HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Beyoncé’s childhood home caught fire early on Christmas morning, though the family living there escaped safely. The fire was reported at about 2 a.m. Monday and the Houston Fire Department arrived on the scene of the two-story brick house within three to five minutes, the Houston Chronicle reported. “We had it […]
No matter how many Montessori-style wooden toys a baby has, there’s no replacing the delight in their face when they see a light-up toy sing their favorite tune. But even for parents who aren’t perpetually annoyed by all the noise, questions about the safety of these battery-operated devices are on all our minds. And with […]
A wildfire burning out of control on the outskirts of the Australian west coast city of Perth on Thursday destroyed at least two homes and injured two people, officials said. An emergency warning was issued for the eastern suburb of Parkerville where the fire started on Thursday morning. The alert warned that the fire posed […]
An inmate at a North Carolina correctional facility was hospitalized after sustaining burns during a small explosion. The unidentified female at the Anson Correctional Institution in Polkton was reportedly injured about 1 p.m. Monday when gas inside an oven ignited during maintenance work, John Bull, a spokesperson for the prison system, told The Charlotte Observer. […]
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a single-word response to former President Donald Trump’s quoting of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Durham, New Hampshire, on Saturday. Clinton, Trump’s defeated Democratic rival in the 2016 election, shared on X (formerly Twitter) a Washington Post report on Trump’s widely condemned […]
If there was ever a year that called for bold global action on climate change, 2023 was it. In what will likely go down as the warmest year on record — one rife with catastrophic floods, scorching heat waves, devastating wildfires and enduring drought — leaders from nearly 200 countries gathered to chart a path […]