Family friend charged year after ‘nightmare’ illegal July Fourth fireworks killed 8-year-old girl
“It happened so quick. A fun day of friends turns into a nightmare,” the girl's grieving mother said.

The large-scale attack with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones damaged buildings and civilian infrastructure across the city. Many residents took shelter at metro stations.
“It happened so quick. A fun day of friends turns into a nightmare,” the girl's grieving mother said.
President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is “very disturbing,” says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “My fear is that this is going to embolden Republicans to double down on their efforts to try to get rid of mail voting, including the SAVE America Act, Trump’s sweeping voter suppression bill, which he seems desperate to go to any lengths to try to pass,” says Berman, who also comments on the court’s decision to strike down a federal law limiting campaign spending.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday warned that Russia plans to launch a massive attack on Ukrainian soil, coming on the heels of a drone strike that hit a major communications center in Moscow. “We know that Putin has been preparing a massive strike against Ukraine for some time,” Zelensky wrote on the social platform…
Russia indicated that Ukraine may have used a ballistic missile in combat for the first time.
Russia unleashed one of the most intense missile and drone attacks on Kyiv so far this year, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens, according to Ukrainian officials.
Russia launched a barrage of drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv overnight Thursday, killing more than a dozen civilians. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 18 people were killed and injured more than 90 others in the latest round of attacks, according to The Associated Press. The strikes came after Ukrainian President…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged residents to conserve electricity as a dangerous heat dome settled over the East Coast, prompting criticism from several prominent Republican officials who seized on the appeal as evidence of shortcomings of his socialist agenda. “New York: it’s hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to […]