Month: July 2020

Nineteen people gathered for a child’s birthday were injured during a violent storm after a tree fell on a garage in Pasadena, Maryland. “It literally sounded like a train coming down the tracks, and I looked out the front door and I could see a funnel,” Dawn Redloff, who lives nearby, told CNN affiliate WMAR.

A fire at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility site resulted in “significant” damage, impacting both the construction and development of the country’s advanced nuclear program, officials confirmed Sunday, contradicting previous claims that the impact from last week’s blaze had been “limited.” It remains unclear what exactly started the fire at the complex, considered Iran’s largest uranium

For the first time in six years, two US Navy aircraft carriers are in the South China Sea, the latest show of military might from Washington as it pushes back against China’s sweeping claim to much of the contested region. The two US carriers arrived in the region as China wrapped up its own set

Eight people are believed to be dead after two planes collided over Coeur d’Alene Lake in Idaho and then sank, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Ryan Higgins said. A call came in for two planes that had collided over the lake around 2:20 p.m., Higgins told CNN Sunday. Two victims, both deceased, were recovered from

Dominion Energy and Duke Energy have canceled their Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, a natural gas pipeline that was to stretch hundreds of miles across West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina, citing “legal uncertainty.” Despite a recent win for the project in the US Supreme Court, ongoing delays, litigation and an expected increase in costs threatened

A man seen in a famous photo of New Yorkers fleeing the 9/11 collapse of the World Trade Center’s south tower has died due to Covid-19, his family told CNN. Stephen Cooper was delivering political papers in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, when a police officer told him and others to run, Janet Rashes,

Around 30 years ago, a town in Oregon retrofitted an old van, staffed it with young medics and mental health counselors and sent them out to respond to the kinds of 911 calls that wouldn’t necessarily require police intervention. In the town of 172,000, they were the first responders for mental health crises, homelessness, substance

Evening is Asawari Kulkarni’s favorite time of the day. She spends it sipping green tea with her new partner Anil Yardi. Kulkarni had an active social life but, after several years of being single, the 68-year-old divorcee felt she needed someone at home. “As evening fell, I’d get worried about my health and being alone

Yet another Florida alligator decided to give local residents a terrifying surprise to wake up to. This time, a family in Tampa opened their front door on June 30 to find a gator lounging comfortably — and totally refusing to move. “We had an emergency alligator call this morning for this 8 foot 9 in