(Headline USA) Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said.
A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of water Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the Rolling Thunder mine near Drennen, about 50...
(Headline USA) First responders searched for more victims Wednesday after a UPS cargo plane crashed and exploded in a massive fireball while taking off from the company’s global aviation hub at the airport in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least seven people and injuring 11, authorities said.
The plane crashed about 5:15...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sunday clarified that the US has no plans to conduct nuclear explosions, at least for the time being, comments that came amid confusion over President Trump’s order for the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons.
“I think the tests we’re talking about...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.
“We would buy some beef from Argentina,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One during a flight from Florida to Washington. “If we do that, that...
(Headline USA) Officials were investigating a blast that leveled an explosives plant in rural Tennessee, as families of the 18 people missing and feared dead waited anxiously Saturday for answers.
The explosion Friday morning at Accurate Energetic Systems, which supplies and researches explosives for the military, scattered debris over at least...
(Headline USA) An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left multiple people dead and missing on Friday, authorities said, as secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning field of debris.
The blast, which people reported hearing and feeling miles away, occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On Sept. 23, an unmanned aircraft assigned to the 432nd Wing of the Air Force crashed into the desert near Area 51—the famous military facility long thought to be associated with alien technology.
Over the next four days, authorities guarded the site while it was cleaned....
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The man facing a federal indictment for allegedly causing the deadliest wildfire in Los Angeles history was a donor to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
The relatively small donations shed light into the political leanings into of the suspect, 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht.
According to the Federal Election Commission,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Authorities in California have made an arrest in connection with the deadly January wildfire that erupted into the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history and destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, according to a law enforcement official not authorized to publicly discuss the...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Changes to the Environmental Protection Agency's strict regulations on the automobile industry could cost nonprofit groups that reported a 267% funding bump in the years since the federal agency's 2009 Endangerment Finding, a rule that provided a legal basis for the agency to regulate...
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to invalidate a New York law that seeks to punish fossil fuel companies for their alleged role in climate change.
In a motion for summary judgment, filed late Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources...