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News Articles: explosion

Fire vehicles surround the valet area where a Tesla Cybertruck caught fire at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Jan. 1.

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  • National Security

Cybertruck driver had likely self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, sheriff says

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill says the driver, Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, sustained the wound prior to the Cybertruck explosion in front of Trump's Las Vegas hotel.

January 02, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
 A Delta Air Lines jetliner is shown at Denver International Airport in Denver, June 26, 2019. Delta Air Lines is changing its employee uniform policy following a turbulent ride through a social media storm started by a passenger's outrage over two flight attendants photographed wearing Palestinian pins.

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  • News

Two workers killed in an explosion at Delta Air Lines facility in Atlanta

Two workers are dead and a third injured after an explosion at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport, according to multiple media reports.

August 27, 2024
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  • Associated Press
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, firefighters work at the site of an explosion at a restaurant in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the early hours of Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

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  • Asia

Cooking gas explosion kills 31 people at a barbecue restaurant in northwestern China

The blast tore through the restaurant Wednesday night on a busy street in Yinchuan, the capital of the traditionally Muslim Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

June 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Rescuers recover a body at the site of Friday's deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Hotel Saratoga, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 7, 2022.

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  • World

Crews work through 2nd night after Cuba hotel blast kills 27

Crews worked through a second night searching for victims of a hotel explosion that killed at least 27 people in Cuba's capital and left more than a dozen missing.

May 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Rescuers recover a body at the site of Friday's deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Hotel Saratoga, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 7, 2022.

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  • World

Crews work through 2nd night after Cuba hotel blast kills 27

Crews worked through a second night searching for victims of a hotel explosion that killed at least 27 people in Cuba's capital and left more than a dozen missing.

May 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A police officer walks past a fire engine at Liverpool Women's Hospital in Liverpool, England, on Monday. One person died and another was injured after a device exploded in a taxi outside the hospital on Sunday.

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  • Europe

U.K. police have declared Sunday's Liverpool car blast a terrorist act

Authorities in England have arrested four men in connection with Sunday's deadly blast, which took place in a taxi outside a women's hospital. They say a motive is not yet known.

November 15, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Smoke rises from explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday. Reports of explosions outside the airport were confirmed the following morning.

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  • Asia

Live Updates: ISIS-K Behind Kabul Attack That Killed Dozens. Biden Vows Revenge

An Islamic State affiliate says it was behind the attacks that killed at least 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans. Here's what we know right now.

August 26, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Jonathan Franklin
A cache of 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks seized at a South Los Angeles home exploded and destroyed an armored Los Angeles Police Department tractor-trailer, damaging nearby homes and cars and causing injuries, authorities said.

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  • Law

Illegal Fireworks Explode In Los Angeles Bomb Squad Truck, Hurting 17

Los Angeles Police bomb squad officers were in the process of seizing more than 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks at a home in South Los Angeles at the time of the explosion.

July 01, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Shattered containers remain in front of towering grain silos gutted in the August explosion at the Beirut port that claimed the lives of more than 200 people.

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  • Middle East

Lebanon's Caretaker Prime Minister Charged Over Massive Beirut Blast

They are the highest-ranking officials to date to face charges in connection to the August explosion that killed at least 200 people and devastated large portions of Lebanon's capital.

December 10, 2020
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By:
  • Merrit Kennedy and
  • Nada Homsi

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