In California’s Klamath National Forest, the fast-moving McKinney fire, which started Friday, went from charring just over 1 square mile (1 square kilometer) to scorching as much as 62 square miles (160 square kilometers) by Saturday in a largely rural area near the Oregon state line, according to fire officials. “It’s continuing to grow with erratic winds and thunderstorms in the area and we’re in triple digit temperatures,” said Caroline Quintanilla, a spokeswoman at Klamath National Forest....

Comment San Francisco and New York state declared public health emergencies Thursday amid a growing monkeypox outbreak, the latest in an escalation of measures in response to the fast-spreading virus. The action by two of the hardest-hit areas comes after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency last weekend and as the Biden administration weighs a national emergency declaration. More than 40 percent of the nation’s 4,907 confirmed monkeypox cases have been reported in California and New York....

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario reviewed video surveillance footage from the July 17 incident and said the EFS Social Club at 647 King St. W. breached a license requirement. The nightclub violated a condition requiring “every entrance to the premises during business hours to be staffed with at least one security person equipped with a metal detector and that the device be used on every person entering the premises, without exception” under the Liquor Act on Licensing and Control (LLCA), the commission said in a statement....

Die Ärztin war an die Öffentlichkeit gegangen, weil sie von Impfgegnern massenhaft bedroht worden war. Deshalb musste sie ihre Ordination „aufrüsten“ – rund 100.000 Euro hatte sie in Sicherheitsmaßnahmen und zeitweise auch Sicherheitspersonal investiert. Schließlich habe sie Ende Juni ihre Praxis geschlossen, weil die Situation vor allem für ihre Mitarbeiter nicht mehr tragbar sei. Am Donnerstag aktualisierte die Ärztin ihre Homepage: „Aus heutiger Sicht kann ich keine Auskunft darüber geben, ob, wann und wie der Normalbetrieb wieder aufgenommen werden kann....

In a letter sent on Saturday, Hollie Dance urged the health minister to “act immediately” to stop her son Archie Battersbee’s treatment. Barts Health NHS Trust, which cares for Archie, appears to be moving ahead with plans to end support at 2pm on Monday. Writing to Stephen Barclay, Dance said: “If this happens, it will be extremely cruel and a flagrant breach of Archie’s rights as a disabled person. “Archie is entitled to have his life and death decisions made by the NHS and UK courts, reviewed by an international human rights body....

Roa, 29, tutors math to cover her bills but has barely enough left over to buy herself a calculator for class. Earlier this month, she joined thousands of people who marched to Buenos Aires’s central square to protest their depleting incomes and demand more financial help. “I can assure you that every one of these people here are not only living through a very rough time, but they just don’t have enough,” said Roa....

After 13 years of tending to wounds, caring for patients, comforting families and losing her life, Byrne decided to give up retirement and a permanent career. Being a casual employee meant she could be home for Christmas and New Years. Go to a birthday party. And keep the promises. “It’s a lot of, you know, ‘I’m working tonight and tomorrow is the last day of school and I’m going to come home and we’re going to take pictures,’” Byrne said in a recent interview....

François entame la deuxième partie de son voyage au Canada en réaffirmant son plaidoyer pour les “peuples autochtones”. Le pape François, dans la soirée du mercredi 27 juillet, a entamé la deuxième partie de son voyage au Canada à Québec. Son périple se terminera vendredi par une escale chez les Inuits avant de regagner Rome samedi matin. Plutôt reposant, François, 85 ans, se déplace en fauteuil roulant à cause de son problème de genou....

The outgoing prime minister and his wife are hosting family and friends at 18th-century Daylesford House to celebrate their wedding with a larger circle after the pandemic forced them to scale back celebrations last year. The groom’s 81-year-old father Stanley Johnson was seen entering the estate in a car on Saturday afternoon. A possibly less welcome guest was anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray, who appeared on a street near the wedding venue with a giant banner reading ‘corrupt Tory government’....

Vor der Karlskirche wird dieser Tage wieder musiziert © APA/FLORIAN WIESER Vor der Karlskirche tut sich wieder viel: Nach zwei pandemiebedingt reduzierten Auflagen hat das Wiener Popfest in diesem Jahr seine traditionelle Spielwiese zurückerobert. Das bedeutete zu Beginn des Donnerstags neben der obligatorischen FM4-Ente jede Menge Action auf der Seebühne, ein bunt gemischtes Publikum aus Jung und Alt, das sich zwischen den Spielplätzen und Getränkeständen amüsierte, und jede Menge Musik....

The 32-year-old, a social worker for people affected by AIDS in Cameroon, had taken time off from her current job and spent around $2,000 (€1,965) applying to the conference, securing accommodation and collecting the necessary documents for a visa. Her hope was to gain vital connections and know-how in order to help her found a new HIV charity in her home country of Kenya. But on July 22 — 88 days after she submitted her visa application — a rejection letter landed in her inbox....

Mohamed Khalifa, 39, who grew up in Toronto and left Canada in 2013 for Syria, killed two Syrian soldiers on behalf of the group before being captured by US-backed Kurdish forces in 2019, the Justice Department said. US in a statement about his sentence. . He was transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in October last year and pleaded guilty on December 10 to providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in death, the department said....

“This risk is entirely avoidable as there are now technologies and mission designs that can provide controlled re-entries (usually in remote ocean regions) instead of uncontrolled and therefore entirely random,” he said via email. Holger Krag, head of the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office, said international best practice is to conduct controlled re-entry, aimed at a remote part of the ocean, whenever the risk of accidents is very high....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register China’s official July PMI below forecasts July official services PMI rises at a slower pace COVID outbreaks, cooling global demand, key property risks A major incentive considered unlikely, the government fails to mention the development target BEIJING, July 31 (Reuters) – China’s factory activity unexpectedly shrank in July after recovering from last month’s COVID-19 lockdowns, as new outbreaks of the virus and a gloomy global outlook weighed on demand, a survey showed on Sunday....

A Chinese cargo spacecraft that serviced the country’s permanent orbiting space station has largely burned up on reentering the atmosphere, amid separate concerns over China’s decision to allow a massive booster rocket to fall to Earth uncontrolled. Only small parts of the Tianzhou-3 ship survived to fall safely Wednesday into a predetermined area of the South Pacific, the China Manned Space Agency said. Until July 17, the spacecraft had been docked with the station’s Tianhe core section and its return follows the addition of a laboratory module on Monday as China moves to complete the station in the coming months....

Patient wollte nicht identifiziert werden: Mitarbeiter des Krebszentrums von City of Hope. Foto: Facebook/Stadt der Hoffnung Laut AIDS-Forschern ist ein vierter HIV-Patient von dem Virus geheilt worden. Der 66-jährige Patient im City of Hope Cancer Center in Kalifornien, USA, hat sich nach einer Knochenmarktransplantation zur Behandlung seiner Leukämie vollständig erholt, sagten Forscher am Mittwoch vor einer internationalen AIDS-Konferenz, die am Freitag in Montreal beginnt. Kanada kündigte an. Der „City of Hope“-Patient ist damit der zweite HIV-Patient, der in diesem Jahr vollständig geheilt wurde....

La grippe est une infection respiratoire avec des symptômes similaires à ceux du SARS-CoV-2. Elle peut entraîner des complications et une hospitalisation lorsqu’elle est contractée par des personnes ayant des problèmes de santé préexistants ou de jeunes enfants. «Nous sommes le premier groupe au Canada à vraiment démontrer que nous pouvons utiliser cela, que nous pouvons travailler avec la santé publique pour suivre les vagues de grippe dans la communauté, à travers la communauté et aussi dans certains quartiers», a résumé Patrick D’Aoust, qui est coresponsable du développement de la recherche à l’École de génie de l’Université d’Ottawa....

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrat Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota revealed that he does not think President Biden should run for re-election in 2024 and that America needs “well-prepared Democrats” instead. Phillips, a moderate Democrat who currently represents Minnesota’s Third Congressional District, is up for re-election this fall. The candidate spoke out against the Democrat president on a radio show Thursday. When asked if he would support a Biden re-election bid, he firmly said “no....

“These omissions have left Congress in the dark about key developments in this investigation and may cost investigators valuable time to capture relevant evidence,” the Democrats wrote. “There should be no doubt that the Inspector General leading this investigation can conduct it thoroughly and with integrity, objectivity and independence. We have no confidence that Inspector General Cuffari can achieve these standards.” In the letter, the lawmakers wrote that the inspector general told Congress in November 2021 that DHS had “significantly delayed” access to records related to the Jan....

Noch 2,5 Mrd. Euro Elektroauto-Zuschuss Über die Einigung in der Regierung berichtete am Dienstag zunächst das Handelsblatt, am Abend wurde sie vom Wirtschaftsministeriums bestätigt. Laut dem Bericht ging ihr ein monatelanger Streit zwischen dem FDP-Finanzminister Christian Lindner und den Grünen voraus. Wirklich geblieben ist von den Vorschlägen des grünen Wirtschaftsministeriums offenbar nur die Absicht, ab 2023 keinen Umweltbonus für Plugin-Hybride mehr zu bezahlen. Neu dagegen ist, dass die Förderung laut Handelsblatt enden soll, sobald die noch einmal 2,5 Milliarden Euro dafür aufgebraucht sind....