Gas tanks explode at Oklahoma pipeline facility after lightning strike

Lightning strikes gas tank at Glenpool pipeline facility, sparking large fire

Emergency crews responded to a large gas fire in Glenpool on Monday morning, forcing area schools to shelter in place and nearby residences to evacuate.

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Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida

Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida

Voting records from Palm Beach County show the president requested his ballot in late July and it was returned on Aug. 13.

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Just wrapped up a 55-hour radar loop of Hurricane #Lala passing by #Hawaii. Its track was parallel and close to the island chain, so it managed to affect every island without ever making landfall. bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/

Trump allies himself w/Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship w/Kim Jong Un, I am not happy that the US has agreed to Joint Military Exercises…I recently asked the President of SK if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of Iran, & they said, ‘No thanks!’”

48 hour rainfall totals from #Lala. Max amount on Big Island, just over 37" on Mauna Loa, nearly 35" on Mauna Kea. #hiwx

rainshadow.gif 48-hour totals are approaching 3 feet on the upslope side of the Big Island, while the areas being shadowed to the west have only seen 1-3”.

Things become a bit trickier and more questionable in regions of complex terrain (i.e. Windward side of Hawaii), but MRMS guessing 12 hour totals over 16" over the last 12 hours. Also QPE/FFG > 3.5 in spots, along with 200 year 12-hour recurrence intervals. Numerous rain gauge estimates > 15"!

1-minute #GOESWest (GOES-18) Infrared and Visible images showed that #Lala was beginning to display a more well-defined eye as it intensified from a Tropical Storm to a Hurricane at 1900 UTC on 15 August, south of the Big Island of Hawai`i.

Multiple people were injured in a shooting involving multiple suspects at Virginia State University, prompting a temporary campus lockdown early Saturday, the university said.

5 people injured in shooting with multiple shooters at Virginia State University

Five people were injured in the shooting involving multiple suspects. One person is currently listed in critical condition, the university said.

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Victor Marx is ducking moderated debates but will appear at a Colorado Chamber forum with Phil Weiser after the group removed 9NEWS' Kyle Clark from the event.

Weiser, Marx to appear at joint forum after Colorado Chamber removes 9NEWS moderator

Victor Marx is ducking moderated debates but will appear at a Colorado Chamber forum with Phil Weiser after the group removed 9NEWS' Kyle Clark from the event.

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Boren pushed for more aircraft to fight the fire even though “it was easily accessible by ground,” an official said. A Post analysis found at least some of the aircraft were diverted from fires elsewhere in the state. @abtran.bsky.social & Brianna Sacks www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch

Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said.

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A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to strip nearly 1,100 Somalis of legal protections against deportation that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

US judge clears way for Trump to end Somalis' deportation protections

A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to strip nearly 1,100 Somalis of legal protections against deportation that ​have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

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Trump DOJ finds three NSF STEM education programs unconstitutional, including one in support at Hispanic-serving institutions that was established under bipartisan legislation and signed into law by President George W. Bush fedscoop.com/doj-opinion-...

DOJ finds three federal STEM education programs unconstitutional

The NSF programs include one aimed at Hispanic-serving institutions that was established under bipartisan legislation and signed into law by President George W. Bush.

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Q: Has the deployment on the USS Lincoln gone on too long? Trump: No, no, no. Not nearly long enough

Donald Trump reported more than 14,000 stock trades worth up to $1.06 BILLION in his first year back in office. The President should be working for YOU—not his stock portfolio. It’s time to BAN Congress, the Vice President, and the President from owning stocks. Period.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 5d ago

Democrats demand Trump reveal stock managers, explain suspicious trades

DOGE promised savings. Instead: a hobbled IRS, a dismantled USAID, and a shuttered consumer watchdog that at one time returned $26b to Americans. One estimate: IRS layoffs will cost $600b in lost revenues over 10 years. @michaelmechanic.bsky.social does the math: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Elon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortune

A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.

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Exclusive: U.S. intelligence officials were skeptical of an Iranian assassination threat against President Trump that prompted a clandestine maneuver that saw him secretly fly out of Turkey in an alternate military aircraft, U.S. officials said.

CIA had ‘low confidence’ in Iranian threat before Trump switched planes in Turkey

CIA had doubts about Israeli intelligence on a threat to Trump in Turkey that prompted an extraordinary secret flight.

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BREAKING: Two people are dead after a military helicopter crashes in Texas, sparking a fire.

Two people are dead after a military helicopter crashes in Texas, sparking a fire

The AH-64 U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter crashed Wednesday afternoon in Salado.

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Can’t believe they’d sacrifice President Stephen Miller

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth was the lone Cabinet secretary on Trump's secret flight out of Turkey. Remaining on the 'decoy' plane: Marco Rubio, Scott Bessett, Stephen Miller, Steven Cheung, and other Trump officials.

Welp, here we have experience applying LLMs and agentic AI tools included in the specialized experience requirements for a federal Data Scientist position www.usajobs.gov/job/879719400

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 6d ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️

NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 7-10 % of U.S. adult citizens who approve | disapprove of Trump's job performance: This week: 33% | 62% Last week: 36% | 60% Jan. 2-5: 39% | 56% Jan. 26-28, 2025: 49% | 43% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Before Republicans spend a ton of money to attack Hong, worth noting they spent a ton of money to ensure that she will be the Dem nominee www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

G.O.P. Appears to Boost Socialist’s Primary Campaign for Wisconsin Governor

Republicans seem to view Francesca Hong as their weakest opponent in a general election. They are spending $2.2 million in an apparent attempt to aid her primary campaign.

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Q: I think I heard you say the MMR vaccine is 'quite lethal.' Is there any evidence of that? TRUMP: No. What I've heard is there's some people who say it is that way.

This is what happens when you reelect someone who told you to drink bleach.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."