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Texas A&M Forest Service via Getty Images(AMARILLO, Texas) -- Multiple fires are impacting the Texas Panhandle, including what has quickly grown to become the second-largest wildfire in Texas history.Gov. Greg Abbott declared a disaster declaration for 60 counties on Tuesday due to "widespread wildfire activity throughout the state." The largest of the blazes -- the Smokehouse Creek Fire -- has burned an estimated 850,000 acres since initially reported on Monday and was 3% containe...

Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 570,000 people in Gaza are on the brink of experiencing famine levels of hunger amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to a United Nations official.About one-quarter of the population -- 576,000 people -- are "one step away from famine" and facing a "grave situation," Ramesh Rajasingham, director of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said during a briefing Tuesday.One in six chil...

Jeremy Hogan/Getty Images(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- The Covenant School, which was the site of a 2023 mass shooting, received a bomb threat on Monday, according to a Nashville Police Department spokesperson."Yesterday an employee of Covenant School received an emailed bomb threat. We cleared the site, with assistance from a THP (Tennessee Highway Patrol) bomb dog. Our Specialized Investigations Division detectives are working with the FBI to investigate the origin of the threat," according ...

Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(WESTON, Fla.) -- The seventh case of measles linked to an outbreak at a Florida elementary school was confirmed by Health officials Tuesday.Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) said it was informed by the Florida Department of Health – Broward of the additional case at Mantatee Bay Elementary in Weston, which is 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale.The infected patient has not physically been on campus since Feb. 15, and the distri...

Lionel Hahn/Getty ImagesJodie Turner-Smith is opening up about her divorce from fellow actor Joshua Jackson."Sometimes things we really want to work just dont end up working," the Star Wars: The Acolyte actress told the U.K.s The Sunday Times. "And thats OK.""The most important thing is that you choose whats healthiest for you and your family and definitely your children," she added.Turner-Smith filed for divorce from Jackson in October 2023 after four years of marr...

Beverly Vista Middle School/Facebook(BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.) -- The Beverly Hills Police Department said it is investigating after a Southern California middle school reported last week that students were allegedly involved in creating and sharing nude images generated using artificial intelligence that featured the faces of fellow students."The Beverly Hills Unified School District notified the Beverly Hills Police Department, and a police report was taken. The investigation is ongoing,&quo...

Cars sit parked in front of a Kroger Co. grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Sunday, April 26, 2020. (Stacie Scott/Bloomberg via Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued to halt the Kroger and Albertsons merger, according to court documents filed in federal court. The merger would represent two of the largest grocery store chains in the United States combining forces.Kroger announced that it intended to acquire Albertsons for $24.6 billion in October 2...

ER Productions Limited/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Monday that will eliminate school vaccine requirements for those who claim religious exemptions, but only for some schools.Last week, the House began considering the bill, known as HB 5105, which proposed eliminating vaccine requirements for public virtual schools that do not take part in extracurricular activities or sports in public school settings. The bill was then expanded to propose "el...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a rally in support of political prisoners in Prospekt Sakharova Street in Moscow, Sept. 29, 2019. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- After an ally of Alexei Navalny made a bombshell claim that the opposition leader was set to be freed through a prisoner exchange when he died in a Russian penal colony earlier this month, a Western official said his name had, in fact, been raised in discussions about a possible swap -- but t...

SAG AwardsThe 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards took place on Saturday, February 24, in Los Angeles. Among the big winners were Oppenheimer, The Bear and Beef.Other highlights included a reunion of The Devil Wears Prada stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, Billie Eilish autographing superfan Melissa McCarthys forehead, and Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper presenting Barbra Streisand with the SAG Life Achievement Award. Viewers also heard some uncensored swearing, since t...