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Police dog injured after loaded gun goes off during post-arrest search in Ontario

Police dog injured after loaded gun goes off during post-arrest search in Ontario

Police in Halton Region say a search dog was injured earlier this week after finding a loaded firearm during a post-arrest search in Burlington, Ont.
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Brazil strikes deal with Musk's Starlink to curb criminal use in the Amazon rainforest

Brazil strikes deal with Musk's Starlink to curb criminal use in the Amazon rainforest

Brasilia, BRAZIL (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday a deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink to curb the use of its services in illegal mining and other criminal activities in the Amazon.
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Environmental groups sue to block migrant detention center rising in Florida Everglades

Environmental groups sue to block migrant detention center rising in Florida Everglades

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” now being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades .
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Home to North Carolina iconic attraction reopens after Hurricane Helene's devastation

Home to North Carolina iconic attraction reopens after Hurricane Helene's devastation

CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.
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For Eastern US, temperatures swing high, then swing low. They'll soon go back up

For Eastern US, temperatures swing high, then swing low. They'll soon go back up

After days of blistering heat, the nation's sweaty East Coast got to open windows, step outside and get temporary relief on Friday as temperatures plummeted as much as 40 degrees and humidity dropped alongside.
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Nova Scotia invests in climate change adaptations for its seafood industry

Nova Scotia invests in climate change adaptations for its seafood industry

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government says it will spend $1.73 million to help 22 seafood companies and related organizations reduce their carbon footprints.
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Residents express amazement after seeing fireball streak across the southern sky

Residents express amazement after seeing fireball streak across the southern sky

ATLANTA (AP) — More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern U.S.
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Peru's Amazon communities accuse the state of failing to stop mercury pollution from illegal mining

Peru's Amazon communities accuse the state of failing to stop mercury pollution from illegal mining

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous and rural communities along the Nanay River in Peru’s northern Amazon filed a complaint on Friday accusing the government of failing to stop illegal gold mining that is contaminating their water and food with toxic
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Interstate 40 in the Smoky Mountains reopens faster than expected after rock slide and flooding

Interstate 40 in the Smoky Mountains reopens faster than expected after rock slide and flooding

HARTFORD, Tenn. (AP) — Crews on Friday reopened a section of Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains after flooding and a rock slide closed the major cross country highway for nine days.
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The government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting, and experts sound an alarm

The government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting, and experts sound an alarm

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S.
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