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SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Fire Department is battling a brush fire in Mira Mesa. The fire is reported south of 11107 Batavia Circle. The blaze is pushing north and uphill.Evacuations are in progress. Montongo Street is shut down. This story is developing. Many fire crews are working a brush fire south of Los …

President-elect Joe Biden is considering canceling the cross-border permit for TC energy’s Keystone XL pipeline — and Canadian officials are worried. Jason Kenney, the 18th Premier of Alberta, said in a tweet that he is “deeply concerned by reports that the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden may repeal the Presidential permit for the Keystone XL …

US authorities on Thursday expressed increased alarm about a large and sophisticated hacking campaign affecting government networks. The cybersecurity unit of the Department of Homeland Security warned that the hack “poses a grave risk to the federal government and state, local, tribal and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector …

Fire at 517 Main Street, NE near the Lindbergh MARTA Station. Credit: Atlanta Fire Rescue (CW69 News at 10) – Atlanta Fire Rescue reports they are currently responding to a three alarm fire at 517 Main Street, NE near the Lindbergh MARTA station.  Firefighters are working the fire through the attic of a four story …

A prolonged heatwave in Siberia is “undoubtedly alarming”, climate scientists have said. The freak temperatures have been linked to wildfires, a huge oil spill and a plague of tree-eating moths. On a global scale, the Siberian heat is helping push the world towards its hottest year on record in 2020, despite a temporary dip in …

WASHINGTON — This week, federal health officials warned Americans to prepare for the coronavirus to become a pandemic, stocks tumbled on fears of just how widespread the virus could get, and the White House sought $2.5 billion from Congress to fight the deadly infection. But in the telling of President Donald Trump, everything is fine. …

A Wuhan nursing home reported 12 infections. A dozen coronavirus cases have been confirmed at a single nursing home in Wuhan, China, the city at the center of the epidemic. Public health experts have said that nursing homes are among the most dangerous sites for transmission of the virus. The elderly have been particularly vulnerable …

Deaths climb above 100 as China records new cases. An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan has already killed at least 106 people in China, according to data released early Tuesday. Infections have been confirmed in many other countries. But of the 4,500 people who have so far …

Image caption The Royal Shakespeare Company’s famous Stratford theatre is being lapped by flood water The Environment Agency’s director of flood risk management says he is “alarmed” by the prospect of further flooding across England this winter. John Curtin said there had been so much rain this Autumn, the land is saturated in many places. …

NEW YORK— Marc Benioff, co-founder and co-CEO of business-software company Salesforce. com Inc., told business journalists Wednesday that it was time to apply much stronger controls to social media, artificial intelligence and other technologies. Mr. Benioff renewed his assertion that Facebook “is the new cigarettes.” He called for the abolishment of Section 230 of the …