Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group attacked the United Arab Emirates in what it said was an operation using missiles and drones, setting off explosions in fuel trucks that killed three people and causing a fire near the airport of Abu Dhabi, capital of the region's commercial and tourism hub.

After a local campaign erased nearly $41 million in medical debt for more than 36,000 Oklahomans, the fundraising is coming to an end. That’s not because debt isn’t rising; it’s just out of reach. Tulsa couple Mona and Mark Whitmire started the effort in partnership with the national nonprofit RIP Medical Debt just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Oklahoma. It targets debt that has been sold by medical providers to debt collectors. The nonprofit buys the debt for pennies on each dollar owed and then cancels it. But the work ended because the organization couldn’t access any more medical debt. The nonprofit bought all it could from debt buyers. This has happened in other areas of the country, and the national nonprofit then seeks to buy debt directly from hospitals before those institutions sell to outside collections. RIP Medical Debt Executive Director Allison Sesso says it approached area hospitals for that possibility but didn’t get any traction. “The Tulsa campaign is suspended because they can’t get to the debt,” Sesso said.

Amberly Sanchez had a job as an accountant at a real estate company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when she was laid off due to the pandemic. Then an electrical fire destroyed her apartment building, forcing her and her 16-month-old daughter Avery to stay in a $400-a-week motel. She’d lost everything, from parenting essentials — crib, baby clothes, toy car — to her own mother’s ashes. This spring, she applied for welfare. Sanchez, who is 33, expected more than financial assistance from the state — in part because she was distantly aware of the history of welfare reform, a federal law that passed 25 years ago this summer. Given that legislation’s emphasis on putting welfare recipients to work, she said, she thought that welfare officials would push her to get a new job: “In fact, I really hoped they’d help me with that.” Instead, the New Mexico Human Services Department caseworker who called the next day fixated on an unexpected question: Who was baby Avery’s biological father? You can’t get public assistance if you don’t name your child’s father, the caseworker said. “She was really adamant about it,” Sanchez said. “It was all she wanted to talk about: the dad.”

There’s a popular subreddit called r/HermanCainAward — named for the late Republican presidential candidate and friend of Donald Trump who refused to wear a mask or social distance during the pandemic's early days and died of Covid-19. That subreddit highlights the deaths of people who died while unvaccinated, thereby giving those who are vaccinated the thrill of schadenfreude. Some people defend the site with the claim that it can help prove to the public that vaccines are the best way to stay alive, but I think they really exist as a way for people to use shame as some sort of weapon to get people vaccinated. Ben Chapman, the Republican chairman in Costa Mesa, California, tweeted some emails he received that celebrated his friend Ernby's death. “More bigotry and hate coming from the woke big-government mob,” he said. While I typically don't agree with anything Republicans like Chapman say, this time I must.

Crypto.com said it stopped all deposits and withdrawals while it investigates 'unauthorized activity' on some accounts.

Earlier today a group calling themselves Spice DAO announced that they had won an auction and were now the owners...

If the scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had their way, to curb the spread of Covid-19 right now, nearly every US school would cancel football, wrestling, band and loads of other mainstay school activities.

U.S. - A dangerous, far-right extremist has suggested that we treat people of all races equally, shocked and horrified sources confirmed Friday. The hateful bigot has been canceled for his controversial comments that people should be treated with respect no matter their skin color.'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in ...

"They said they were vitamins, steroids and antibiotics," one of the plaintiffs told CBS News. "...It was not consensual. They used us as an experiment — like we're livestock."

After dealing with thousands of crows roosting in downtown, Sunnyvale, California, for years, the city is taking a note from nearby Silicon Valley and going high-tech with lasers.

The Spotsylvania County School Board plans to consider removing a board policy that prevents individual board members from tasking division staff, investigating student or personnel matters or using their position on the board for partisan gain. The board will also discuss the school division's mask mandate, the provision of free cellphones to board members and the division's food services contract, according to the agenda for Tuesday's meeting.

In Yakutia, where the permafrost can be nearly a mile deep, annual temperatures have risen by more than two degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, twice the global average. As the air gets hotter, so does the soil. Deforestation and wildfire—both acute problems in Yakutia—remove the protective top layer of vegetation and raise temperatures underground even more.

Sophisticated statistical analyses revealed that these mutations were by no means randomly distributed in the genome, as the researchers had expected. Instead, they found stretches of the genome where mutations were rare, and others where mutations were much more common. In those regions with few mutations, genes needed in every cell and thus essential for the survival of every plant were greatly overrepresented.

Long dismissive of regulators, the Tesla boss has recently aimed his ire at individuals with ties to regulatory agencies with which he has sparred.

The Bills are the first NFL team ever to go an entire game without punting, kicking a field goal, or turning the ball over, per Chase Stuart at Football Perspective. They literally just scored touchdowns until they could kneel to end the game.

Two men have been jailed for attempting to smuggle $341,875 (£250,000) worth of cocaine in baked beans and condensed coconut milk tins.

Kenya's avocado sector has become so lucrative that organised criminal gangs have begun to target growers. This is because the fruit from just one tree can pay for the private education of a secondary school student for a whole year - up to $600 (£450). With the demand for the fruit growing in the US and Europe, Kenya overtook South Africa last year to become the continent's top avocado exporter. Vigilante groups are now being formed to protect the crop, known as "green gold".

Her mother never thought this was “anything special”, Seo says, and simply assumed she had a particularly observant daughter.

Twin Oaks is the oldest secular, income-sharing commune in the country. It is located on a swath of rural land in central Virginia about an hour from Charlottesville. Over the years, other sister communes, the Acorn Community and the Living Energy Farm, have cropped up around it, creating an island of secular communitarians in the unlikely region of Amelia County.

MARTA has announced that the agency’s General Manager and CEO Jeff Parker died on Friday, Jan. 14. The cause of death was suicide, the transit agency confirmed. Bill Floyd, a member of the MARTA board of directors and former Decatur Mayor, confirmed that Parker died after stepping in front of a train at the East Lake MARTA station in Decatur.