Vanessa Romo

One person was killed and several injured following blasts and fires on Thursday evening. Dozens of homes were damaged and about 8,000 people have been displaced. The cause is under investigation.

In an hours-long arraignment hearing on Wednesday Magistrate Judge Kirtan Khalsa told the five defendants there was "clear and convincing evidence that you are a danger to the community."

The storm, now Category 2 strength, is still on track to strike the Carolinas Thursday night and Friday.

MGM Resorts International said it would give $500 to any charity connected to the deadly concert shooting for people who authorize their lawyers to accept legal notice of the company's lawsuit.

The severity of Hurricane Florence is intensifying, triggering hurricane warnings along most of North Carolina's coast and a portion of South Carolina's.

The Fort Belknap Indian Community and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe contend there was no effort to study how the 1,200-mile pipeline project could affect their water systems and sacred lands.

The storm gained winds of 140 mph — a day earlier than predicted, and it is expected to intensify as it crosses over water. Forecasters predict Florence will hit the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday.

"Voting in a language you do not understand is like asking this Court [to] decide the winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry — ineffective, in other words," a federal judge said in the Friday ruling.

As fall — usually California's busiest fire season — approaches, officials say the agency that oversees emergency fire responses is running out of money.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has dropped the widely criticized new award it introduced less than a month ago, saying the idea needs "further study."

At least 300 people are injured and more than 30 missing on the northern island following the 6.7-magnitude temblor. Officials fear people are trapped inside homes destroyed in landslides.

U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra issued a permanent injunction against a law mandating the burial or cremation of fetal tissue from abortions, miscarriages or ectopic pregnancy surgery.

The Afghan-born former diplomat served as U.S. ambassador in Kabul under President George W. Bush. In Afghanistan, views of Khalilzad are mixed, with some blaming him for many of the country's woes.

Johnny Bobbitt says he has only received $75,000 of the GoFundMe money raised to get him off the streets. The rest, he argues, has been mismanaged and spent by the couple who pledged to help him.

Gordon came ashore just west of the Alabama border, according to the National Hurricane Center. A storm surge of 3-5 feet is possible for all of coastal Mississippi, forecasters say.

The advertisement shows a black-and-white image of the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback with text that reads: "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."

"The United States will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation," the State Department said. It's a loss of about $300 million in funding for schools and clinics.

An appeals court sided unanimously with environmental and indigenous groups in the decision; for construction to resume, the government must comply with court orders that could take years to satisfy.

Initial reports suggest the trailer was headed east on I-40 when one of its tires blew out, causing the driver to lose control and sending the truck careening across the median into oncoming traffic.

The case follows similar incidents in Ohio and Arkansas in which prison staff and inmates have been sickened or died, possibly from the opioid fentanyl or the synthetic marijuana K2.