Month: February 2020

Three men were injured, two critically, after an explosion and fire struck a business in downtown Los Angeles, fire officials said. About 140 firefighters rushed to the scene early Saturday afternoon and extinguished the fire in just over an hour, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The two critically injured men have severe burns and

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, have announced they are expecting a baby and are engaged to be married, Downing Street confirmed on Saturday. No further information is being provided by the Prime Minister’s office at this stage. The last time a child was born to a sitting prime minister was

A man stole an ambulance in Philadelphia and led police officers on a chase for more than an hour Friday night, police said. Medics responded to calls of a domestic disturbance requiring medical attention at the Roosevelt Inn in northeast Philadelphia at approximately 9:20 p.m., according to police spokesman Sekou Kinebrew. At the inn, first

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian mother jailed in Iran on espionage charges, believes she has contracted coronavirus in Evin Prison outside Tehran, according to a family statement released Saturday. Although authorities have not tested Zaghari-Ratcliffe for the virus, she says in the statement that she has been sick for “all week” and describes her symptoms as

Remember the shirtless, oiled-up Tongan man from the past two Olympics? Well, he’s coming back. Pita Taufatofua, the Tongan athlete who received immense attention after going shirtless during the Parade of Nations in the past two Olympics, just qualified for the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. The qualification came for taekwondo, after winning gold in

Joe Germanotta is the owner of the Art Bird & Whiskey Bar in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, but he hasn’t paid more than $260,000 in rent and fees. The restaurateur and father of Lady Gaga says he’s refusing to pay because of unclean conditions and the increasing presence of homeless people, who he

Google jumped at the chance to share a new animated doodle on Saturday. In celebration of Leap Day, which only comes around once every four years, the animation depicts the number 29 in the center of the Google logo. The digit between the numbers 28 and 1 symbolizes the extra day in February. “Today’s Doodle

An unusual request at the end of a student’s exam was quickly shared by thousands, thanks to a Kentucky teacher’s Facebook post. Winston Lee, a teacher at Letcher County Central High School, was picking up exams about World War II in his 11th-grade history class when he noticed an asterisk with a small note toward

A fire prompted the evacuation of the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport tower Saturday in North Carolina, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said. Nonessential personnel were ordered out, the FAA’s Arlene Salac said in a statement. The fire was extinguished. The employees returned. Air traffic controllers handled traffic at a “reduced rate,” the statement said. At one