A massive wildfire just northeast of Phoenix continued to burn through thousands of acres of desert and forestland Wednesday, triggering evacuations as Arizona is also dealing with a spike in coronavirus cases.The so-called Bush Fire in Tonto National Forest has grown to nearly 90,000 acres — up from 64,000 on Tuesday — and was only…
The fire near Phoenix is the largest blaze in the country. Andrew FreedmanEditor focusing on extreme weather, climate change, science and the environment. June 17 at 3:45 PM Wildfires are rampaging across parts of the Desert Southwest and California, where an active start to the summer fire season is underway as some states in the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…