(Headline USA) Officials in a Northern California city urged people sensitive to smoke to keep indoors as firefighters spent a third day Saturday battling a fire in a huge medical equipment warehouse.
Air quality on the south side of Tracy, a city of 100,000 people where the Medline warehouse fire has...
(Headline USA) Damaging storms swept through the Midwest, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and causing more than a thousand flight delays or cancellations at Chicago airports with more potentially severe weather expected Thursday.
The National Weather Service said it received more than a dozen reports of...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday slapped down a decision from the Biden administration that regulated efficiency standards for furnaces and water heaters.
Justices on the high court vacated the District of Columbia district court's decision in American Gas Association v. Department of Energy, where...
(John Cole, The Center Square) As the debate around data centers continues in Pennsylvania, a pair of lawmakers have penned a letter pushing for answers and transparency at the federal level.
Last week, U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-4th District, and Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, sent a letter to the Federal...
(Headline USA) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is assessing damage to its launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test firing, creating a giant orange fireball seen and felt for miles around.
The company fueled the hulking New Glenn rocket Thursday night, hoping to briefly ignite the engines ahead of a...
(Headline USA) A massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid imploded and collapsed Tuesday at a Washington paper mill, killing at least one worker and leaving nine others unaccounted for with no hope for rescue, authorities said.
Another nine people were injured, some severely, in...
(Headline USA) Investigators were combing through a New York City shipyard on Saturday trying to find the cause of a fire and an explosion that killed one person and injured more than 30 firefighters and other first responders.
Authorities provided no major updates to the incidents that occurred Friday afternoon...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Saturday that a deal with Iran on the war, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated” after calls with Israel and other allies in the region.
“Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced...
(Headline USA) Authorities braced for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank in Southern California could leak or explode as an evacuation order continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 40,000 residents with no timeline on when they can return.
No injuries were reported after the pressurized tank overheated Thursday...
(Lauren Jessop, The Center Square) Data center developers are increasingly targeting agricultural land for new projects, and residents in affected communities are mounting opposition, concerned about the industrialization of their farmland.
At the same time, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is pursuing two priorities that can be difficult to balance: attracting...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump called off a signing ceremony Thursday for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America’s edge on AI technology.
Trump said he was postponing the signing because he did not like what he saw in the order’s text. He announced...
(Michael Carroll, The Center Square) Six former Spirit Airlines employees, including five Florida residents, have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Florida company’s worker layoffs violate a federal law mandating a 60-day notice prior to such terminations.
The laid-off employees filed the litigation May 12 in the federal bankruptcy...