Record-breaking temperatures were forecast to drive historic power demands in California, making rotating outages increasingly likely.
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Suspect in Canada stabbing spree still at large as police action fails to locate him
Canadian police with guns drawn surrounded a house Tuesday on an Indigenous reserve that was the site of a stabbing massacre Sunday morning.
One suspect in Canadian stabbing massacre found dead, other brother still on the run
Canadian police said one of the two brothers suspected in the fatal stabbings of 10 people has been found dead.
‘Not expecting to find any survivors’: 1 dead, 9 missing in seaplane crash off Whidbey Island near Seattle
Two Coast Guard Cutters and multiple search planes were combing for survivors after a seaplane crashed in the Puget Sound near Seattle.
China locks down 21 million people in Chengdu amid COVID scare; US deaths on rise
The lockdown in China comes as millions of Chinese children are scheduled to start the new school year.
Global nuclear chief emerges from Ukrainian plant after Russian shelling forces reactor shutdown
A team of experts arrived Thursday at Ukraine’s nuclear plant, hoping to avert catastrophe amid intense fighting for control of the region.
‘They are playing games’: Russia chastised as experts race to protect Ukraine nuclear power plant
A delegation of nuclear power plant experts hoping to head off catastrophe was en route Wednesday to the beleaguered Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.
Ukraine stays on offensive as Zelenskyy warns Russians to ‘go home’ in push to retake Kherson
Both sides claimed early success in what is expected to be a weekslong push by Ukrainian forces to regain territory lost in the war’s first months.
Ukraine says counteroffensive underway in Russia-held south; international team heads to nuclear plant
The Ukraine military said it launched a long-awaited offensive to liberate a swath of southern Ukraine occupied for months by Russian forces.
American killed while fighting alongside Ukrainians in contested Donbas region
A Memphis native fighting alongside Ukrainian soldiers is the latest American killed by Russian-backed militias in the hotly contested Donbas region.