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Yellow police tape strung across a wet street at night in front of a tall apartment high-rise washed in red and blue emergency lights, with distant first responders near the entrance

Two Minneapolis Officers Were Shot at Loring Towers in the Building’s Second Ambush in Eleven Months

Minneapolis police entered an apartment building on East Grant Street late Wednesday afternoon and…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 2

NYPD officers stand behind yellow police tape beside patrol cars with flashing lights on a rain-slicked Seventh Avenue in Times Square at dusk

A Taser Failed in Times Square. The Next Sixty Seconds Were the Whole Story.

A woman carrying two kitchen knives stabbed two people along Seventh Avenue in Times…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 31

A collapsed timber and steel footbridge lies twisted across a silt-brown creek choked with boulders and flood debris, between steep layered canyon walls under storm clouds.

One Dead and 15 Unaccounted For in the Grand Canyon. The Same Flood Cut the Pipe That Waters the South Rim.

A flash flood killed one man and left about 15 people unaccounted for in…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 31

Aerial view of a Himalayan river valley after a flash flood, with a collapsed steel truss bridge lying in a churning grey torrent and a mountain village reduced to mud, splintered timber and buried vehicles

Nepal Spent Fourteen Months Watching Tibet for the Next Flood. This One Started at Home.

A wall of water came down the Bhote Koshi river in Nepal’s Rasuwa district…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

Firefighters on an extended ladder reaching a smoke-blackened upper-floor hospital window as fire engines and open ambulances stand in the forecourt below and hospital staff in scrubs look on

Fourteen Newborns Died in an Islamabad Nursery Fire That Started with an Air Conditioner

A fire that began in a nursery air conditioner killed 14 newborn babies on…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

Dolly Parton in a white rhinestone jacket holds an acoustic guitar under a spotlight on a dim theater stage, empty seats behind her

Dolly Parton Died at 80 Still Owning the Song She Would Not Hand to Elvis

Dolly Parton died peacefully in Nashville on Tuesday at the age of 80, her…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 25

A public health nurse in navy scrubs and blue gloves draws a vaccine dose from a glass vial at a paper-covered folding table, with rows of empty folding chairs behind her in a sunlit community hall

Two Unvaccinated Lancaster County Residents Are the First Americans to Die of Measles in 2026

Pennsylvania’s health department confirmed on Tuesday that two Lancaster County residents have died of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 25

Firefighters on a debris-covered village street beside stone houses whose terracotta tile roofs have been torn away, under a heavy post-storm sky

A Supercell Tornado Injured 41 People in Pomas While the Aude Sat Under a Thunderstorm Alert

A supercell tornado came down on Pomas, a village of about a thousand people…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 24

Yellow sheriff's crime scene tape strung between wooden fence posts across a gravel lane in dense evergreen forest at dawn, with a patrol vehicle's emergency lights glowing in low fog further down the road

Washington County Deputies Found Their Quintuple Homicide Suspect Dead in Washington State

Five people and several domestic animals were found dead on a rural property west…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 23

A wildfire burns along the ridgeline of a dry high desert mountain at dusk, throwing a glowing orange smoke column into a deep blue sky, with suburban homes and streetlights spread across the valley floor at the base of the slope.

Reno Told 45,000 People to Leave So 42,000 Others Could Get Out

The Hawk Fire burned past 13,000 acres northwest of Reno by Sunday afternoon with…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 23

A fresh landslide scar down the flank of a large municipal refuse mountain, with crushed corrugated-metal shacks and brown floodwater at its base and a yellow excavator working the debris under heavy grey cloud.

The Dar-es-Salam Landfill Was Due to Close on Sunday. It Killed at Least 30 People First.

Guinea’s government had already concluded that the mountain of refuse at Dar-es-Salam was too…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 23

A tall wooden wardrobe toppled against a bed in a dark Tokyo apartment bedroom, with books, a fallen lamp and broken dishes scattered across the floor and city high-rise lights visible through the window

Tokyo Earthquake Injures 37 as Japan’s Building Codes Hold and Its Furniture Does Not

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck southern Ibaraki Prefecture early Sunday, shaking Tokyo hard enough…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 23

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Firefighters in navy turnout gear direct a hose at a blackened, smoking retail building as a red fire engine and an ambulance with blue lights stand on a debris-covered forecourt.

Russia Waited Thirty Minutes to Strike the Kryvyi Rih Mall a Second Time

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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.