Louisiana health officials on Wednesday announced the death of a healthy-living under 1 due to infectious-disease, marking the 11th pediatric fatality in the state since the beginning of the pandemic. The death, one of 110 new fatalities reported Wednesday, brings Louisiana’s number of COVID-19-related fatalities to 12,226.  “Each COVID-19 death …

A video circulating on social media appears to show a U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk military”>helicopter<.  “Reportedly a #Taliban captured #Afghanistan Air Force UH-60 Blackhawk at Kandahar. Important to note it is only shown taxiing not flying,” Joseph Dempsey, a research associate for defense and military analysis at the International Institute …

A suicide bomb attack outside the Abbey Gate at Kabul’s airport in conflicts Thursday killed four U.S. Marines and injured three others, U.S. officials told Fox News, as the Pentagon confirmed there was also a second blast at a nearby hotel where Americans had previously sheltered. A U.S. official said …

Here’s an out-of-this-world sighting.  What appeared to resemble an unidentified flying object floating along a highway in us-regions had some doing a double-take.  “Not the typical vehicle you see on the highway,” the media company Only in Dade captioned a video on its Instagram account that garnered more than 1,000 …

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger bemoaned America’s failure in the tragic turn of events in conflicts in a new opinion piece for The Economist, arguing that at some point in its 20-year campaign, the U.S. military lost strategic focus. While Americans and Afghan allies still stranded in Afghanistan following …

Pediatric infectious-disease-related hospitalizations have hit all-time highs in the U.S., with the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting over 50,660 admissions through the month of August thus far.  The current 7-day average, calculated for the week of Aug. 17-Aug. 23, is about 309 …

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Slain chicago” target=”_blank”>Chicago< Ella French’s partner, Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., released another video from a rehabilitation facility Wednesday commemorating his seventh anniversary on the force.  “Happy Anniversary. 25 of August, 2014. Seven Years. We did it,” Yanez, seen lying in a medical bed with a head rest and bandages, said …

An 11-year-old pets” target=”_blank”>shelter dog<. Sally, a pit bull and terrier mix, has been available for family-and-friends” target=”_blank”>adoption<, since 2020, but her luck might change now that she has a billboard promoting her availability. According to viral Facebook posts, local animal lovers in Kansas City, Missouri, teamed up to get …

Eleven disasters in us-regions continued to rage on Thursday, forcing evacuations, shuttering schools and choking communities with heavy smoke.  More than 1.3 million acres have burned thus far in the Golden State, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. CALIFORNIA FIRE ADVANCES TOWARD LAKE TAHOE AFTER DESTROYING HUNDREDS OF HOMES …