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California reports first wildfire death of the 2024 season as fires persist across the West 07/12/2024 10:37pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Wildfires fueled by strong winds and an extended heat wave have led to the first death in California of the 2024 season, while wind-whipped flames in Arizona have forced hundreds to flee from what tribal leaders are calling the ���most serious��� wildfire on their reservation 1 dead, 2 missing after tourist helicopter crashes off Hawaiian island of Kauai 07/12/2024 09:40pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� A tour company helicopter crashed off the Hawaiian island of Kauai, police said, killing one person and leaving two missing in the latest in a series of crashes to plague the industry in recent years. A hiker on the Kalalau trail reported seeing the helicopter crash into the water NASCAR Craftsman Truck CRC Brakleen 175 Results 07/12/2024 08:16pm • Friday At Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pa. Lap length: 2.50 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Corey Heim, Toyota, 70 laps, 60 points. 2. (8) Grant Enfinger, Chevrolet, 70, 48. 3. (1) Christian Eckes, Chevrolet, 70, 52. 4. (19) Taylor Gray, Toyota, 70, 36. 5. (27) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 70 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 Iowa Speedway's repaving could change Newgarden's dominance 07/12/2024 07:04pm • NEWTON, Iowa (AP) ��� Josef Newgarden���s recent run of success at Iowa Speedway might have been buried under the partial repaving the .875-mile oval underwent in the spring. It���s why Newgarden thinks this weekend���s IndyCar Series doubleheader is ���to be determined.��� ���Oh, it���s going to ma 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 Small wildfire leads to precautionary evacuation of climate change research facility in Colorado 07/12/2024 05:47pm • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) ��� A small wildfire started Friday on a trail near a Colorado facility where scientists research climate change, including worsening wildfires, leading officials to evacuate the building. The fire started late Friday morning in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder a 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 US Sen. Susan Collins says she will write in Haley, once again not vote for Donald Trump in 2024 07/12/2024 05:38pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Sen. Susan Collins didn't vote for Donald Trump for president in 2016 or 2020, and the third time will not be the charm ��� because she is writing in Nikki Haley. Collins, a longtime moderate Republican senator from Maine, told reporters on Friday that she intended to write Webb Space Telescope's latest cosmic shot shows pair of intertwined galaxies glowing in infrared 07/12/2024 05:32pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� The Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of intertwined galaxies glowing in the infrared. The observatory operated by NASA and the European Space Agency photographed the two galaxies 326 million light-years away, surrounded by a blue haze of stars and gas. A light-y Drought likely to persist in Potomac River; higher chance of release from backup reservoirs 07/12/2024 05:23pm • The probability of releases from backup reservoirs to ensure an adequate drinking water supply in the Potomac River is higher than normal this year, according to the group that coordinates the three major water providers in the Washington, D.C. area. "It's going to be dry," said Michael Nardolill 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 James Webb Space Telescope: NASA celebrates 2 years and counting with stunning photo 07/12/2024 03:50pm • It is hard to believe that two years have elapsed since NASA first released images and findings from the James Webb Space Telescope. To put it mildly, the JWST has been making astronomical discoveries in the solar system, galaxy and literally the whole universe over the past two years. To comm Russian passenger jet crashes flying empty near Moscow, killing its crew of 3 07/12/2024 02:56pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� A Russian passenger jet crashed Friday near Moscow while flying without passengers, killing its crew of three, officials said. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 plummeted into a forest near the village of Apraksino about 90 kilometers (55 miles) southeast of the Russian capital, according to e 'Then it's gone forever:' AP photographers race to capture fleeting Tour de France scenes 07/12/2024 02:47pm • It almost looks more like surrealism than photojournalism. A cyclist in a teardrop-shaped helmet and skin-tight racing suit hunches over his aerodynamic handlebars in the middle of a Burgundy vineyard with no road in sight. The rider is framed between a flag-waving woman and man facing in the oppos