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US Forest Service pilot hikes to safety after helicopter crash near central Idaho wildfire 07/12/2024 09:21pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The pilot of a helicopter that was responding to a small wildfire in central Idaho before crashing in the Sawtooth National Forest survived and was able to hike to a waiting ambulance, officials said. “Our pilot was on board and survived, and an investigation is underway,” The Latest: Biden returns to the campaign trail following high-stakes news conference 07/12/2024 08:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Yesterday, President Joe Biden opened his highly anticipated news conference with a forceful defense of his foreign and domestic policies and batted away questions about his ability to serve another four years, even as he flubbed a reference to former President Donald Trump in on As a new scam targets owners of lost pets, a local shelter offers a heads up 07/12/2024 08:05pm • The Fairfax County Animal Shelter wants pet owners to know that someone is posing as shelter staff in an attempt to get money from owners of lost pets. Reasa Currier, director of Fairfax County's Department of Animal Sheltering, told WTOP how the scam works. When a pet owner posts about their Smoking laptop in passenger's bag prompts evacuation on American Airlines flight in San Francisco 07/12/2024 07:45pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A smoking laptop in a passenger's bag prompted an evacuation on an American Airlines flight headed to Miami from San Francisco International Airport Friday, according to the airline. One person sustained minor injuries while exiting that required transport to a hospital, the a Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter case has been dismissed. Here's key things to know 07/12/2024 07:13pm • A judge's surprise ruling has ended the prosecution of Alec Baldwin nearly three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust." The ruling, which came in the trial's fourth day, was a surprise end to case that had already been dropped once Emergency workers uncover dozens of bodies in a Gaza City district after Israeli assault 07/12/2024 06:57pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Civil defense workers on Friday dug bodies out of collapsed buildings and pulled them off rubble-covered streets, as they collected dozens of Palestinians killed this week by an Israeli assault in a district of Gaza City. The discovery of the bodies came after Isra One woman escaped a 'dungeon’ beneath a Missouri home, another was killed. Here's a look at the case 07/12/2024 06:46pm • LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man facing trial on kidnapping and sexual assault charges after a woman said she escaped weeks in his captivity was arraigned Friday on a new charge of murder. Authorities say they linked him to the remains of a woman found in a barrel by the Missouri River. The case SpaceX rocket accident leaves company's Starlink satellites in wrong orbit 07/12/2024 05:58pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Thursday night, carrying 2 Vermonters, pummeled by floods exactly a year apart, are assessing damage, beginning cleanup 07/12/2024 05:45pm • PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) — Volunteers, some with heavy equipment, shoveled river silt and mud from roads, homes, yards and driveways and removed flood-ravaged items from homes Friday in one of the Vermont communities hardest hit by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. Former students of a no Uruguay coach Marcelo Bielsa says players deserve apology, not sanctions after Copa America fight 07/12/2024 05:23pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Uruguay coach Marcelo Bielsa thinks his players deserve an apology, not sanctions, for going into the stands at Bank of America Stadium and participating in a fight with Colombia fans following his team’s 1-0 Copa America semifinal loss. An angry Bielsa criticized tourname Hundreds of thousands are still without power in the Houston area. Here's how it happened 07/12/2024 04:35pm • Hundreds of thousands of people in the Houston area likely won’t have power restored until next week, as the city swelters in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl. The storm slammed into Texas on Monday, knocking out power to nearly 2.7 million homes and businesses and leaving huge swaths of the regio Houston hospitals report spike in heat-related illness during widespread storm power outages 07/12/2024 04:22pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Beryl have sent a wave of patients to Houston-area hospitals for treatment of heat-related illnesses and carbon monoxide poisoning due to using home generators improperly, medical officials said Friday. Hundreds of thousands of homes and Just a Category 1 hurricane? Don't be fooled by a number — it could be more devastating than a Cat 5 07/12/2024 04:17pm • Here's a troubling phrase hurricane forecasters hate but often hear: “It's just a Category 1. Nothing to worry about.” Or even worse: “Tropical storm? Just some wind and rain.” But look at Hurricane Beryl, which hit Texas this week as a “mere” Category 1 storm — far weaker in wind stre A truce in Congo ends in a week. Aid groups say it could be a lost opportunity to help civilians 07/12/2024 03:47pm • GOMA, Congo (AP) — A two-week truce in eastern Congo has heavily reduced fighting, but with a week left aid workers and local civil society groups say not much help has reached millions of people who are trapped in one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. The two-week humanitarian cease-f Young person in Canada dies from Hurricane Beryl’s remnants 07/12/2024 03:13pm • HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A young person has been found dead after being swept away by floodwaters in Canada's Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia as the remnants of Hurricane Beryl swept through the province, police said Friday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they received a call ju