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A community college bus carrying the school's baseball team crashed and overturned in a ditch in rural Iowa on Wednesday, authorities said, killing one person and injuring all the other 32 occupants. The morning crash involved the Iowa Lakes Community College bus and no other vehicles, the Iowa State Patrol said in a statement. It occurred on a highway near Twin Lakes, about 110 miles northwest of Des Moines.

A bizarre report Wednesday about the cause of a temporary airspace shutdown bore eerie resemblance to a 1983 German anti-war pop song. 99 Luftballons by the band Nena was a global sensation and became the rare German-language song to rank on the U.S. charts. The song's lyrics describe how 99 balloons are mistaken for UFOs by a military general, and the situation quickly escalates into fighter pilots sent to investigate and then bomb the balloons,

A person was killed in a shooting Wednesday night in East Oakland, police said. The shooting happened around 6:45 p.m. in the 9800 block of International Boulevard, near 98th Avenue, the Oakland Police Department said in a news release. Officers arrived to find one victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim died at the scene. Their identity is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin.

At the core of the Los Angeles case is a 20-year-old identified only by the initials "KGM," whose lawsuit could determine how thousands of similar lawsuits against social media companies would play out. She and two other plaintiffs have been selected for bellwether trials - essentially test cases for both sides to see how their arguments play out before a jury.

A carpenter slid a newspaper between the floorboards during a home renovation in the 1940s - then a common fix for uneven planks. About 80 years later, another renovation at the home in Fargo, North Dakota, revealed the brittle pages, still wedged beneath the wood. At first, the discovery seemed unremarkable. "They used to do this back in the day," said Vincent Vincent, the contractor who pulled up the boards last month. "I find many things like this."

"I can reveal that the U.S. government is aware that China has conducted nuclear explosive tests, including preparing for tests with designated yields in the hundreds of tons," he said in a speech to the attending delegates. He went on to say that China is using a technique known as "decoupling" to hide its activities. "China conducted one such yield-producing nuclear test on June 22 of 2020," DiNanno said.

The news is the latest sign of the FDA's heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., particularly those using mRNA technology, which he has criticized before and after becoming the nation's top health official. Moderna received what's called a "refusal-to-file" letter from the FDA that objected to how it conducted a 40,000-person clinical trial comparing its new vaccine to one of the standard flu shots used today.

The men's hockey tournament at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games is underway and many fans are hoping to see the exciting feat of scoring three goals in a single game, better known as a hat trick. "I'm curious to see over in Italy for the Olympics, if we'll see a hat trick to begin with, and then second will people throw their hats?" said Ty Di Lello, a hockey historian based in Winnipeg, Canada. The international sporting event will mark the return of National Hockey League players after a 12 year absence.

Thompson resigned from the U.S. attorney's office in mid-January due to the Department of Justice's handling of the investigation into the killing of Renee Good at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Senior DOJ officials resisted Thompson and other prosecutors' calls to investigate the shooting itself, instead pushing for an investigation into Good's widow. Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota, including Thompson, resigned over the government's lack of scrutiny into the shooting, as did an FBI agent who sought to investigate the ICE officer who killed Good.

The parents of the three Miami Yacht Club summer campers who were killed last summer when a 60-foot barge slammed into their sailboat sued the company that owns the barge, alleging negligence and irresponsible hiring. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed Dec. 29 against Waterfront Construction, states that on the morning of July 28, 2025, Mila Yankelevich, 7, Erin Ko, 13, Arielle Buchman, 10, and Calena Areyan Gruber,