Madera Unified placed special education staff member Kenisha Daily on administrative leave and obtained a temporary restraining order after she posted videos of herself loading firearms and calling for formation of an armed Black militia targeting white people, prompting a formal Madera Police Department investigation and enhanced security at Lincoln Elementary School.

One storm-related death has been confirmed on Hawaii's Big Island as Tropical Storm Lala moves west, leaving more than 100 homes damaged and roughly 60,000 customers without power.

Chad Hickman, 39, killed five people across three Missaukee County locations on August 14 before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a wooded area near Whitlock Lake.

At least five people are dead and dozens more rescued from floodwaters as historic White River flooding forces emergency declarations across more than a dozen Indiana counties.

For the second time in recent weeks, an anonymous cell sabotaged construction equipment at Vinci's nuclear expansion site in Bouchemaine, France, issuing a formal warning that further strikes will follow if the company does not exit nuclear contracts.

An Arkansas teenager was arrested August 12 after investigators found a written plan to conduct a mass shooting at his school at the start of the new academic year, one of several pre-school-year plots disrupted by law enforcement nationwide this summer.