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Uniformed police officers stand behind blue and white cordon tape in front of a brick Nordic secondary school building, with marked police cars and an ambulance parked in the forecourt

A Sword Attack at a Swedish School Fell Outside Every Law Sweden Passed After Örebro

A man carrying a sword walked into Brinellskolan, an upper secondary school in the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 21

A New York State Police vehicle with flashing emergency lights parked at the base of the New York State Capitol's monumental east staircase at dusk, with two uniformed troopers standing near the entrance.

An FBI Source, Not Capitol Security, Stopped the Albany Bomb Plot

Federal prosecutors charged a 35-year-old Albany woman on Thursday with attempting to provide material…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 20

An empty two-lane rural highway curves through fog-filled Appalachian ridgelines at dawn, a metal guardrail running along the left shoulder and a narrow paved shoulder on the right

Tennessee Charged John Benfield With Seven Counts After Two Milligan Cyclists Were Killed

John Benfield, 69, of Newland, North Carolina, was booked into the Carter County jail…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

The flat-topped granite massif of Mount Ololokwe rises above dry red scrubland and acacia trees, with a thin column of grey smoke at the base of its cliffs and a distant helicopter overhead

Four Americans Died When a Scenic Helicopter Flight Went Down in Northern Kenya

Four Americans were killed Wednesday morning when a sightseeing helicopter came down in the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

Aerial view of a wide circular patch of churning white water on the grey Baltic Sea where gas boils to the surface, with a naval patrol vessel standing off in the distance

Croatia Arrested the Nord Stream Diver Poland Already Let Go

Croatian police arrested the Ukrainian diver a Polish court freed in 2025, leaving two…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

Rescue workers in orange high-visibility jackets and white helmets search the rubble of a collapsed concrete house on a hillside in southern Lebanon, with olive terraces and village homes behind them at dawn

Eleven Killed in South Lebanon Under a Truce Hezbollah Never Signed

Israeli airstrikes killed eleven people in southern Lebanon early Saturday, seven of them inside…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 15

Yellow police tape strung across a wet street at dawn with two patrol cars, emergency lights flashing, parked outside brick university residence halls

Only One of the Five People Shot at Virginia State University Was a Student

Five people were shot outside a Virginia State University residence hall at about 1:28…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 15

Storm clouds and slanting rain over a black lava coastline as heavy surf explodes against the rocks and wind-bent palms lean inland

Hurricane Lala Takes Aim at the Big Island as Hawaii Faces Its Rarest Storm Threat

Lala was sitting 165 miles east-southeast of South Point late Friday night with 65…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 15

Rescue workers in orange uniforms and white helmets pick through the rubble of a collapsed port terminal building in Maumere, with undamaged fishing boats floating on calm water behind them

A 7.7 Struck the Flores Coast Where 2,500 Died in 1992. This Time the Water Never Came.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake ruptured the seafloor north of Indonesia’s Flores Island at 5:58…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

A blue and gold Michigan State Police cruiser with a red roof beacon parked across a rural two lane road at sunset, yellow police tape strung across the foreground, a cut hay field and treeline behind it.

Five Killed Across Three Missaukee County Scenes Before the Suspect Was Found Dead

A 911 call from a house on LaChance Road just before noon on Friday…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

A white sedan submerged to its windows in brown floodwater on a residential street in Japan at night, with emergency vehicle lights glowing in the distance

Chiba Got Three Times Its August Rain in Half a Day, and Japan Had Never Sent That Alert There Before

Eight people are dead in the prefecture that borders Tokyo after a night of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

Yellow police tape across a suburban street with two marked police SUVs and a white investigation van parked outside single-story houses

A Licensed Daycare in Hopkins Was Also Someone’s Home, and Three People Died Inside It

Police in Hopkins, Minnesota, were called to an in-home daycare on Wednesday morning and…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

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An ambulance with flashing red and blue lights stopped behind a large fallen tree and tangled power lines blocking a flooded residential street at dusk, with unlit houses on both sides.

The Midwest Derecho Set Off Every Alert It Was Built to Trigger, and Three People Still Died

Residents stand in a wet street looking at a cracked and partly collapsed two-story building with rubble and broken furniture spilled across the pavement, jungle hillsides behind the rooftops

Colombia’s 7.4 Earthquake Struck 66 Miles Down, and Chocó Still Took the Worst of It

NYPD Harbor Unit and US Coast Guard boats sweep searchlights across dark choppy water near the illuminated Statue of Liberty at night, with an overturned white powerboat hull partially submerged in the foreground

Liberty Island Boat Capsizing Kills a Woman and an Infant as the Coast Guard Probes an Illegal Charter

Abandoned striped sun loungers, tilted umbrellas and a child's inflatable ring left on an empty pebble beach beside turquoise water, with forested mountains behind and emergency vehicles with blue lights parked in the distance

Russia’s Beach Alert Lasted Ten Minutes. Seven People Died After It Was Called Off.

Aerial view from a rescue aircraft of a scorched blue and white roll-on roll-off ferry adrift at sea, black smoke pouring from its upper decks, with tugboats and small orange inflatable boats alongside and people in life jackets in the water

Indonesia Is Searching for 41 People From the Mutiara Sentosa 2. The Manifest Is the Problem.

Yellow police tape stretched across a wet parking lot at dusk, emergency vehicle lights reflecting on the asphalt, with a desert canyon rim on the horizon

Idaho Police Won’t Confirm a Death Toll at an In-N-Out That Opened Eight Days Ago

Empty wood-paneled courtroom with a vacant jury box, an American flag beside the judge's bench, and a bare defense table with one chair pushed back

Colt Gray Gets Life Without Parole for the Apalachee Killings, and the Judge Called the Motive Fame

Massive wildfire advancing through pine forests toward a city skyline with thick smoke and firefighting aircraft dropping flame retardant

France’s Bordeaux Wildfire Triggers the Country’s Biggest Peacetime Evacuation Since World War II

Police emergency lights and yellow tape at Seattle Center near the Space Needle after a mass shooting at the Bite of Seattle festival

Mass Shooting at Seattle’s Bite of Seattle Festival Leaves Multiple People Shot Near the Space Needle

Emergency lights illuminating Berlin Tiergarten park at night with Brandenburg Gate in background after vehicle attack at Pride parade

Vehicle Rams Crowd at Berlin Pride Parade, Killing 1 and Injuring at Least 17

JD Vance speaking into a podcast microphone with American and Israeli flags behind him

JD Vance Accuses Israeli Officials of Running a $45 Million Covert Campaign to Kill the Iran Deal

Ruins and memorial at the Morandi Bridge collapse site in Genoa, Italy

Italy’s Former Highway Chief Gets 12 Years in Prison for the Genoa Bridge Collapse That Killed 43

Heavy smoke rises from a scaffolded commercial tower under renovation in a European city center as firefighters and emergency vehicles respond at street level

Several Dead, Six Missing After Fire Rips Through Brussels Construction Site Elevator Shaft

Yellow police tape reading Police Line Do Not Cross stretched across a cordoned residential street in Biddeford, Maine, with law-enforcement SUVs and an officer in the distance

One Dead in Biddeford ICE Shooting, the Second Fatal ICE Encounter in a Week

Aerial view of a burning pub in Bangkok with thick smoke and emergency vehicles responding at night

At Least 27 Dead After Fire Engulfs Popular Bangkok Pub, Dozens Trapped in Restrooms

Emergency vehicles and police responding to a shooting at a Toronto street festival at night with CN Tower visible in background

Two Dead, Three Wounded in Mass Shooting at Toronto’s Salsa on St. Clair Festival

A weathered oyster farmer and military veteran in a worn work jacket stands on a gray, overcast Maine harbor dock lined with fishing boats

Graham Platner Drops Out of the Maine Senate Race, Reopening Democrats’ Fight Against Susan Collins

President Donald Trump speaks at a podium beside a seated NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, with NATO, US and Turkish flags behind them and press photographers in the foreground

Trump Orders Trade with Spain Cut Off and Demands Greenland at the Ankara NATO Summit