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Reports of gunfire at the Lovers & Friends Festival – hip-hop music event - being held at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds are "unfounded," police announced Saturday night after several attendees reported hearing a gun shot.

A supposed white supremacist with racist and antisemitic convictions killed ten people in a mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets store located near the areas of Masten Park and Kingsley in Buffalo, on Saturday afternoon at abot 2p.m. Thirteen were shot, including four store employees.

17 people were shot in Milwaukee, Friday evening, outside Fiserv Forum, near the Bucks-Celtics basketball game, as the game was ending, police said Saturday. The victims, who ranged in ages from 15 to 47, are expected to survive.

A 40-day state mourning period was announced in the UAE after President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed has died on Friday, May 13, at age 73.

Blueberries are placed among the top fruits and vegetables for nutrient density.

Researchers had planted seeds of a diminutive flowering weed called Arabidopsis thaliana in 12 small thimble-sized containers, each containing a small sample of material retrieved during the Apollo missions in 1969 and 1972, also known as lunar regolith.

As parts of Australia were hit by heavy rains - several regions receiving more than 100mm of rain in the past 24 hours - authorities in Queensland are fearing a potentially-disastrous day on Friday.

Something unexpected occurred: the price of bitcoin plunged below $26,000 on Thursday, hitting its lowest level in 16 months. Ether, the second-biggest digital currency, was as low as $1,704.05 per coin. . TerraUSD, or UST, plummeted to less than 30 cents. Luna, another Terra token that has a floating price and is meant to absorb UST price shocks, erased 99% of its value and was last worth just 1 cent. In fact, regarding the global digital currency, this moment erased more than $200 billion from the entire market in a single day.Investors suffered big losses. It is entirely plausible that the market can recover from this, but maybe not. Crypto has a dedicated fan base. Experts say some things may be however different. Even if typically what happens in crypto stays in crypto. Some bankers believe that a big crash in crypto, if it happens, could have wxtended consequences and could influence even US government bonds. Credit markets are under pressure. Something is pending, we do not exactly what, we can’t estimate what it will happen next days and in the future.

An explosion and a fire occurred at a chemical plant in the town of Kocevje, in southeast Slovenia, about 55km (30 miles) southeast of Ljubljana, on Thursday morning. The factory building was badly damaged.

The „Coastal Fire” became a big one with 0% containment threatening million-dollar mansions in Southern California.