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By Nivedita Balu | Reuters Walmart Inc sued Tesla Inc, saying solar panels supplied by the electric car maker were responsible for fires at about seven of its stores, according to a lawsuit filed in a New York court on Tuesday. The fires destroyed significant amounts of store merchandise and required substantial repairs, totaling hundreds […]

By Peter Szekely | Reuters U.S. federal authorities said they have arrested a Florida truck driver who “was thinking about shooting up a church” in Memphis this week, making him at least the fourth person this month charged with plotting a mass shooting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Thomas McVicker, 38, in Indianapolis on […]

By Hollie Silverman | CNN A North Carolina father walked into the Union County Sheriff’s Office Sunday and told the dispatcher that he had killed someone, the sheriff’s office said. The victim was his daughter. Joshua Lee Burgess, 32, told the dispatcher he was there to turn himself in after killing someone in his Monroe […]

By Joe Sutton and Hollie Silverman, CNN (CNN) — Two members of the Proud Boys have been convicted on multiple charges for their part in a fight with members of Antifa last year. A Manhattan jury convicted Maxwell Hare, 27, and John Kinsman, 39, on Monday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced in a […]

NEW YORK — Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in the Manhattan federal jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a yearslong battle over the financier’s fortune. Court papers filed last week in the U.S. Virgin Islands list no details of beneficiaries […]

People bought tickets to watch a movie outdoors Saturday evening while in bed, but they weren’t prepared for a flying mattress show in addition to the movie they were watching. By Saturday afternoon, dozens of mattresses set up for the night began flying through Stapleton, thanks to some signature Colorado wind, creating what one man […]

The demolition of three cooling towers at a British power plant made for spectacular viewing — and unexpectedly left 40,000 people without power. Crowds gathered at dawn on Sunday to see the implosion of the 375-foot towers at the Didcot facility in Oxfordshire. The structures crumbled as planned, but then spectators saw a bright flash […]

By Dakin Andone, Harmeet Kaur and Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Authorities this weekend announced they had foiled three potential mass shootings after arresting three men in different states who expressed interest in or threatened to carry them out. All three cases were brought to authorities’ attention by tips from the public. Here’s what we […]

By Aritz Parra and Hernan Munoz | The Associated Press GIBRALTAR — An Iranian supertanker hauling $130 million worth of light crude oil that the U.S. suspects to be tied to a sanctioned organization has lifted its anchor and begun moving away from Gibraltar, marine traffic monitoring data showed late Sunday. The trail left by […]

By Kevin Freking | The Associated Press BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — President Donald Trump said Sunday the economy is “doing very well” and dismissed concerns of recession, offering an optimistic outlook after last week’s steep drop in the financial markets. “I don’t think we’re having a recession,” Trump told reporters as he returned to Washington […]

By Kelvin Chan Han and Yanan Wang | Associated Press HONG KONG — Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road in the Chinese territory, where massive pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity. Organizers said at […]

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Holly Yan | CNN An impromptu house party devolved into chaos when a verbal dispute led to the shootings of at least six teenagers. The shooting victims — a 17-year-old female, three 18-year-old males and two 19-year-old males — are expected to recover from their injuries, Houston police spokesman Victor Senties […]