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The fire started around midday on Saturday amid a heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 40C (104F). Strong winds spread the fires on Sunday, affecting an area of over 50 square kilometers (19 square miles), Reuters reported. At least 10 communities have been affected, and villages are being evacuated. Four bodies have …

The spy agency took to Twitter on Tuesday to respond to Carlson’s charges that he was surveilled – made during a segment of his show the night prior – calling the allegations “untrue.” “Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the agency and the NSA has never had any …

Eileen Rinaldi announced earlier this week that she had “terminated” her husband, John Rinaldi, from working at Ritual Coffee Roasters in any capacity. The move came after he told her about an argument that he had last month with another man while managing construction work at the company’s warehouse. “[He] …

That’s according to Neil Hauer, who revealed Sunday on Twitter that he lost his gig after writing a piece on Baku’s Military Trophy Park, a new exhibit that features the helmets of Armenian soldiers killed by the Azeris during the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. “I wrote about the theme park for …

Chinese daily Global Times reports that the so-called artificial sun as the Chinese nuclear fusion project is known also succeeded in maintaining plasma at 160 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds. These times, while not very long in absolute terms, are records in the quest for nuclear fusion. The next step would …

Emily Wilder lost her job with AP just over two weeks after she was hired to write news from Maricopa County, Arizona. She was fired for allegedly breaking the company’s social media rules, which require employees to stay publicly silent “on contentious public issues” and not engage in organized action …

“Earlier today a large group of IRGCN fast boats conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers and failed to exercise due regard for the safety of US forces as required under international law,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby told a news briefing on Monday. Kirby said the 13 fast attack boats approached …

Hundreds of protesters took to Oakland’s streets on Friday night following the killings of two black people at the hands of the police, 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago and 20-year-old Daunte Wright near Minneapolis, local media reported.  Some local businesses had boarded up their windows as a precautionary measure. The …

“Gun violence in this country is an epidemic, and an international embarrassment,” Biden declared on Thursday, in a speech announcing six executive orders aimed at tightening up the US’ gun laws. The orders were revealed by the White House a day earlier, and include a directive asking the Justice Department …

“One of the most powerful politicians in the United States just said she’s going to break up an American company so that they can’t criticize her anymore,” Amazon tweeted in response to an “extraordinary” tweet in which Warren suggested breaking up “Big Tech” so they can’t “heckle senators.” The tiff …