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U.S. rabies cases rose 17 percent just this summer, according to a new federal advisory.
The surge was tied to multiple high-profile outbreaks and mass exposure events, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Maryland health officials warned residents in August of a beaver attack on a 10-year-old girl, and previous reports detailed similar attacks on teenagers.
National Park Service officials said rabid bats were swooping parkgoers at Olympic National Park in August and a dead bat tested positive for rabies in Yosemite National Park earlier this month.
Reports of rabid raccoons have ballooned in New York this summer and New York City data shows close to 20 cases across the boroughs since June.
open image in galleryRabies cases in the U.S. rose this summer, federal officials said this week. The viral disease can be deadly without immediate treatment (NPS)That forced officials to deploy fish-scented bait packets in parks and wooded areas, according to The New York..

American farmers harvesting two of the country's most vital crops, corn and soybeans, are confronting unprecedented diesel costs to operate their tractors, combines, and heavy machinery.
The surge in fuel prices creates further strain during a challenging year marked by rising expenditures for seeds, machinery, and fertilizer.
Global fuel supply disruptions linked to the ongoing six-month war with Iran drove U.S. diesel to a record average of $5.85 per gallon on Sept. 4.
Figures from AAA show rates continued upward, climbing to a national average of $6.05 a gallon on Friday.
“Those prices hurt,” said Paul Mitchell, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
open image in galleryFarmer Jason Kurtz, who voted for Trump, has seen his diesel expense double compared to last year (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)”And it’s not just the harvesting. It’s the hauling of everything, moving the grain or the silage from..

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Canada on Thursday for bilateral talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney, marking his most recent international journey aimed at securing ongoing assistance in resisting Russia's invasion.
Kyiv remains under severe pressure from Moscow's aerial campaign, which deploys ballistic missiles alongside jet-powered drones to penetrate defenses.
Ukrainian officials state that Russian strikes have repeatedly focused on the nation's energy grid ahead of winter to undermine civilian morale.
“The main focus will be on supporting Ukraine in protecting our skies and preparing for the winter,” Zelensky said of his Canada trip in a social media post. “We will discuss how to strengthen our resilience, support our people and ensure that Ukraine has the capabilities it needs to defend itself.”
Canada and various European states are supplying their own military equipment to Kyiv while purchasing American systems through the Prioritized Ukrai..

On Sept. 11, 2001, Karen Matthews was inside her Manhattan apartment preparing her three-year-old daughter for preschool when an unfamiliar, thunderous boom echoed outside.
Clutching her young child, she stepped onto the street. Onlookers were gazing upward at a gaping hole in the World Trade Center’s north tower, where dark smoke poured into the sky only a short distance from her residence.
“What did you see? What did you see?” members of the crowd asked each other. Matthews, a reporter for the Associated Press, instinctively began posing the same inquiry, reaching for her notepad to write down eyewitness accounts while still balancing her daughter in her arms.
Her original schedule called for taking her child to school before heading out to report on New York’s primary election later that day. Instead, she joined a team of AP journalists tasked with recording the unfolding Sept. 11 terror attacks as firsthand witnesses.
open image in galleryPedestrians flee the World Trade Center are..

Wild viral footage shows a car stuck under an Atlanta highway overpass — with its driver’s feet dangling 20 feet in the air.
Emergency crews rushed to Interstate 20 near Windsor Street Sunday night and found the car balanced in a “precarious position” — between concrete support beams supporting the road overhead, Atlanta Fire Rescue officials said, according to Fox 5.
Jaw-dropping footage taken from the scene shows a person’s feet and legs dangling over the edge of the beam, about 20 feet above the ground inside the tunnel.
The unbelievable incident quickly went viral online, with many perplexed about how the crash unfolded and if the individual involved was OK.
Following the crash, crews quickly got to work stabilizing the car so it wouldn’t fall. Officials said the person inside the car was able to climb out safely, without the use of any special equipment.
A car bizarrely got stuck under an overpass in Atlanta over the weekend — and no one knows how it happened (@kalenamishell/..

The trauma of 9/11 still lingers 25 years on from the attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, that left nearly 3,000 people dead.
Images of the day’s terrible events, taken as they unfolded – as first one, and then a second, hijacked passenger airliner were crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, before a third struck the Pentagon and a fourth crash-landed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers fought the hijackers for control of the cockpit – provide a devastating record of what transpired on a quiet early autumn day a quarter-century ago.
Many of those pictures illustrate the human cost of what proved to be one of the most lethal terrorist plots in history – the fear on the faces of those fleeing for their lives, the exhaustion of the rescue workers battling to save everyone they could and the despair of those searching frantically for loved ones still missing among the rubble.
Later, people found hope in other photographs – of crowds gathered for vigils, deb..

Sweden was once known for welcoming migrants.
But over the past decade, the country has not only shut its borders – its right-wing government is now paying some foreign-born residents huge sums to leave.
In 2015, Sweden took in 163,000 asylum seekers. That was the second highest per capita in Europe.
By 2025, that number had fallen by 96 per cent.
And since the start of 2026, the coalition government – which ran on a pledge to cut both immigration and crime – has been offering those with non-EU residency permits up to 350,000 Swedish crowns (£27,100) to leave the country.
The Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that is outside the government but backs it in parliament, has thrown its support behind the scheme.
open image in galleryA pedestrian walks past election campaign posters featuring Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson and other candidates in central Stockholm (AFP/Getty)The party launched ads on buses in July promoting the scheme to Somali immigrants.
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A New Jersey gun range owner and his employee have been identified as the passengers who stepped up and duct-taped an out-of-control traveler to his airplane seat after he had a meltdown on an American Airlines flight last week.
Richard O’Lenick, who owns Gun for Hire in Woodland Park, was on Flight 618 from Dallas to Newark last Thursday when Arthur Layne Lundeen, 67, of Tucson, Arizona, allegedly began attacking the passenger next to him.
“Everyone on the entire plane was on alert that something was not right but we didn’t know what was going on or why,” O’Lenick told The Daily Voice.
When flight crew tried to intervene, Lundeen allegedly launched into a racist and homophobic rant and refused to follow their commands. During the outburst, he hit and grabbed another passenger by their throat, and hit the woman sitting behind him, O’Lenick said.
Once Lundeen became violent, O’Lenick and his employee, Luan Mejia, a retired police officer, stepped in to protect the other passengers, h..

A Missouri foster mother accused of swapping a teenage girl for a monkey has been found guilty of child endangerment but escaped jail time.
Brenda Deutsch, 70, was sentenced to seven years last week after she sent the girl, now 17, to live in Texas with a friend. ​Court documents, reviewed by Fox News Digital, stated that Deutsch told the friend that they could keep the teenager but that she would be “keeping the check.”
According to the San Antonio Express News, the “check” was a reference to a government stipend given to Missouri foster parents.
While at the address in Texas, the girl was forced to endure dirty conditions and live among exotic animals, the records state.
Last Thursday, Deutsch, of Winfield, had her sentence suspended and was placed on three years’ probation by the judge, according to Fox 2 KTVI.
open image in galleryBrenda Deutsch, 70, who had fostered more than 200 children over the years, also had her foster care license revoked (Facebook/Brenda Deutsch)Deutsch,..

The European Union responded to repeated threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland by reassuring the territory with promises of an enhanced partnership and hundreds of millions of euros in investment.
European officials have turned greater attention toward Greenland since Trump insisted the United States must assume control of the island for security reasons.
The persistent claims generated concerns regarding sovereignty, prompting pushback from Greenlandic and Danish leaders while heightening strain among NATO allies.
On a visit to the capital, Nuuk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged 200 million euros ($232 million) in support across the next two years to assist Greenland with tackling climate change, expanding internet connections, and improving education, fisheries, and hydropower plants.
“Greenland’s future is for the people of Greenland and Denmark to decide. No one else,” von der Leyen said. “Territorial integrity, sovereignty, the ..