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A fire of unknown origin destroyed the entirety of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro Sunday night, collapsing at least two of the 200-year-old former palace’s floors and destroying most of the items on display, including Latin America’s largest ancient Egyptian exhibit, priceless fossils, and natural artifacts.

A man has been charged on suspicion of arson after fires were set at a Sikh temple and a Methodist church in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A 61-year-old French woman died early Wednesday morning in Nice as a result of a fire in her apartment building, with firefighters unable to help her after being harassed by local “youths.”

LONDON (AP) — The London Fire Brigade wants the media to stop depicting firefighters as hunky sex objects.

Police charged a woman with murder on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping a six-month-old boy, setting him on fire, and leaving him to die by railroad tracks in Louisiana.

RAFINA, Greece (AP) — The death toll from twin wildfires that raged through Greek seaside areas looked set to increase to around 50 Tuesday after rescue crews reported finding the bodies of more than 20 people huddled closely together near a beach northeast of the capital, Athens.

Controversy has erupted at the University of Kansas over their decision to fly a defaced American flag on campus.

A fire brigade spokesman spoke of his disbelief after a police helicopter assisting in the operation to extinguish a number of major wildfires in the north of England spotted arsonists deliberately setting new fires in the tinder-dry grassland nearby.

A veteran disgruntled with the Department of Veterans Affairs set himself on fire Tuesday in front of the Georgia State Capitol in downtown Atlanta, according to state police officials.

A California mother is hailing her pit bull as a “hero” after the dog rescued the family from a fire that broke out at their home.

A man in the state of Washington who burned an American flag blanket over the Memorial Day weekend ended up starting a five-acre wildfire, according to local authorities.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announced this week that they are launching a faculty network for professors interested in defending free speech.

The University of New Hampshire earned the top free speech rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education this week.

A short documentary from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) explores the growing trend of intellectual intolerance at Wellesley College.

Fresno State announced on Tuesday that they will not discipline Professor Randa Jarrar, who came under fire last week for a series of tweets that celebrated the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) argued yesterday that Fresno State cannot constitutionally penalize Professor Randa Jarrar for her crude tweets about the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush.

Fresno State announced on Wednesday that they are opening an investigation into Professor Randa Jarrar, who celebrated former First Lady Barbara Bush’s death earlier this week.

LONDON (AP) — Five people have died of injuries from an explosion that caused the collapse of a building in the central England city of Leicester, police said Monday.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released their annual list of the worst colleges for free speech on Monday.

A recently published survey conducted by FIRE suggests that a majority of Democratic college students believe that hate speech should be illegal.

A Georgia firefighter made an incredible rescue after she caught a baby dropped from the third floor of a burning apartment building, according to a video of the incident.

A California man who reportedly attempted to kill a spider using a torch lighter wound up destroying more than a small insect.

President Donald Trump’s signature building in New York City caught fire on Monday, according to several reports.

A plane full of travelers at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada was forced to evacuate on emergency slides Friday evening after the aircraft next to them burst into flames.

Relatives of the 12 people killed in a deadly Bronx apartment fire are demanding that the mother of the three-year-old who started the fire be held “accountable.”

LONDON (AP) — London Zoo officials say a fire Saturday morning left one aardvark dead and four meerkats missing.

The Student Body President at Texas State University is calling for the defunding of the student newspaper over a recently published anti-white column that made headlines in the national press.

We are a society that values and cherishes stuff. Things. Memories. Ask any household in America and I bet they would say they wish they could get rid of some, but the memories they have stored away are so much more important than more space. You don’t really realize how important these things are to you until they are taken from you, sometimes unexpectedly and harshly.

LONDON (AP) — A convicted conman has admitted charges of fraud for falsely claiming that his family died in London’s Grenfell Tower fire.

A man who ran into the flames of a burning effigy in front of 70,000 people at the Burning Man festival in Nevada has died from his injuries, authorities said.

LISBON (AFP) – Forest fires cut off a village of 2,000 people in Portugal, as firefighters struggled Thursday to control two major blazes in the centre of the country, local officials said.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A huge fire at a music festival in Spain forced the evacuation of over 20,000 concertgoers and incinerated the event’s stage in Barcelona, the regional government said Sunday.

An opinion column published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on Wednesday argues that poor high school civics courses are contributing to the rise of political intolerance on campus.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Emergency officials say a forest fire that has spread to southern Croatia from neighboring Montenegro has triggered 34 explosions, probably from mines left over from the region’s war in the 1990s.

Responding to a controversial column that appearing in the New York Times last week, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff argue that telling students that words can be “violence” is a dangerous idea.

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro has asked for international help to fight wildfires that are also raging along the Adriatic sea coastline in neighboring Croatia, authorities said Monday.