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A spike in school threats in Western Pennsylvania mirrors national trends
A rash of threats made to school districts across Western Pennsylvania mirrors a national trend taking a toll on staff, students and parents.
For years, the number of mainly non-credible threats made against schools have ticked up, including "swatting," a form of harassment intended to deceive an emergency service provider into sending police ...Read more
Blue Origin constructs new New Shepard rocket-capsule combo to expand human launches
Blue Origin has had only one working New Shepard rocket booster since a 2022 explosion took out one of the two it had been using. A replacement booster along with a new crew-capable capsule is set to debut as early as Monday.
Slated to fly on the NS-27 mission, the new booster topped with the capsule named the RSS Kármán Line is targeting ...Read more
BioLab launches community website, says it 'deeply regrets' impact of fire in Georgia
BioLab said this weekend the company regrets the impact of a fire at a Rockdale County warehouse and has launched an website to keep the Georgia community informed.
“At BioLab, we take our role in the Conyers community very seriously, and we deeply regret the impact of the fire at our warehouse,” a message posted on the new website states. ...Read more
Florida coast menaced by rapidly strengthening Hurricane Milton
Milton intensified into a Category 1 hurricane, threatening to grow even stronger as it aims for Florida’s Gulf Coast, including the Tampa Bay area.
The storm has the potential to cause billions of dollars in damage and heap more misery on a state and region still reeling from Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago.
Milton’s top winds ...Read more
On Florida's west coast, a race to clear Helene storm debris before Hurricane Milton
Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene pushed the Gulf of Mexico into tens of thousands of living rooms along Florida’s west coast, a new storm is threatening a repeat. But this time, streets and yards and parks are filled with all of the detritus scraped from those flooded homes — fridges, cabinets, bookcases, drywall and lamps.
All of...Read more
Pro-Trump Republicans gearing up for fresh effort to undermine 2024 presidential election
Get ready for Stop the Steal 2.0 — Republican supporters of former President Trump are gearing up for a fresh effort to undermine the vote count in 2024 if he loses to Democrat Kamala Harris.
In some battleground states, notably Georgia, MAGA extremists are pushing for new rules that could permit them to delay ballot counts or even invalidate...Read more
FAA gives SpaceX the OK to launch just 1 Falcon 9 on asteroid mission for Europe
The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday announced it was approving just one SpaceX Falcon 9 mission, although SpaceX has submitted its mishap report into why the second stage from last week’s Crew-9 mission failed to hit its planned target on reentry.
The FAA is giving the OK for the launch of the European Space Agency’s Hera mission,...Read more
Florida Gulf Coast preps for massive evacuations as Milton hits hurricane strength
Florida’s west coast is preparing for a potentially massive evacuation ahead of a strike from Milton, which rapidly intensified into a hurricane on Sunday afternoon.
The Tampa Bay region, still reeling from massive coastal flooding from Helene — its worst hurricane in a century — remained in the crosshairs of Milton, a small but fast-...Read more
Frontier Airlines plane lands while on fire at Las Vegas airport
A Frontier Airlines plane landed while on fire Saturday at Las Vegas’ airport.
Flight 1326 from San Diego to Vegas was approaching Harry Reid International Airport when the crew smelled smoke and declared an emergency, according to Frontier.
The plane sped down the runway with flames and smoke shooting out from underneath it, startling ...Read more
Florida faces another deadly storm after Hurricane Helene
Tropical Storm Milton is threatening to grow into a major hurricane aimed at Florida’s Gulf Coast including Tampa, potentially causing billions of dollars in damage and heaping more misery on a state and region still reeling from Helene less than two weeks ago.
Milton’s top winds reached 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour Sunday about 835 ...Read more
Magnitude 4 earthquake rattles Southern California, the strongest to hit Ontario in a month
A magnitude 4 earthquake rattled Southern California before dawn Sunday morning — the strongest in a series of modest earthquakes to strike near the Ontario International Airport in the last month.
Sunday's 3:51 a.m. earthquake was the fifth of magnitude 3 or higher detected in Ontario, California, since early September, according to the U.S....Read more
Parents look for answers at candidate forum after shock Chicago school board resignations
Less than 24 hours after the news broke that the entire Chicago Board of Education planned to resign, more than 40 family members of Chicago Public Schools students filed into Lane Tech College Prep’s auditorium to hear some candidates pitch why they should serve on the city’s partially elected school board in January.
The previous day’s ...Read more
Florida faces another deadly storm after Hurricane Helene
Tropical Storm Milton is threatening to grow into a major hurricane aimed at Florida’s Gulf Coast including Tampa, potentially causing billions of dollars in damage and heaping more misery on a state and region still reeling from Helene less than two weeks ago.
Milton’s top winds reached 65 miles (105 kilometers) per hour Sunday about 835 ...Read more
Israel ramps up in Gaza, Lebanon before Oct. 7 milestone
A day before it marks a year since the deadly Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, Israel is locked into a multifront war with no clear end, sending troops back to northern Gaza and keeping up intense aerial attacks and a limited ground maneuver in Lebanon.
At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is weighing how to respond to ...Read more
Some forms of air pollution may prolong postpartum depression, researchers say
LOS ANGELES — Exposure to unhealthy levels of air pollution during pregnancy may prolong postpartum depression symptoms in new mothers, according to new research.
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California assessed the air quality in the communities of more than 350 pregnant women across Greater Los Angeles from 2015 to ...Read more
Palestinians want to choose their own leaders – a year of war has distanced them further from this democratic goal
Over the summer as Israel continued to bombard Gaza, representatives from 14 Palestinian factions, including the two main parties – Hamas and Fatah – met in China. Following the most inclusive talks in years, all the parties agreed to a future unity government and to hold national elections.
Such talk of “day after” governance...Read more
Florida looks to improve pre-K quality with new preschool ratings
ORLANDO, Fla. — For decades, Florida faced criticism for judging the quality of its pre-K program on a “readiness” test given to young students after they started kindergarten. It was a system, critics argued, that penalized preschools serving the kids who struggle the most — often those from low-income families.
Now, the state is ...Read more
Biden's antitrust cop got a big win. Will it be his last?
Hetal Doshi sprinted down the marble hallway on the fourth floor of the Justice Department’s antitrust division in August.
“We won! We won! We won!” she shouted, bursting into a wood-paneled conference room where Jonathan Kanter, the assistant U.S. attorney general for antitrust, sat talking with a team of young lawyers. Doshi, Kanter’s...Read more
California voters consider tough love for repeat drug offenders
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters are considering whether to roll back some of the criminal justice reforms enacted a decade ago as concerns about mass incarceration give way to public anger over property crime and a fentanyl crisis that has plagued the state since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Proposition 36, on the November ballot, would...Read more
A free drug experiment bypasses the US health system's secret fees
A top California health plan is set to offer one of the world’s biggest-selling drugs for free in a bid to show the medicine can reach Americans affordably without going through the middlemen that typically control its flow.
Blue Shield of California struck an unusual deal to buy a lower-cost version of Humira directly from a manufacturer, ...Read more
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- Before a hurricane brings more rain, South Florida will see flooding in next few days
- Biden's antitrust cop got a big win. Will it be his last?
- Palestinians want to choose their own leaders – a year of war has distanced them further from this democratic goal
- This LA suburb says it's a 'dumping ground' for sex offenders. Residents want to stop that
- A free drug experiment bypasses the US health system's secret fees