Medics responding to a 911 call on August 16 found Panettiere in cardiac arrest at an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina, and were unable to resuscitate her. The Greenville County coroner has not released an autopsy report or the 36-year-old’s cause or manner of death, citing pending toxicology tests.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Los Angeles-area authorities have questioned several people about the circumstances surrounding the California resident’s death, “focusing on her taking what was described as counterfeit oxycodone,” the Times reported, citing sources familiar with the investigation.

CNN has sought comment from the DEA, the FBI and authorities in Los Angeles and Greenville.

The actress, whose career started before she was 1 year old, has spoken publicly about her battles with depression and substance abuse.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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She’s very social and friendly with everyone she meets, and she even gives nose kisses.

Salt is a gentle little girl who wants nothing more than to get pets and purr on your lap. 

She loves playing with her friends and siblings and is looking for someone new to play with!

To learn more, visit the Humane Rescue Alliance’s website at humanerescuealliance.org/adopt.

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When you are around him, you know you are in for a treat! Truly few of us here can withstand his sweet face.

Going for walks through the neighborhood is Jasper’s favorite pastime. Jasper gets a bit excited when seeing other dogs and is currently learning how to manage his big feelings.

He’d love some continued support in this endeavor.

So, if you are looking for a gorgeous and happy, loyal companion and have some interest in helping this pup learn — he’s your guy! 

To learn more, visit the Humane Rescue Alliance’s website at humanerescuealliance.org/adopt.

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Monday’s strikes came amid a new round of escalation between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group despite a truce reached more than two months ago. The strikes also came days after Israel’s military said it is in “operational control” of the strategic Ali Taher hill that overlooks several villages as well as main roads leading to the city of Nabatiyeh.

The Health Ministry said one of the strikes hit a building, killing 11 people, including two children and four women. Eight were also wounded, including three children and a paramedic.

The ministry said that another strike on a car in the village killed a paramedic with the Lebanese Islamic Risala Scout Association and wounded two others.

The Israeli military said the strikes come in retaliation for two Hezbollah drone attacks that exploded while targeting Israeli troops in Lebanon from the area on Monday. It said the strikes targeted a Hezbollah militant trying to transport weapons to Kfar Rumman.

Hezbollah did not claim the attacks nor immediately issue a statement on the intensifying strikes around Nabatiyeh province.

“We have been living in constant anxiety amid shelling on the outskirts,” said Kfar Rumman resident Fouad Chakaron as he stood in front of the destroyed building. “Now they struck the heart of the town.”

Another resident, Saleh Medlej, pointed to the destroyed building and said this was home to families with children. “Are there missiles here?” he asked in reference to the building where the families lived.

“I will not leave this place,” Medlej said, vowing to stay in his hometown despite the airstrikes and shelling.

Earlier Monday, Israel’s military issued an evacuation warning for a home in the village of Deir al-Zahrani and shortly afterward a building was struck. The military said the strike was in retaliation for a drone attack by Hezbollah militants. There was no word on casualties.

In a separate statement also on Monday, the Israeli military said Israeli troops operating near the Crusader-built Beaufort castle came under fire by a Hezbollah member who was inside a house, lightly wounding two of them. The troops later killed the militant.

On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed at least seven people in southern Lebanon and leveled an empty hospital.

The strikes came days after Israel released two Syrian and three Lebanese prisoners as part of a deal with Lebanon. In return, Lebanon agreed to search for the bodies of Jewish Lebanese citizens who went missing during the country’s civil war decades ago.

A U.S.-brokered truce between Israel and Hezbollah has been repeatedly violated, with Israel carrying out airstrikes in Lebanon and Hezbollah firing drones at Israeli troops.

Lebanon and Israel in June signed a U.S.-mediated framework deal under which Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon in exchange for the disarmament of Hezbollah, but little progress has been made in its implementation.

Hezbollah is not a party to the Lebanon-Israel talks and has said it will not give up its weapons in any area north of southern Lebanon’s Litani River. Israeli officials, meanwhile, have said they will not withdraw unless Hezbollah is disarmed throughout the country.

Kfar Rumman’s mayor, Abdullah Farhat, described what happened in the village as “a massacre in every sense of the word.” He blasted the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, saying that Lebanese leaders “signed deals and we are paying the price here.”

“There is an enemy that is not concerned about anything,” Farhat said, referring to strikes that have been ongoing since the deal was signed.

___ Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed to this report.

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This story has been corrected to show that in a deal with Lebanon, Israel released two Syrian and three Lebanese prisoners, not five Lebanese prisoners.

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Beef was lower and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Oct. live cattle was off 1.15 cents at $2.19 a pound. Sept. feeder cattle was down 4.33 cents at $3.33 a pound. Oct. hogs rose by 1.45 cents at $.83 a pound.

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Have I got a lawn for you! Simply mixing clover seeds with your chosen grass seeds will do all of that while keeping pests in check and attracting beneficial insects to pollinate your other plants — things ordinary turfgrasses never do.

If children or allergies have you concerned about attracting bees, mow your hybrid lawn when the clover is in flower to lessen the threat.

Caring for Kentucky bluegrass, tall and fine fescues, St. Augustine, Bermudagrass, zoysia and their grassy cousins risks damaging the ecosystem while providing little benefit — aside, perhaps, from the satisfaction of those who find beauty in a flawless emerald-green carpet outside their door.

The good news is that green is green, and when mowed, your clover will fit right in.

Here are more good reasons for a grass-clover hybrid

Planting straight clover would require removing all the existing grass to allow its seeds to fully contact the soil. And on its own, clover doesn’t stand up well to foot traffic. The plant is also short-lived, so it would require reseeding every few years. In addition, straight clover wouldn’t fill in as densely as a grass-clover combination lawn would.

When mixed with grass seed, however, clover becomes a rock star, reseeding well enough that you never have to replenish it. And, as it grows, it outcompetes most common weeds.

What kind of clover should you buy?

When shopping for seeds, look for “micro” or “mini” clover, which grows to about 4 inches (10 centimeters) tall after some initial repeated low-mowing to “train” it to remain short and more lawn-like. When mixed with grass, mini clover crowds out weeds more effectively than Dutch white clover does.

Packaged clover seeds are often precoated with inoculant; if they aren’t, buy a packet of inoculant separately and apply it to the seeds by following the label directions. Clover, like other legumes, is “nitrogen-fixing,” which means it relies on certain bacterial strains to colonize its roots and supply nitrogen; the inoculant feeds the seeds without nourishing weed seeds that may be lurking in the soil.

Inoculant loses its effectiveness over time, so wait until you are ready to sow coated seeds before you buy them, and check dates to ensure they were packaged within the past six months.

How do you switch to a clover-hybrid lawn?

Remove thatch, if present, from your existing lawn before incorporating clover seeds.

Mix seeds with sand or loose soil before spreading to facilitate an even application, then gently rake it in.

Water very lightly every day (unless it rains) to keep the soil slightly moist until the clover fills in.

If planting in part-shade conditions, sow twice as many seeds as indicated for the area.

In temperate areas, sow the seeds in fall. In areas with colder winters, sow them around the beginning of April. Clover isn’t recommended for the Deep South because it doesn’t withstand extreme heat well.

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The Trump administration had made a last-minute push to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who would be able to receive a mail ballot. But state election officials argued there was not enough time to make the changes for the Nov. 3 midterm elections — and said their systems were already secure and accurate.

The court ruled late Monday in an emergency order that the restrictions would likely lose in court, at least for this year’s election.

“The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History,” Trump wrote in a lengthy social media post Tuesday. “This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years.”

Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh were all nominated by Trump in his first term but ruled against him in Monday’s decision.

“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves,” Trump said, continuing that the court “is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won’t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal.”

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Virginia’s U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, both Democrats, announced the DCA Air Safety Act on Thursday, after the completion of the National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation of the deadly 2025 crash near the airport between an American Airlines Bombardier jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

The crash killed 67 people including the pilots, crew members and passengers, some of whom were from Virginia.

The senators’ proposal would cap hourly arrivals, reduce flight clustering, and the specific time windows for flights to take off or land.

Kaine said in a statement that Congress must do more to ensure that the “highest level” of safety regulations are in place to prevent future tragedies.

“While I support various proposals to help do that, it’s obvious that any set of reforms that doesn’t address overcrowding at this airport — which sits along restricted airspace and is already operating beyond capacity — is dangerously insufficient,” said Kaine, in a statement.

He added that his bill lays out a “commonsense plan” to curb hourly arrivals and reduce flight clustering and overall traffic.

The legislation would cap hourly arrivals by requiring the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to reduce DCA’s Airport Arrival Rate to no more than 28 aircraft per consecutive 60-minute period, thereby decreasing the likelihood of a collision.

Following the crash, the FAA said the rate at the time was 32 and dropped to 30 by the summer.

The legislation would also prevent too many planes from taking off or landing at the same time. Within 180 days, airports would have to set limits for each 30-minute period so flights are spread out more evenly throughout the hour.

The proposal would remove 30 flight slots over five years to reduce overcrowding at the airport. Then, starting in 2028, six slots would be removed each year, including at least 26 flights that are currently allowed to exceed the airport’s 1,250-mile distance limit, with all changes completed by the end of 2032.

A mandatory public process from the FAA — including publishing a proposed list of slots to be eliminated — a 60-day public comment period, and publishing a final list within 120 days after the public comment period closes are also key requirements stipulated by the bill.

The focus on flights comes from the NTSB’s investigation, which found that on the night of the collision, one air traffic controller was responsible for managing 29 separate aircraft during an 18-minute period.

Since 2000, the senators said the airport has added 64 daily flights.

Congress owes it to the victims of the crash to act and prevent another case from occurring again at one of the busiest airports in the country, Warner said.

There have been several near-misses close to the airport since last year’s crash, including one occurring a month afterward and a second involving a plane carrying President Donald Trump.

“For years, Senator Kaine and I have been warning that DCA is overcrowded and have fought to reduce the number of slot exemptions at the airport. The risks are now painfully clear, and Congress cannot wait for another tragedy to act,” Warner said.

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Military officials in Lithuania, a NATO member, said the incident marked the first time that a drone had been shot down in its airspace. Authorities didn’t comment on the drone’s origin or purpose, saying the incident needed further investigation, but two senior officials said the device was likely carrying explosives.

Officials in NATO countries including Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Poland have in recent weeks accused Russia of involvement in acts such as drone incursions, sabotage, arson, surveillance of defense facilities and planning to use a drone carrying explosives to attack an airport.

Separately, Denmark said Tuesday one of its air force helicopters was fired on with flares as it was carrying out surveillance of a Russian frigate in the Baltic Sea.

Strikes close to NATO’s territory showed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “desperation and also his desire to sow fear and terror,” its Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Monday. He was speaking after a Russian drone struck a railway line near the Ukraine-Poland border on Sunday shortly after senior visiting officials passed through.

Rutte pledged to bolster the 32-nation alliance’s own defenses along its long eastern border with Russia and with Belarus, a Russian ally.

Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, said that the incidents in Lithuania and Denmark were not isolated incidents, but “part of a broader pattern of Russian aggression and provocation against Europe, testing our readiness and our resolve.”

“Russia will find our resolve only growing stronger,” she said.

Drone ‘likely’ to be carrying explosives

The drone downed in Lithuania on Tuesday fell near the village of Pratkūnai, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) west of the capital, Vilnius, and near the Kaunas Reservoir, Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center said Tuesday.

Vilmantas Vitkauskas, head of the crisis center, told Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT that the drone most likely entered from Belarus. It remained in Lithuanian airspace for about 30 minutes and flew along the outskirts of populated areas before being intercepted, he said.

Antanas Matutis, commander of the Lithuanian air force, said that the wreckage had been found, and the drone was “likely” carrying explosives.

The menace of drones has repeatedly loomed over the skies of Lithuania, which shares borders with Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

In May, residents of Vilnius were told to take shelter and the president and prime minister were taken to safe locations amid an alarm over drone activity near the border with Belarus.

Stray Ukrainian drones have also previously crossed the border into Baltic airspace, including in May when a NATO fighter jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia.

Meanwhile, Denmark accused Russia of firing flares at one of its air force helicopters in connection with “routine photographic coverage” of a Russian frigate in waters off the port of Gedser in the Baltic Sea.

“This is completely unacceptable,” the Danish Foreign Ministry wrote on X, saying that the Russian ambassador was summoned over the incident.

Russia’s ambassador to Denmark, Vladimir Barbin, said it was “not the first time” that Danish Air Force helicopters “carried out dangerous maneuvers near Russian warships.”

He also said that the Danish helicopter had carried out “provocative actions against the Russian frigate.”

The Kremlin declined to comment Tuesday, with presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying that he did not have details of the event.

Kyiv says it’s ‘ready to support de-escalation’

Meanwhile, Russian drone strikes continued across Ukraine following a social media post from U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed “not to hit” each other’s energy infrastructure.

Trump didn’t offer further details on the purported agreement. Previous efforts to broker even a partial ceasefire have repeatedly fallen apart within hours, with both sides accusing each other of violations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Monday that Kyiv was “ready to support de-escalation” if the United States could ensure “Russia is genuinely ready to stop this war.”

But Zelenskyy said in a statement on Tuesday that Moscow had continued to attack Ukraine’s energy sector, logistics and critical infrastructure, and that Kyiv had responded by striking an oil refinery in Syzran, a city in western Russia.

“There is no alternative to ending this war. And all forms of pressure on Russia must create the right diplomatic conditions,” Zelenskyy said.

The Kremlin said Tuesday that it considered Trump’s proposal for a ceasefire on energy infrastructure to be “a good idea.”

However, it stressed that strikes on Russian oil refineries were not the root cause of global supply issues for gas or diesel.

“The core problem lies in the export of petroleum products to global markets,” said Peskov. He said that countries instead needed to guarantee safe navigation for oil tankers and lift global sanctions on Russian oil.

The Kremlin’s comments contradict those of Trump, who called on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Sunday to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries and claimed that such attacks had caused a global shortage.

“Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters, following news on Friday that diesel prices in the U.S. had soared past an average of $6 a gallon.

“We spoke to Mr. Zelenskyy about it. There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel, because that’s hurting, that’s hurting the world,” he said.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said Tuesday that Russian strikes on Kyiv had killed one person and wounded seven other people since the start of the day, with attacks carried out on the capital’s gas stations.

Another two people were killed in separate Russian strikes in the Ukrainian cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

Elsewhere, Russian forces shot down 222 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

A “massive” Ukrainian drone attack sparked several fires in the Russian city of Taganrog, regional Gov. Yuri Slyusar said. He said on Telegram that two apartment buildings and three private homes had been damaged, as well as an educational institution, agricultural warehouses and a site belonging to Russian e-retailer Ozon.

Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Kyiv’s forces had targeted a drone production facility in the city.

Ukrainian parliament votes to dismiss prosecutor general

Ukraine’s parliament voted to dismiss Ruslan Kravchenko from the post of prosecutor general Tuesday, as a series of graft investigations pushed tensions in Kyiv to a new high.

Kravchenko submitted his resignation on Sept. 7 amid a National Anti-Corruption Bureau investigation into corruption in his office, though no notice of suspicion was issued against him. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had suspended Kravchenko from the post the day before. Kravchenko had served as prosecutor general since June 21, 2025.

Various corruption scandals have hurt Zelenskyy’s approval ratings at a time when Ukraine is still fighting for survival against Russia’s 4 1/2-year full-scale invasion.

___ Associated Press writer Hanna Arhirova contributed to this report from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and immigration subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock, Descano’s lawyers said they were notified Monday that the committee intends to issue a subpoena.

The expected subpoena follows Descano’s appearance before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security and Enforcement in May, when he rejected Republican lawmakers’ assertions that Fairfax County, Virginia, is operating under sanctuary policies or giving preferential treatment to people in the U.S. illegally.

“We were surprised and disappointed by this latest escalation,” Descano’s attorneys, Michael Satin and Laura Ferguson, wrote in the letter obtained by WTOP.

“CA Descano testified voluntarily before the Committee, and we produced over 1,100 pages of documents to the Committee and provided four separate letters answering the Committee’s questions and explaining in detail how his office policies have helped keep Fairfax County one of the safest large jurisdictions in the country.”

Descano has previously maintained that his office does not interfere with federal immigration enforcement.

According to the letter, committee staff now plans “to subpoena information about prosecutorial decision-making in individual cases that is not even remotely connected to federal immigration enforcement or to any other legitimate topic for congressional oversight.” The attorneys said staff members are seeking information about all cases that were nolle prossed [voluntarily stopped] during Descano’s tenure, regardless of a defendant’s immigration status or nationality.

Descano’s lawyers argued that the inquiry’s “shifting nature” shows the committee is targeting their client for political reasons. They wrote that the committee’s goal is to “attempt to intimidate and harass a local prosecutor lawfully exercising his prosecutorial authority simply because members of the Committee disagree with his politics and those of the Fairfax County voters who elected (and re-elected) him by a wide margin.”

In the 2023 election, Descano received nearly 78% of the vote.

“But in light of CA Descano’s extensive, good-faith cooperation, the Committee should not issue a subpoena, much less one that seeks information about local prosecutions entirely unrelated to the Committee’s remit,” they wrote.

WTOP has requested comment from the House Judiciary Committee.

The inquiry has focused in part on a 2020 policy directing prosecutors to “consider immigration consequences where possible” when negotiating plea agreements, stating that “prosecutors shall consider … the collateral immigration consequences of the specific crime(s) the defendant is charged with.”

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In Monday’s letter, Descano’s attorneys said they have already explained to the committee that the policy “states unequivocally that a resolution in a case that considers ‘collateral immigration consequences’ will not be better than a resolution offered to a defendant that does not face such collateral issues.”

The congressional scrutiny has also focused on the February 2026 killing of Stephanie Minter along Route 1 in Hybla Valley, Virginia, a case that critics have cited in challenging Descano’s immigration-related policies and prosecutorial practices. Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old immigrant from Sierra Leone, is charged in the case and awaiting trial.

During the May hearing, Descano offered condolences to Stephanie Minter’s mother, Cheryl Minter, and said Jalloh is being prosecuted.

“I am not here for politics. I am here for accountability. I am here because a system failed my daughter,” Cheryl Minter tearfully told lawmakers.

The U.S. Department of Justice also launched an investigation into Descano’s office in May.

In a letter to Descano, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon said Justice Department investigators were examining whether the Descano’s office violated federal civil rights laws barring recipients of federal funding from discriminating based on race, color or national origin.

WTOP’s Mitchell Miller contributed to this report.

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