At least 11 people were injured – with two of them in critical condition – when a road worker ruptured a gas line in Fresno, California, on April 17. The road worker was seriously injured, according to The Fresno Bee. The fire could be seen for miles in the vicinity of Fresno’s Highway 99.
This video shows the fire from Highway 99. Credit: Instagram/running_bogo
US stocks rose for a second straight session in New York Tuesday, building on the prior day's momentum following a round of mostly good corporate earnings, while European markets also rose. "Good news as this is, it does highlight the sluggishness of the UK's top equity index when compared to its US and European competitors," said David Morrison, senior market analyst at financial services provider Trade Nation.
A Colombian court has ruled that environmental calamities, sudden or gradual, can legally be considered a cause of forced displacement, placing obligations on the state to shield and aid affected citizens.The court found the state had "obligations before, during and after displacement due to environmental factors."
President Biden will deliver commencement addresses next month at Morehouse College and West Point, the White House announced.
French air traffic controllers are to stage a one-day strike on Thursday that risks seeing most flights cancelled at the two main Paris airports, France's leading aviation association warned on Tuesday.The main air traffic union, the SNCTA, has also issued notice it could strike on three days, from Thursday May 9 to Saturday May 11.
The US Senate was marching toward a late Tuesday vote to green-light major military aid for Ukraine, a much-awaited package that includes assistance for Israel and Taiwan and sets the stage to ban social media app TikTok.The final package outlines a whopping $95 billion in total military assistance to US allies, including money for Israel and Taiwan alongside the $61 billion earmarked for Ukraine.
The Senate voted to advance the $95 billion aid package that provides critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Gaza and a provision to ban TikTok in the U.S.
Labor displacement is a major concern about AI that the world needs to talk seriously about.
Sometimes wind and solar power produce more electricity than the local grid can handle. Better energy storage and transmission could move extra energy to where it’s needed instead of shutting it off.
Pro-Palestinian encampments have started on more than a dozen American college campuses
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Tuesday said it launched dozens of rockets at northern Israel in response to the killing of two civilians in a strike blamed on Israel in Lebanon's south.Hezbollah fighters fired "dozens of Katyusha rockets" at northern Israel "as part of the response to the Israeli enemy's attacks on... civilian homes, specifically the horrific massacre in Hanin and the killing and injuring of civilians," the group said in a statement.
Congress is finally providing more of the aid Ukraine needs to survive. Here's why this is money well spent.
New research shows that seniors think old age starts later than generations before them did.
A deputy who was a 20-year-veteran of a Houston-area sheriff’s office died Tuesday after being hit by a truck while trying to help a driver following a minor crash, according to officials. John Coddou had pulled over to help following the crash at 9:30 a.m. northwest of Houston, said Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. A white Chevy truck that was traveling on the roadway swerved to avoid Coddou’s vehicle and veered onto the median, where Coddou was helping with the minor crash.
Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff's office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar. Trillions of red-eyed periodical cicadas are emerging from underground in the eastern U.S. this month.
At least 21 people perished in a new migrant boat disaster off the coast of Djibouti, the UN's migration agency said Tuesday.Another 33 people survived the disaster, she said late Tuesday.
Tesla said it would "accelerate" the launch of new models next year, including lower-cost cars, countering reports earlier this month it had scraped those plans.
The director of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees hit back at Israel Tuesday, calling for a Security Council probe into the "blatant disregard" for UN operations in Gaza after some 180 staffers were killed.Lazzarini said that he recently "called on the members of the Security Council for an independent investigation and accountability for the blatant disregard of UN premises, UN staff, and UN operations in the Gaza Strip."
Learn the definition of DINKs and why more couples are embracing the controversial label online.
The wait for Tesla results is on as investors look to Big Tech earnings to buoy stocks.
Israel said four months ago it had pushed Hamas from north Gaza and was reducing its forces there. Now it says residents must leave for their safety.
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