit synagogue, was found stabbed to death Saturday outside her home, officials said. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a social media post that Woll was murdered. Nessel wrote she was, “shocked, saddened and horrified to learn of Sam’s brutal murder. Sam was as kind a person as I’ve […]

The first locally acquired case of dengue virus — often referred to as “break-bone fever” — was contracted by a resident in Pasadena, California, public health officials said Friday. This is the first locally acquired case of dengue virus in California that is not associated with travel, according to Manuel Carmona, the city of Pasadena’s […]

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla.  — A GameStop clerk who police say fatally shot a fleeing shoplifter has been charged with manslaughter. Derrick Guerrero, 33, was working at the video game retailer’s store in a suburban Fort Lauderdale strip mall Tuesday night when a man grabbed five boxes of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet “ultra-premium” trading cards and […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden postponed a trip to a wind tower plant in Colorado on Monday to stay at the White House for national security meetings, the White House said, as Biden considers making a trip to Israel amid its conflict with Hamas. U.S. and Israelis officials are discussing the possibility of a visit […]

WASHINGTON. – U.S. and Israelis officials are discussing the possibility of a visit to Israel soon by U.S. President Joe Biden at the invitation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday. A visit by Biden to show support for the biggest U.S. ally in the Middle East […]

The U.S. space agency, NASA, launched a rocket Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket carried a probe designed to study a metal-rich asteroid that scientists think might be the remnants of small planet or planet-like object. The rocket, built by the private space company SpaceX, took off early Friday, starting NASAs […]