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SAN DIEGO - Hundreds of firefighters battled through a second day from the air, land and water on Monday to save a U.S. war vessel swept by flames while moored at a San Diego shipyard, as the number of sailors and civilians injured in the blaze rose to nearly 60. The USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship whose size ranks second in the U.S. Navy fleet to that of an aircraft carrier, remained largely shrouded in thick, acrid smoke on Monday as the vessel began listing to its starboard side. The fire, accompanied by at least one large explosion, erupted Sunday morning in the lower cargo hold of the 844-foot-long (257 meter) ship, docked for routine maintenance at its home port at U.S. Naval Base San Diego. Since then, flames have spread upward throughout much of the ship ...

A US Air Force F-16C Viper fighter jet crashed while landing at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico Monday, marking the service's fifth fighter jet crash since May. The base reports that the pilot successfully ejected when the aircraft crashed at 6 p.m. local time. The pilot of the single-seater aircraft assigned to the 49th Wing is being treated for minor injuries. An investigation is currently underway to determine the cause of the incident. The past two months have been rough for the Air Force, which has witnessed the loss of two pilots and five aircraft. On May 15, a fifth-generation F-22 Raptor crashed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. A few days later, a F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, another fifth-generation aircraft crashed at the same base. Both crashes,...

Washington - American Airlines said Monday it had contacted Republican Senator Ted Cruz after he was seen without a mask on a flight, but he said he had only removed it to eat and drink. Health experts and scientists have called on politicians to set an example by wearing face coverings as the coronavirus rages across the United States. "While our policy does not apply while eating or drinking, we have reached out to Senator Cruz to affirm the importance of this policy," American Airlines said in a statement. The Texas lawmaker was holding a coffee cup and a phone in the widely-shared photo, but there was no mask in sight. "During his flight he removed his mask to drink and put it back on afterward," a spokeswoman for Cruz said. "We should all practice common sense measures t...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The federal government is planning to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Monday, over the objection of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings over the coronavirus pandemic. Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 4 p.m. on Monday at a federal prison in Indiana. He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell. The execution, the first of a federal death row inmate since 2003, comes after a federal appeals court lifted an injunction on Sunday that had been put in place last week after the victims’ family argued they would be put at high risk for coronavirus if they had to travel ...

Employees at a Five Guys restaurant in Alabama were fired by the burger chain after refusing to serve a group of police officers.  The officers, who were visiting a location in the city of Daphne on Tuesday night, allege that upon entering the restaurant a group of employees turned their backs and denied service. One officer claims he heard an employee say "I'm not serving them," prompting the group to find dinner elsewhere, according to local reports. Five Guys confirmed the termination of the employees in a Facebook post, adding that the store was temporarily shut down for "further education and customer service training." It reopened to the public on Friday night. "Five Guys and the Daphne, AL franchise want to thank the Daphne Police Department for their suppor...