Unbiased headline news – Japan scrambled fighter jets after a Chinese military aircraft violated its airspace, marking a further escalation in regional tensions.
This incident occurred just weeks after the U.S. military intercepted Russian and Chinese bombers in international airspace near Alaska’s coast. The two-minute incursion by the Y-9 surveillance aircraft into Japanese airspace was the first by a Chinese military plane, according to local media reports.
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Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 31 people in two separate attacks, while security forces killed 12 insurgents, officials reported.
Officials noted that this was one of the deadliest days of violence in the restive Baluchistan province, with other reports of shootings and destruction in the area. Twenty-three people were fatally shot after being identified and taken from buses and trucks in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan, according to senior police official Ayub Achakzai. The attackers burned at least 10 vehicles before fleeing.
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Two Arizona women were killed when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, Mexican authorities confirmed.
The victims, aged 72 and 82, originally from the Sonora city of Caborca, were found dead in an overturned, bullet-riddled white Nissan Pathfinder at about 10:30 a.m. on the Sonoyta-Caborca highway, according to a news release from the Sonora attorney general’s office. Officials have not yet provided a motive for the attack.
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Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion urging the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a federal judge’s unexpected dismissal of former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon last month dismissed the case against Trump, which accused him of unlawfully retaining classified documents from his White House tenure and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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Authorities are investigating the death of a 39-year-old woman on the first day of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
Burning Man’s emergency services found the festival attendee, Kendra Frazer, unresponsive at around 11:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the Burning Man Project and Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen. Deputies arrived and confirmed her death, Allen stated.
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A landslide in Ketchikan, Alaska, has resulted in at least one death, blocked roads, and damaged homes, officials reported.
Three people were injured and taken to the hospital, according to Kacie Paxton, public information officer for the Ketchikan Gateway Borough. One of the injured was later released, she said. Mandatory evacuations were ordered after the landslide swept through several Ketchikan streets around 4 p.m. Sunday, Paxton stated.
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A 24-year-old woman has been charged for allegedly jumping a fence at a New Jersey zoo and “enticing” a tiger, according to authorities.
Zyair Dennis was charged with defiant trespassing and issued two city ordinances related to fence climbing at the zoo, Bridgeton police said in a statement. Dennis allegedly entered a restricted area at the Cohanzick Zoo on August 18th, police reported. They noted she was nearly injured when she “enticed” the tiger.
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The federal government plans to restart its free at-home COVID tests program in September as preparations begin for the upcoming respiratory virus season.
Dawn O’Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services, announced Friday that this will be the seventh time the Biden-Harris administration has allowed Americans to order free over-the-counter tests. It’s unclear when the website, COVID.gov/tests, will be reactivated.
