Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas has surgery for brain tumor       

72-year-old Alan Kuhl attempted to escape by driving through an inferno-filled logging road. The Dixie Fire is the state’s largest active wildfire.       

Here’s the latest for Friday, August 6: Unemployment rate drops to 5.4%; California wildfire becomes state’s third largest; mask requirements vary as schools reopen; penguin chicks take…

The fire, which obliterated much of the small town of Greenville, California, on Wednesday, grew by 110 square miles overnight.       

Most of Downtown Greenville is no more. Plus, currents are being threatened by climate change, Kanye West makes another ‘Donda’ appearance in Atlanta: 5 Things podcast       

President Joe Biden reports on surge in July jobs numbers and rallied support as senators seem on track to wrap up work on the bipartisan infrastructure plan,…

Penguin chicks at aquarium take first swim       

“My arms and legs went necrotic. But my life was saved.” Gary Miracle, who lost his arms & legs to an infection, got prosthetics so he could…

Ron and Jane Brown of St. Cloud, Minn., started providing foster care for children in 1978. They retired in June 2020. They’d do it all over again….

A Texas man called authorities after he noticed his cobra was not in its enclosure. Threeo days later, they still don’t know where it’s at.       

Officials say five children all younger than 10 who were left home without an adult died in a fire at an apartment building in southwestern Illinois (Aug….

As the eastern Mediterranean bakes in an intense heatwave, high-tech irrigation is keeping Greek olive trees watered. (Aug. 6)       

CNN has fired three employees who returned to work unvaccinated and violated company policy for the COVID-19 virus.       

MINZY, a former member of K-pop band 2NE1, talks about new single ‘TEAMO’       

Embattled HFPA announces reforms to bylaws, membership; Keith Urban, Carly Pearce to play ACM Honors; Cher, Iggy Pop, Jennifer Hudson star in Pirelli calendar. (Aug. 6)