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At least 82 people died in a huge hospital fire Saturday night in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday. Another 110 people were injured in the blaze at Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, according to ministry spokesman Major General Khaled Al-Muhanna. The fire is believed to have started after oxygen tanks exploded,

The Ingenuity helicopter has successfully flown for the third time on Mars in a week. This time, the helicopter logged a flight that was faster, farther and bolder than the previous ones, according to NASA. Ingenuity exceeded speeds and distances beyond what it proved capable of doing during testing on Earth before launching to Mars.

Six attacks took place at four different Bronx synagogues between Friday and Sunday, and the New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is now investigating four of the incidents as possible hate crimes, NYPD Detective Francis Sammon said. Two of the attacks took place Friday, three on Saturday and one on Sunday, Sammon said.

I’ve tossed and turned more in the past year than ever before. I’ve cried more, too. On Friday morning, I woke up before my alarm, which I set at 5:45 a.m. to tackle breakfast and snack-making before getting my three kids and husband out of bed and off to the races. The routine is both

A growing number of Americans have missed their scheduled second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vaccines by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna require two doses — administered three and four weeks apart, respectively — to be considered fully effective. But data shows about 8%

A North Carolina sheriff says he wants body camera footage of Andrew Brown Jr.‘s fatal shooting to be made public, but there will have to be a court motion to do it. “Only a judge can release the video,” Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten said in a video message posted Saturday on Facebook. “That’s why

Click here for updates on this story     CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OR (KPTV) — Twelve counties in Oregon are on the brink of moving back to the Extreme Risk category for COVID-19. The change would mean that restaurants would be limited to only providing outdoor dining and take-out options for patrons. For Gail Herman, the Viewpoint Restaurant

India reported 349,691 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, the fourth day in a row the country has set a world record for daily infections during the coronavirus pandemic, according to government and scientific tallies. The country also reported its highest daily death toll for the ninth consecutive day, adding 2,767 fatalities in the past

Customs and Border Protection officers recently seized more than $4 million worth of suspected methamphetamine at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge cargo facility, the agency said. On April 17, CBP officers examined a tractor-trailer hauling a commercial shipment of fresh cucumber pickles into Texas with a non-intrusive imaging system and found it was hiding 114 packages