Four people were hospitalized in critical condition Thursday night after being struck by lightning in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square near the White House, authorities said. Four people were found dead inside two homes set ablaze in the small Nebraska city of Laurel on Thursday in what authorities suspect was result of foul play. The National Weather Service on Thursday said it still anticipates an above-normal 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. Residents near St. Louis woke up Thursday to déjà vu as drenching thunderstorms left roads underwater less than two weeks after deadly flash flooding unfolded across the city. Polls closed Thursday evening in Tennessee's primary election to select nominees for a slew of races, including several newly redrawn U.S. congressional races expected to favor Republicans. Crowds gathered in Beirut on Thursday to commemorate the second anniversary of an explosion that left more than 200 people dead and 6,000 injured. Florida's Space Coast on Thursday was busier than it's been in decades, launching two separate rockets on the same day for the first time since the heyday of the Space Race. An autopsy into the killings shows parents Tyler and Sarah Schmidt, both 42, died from "multiple sharp-force injuries." The father was also shot. Their daughter, Lula, 6, was strangled and suffered a gunshot wound. A lawsuit has been filed against Equifax days after the company confirmed a technical glitch miscalculated credit scores for some 300,000 consumers. The company this week served legal papers to investment banks that had been in talks with Musk about financing the deal, including Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Bank of America. The parent company of Burger King said Thursday that rising prices due to inflation are driving more customers to use things like coupons and loyalty program rewards. The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol on Thursday requested copies of a trove of data that embattled conspiracy theorist Alex Jones denied still having. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav on Thursday announced that HBO Max and Discovery+ will merge into a single streaming service in summer 2023. The FBI is dealing with more incidents of violent crime this year, director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both posted losses Thursday, ending two-day winning streaks, as investors looked ahead to Friday's July jobs report. Firefighters in California responded to a home to remove a bear that had broken into the house and damaged a pipe in the laundry room to take a drink. A Maryland man said a quick stop to buy milk led to his winning a $50,000 prize from a Powerball lottery drawing. Police in Illinois are attempting to round up a quartet of escaped pigs believed to have been wandering in a town for about a week. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Thursday declared monkeypox a national health emergency. Firefighters in Florida said no one was injured, but several dinners were ruined, when a truck carrying 10,000 frozen turkeys caught fire on the highway. Police in Spain responded to an unusual situation when a loose goat ran through the center of a city and broke into a jewelry store. The Milwaukee Brewers play the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago White Sox play the Oakland Athletics among the highlights of Major League Baseball for the week of July 31, 2022. The European Union is calling for an immediate end to deadly military clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces around the Lachin corridor and elsewhere on the Line of Contact along their disputed border. The coral cover in the northern and central sections of the Great Barrier Reef is at its highest amount in at least 36 years, Australian marine scientists announced Thursday. Jacksonville Jaguars and Las Vegas Raiders players will flood the field Thursday at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, launching the 2022 NFL preseason in Canton, Ohio. Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez and four others were arrested Thursday in a bribery scheme to finance her 2020 campaign, the U.S. Justice Department announced. |
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