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Louisianans are the most likely to consider themselves grill masters (31%), according to new research. A survey of 5,000 adults who grill, split by state, explored how these cooks get creative in front of the grate and found that one in six of all respondents consider themselves “grill masters” (18%). Respondents from Georgia and Illinois followed as the second and third states that house the highest number of “grill masters” in the country (28% each). Through rain, snow, or sunshine, people will brave the elements to fire up their grills. The most active grilling states are not necessarily the warmest…

Jake Reiner, the eldest son of film director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, said the eight months since his parents were found fatally stabbed in their Los Angeles home have felt like “a living nightmare.” Speaking to ABC7 Los Angeles in his first interview since the killings, Mr. Reiner, 34, described the months since his parents were killed on Dec. 14, 2025, as feeling like “eight years” and “eight minutes” simultaneously.  His younger brother, Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested hours after the killings and charged with two counts of murder.  Mr. Reiner said he has not spoken with…

A teenager in central North Carolina is in critical condition after contracting a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by a waterborne amoeba, state health officials announced this week. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said Aug. 27 that the teen has primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM, a brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba commonly found in warm freshwater such as lakes and ponds. The department did not release the teen’s name, age or hometown, citing the family’s privacy, and said the source of the infection remains under investigation. “Our hearts go out to…

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children because she was depressed and tired of living, not because of failings with mental healthcare, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday before they began deliberating in her murder trial. “It was a choice to take them with her,” prosecutor Jennifer Sprague said. “It is a choice that we don’t want to think about that a mother could make.” “But it’s a choice she made,” Sprague said. Clancy’s mental state is at the center of the closely watched trial that has drawn attention to maternal mental health after childbirth. The debate has stirred…

Florida authorities arrested and charged a woman with trying to run over a Secret Service agent and then local police officers after she was stopped at a security checkpoint by President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Palm Beach County court records show Alexa Rae Scharf, 29, was charged with aggravated assault with a vehicle, felony fleeing and resisting arrest in the Tuesday incident that started with the suspect’s bizarre behavior close to the president’s Florida home. The court filing, obtained by WPEC-TV, said Ms. Scharf drove up to the checkpoint around 6:05 p.m. Tuesday. Authorities soon told her that the checkpoint was…

Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs is facing misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property stemming from what police described as a physical confrontation with his girlfriend. Jacobs was arrested May 26 after police were called to his home to investigate a disturbance and was released from jail the next day. The charges were announced Thursday by Brown County District Attorney David Lasee. “Our office sought to ensure a fair and complete review of available evidence, some of which only recently became available to our office due to significant, ongoing forensic efforts by law enforcement,” Lasee said…

WASHINGTON — Three staff members from the Stars and Stripes military news outlet are suing to challenge their recent firings by the Pentagon, accusing the Trump administration of violating their First Amendment free speech rights to speak out against government interference in their work. Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and Middle East reporter Lara Korte are named as plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon, which partially funds the news outlet, fired them last week. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment on the suit’s allegations. Slavin says he was dismissed for…

A federal judge barred the Defense Department from enforcing its ban on using technology from Anthropic, a leading AI firm, calling the prohibition more a fit of rage than a well-founded policy. Judge Rita Lin, a Biden appointee to the Northern District of California in San Francisco, said the administration’s justification for the ban was “slim,” and mostly fabricated after the fact. She said the ban boiled down to anger at Anthropic’s criticism of the Trump administration. That, she ruled, wasn’t sufficient. “Neither the Constitution nor the federal statute invoked by defendants allows them to impose sweeping penalties based principally…

LAS VEGAS — The murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur is headed to closing arguments after the defense rested Thursday following testimony from three former Las Vegas police officers. Jurors are scheduled to return Monday for closing arguments before beginning deliberations in the only prosecution brought in the killing of the hip-hop icon. The presentation of evidence ended after nine days of testimony. Davis, 63, did not take the stand. Shakur was riding in a BMW on Sept. 7, 1996, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to it at a red…

KISANGANI, Congo — Congo on Thursday began vaccinating people against Ebola as health authorities work to slow the country’s deadliest outbreak of the disease on record. The vaccination campaign was officially launched in Kisangani, the capital of Tshopo province, in the country’s east, Health Minister Roger Kamba said. Health workers and other people working on the front lines of the Ebola response are among the first to receive the vaccine. “We have decided to use the Ervebo vaccine to protect first those who are on the front line, therefore our health care providers, but also people who have been in…