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A British Airways flight from London to Las Vegas was able to land safely Monday after a cellphone caught fire and scorched the cabin.  British Airways Flight 271 was on its way from London Heathrow Airport to Harry Reid International Airport when the fire broke out, the Federal Aviation Administration said, according to CBS News. No injuries were reported, and the plane was not diverted. Airport officials told KTNV-TV that British Airways called in an alert and that “fire was extinguished and the aircraft landed safely and taxied to the gate.”  A British Airways spokesperson told KTNV-TV that “the safety…

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi. The NAACP and other groups say Musk’s xAI subsidiary failed to get a permit for its power plant – which is located near homes, schools and churches – creating health risks for families in North Mississippi and nearby Memphis and violating the federal Clean Air Act. The Justice Department, in a motion late Monday, sought to intervene in the case and dismiss the…

WILMINGTON, Del. — A hospital in Delaware was locked down Tuesday after two people were shot inside, police said. The shooting was reported about 3:30 p.m. at Wilmington Hospital, said David Karas, the chief administrative officer at the Wilmington Police Department. Karas declined to immediately release any information about the status of the victims or whether police had located the shooter. ChristianaCare, which operates the hospital, said in an emailed statement it was diverting patients from its emergency department and “taking all appropriate steps to ensure the safety of our patients, caregivers and visitors.” “This is an active police investigation…

NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department accused New York state officials Tuesday of facilitating fraud, saying they let a Georgia company use a sham bidding process to gain control of and then abuse a $10 billion program to provide home care to disabled Medicaid patients. Federal lawyers made the claims in a civil lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court, naming the state’s Department of Health, its Medicaid director and the Alpharetta, Georgia-based company Public Partnerships LLC, as defendants. In the lawsuit, the federal government asked a judge to order the end to any wrongdoing and to appoint a receiver to…

A skydiving instructor who had made over 6,800 jumps. A drummer who was meticulous about safety since falling in love with the sport that helped him sober up. A software engineer on the cusp of becoming a certified skydiving coach. A grandfather honoring his sister lost to cancer. Family and friends of the 11 jumpers and pilot killed when their plane crashed shortly after taking off in Missouri said they loved their hobby – whether it was to find personal peace or to share a once-in-a-lifetime experience with others. They remembered the experienced skydivers as people who may have had…

NEW YORK | A tentative deal to end the Iran war makes it reasonable to ask how soon prices will drop for gasoline, groceries, airline tickets and other items that became more expensive during the conflict. Not so fast, experts say. Even after oil starts flowing again from the Middle East, it could take awhile for consumers to see a difference at local fuel pumps, supermarkets and other places they shop, according to economists and industry analysts. Fighting over the Strait of Hormuz disrupted not only supplies of crude and refined fuel but also the supply chains for fertilizer, food…

Algae is again plaguing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and the White House’s newest plan to fix the $14.2 million makeover is hydrogen peroxide. National Park Service workers were seen pouring bottles of 12% hydrogen peroxide concentrate into the pool as part of an effort to mitigate the algae bloom that appeared just days after the eight-week renovation project was completed. Hydrogen peroxide is a powerful nonchlorine shock used to control algae as it bubbles on contact due to oxidation. Afterward, it degrades into just water and oxygen, leaving no harsh chemical residues. Officials from the Interior Department and the…

Researchers found in a new study that California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto tectonic faults are at their highest stress levels in 1,000 years. Lead author Liliane Burkhard said in a release from the University of Hawaii at Manoa that “stress levels on multiple fault segments are now at or above the highest values seen in the past millennium and that the region may be capable of a large through-going rupture involving both fault systems.” The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, explains that the last major earthquake, or Big One, was the 1857 Fort Tejon…

BILLERICA, Mass. — Elliot Sudal didn’t need a bigger boat, but he did need to find a way to get a hook out of a shark’s mouth. Sudal, a veteran angler and boat captain, reeled in the nearly nine-foot shark – also commonly known as a great white shark or a great white – on June 7 on Nantucket. White sharks are a protected species in the U.S. and must be released immediately when accidentally caught. That presents a nasty problem for a fisherman because the white shark is a formidable apex predator best known for the 1975 movie Jaws,…

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials have issued a recall for alfredo sauce distributed to dozens of U.S. states by a supplier because of potential salmonella contamination. The sauce was voluntarily recalled by the supplier because it contained a dry milk powder ingredient that was possibly contaminated with salmonella, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration enforcement report. There were 913 cases recalled and each of those cases contained 12 sealed bags of sauce, with each bag weighing over 3 pounds, the FDA said. The Coffee Connexion Co. Inc., based in Lebanon, Tennessee, voluntarily recalled the sauce, the FDA said.…