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At least two people were killed when two planes collided over Lake Coeur d’Alene in Idaho on Sunday and then crashed into the water, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said. Up to six others may be missing. The planes landed near Powderhorn Bay around 2:20 p.m., according to the sheriff’s …

A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was downed and destroyed in upstate New York, on the 168th anniversary of his most famous anti-slavery speech. Rochester police said the statue of the former slave was taken Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the subway where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped …

Microsoft seems to be going ahead with its plans to remove the handy ‘System’ applet from Control Panel and instead force people to use the ‘Settings’ app that was first introduced with Windows 8. This runs the risk of annoying a lot of people, because the ‘System’ part of the …

Two men were wounded, one seriously, after a lightning strike in Clearwater Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, according to authorities. The Clearwater Fire and Rescue Department said the incident occurred around 2:15 pm in the northern part of Clearwater Beach, halfway between the waterline and the dunes. “They were both …

The United States now has so few deaths from COVID-19 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that it is approaching the threshold to drop below the level of an epidemic. The CDC defines an epidemic as an outbreak of which the number of deaths per week …