Unbiased headline news – Three major wildfires are burning across Southern California, threatening thousands of homes.
Firefighters and the California National Guard are working to contain the blazes during a triple-digit heatwave, according to officials. The Line Fire in San Bernardino County, the Airport Fire in Orange County, and the Bridge Fire in Los Angeles County are all rapidly spreading due to dry vegetation, authorities reported.
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Ukraine’s prime minister warned on Tuesday that the nation could face its hardest winter since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, as attacks on its energy infrastructure intensify.
Ongoing Russian airstrikes have severely damaged Ukraine’s energy generation, leaving the country dependent on its three operational nuclear power plants and electricity imports from European Union nations.
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Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced Tuesday that his country will send two dozen soldiers and police officers to Haiti this week to assist a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya in combating violent gangs.
The 20 soldiers and four police officers are set to arrive on Thursday. They will join nearly 400 Kenyan police officers who have been working with Haitian police and military since earlier this year, said Vice Admiral Antonette Wemyss-Gorman, Jamaica’s military chief of defense staff.
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Google has lost its final attempt to overturn a European Union antitrust ruling, as the bloc’s top court ruled against the tech giant on Tuesday, upholding a hefty fine that sparked increased scrutiny on Big Tech.
The EU’s top court rejected Google’s appeal of a 2.4 billion euro fine issued by the European Commission, the EU’s top antitrust authority, for violating competition rules with its comparison shopping service.
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A New York City teacher has been arrested and charged after allegedly placing a 5-year-old student in a headlock on Monday, police said.
The incident took place around 1:30 p.m. at PS 153 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Elementary School in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, according to WABC, ABC News’ New York station. It is unclear what led to the alleged attack.
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French rescue officials announced Tuesday that they recovered the bodies of two Italian and two South Korean climbers near the summit of Mont Blanc after they went missing during bad weather over the weekend.
The Chamonix-Mont Blanc search and rescue team discovered the bodies at an altitude of 4,700 meters on the highest peak in the Alps. Rescue officials said they died from hypothermia, and French authorities have opened an investigation.
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The man accused of shooting on a Kentucky highway sent a text message stating his intent to “kill a lot of people.”
This message was sent less than 30 minutes before he wounded five people on Interstate 75, according to an arrest warrant. “I’m going to kill a lot of people. Well try at least,” Joseph Couch, 32, wrote, as stated in the court affidavit. In a separate message, he wrote, “I’ll kill myself afterwards,” the affidavit said.
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Keurig, the maker of popular home brewing systems, has agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty to the SEC after failing to report concerns from major recycling firms about its K-Cup pods in annual reports.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that Keurig Dr Pepper Incorporated will settle the case after being “charged with making inaccurate statements about the recyclability of its K-Cup single-use beverage pods.”
