1+ hour, 1+ min ago (162+ words) Bird flu cases have subsided, but the Agriculture Department is warning of a new surge soon. Cases of the avian or bird flu have fallen, leaving little to no impact on your Thanksgiving menu. The White House highlighted that egg prices are down 86% from their ultra-high prices earlier this year when cases of the disease spiked. Infections don't really impact chicken or turkey meat. However, the situation is expected to change soon. The Department of Agriculture says it expects a bad bird flu season, as migrating birds can pass the disease to poultry and other animals. Right now, killing infected birds is the only way to stop the disease from spreading. The Agriculture Department is offering farmers a free evaluation of their infection risk and investing in new research to find a cure. The department says chicken farmers are better…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (141+ words) Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, early Tuesday, striking residential buildings and energy infrastructure, according to video footage and local authorities. A residential building in the central Pechersk district and another in Kyiv's eastern district of Dniprovskyi were badly damaged, Mayor Vitalii Kitschko said. Video footage posted to Telegram showed a large fire spread through multiple floors of the nine-story building in Dniprovskyi. At least four people were injured, the head of Kyiv city administration, Tymor Tkachenko, said. Ukraine's energy ministry said that energy infrastructure had been hit, without specifying what type or the extent of the damage. The Russian attack followed talks between U.S. and Ukrainian representatives in Geneva on Sunday about a U.S.-Russia-brokered peace plan. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday it had not seen the updated plan....

2+ hour, 20+ min ago (1007+ words) Being a professional athlete, especially in the NFL, creates a unique brotherhood. On the field, players compete tooth-and-nail against one another, often delivering some of the most violent and brutal hits that can be imagined. Off the field, they often regularly rely on one another for guidance as they navigate an almost unimaginable life of athletic stardom. Video above: A look inside All-Pro Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Zack Baun One of the quickest-growing connections throughout the league is in players' philanthropic efforts, which are on full display in the next two weeks for the league's My Cause My Cleats event. "I have yet to come across a player in the many locker rooms that I've been in through the years that doesn't have a desire to help, that doesn't have a desire to make an impact to those less fortunate, or…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago (466+ words) More than 100 homes were damaged Monday afternoon after a tornado ripped through Harris County, Texas, Constable Mark Herman said in a Facebook post. No serious injuries or deaths have been reported after the storm, said Brian Murray, spokesperson for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Earlier, authorities were combing through the debris searching for residents who may have been trapped or injured after the storm passed. The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado struck the county, but has yet to rate the storm's intensity. Severe storms developed in the Houston area on Monday afternoon, where warm temperatures were in place ahead of a cold front. An unstable atmosphere combined with wind shear produced supercell thunderstorms, which resulted in several tornado reports. The constable called the storm a "severe weather event" that caused "widespread and significant…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago (71+ words) The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said deputies are investigating a shooting Monday night. Search location by ZIP code 2 injured in Upstate shooting, deputies say The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said deputies are investigating a shooting Monday night. Deputies said the shooting was reported at an apartment complex on Bryant Road just before 8 p.m. According to investigators, two people were injured, but there is no word on their condition....

4+ hour, 30+ min ago (420+ words) A copy of the first Superman issue, unearthed by three brothers cleaning out their late mother's attic, netted $9.12 million this month at a Texas auction house, which says it is the most expensive comic book ever sold. The brothers discovered the comic book in a cardboard box beneath layers of brittle newspapers, dust, and cobwebs in their deceased mother's San Francisco home last year, alongside a handful of other rare comics that she and her sibling had collected on the cusp of World War II. "It was just in an attic, sitting in a box, could have easily been thrown away, could've easily been destroyed in a thousand different ways," Allen said. "A lot of people got excited because it's just every factor in collecting that you could possibly want all rolled into one." The "Superman No. 1" comic, released in 1939 by…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago (431+ words) The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a "sacred" memorial site by 2030, the new owner announced. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center disclosed late Sunday that it had purchased the barn located in a rural area outside the city of Drew, aided by a $1.5 million donation from television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes. "We think that where the worst harms have happened, the most healing is possible," ETIC Executive Director Patrick Weems said. The center plans to open the barn as a memorial ahead of the 75th anniversary of Till's lynching in 1955. Two white men publicly confessed to the killing after being acquitted by an all-white jury in Mississippi later that year, but a Justice Department report released in 2021 said at least one more, unnamed person was involved in Till's abduction....

7+ hour, 23+ min ago (449+ words) H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff's deputy. He was 82. Brown " who later in life changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin " died Sunday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, his widow, Karima Al-Amin, said Monday. Like other more militant Black leaders and organizers during the racial upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brown decried heavy-handed policing in Black communities. He once stated that violence was "as American as cherry pie." Brown was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a powerful civil rights group, and in 1968 was named minister of justice for the Black Panther Party. Three years later, he was arrested for a robbery that ended in a shootout with New…...

8+ hour, 14+ min ago (226+ words) A number of Democratic lawmakers are questioning the legality of a U.S. Border Patrol predictive intelligence program that singles out and detains drivers for suspicious travel inside the country. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts sent a letter Monday to Border Patrol's parent agency calling the license plate reader program an "invasive surveillance network" that "poses a serious threat to individuals' privacy and civil liberties" and raised the possibility that the program may run afoul of the U.S. Constitution. Other lawmakers echoed Markey's concerns about the legality of the program. Rep. Dan Goldman, a New York Democrat and member of the House Homeland Security Committee, wrote on the social media site X on Saturday that if CBP "is secretly tracking millions of Americans' travel patterns and detaining people based on an algorithm, not warrants or evidence, how is that consistent with the Fourth…...

8+ hour, 34+ min ago (563+ words) The Trump administration labeled Venezuela's "Cartel de los Soles" as a foreign terrorist organization, heightening tensions and potential for conflict. The Trump administration is escalating its pressure campaign against Venezuela by designating the "Cartel de los Soles," which the U.S. claims is led by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as a foreign terrorist organization. The move marks another step in the Trump administration's broader effort to crack down on drug networks tied to Venezuela. When he first signaled the decision last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the group was "responsible for terrorist violence." Experts say this designation would give the U.S. more room to conduct military operations inside Venezuela. Brian Fonseca, a public policy professor at Florida International University, said, "I think this organization was labeled as such because the United States wanted to leverage the U.S. military to target that organization....