Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Tesla settled a civil lawsuit filed by the State of California in connection with the handling of hazardous materials at its plants there, paying a fine of $1.5 million.

Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Two people were killed and hundreds were injured Thursday night in a massive gas explosion at an industrial site in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, officials said.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The leader of the notorious 400 Mawozo Haitian gang behind the kidnapping of 17 missionaries in 2021 has pleaded guilty to charges of running a conspiracy to smuggle guns into the Caribbean country and money laundering.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Several people are dead after a small plane crashed into a mobile home in Clearwater, Fla., Thursday night, the local fire department said.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- In the first-ever settlement with an advertising company for its role in the U.S. opioid epidemic, Publicis Health agreed Thursday to pay states $350 million over its "predatory and deceptive" marketing tactics.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- To mark the third anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the United States, Britain and Australia separately leveled sanctions against entities linked to the Tatmadaw.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- An Ocean County, N.J., man admitted in federal court Thursday that he committed a series of violent assaults on members of the Orthodox Jewish community near Lakewood, the Justice Department said.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Nearly 140 passengers and crew members have fallen sick aboard a Cunard Cruise Line ship, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a football field will make its closest pass to Earth in more than a century this week, and it won't be this close again for another 200 years, officials announced Thursday.

Feb. 1 (UPI) -- New York state Judge Arthur Engoron now expects to issue a verdict against Donald Trump some time from early to mid-February, delaying a long-anticipated outcome in the former president's civil fraud trial.