Emerging: Police report multiple injuries in shooting during Sem Yeto High School graduation ceremony held on Fairfield High School’s campus in Fairfield, California; local media reports at least 3 students shot.
A fire ripped through a hotel in New Delhi on Wednesday and killed at least 21 people, many of them foreign nationals, police and local media said. https://t.co/i33wdvhE9A
It's Saharan dust season in the Atlantic, the time of year when dust clouds from the Sahara Desert are carried westward across the Atlantic to affect the United States. Some of the dust could reach parts of Texas and Louisiana by the weekend.
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63 injured, 1 dead in Iran's attack on Kuwait's airport. Seven required emergency surgery. Casualties include civilians, workers, and passengers.
Second round of Iranian ballistic missiles coming down on Kuwait at the moment, as Iran carries out its largest attack on a Gulf country in nearly a month.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is scrapping a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, Todd Blanche says, after Republican backlash. https://t.co/6CUJQ2f9VI
At least 17 people were killed and more than 100 people injured in a large-scale overnight Russian missile and drone strike on Ukraine, officials said, with the capital of Kyiv as the main target of Moscow's latest long-range barrage. https://t.co/Id9FwSQP8X
#OTD in #history, 1812, #POTUS James Madison asked #Congress to declare war on Britain for its “continued practice of violating the American flag.” To not, he insisted, “would have acknowledged that…the #American people were not an independent people, but colonists and vassals.”
A pancreatic cancer drug more than four decades in the making has cracked one of the most stubbornly lethal cancers, extending people’s lives and keeping their tumors in check for twice as long as those on regular chemotherapy. https://t.co/88SMECrIHd
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam failed, releasing more than 4.8 billion gallons of water, enough to fill roughly 7,300 Olympic-size swimming pools. The flood devastated Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and claimed the lives of over 2,200 people.
Johnstown Flood National Memorial preserves the remains of the dam and tells the story of one of the deadliest disasters in American history. The site invites visitors to reflect on the tragedy and the remarkable relief efforts that followed.
The planet’s billionaire population just keeps growing. Forbes counted a record 3,428 ten-figure fortunes around the globe on this year’s #ForbesBillionaires ranking, spread across 80 countries and territories. But more than half of all billionaires—51% in total—are concentrated in just three countries.
Learn more about where the world’s richest people choose to call home: https://t.co/vIiJTZ9MkJ