More than 15 fire crews descended on a field in Edmondsham, a village near Verwood, this afternoon after a large fire broke out in a maize field – the second to hit the area in as many days. Water supply at the site proved problematic for crews, resulting in a large number of stations attending the incident. According to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, crews were called from: Poole, Christchurch, Blandford, Hamworthy, Wimborne, Springborne, Westbourne, Ferndown, Redhill Park, Fordingbridge, Sturminster Newton, Salisbury, as well as a water tanker from Ringwood, the Unimog from Wareham and a small 4×4 device from Verwood....

The victims were among eight people shot in the city in the early hours of the morning, including a woman who appeared to be an innocent bystander, police said. Bullets flew into the Boardwalk and West 21st Street, where a “large group” of people were gathering around 2 a.m., a police spokeswoman said. Two women – a 27-year-old and a 26-year-old – were both shot in the left leg and taken to Lutheran Hospital....

Six inches of rain in a few hours Tuesday caused widespread damage in Buchanan County, West Virginia, CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford said. “Combined with the fact that the area is mountainous, rainfall can accumulate quickly and dangerous runoff occurred,” he said. Just because people are missing doesn’t mean they really are, officials stressed. Phone lines are down in the area, making it difficult to contact anyone affected by the flooding, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller told CNN on Wednesday....

The former minister said he lost it in the Derbyshire town of Buxton after giving a speech on Saturday and took to Twitter to ask the public to help him get it back. He said he was “very embarrassed” but would be “so grateful” if people could help share the image. The photo posted on social media shows a circular gold ring with a cross. The former Penrith Conservative and Borders MP said he believed the ring “fell in St John’s Road”, which is close to the venue, after speaking at an opera house....

News lead: “This week I feel guilty for helping him win,” Parscale wrote in a text message to former senior campaign adviser Katrina Pierson, in an exchange obtained by the committee. “You did what felt right at the time and therefore it was right,” Pierson wrote to Parscale on Jan. 6, to which she replied, “Yes. But a woman is dead.” Editor’s Note: This is a developing story. Check back for updates....

Morfydd Clark at the Baftas this year. The Swedish-born Welsh actor, 33, plays a much younger version of the elf, who was played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson’s films of JRR Tolkien’s novels. Viewers also get their first glimpse of characters from the island kingdom of Númenor including Isildur (Maxim Baldry), Elendil (Lloyd Owen) and Queen Regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson). In the trailer, which premiered first for Prime Video subscribers, Galadriel warns Elrond, played by Robert Aramayo – best known as playing a young Eddard Stark in Game of Thrones –that: “The enemy is still out there, the question now is where....

“I would fire the finance minister. I think he has completely misled America, because he didn’t want to get the bad news. But that’s part of the public service. You have to own the good with the bad. You have to ease people into it and present a glide path,” Sununu said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Inflation has remained at a four-decade high, gas and food prices continue to weigh on consumers’ pocketbooks — and those economic woes are expected to be among the issues at the center of November’s midterm elections that could decide who controls the Congress....

Leading the news: This comes days after Judge Brett Kavanaugh was forced out of a DC restaurant after abortion rights protesters showed up outside the premises. The group is specifically targeting Kavanaugh and fellow justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts. What they’re saying: “DC service industry workers… If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett, or Roberts, DM us with the details!...

A Kelowna resident noticed a heavy police presence on Mount Royal Drive on Saturday morning just before 11am. Police appear to have three cars in the area, officers and K9 units on scene. Police are believed to be searching for someone in the area, although no details have been released by police at this time. Castanet has contacted the RCMP for more information and will update this story when it becomes available....

“We didn’t get paid for it during that time, it was just the love of the sport,” he said As it happens guest Robyn Bresnahan. Borlandoe, now 70 and a grandmother of six, decided to come out of retirement and go through the certification process to help with the ongoing lifeguard shortage in her hometown of Philadelphia. “Last year I wasn’t ready because I had to train and then I heard about it [the shortage] this year and I decided to do it,” he said....

To clarify, ICT® asked Melnyk what his definition of burnout is: “Burnout is a state where people are physically or mentally exhausted; they start to become somewhat cynical about work and start to disengage. All the studies I’ve done on physician burnout, if clinicians are burned out, they make more medical errors. So it’s really negatively affecting the quality and safety of healthcare.” In the exclusive interview, Melnyk describes the study’s recommendations for facilities to help their employees combat burnout....

“Joe Biden sold us out – he sold our oil to China just so his son could benefit,” he tells the Financial Times from the shade of a back porch. Melby’s anger stems from a conspiracy theory involving the recent release of American oil from its strategic oil reserve. The story, which has picked up in right-wing circles over the past two weeks, is largely based on a misreading of US oil policy....

Quinze départements de la façade atlantique, de la Bretagne à la Nouvelle-Aquitaine en passant par l’Occitanie, sont toujours en “canicule rouge” après avoir fait face à des températures atteignant ou dépassant 40°C lundi. “La chaleur augmente”, a déclaré Météo France lors d’un point de situation à 16h05, avec 69 départements désormais en alerte orange, contre 51 le matin. “Ce lundi marque le pic de cette canicule dans l’ouest du pays avec un pic de chaleur extrême : les 40 degrés seront souvent atteints ou dépassés dans les tronçons en alerte rouge....

Canada’s inflation rate — an increase in the cost of goods and services as measured by the consumer price index — reached 7.7 per cent in May, according to Statistics Canada, due to a combination of the increased cost of living, of supply chain problems and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How strongly each person feels the effects of an increasingly expensive basket of goods and services depends on their income level, which goods they spend most of their budget on and their overall financial vulnerability, according to economists Rachel Samson and Kevin Milligan....

A rare brain infection has led Iowa officials to close a Taylor County beach. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said the temporary closure is a precautionary response to a confirmed Naegleria fowleri infection in a Missouri resident who had a recent possible exposure while swimming at the beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park. Testing to confirm the presence of the “brain-eating amoeba” is being conducted in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and may take several days to complete....

“I am very saddened to inform all those who loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “She was a wonderful, beautiful and amazing woman, who lived a wonderful and inspiring life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her....