Northern California residents, from those living by the Bay to those living on lake houseboats, are coming under threat as a severe drought continues to intensify. Nearly two million people in the San Francisco Bay Area have been placed under a water shortage emergency Wednesday as the state grapples with worsening drought conditions. Mandatory water
Continue Reading An Afghani ISIS affiliate, known as IS-K, has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack on international demining charity, the Halo Trust, that left 10 people dead and 16 others wounded, the SITE Intelligence Group reported Wednesday. The attack began at 9.50 p.m. local time, when a group of armed men entered a HALO camp in the
Continue Reading Two massive wildfires in eastern Arizona continued to spread Wednesday, leading Gov. Doug Ducey to issue two emergency declarations to further fund response efforts. The area around the Telegraph Fire and Mescal Fire, both burning nearly 100 miles east of Phoenix, was so dry that officials had said firefighters trying to tame the blaze have
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Significant cyberattacks against critical targets in Europe have doubled in the past year, according to new EU figures obtained by CNN, as the pandemic pushed lives indoors and online. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, told CNN there were 304 significant, malicious attacks against “critical sectors” in 2020, more than double the 146 recorded
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As we moved online in the pandemic, crime moved with us. In the European Union last year, new figures obtained by CNN show significant cyberattacks doubled. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports.
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THURSDAY: Sunshine looks to return early this morning. A few folks will wake up to some fog, but it doesn’t look like a widespread issue. One or two communities will pick up an afternoon shower, but most will stay dry. That means highs will press into the upper 80’s. TONIGHT: Mostly clear skies stick around
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Bitcoin’s value shot up after El Salvador became the world’s first country to accept it as legal tender. As of 3:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, the virtual currency was trading at $36,849 per coin, jumping about 7.9% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinDesk. Salvadorian lawmakers made history on Wednesday by approving a proposal
Continue Reading After 65 years, a grisly double murder case of two teenagers in Great Falls, Montana, was solved with DNA evidence, according to investigators. “It was such a big case,” Cascade County Sheriff’s Office lead investigator Sgt. Jon Kadner told CNN Wednesday night. Investigators have determined that the killer was Kenneth Gould, a Great Falls native
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation just unveiled a newly created position to tackle its decades-old diversity problem: chief diversity officer. Scott McMillion is a 23-year veteran of the FBI who is stepping into the role at a time when racial tensions have boiled over nationwide, with the FBI taking the lead in a growing number
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As a renewed sense of optimism sweeps the US this summer with lower reported Covid-19 cases, the US Surgeon General has issued a warning for those not vaccinated: don’t let your guard down quite yet. “For those who are unvaccinated, they are increasingly at risk as more and more variants develop,” Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
Continue Reading Myanmar’s deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with corruption by the country’s military junta, state media reported Thursday, adding to a raft of legal cases against the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The new charge follows an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission into several accusations leveled at Suu Kyi. It found her
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The moon will partially block out the sun this Thursday to create a “ring of fire” solar eclipse. Some people in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to catch the first of two solar eclipses this year on June 10. A solar eclipse happens when the moon crosses between the sun and the Earth, which
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Hundreds of mysterious fast radio bursts have been detected in space thanks to a Canadian telescope and an international group of researchers. The origins of these bright, millisecond-long flashes of light are unknown because the bursts, or FRBs, are unpredictable and vanish quickly. Scientists first observed them in 2007. In the decade following, they only
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Some nurses at a Houston hospital have made headlines for suing their employer and staging a walkout over a requirement that they get the coronavirus vaccine.
Continue Reading Asia’s drug cartels adapted quickly to the pandemic in 2020, flooding markets with synthetic narcotics worth tens of billions of dollars even as the global economy ground to a halt, according to a new United Nations report. Methamphetamine seizures in East and Southeast Asia surged 19% from 2019 to a new record-high, the UN Office
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The US Park Police did not clear racial injustice protesters from Lafayette Park to allow for then-President Donald Trump‘s march to St. John’s Church last June, but instead did so to allow a contractor to install a fence safely around the White House, according to a new inspector general report. The Park Police had the
Continue Reading The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who was a regular fixture at his federal trial, will plead guilty Thursday to being a “minimal participant” in helping her husband run his drug empire, The New York Times reported. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was arrested in February on international drug trafficking charges at Dulles International Airport
Continue Reading Investors managing more than $41 trillion in assets are loudly calling on world leaders to immediately step up their climate game if they don’t want to miss out on a wave of clean energy investment. More than 450 major investors signed a letter that was released Thursday urging governments to set more ambitious emission reduction
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Here are the local scores from Wednesday, June 9, 2021. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. MINK League baseball Nevada (5) Jefferson City (2) FINAL Chillicothe (10) Sedalia (9) FINAL
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) The Fulton City Council approved a $3.4 million dollar loan agreement with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. This is to finance a large hike in gas prices after an increase in rates from February 10th through the 20th of this year. The Fulton mayor said in February the city has had
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