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Global disasters can happen fast. Sometimes they’re man-made, like the 2008 credit crisis, and sometimes they’re natural, like COVID-19. Experts do their best to alert us but, as in the case of the climate crisis, sometimes their warnings go unheard for years. One person recently asked an online community, “What’s a ticking time [explosive] you believe will explode during your …

OLD FORT, Tenn. (AP) — Officers found 14 improvised explosive devices while executing a search warrant for a man who had threatened to kill public officials and tried to detonate the devices as he was being arrested, Tennessee authorities said Saturday. Detectives and deputies went to a home Friday in Old Fort, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) east of Chattanooga, …

Investigators in L.A. Explosion Examine Condo for Link to Explosives  The New York Times 3 deputies killed in East L.A. explosion leave behind 16 children  KTLA Deadly East L.A. blast follows other incidents at sheriff’s training facilities  Los Angeles Times Detective William Osborn, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, California  Officer Down Memorial Page Investigation continues into cause of East Los Angeles explosion that killed …

Three members of the arson and explosives unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were killed Friday in a blast at the department’s training facility. It was not immediately clear what they were doing when the explosion happened in a parking lot at the Biscailuz Training Facility or what caused it. However an early line of investigation is examining …