Gazans and Israelis Dare to Hope as Cease-Fire Takes Hold
After the fighting paused, Hamas began to free some of its hostages, releasing 3, and Israel said it had released 90 ...
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Book excerpt: "Fire Weather" by John Vaillant
A 2023 National Book Award finalist, "Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World" (Vintage Books), by bestselling author John Vaillant, recounts the rise of climate science and the ...
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Pale Fire Brewery's Books and Brews mixes literature and beer
Books and Brews is precisely what it sounds like. Pale Fire Brewery in downtown Harrisonburg invites local authors to discuss ...
New York Post5d
LAFD bosses sent just 5 fire engines to Palisades Fire — while holding back 1,000 firefighters and 35 trucks in critical first hours
Los Angeles fire bosses deployed just a fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five of the 40 available fire ...
Vast Trove of Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Is Destroyed in Fire
An estimated 100,000 scores by Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th-century composer, were destroyed when the publishing ...
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Crews stop forward progress of fast-moving brush fire in Ventura County
Crews rapidly got a handle on yet another Southern California fire that was reported in Oxnard on Monday night. Live footage from AlertCalifornia showed flames of the Auto Fire spreading near the ...
The Hill5d
Palisades Fire firefighters taking part in first-of-its-kind cancer study
The study comes after the International Agency for Research on Cancer officially classified firefighting as a carcinogenic profession. The initiative is a collaboration with Cal Fire, the National ...
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What to expect as Israel-Hamas cease-fire goes into effect on Sunday
After the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas goes into effect Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. local time in Israel, which is 1:30 a.m. ET, three female hostages are the first expected to be ...
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Kamala Harris' potential next move: A book
“There’s a version of this book that is full of platitudes but safe, and then there’s a version that reinvents her to lead a Democratic Party in need of rebuilding,” he said. “She gets a ...
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Evacuation order lifted after fire breaks out at battery storage facility in Central California
“This event really needs a full investigation at all levels of government. If this is going to be the future of energy, we need to be proactive,” Church said. The fire had affected 50,000 to ...
The Forward on MSN6d
‘Like the burning bush’: Rabbi’s book survives Holocaust – and the Los Angeles fire
LA fires destroyed Rabbi Levine Grater’s house, but his copy of the Warsaw Ghetto rabbi’s book "Sacred Fire" survived.
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Auto Fire breaks out in Ventura, California burning just outside LA: See map
The Auto Fire has burned nearly 61 acres in Ventura, California, a coastal city about 68 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, according to the county fire department. The blaze has was first ...