118 firefighters sent to battle blaze at downtown Los Angeles building Firefighters are responding to a fire that erupted at a large commercial building in downtown Los Angeles Friday morning. The blaze erupted around 4 a.m. at the 100-foot by 100-foot structure in the ... 05/3/2024 - 12:48 am | View Link
Video shows Stockton firefighters battling 2-story blaze The Stockton Firefighters Local 456 on Friday shared a video of firefighters attacking a two-story farmhouse fire earlier this week. 04/26/2024 - 3:45 pm | View Link
Firefighters battling massive fire on historic wooden pier in California OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- Firefighters in California are battling a massive blaze that broke out on Oceanside's historic wooden pier. The fire was reported just after 3 p.m. local time Thursday. According ... 04/25/2024 - 9:05 pm | View Link
Massive blaze burns at iconic Oceanside Pier Firefighters were called out Thursday afternoon to battle a blaze at the far end of the Oceanside Pier. The fire was reported shortly after 3 p.m., officials said. A massive plume of smoke has filled ... 04/25/2024 - 12:31 pm | View Link
Firefighter Dies in Clinton, SC, Apparatus Rollover Crash Officials said Michael Vinson was killed in a collision between a Clinton fire truck and a vehicle that resulted in the rig rolling over. The Laurens County Coroner said Clinton Firefighter ... 03/30/2024 - 1:01 pm | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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