(RENO, Nev.) — An out-of-control brush fire that ignited over the weekend in the hills in Northern Nevada near Reno has grown to more than 15,000 acres, prompting a massive evacuation of 42,000 people, authorities said on Monday.

A preliminary investigation has found that the Hawk Fire was human-caused, authorities said. They did not immediately release details on whether the blaze was intentionally or accidentally set.

“We do know it was human-caused because there were no natural ignition sources that were present in that area,” Chief Richard Edwards of the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District said at a news conference on Sunday.

About 90,000 people have been affected by the wildfire, including 42,000 who have been forced to evacuate their homes and another 45,000 people who have been warned to be prepared to evacuate, officials said.

About 14,000 homes are in the evacuation area and authorities confirmed that some residences have been destroyed.

The fire remained 0% contained after burning 15,051 acres, Nevada fire officials said in an update on Monday morning.

Officials reported some good news on Monday, saying firefighters made progress overnight in battling the blaze “despite extreme fire behavior observed during the incident.”

“Hot, dry and breezy conditions are expected to continue supporting active fire behavior over the next 48 hours. The fire has the potential to spread northeast and northwest, and conditions remain dynamic and subject to rapid change,” fire officials said in the update.

About 1,000 firefighters and other first responders are battling the fire from the ground and air, officials said.

At least three civilians and three first responders have been injured by the fire, officials said.

The number of homes destroyed or damaged remains unclear. Officials said unsafe conditions have prevented them from getting a clear damage assessment.

The fire was continuing to move in the direction of heavily populated urban areas, authorities said.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo said in a statement over the weekend that the fire was “spreading quickly and threatening homes and structures” and that he had declared a state of emergency for Washoe County.

“The Hawk Fire is a very dynamic incident for us as it’s being driven by the winds,” said Truckee Meadows Fire Chief Richard Edwards in a video posted to social media. “The wind-driven fires move very rapidly into our residential areas, creating a lot of challenges for our firefighters to save homes and protect lives.”

He urged residents to pay attention to evacuation orders, leave early if directed and have a travel bag ready.

Weather in the fire zone northwest of Reno is expected stay mild on Monday, with highs in the middle 80s, with gusts up to 25 mph, and relative humidity around 25%. 

On Tuesday, temperatures are expected to the upper 80s, with gusts between 25 and 30 mph.

The Washoe County School District announced that all classes, events and activities are canceled on Monday.

“The decision to close schools is due to evacuations, impacts on the regional public safety resources, and to help keep roads clear for emergency vehicle,” the school district said in a statement.

Northwest Specialty Hospital in Reno announced Sunday that it was evacuating patients from the facility “out of an abundance of caution.”

“Patients have been safely transported to appropriate locations where their care will continue without interruption – no patients or staff remain in the building,” the statement said.

About 10,000 utility customers remained without power on Monday, down from about 60,000 at the peak of the blaze, officials said.

Northern Nevada Health Systems said it had temporarily closed the emergency room at North Valleys north of Reno due to evacuations.

“My heart goes out to anyone in our community who has been impacted by the dangerous and fast-moving Hawk Fire,” Reno Mayor Hillary Shieve said in a statement on social media, urging residents to evacuate if told to do so and saying some structures had already burned.

The statement added: “Our firefighters and first responders are heroically fighting the fire and the high winds to save lives, homes, businesses, livestock and pets.”

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office said it was monitoring the fire.

ABC News’ Kyle Reiman contributed to this report.

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(NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Moke continues to churn in open waters in the Central Pacific, just days after Hurricane Lala left widespread destruction across Hawaii.

The new system is currently located about 755 miles southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, with winds of 50 mph.

It is moving west-northwest at 12 mph and is expected to pass south of the Hawaiian islands through the weekend into early next week.

Moke is forecast to remain at tropical storm strength through next Wednesday before weakening Thursday.

On the current forecast track, rain and gusty winds will arrive to the Big Island Saturday night and continue through the beginning of next week.

The storm is expected to produce rainfall totals of 5 to 10 inches, with maximum amounts of 15 inches across the Big Island.

Rainfall totals of 1 to 3 inches, with maximum amounts of 5, are expected across the remainder of the Hawaiian islands.

This rainfall may produce life threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in steep terrain and over areas that were affected recently by Hurricane Lala.

Lala moved south of the Big Island on Sunday as a Category 1 hurricane, damaging or destroying more than 100 homes and cutting off some communities, according to the governor. The storm dumped more than a foot of rain over parts of the state, with the highest elevations getting more than 40 inches. Thousands on the Big Island are still without power.

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(BOSTON) — Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney rested their case on Friday after calling one final witness to testify about the effects of postpartum psychosis.

Prosecutors are now calling three additional witnesses as part of a brief rebuttal case, and closing arguments could happen as early as Monday.

Forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick, who reviewed Clancy’s medical records and evaluated her several months after the killings, at the request of the defense, testified Friday that he believes Clancy was in the throes of postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children and attempted to take her own life in January 2023.

Resnick told jurors that in his opinion, Clancy was unable to tell the difference between right and wrong and lacked control at that time.

Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson, and infant son Callan, who died after being strangled by Clancy at the family’s home in the Boston suburb of Duxbury on Jan. 24, 2023.

Defense lawyers do not contest that Clancy was responsible for the deaths of her three children, instead arguing she should not be held criminally responsible for their deaths because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings.

Resnick is a professor of psychiatry who has researched postpartum psychosis and testified as a key witness in the trial of Andrea Yates, a Texas mother accused of drowning her five children in a bathtub in 2001. He also served as a consultant on the cases of notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Oklahoma City bombing culprit Timothy McVeigh, “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, and the high profile murder cases of Scott Peterson and Casey Anthony, according to his biography.

Resnick testified Friday that, in his opinion, Clancy was not “psychotic every minute she was functioning” on the day of the killings but suffered a “command hallucination” after her then-husband Patrick Clancy left their family home to run errands that evening.

“My opinion is that Miss Clancy was, due to her mental disease, unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law on the day that she took the lives of her children,” he told jurors. “It was a matter where she was just following the command rather than being able to make any decision to do it or not.”

Resnick testified that Clancy, in his opinion, experienced “not only a command hallucination on the day that she killed her children” but also “a delusion of influence.”

“She felt that her body was taken over by an external force, where she was in a dream state and did not have control of her own body — it’s almost like she was a puppet, and someone else was pulling the strings,” he told jurors.

He added, “At the time of the crime itself on Jan. 24, 2023, Ms. Clancy was frankly psychotic. So, in that sense, she had a postpartum psychosis.”

Resnick further testified that Clancy “was obsessive about caring for her children” and likely believed her children “would be in terrible shape” if she only took her own life that day.

“In her mind, she believed that she would be doing her children a favor by having them go to heaven with her rather than remain on earth without her doing the mothering,” he testified.

Jurors are set to hear closing arguments and begin deliberating early next week, after both sides rest their cases.

Earlier this week, on Thursday, jurors heard from a hospital chaplain who testified that she met with Clancy more than 200 times in the past three years since she killed her three children.

Sheila Cavanaugh, a board-certified chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, testified that Clancy had told her she heard a “persistent” male voice ordering her to kill her children and herself in the months before she strangled them and attempted to take her own life.

Cavanaugh’s testimony came after jurors heard from defense witness Paul Zeizel earlier in the week, who also testified about Clancy’s claim she heard a voice telling her to kill her children.

Prosecutors have attempted to cast doubt on Clancy’s claim that she heard a male voice in her head telling her to kill her children and take her own life prior to the killings. According to Reddington, prosecutors have also suggested that Zeizel planted the idea Clancy heard a voice telling her to kill her children during their first meeting, two days before she made a similar comment to her husband over the phone.

Reddington has pushed back on that allegation, and an officer who stood guard outside Clancy’s hospital room testified previously that there was no evidence Zeizel planted the idea.

As the case nears its end, thousands have come to Clancy’s support online, and hundreds of supporters dressed in pink rallied outside the courthouse and the state hospital where Clancy is being held on Thursday.

A fundraiser for Clancy’s parents had raised $996,000 as of Friday morning.

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(FRISCO, Texas) — A Texas judge is hearing arguments Thursday on whether Karmelo Anthony should get a new trial, two months after a jury convicted and sentenced him to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing a fellow student at a high school track meet.

The hearing comes a day after the Collin County judge who presided over the murder trial was removed from further proceedings in the case.

Prosecutors called the deadly stabbing “unjustified” and “plain and simple murder,” while the defense argued that Anthony acted in self-defense when he stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco in April 2025.

After hearing four days of testimony, a Collin County jury found Anthony, 19, guilty of murder following three hours of deliberation on June 9. The same jury sentenced him to 35 years in prison after several more hours of deliberation.

Anthony’s attorneys claimed in a motion seeking a new trial that the teen was “coerced” into waiving his right to testify, stemming from a purported dispute between defense attorneys and prosecutors about whether his testimony would be covered by an agreement limiting some character evidence in the trial. Defense attorneys alleged this denied him a “complete defense.”

The defense also alleged that Collin County Judge John Roach improperly instructed the jury and that his courtroom restrictions, which limited public access to the proceedings, denied Anthony a fair trial.

In a statement to ABC Dallas affiliate WFAA ahead of this week’s hearings, Collin County First Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirskye said Anthony’s new, post-trial attorneys “filed a motion containing several inaccurate characterizations of the trial proceedings.”

“I and the entire prosecution team conducted this trial ethically and in full compliance with the Court’s ruling and any agreements with defense counsel,” Wirskye added.

In opening remarks during Thursday’s hearing, defense attorney Russell Wilson said Anthony decided not to testify because he believed the prosecution would not adhere to the agreement not to question him about his past behavior, beyond what happened during the confrontation at the track meet, WFAA reported.

Wirskye, meanwhile, said he offered the agreement to “stay away from historical character and stick to the facts — what happened under the tent” in order to “keep the peace” amid what he said was intense public vitriol over the case that led to threats against both sides, WFAA reported. He said the trial defense attorneys agreed to it, and that the “agreement was held.”

Wirskye also pushed back on defense claims that Anthony had insufficient time to decide whether to testify and noted that prosecutors wanted him to take the stand, saying, “There’s nothing better in my business than a testifying defendant,” WFAA reported.

The hearing is ongoing, with the defense so far calling Derrick Jackson, the former Collin County public information officer, to discuss the courtroom protocols, and Mike Howard, one of Anthony’s trial attorneys.

A new judge is presiding over Thursday’s hearing, after Judge Sid Harle granted the defense’s motion to recuse Roach from any further matters in the Anthony case.

In his order issued Wednesday, Harle wrote that there were grounds for recusal “in that the evidence adduced at the hearing is such that the respondent judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”

Retired Kaufman County District Judge Michael Chitty has been assigned to oversee the case.

In the defense motion seeking to recuse the trial judge from the post-trial proceedings, Anthony’s attorneys questioned both Roach’s impartiality in the case and his courtroom restrictions.

The motion cited what it called “problematic comments” Roach made during an interview following the verdict, in which it said the judge “endorsed the jury’s guilty verdict” and defended his courtroom restrictions. It also pointed to a public letter Roach released following the trial, in which he stated that those who worked on the case “contributed to ensuring the process was conducted fairly.”

Anthony’s attorneys said Wednesday that they are “pleased” with Harle’s decision to recuse Roach and “look forward to presenting the merits of Karmelo’s motion for a new trial to a fair and independent judge.”

Ahead of the high-profile trial, Roach imposed a gag order and barred any electronics from the courtroom during the proceedings due to the attention the case had garnered.

“Due to the significant public and media interest in this case, the Court finds that specific procedures are necessary to ensure the Defendant’s right to a fair and impartial trial, the orderly administration of justice, the safety and security of all participants, and reasonable public access consistent with constitutional requirements,” Roach wrote in a May order.

On Wednesday, Chitty ordered that the trial procedures will remain in effect at this time for future proceedings in the case.

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(NEW YORK) — The FBI arrested a woman who they allege was plotting to attack the New York State Capitol building in Albany.

The FBI alleged in a criminal complaint Thursday that Jessica Bowie, 35, pledged allegiance to ISIS in online communications and began planning the attack in July.

The suspect converted to Islam about five years ago and in messages with unidentified users pledged support to ISIS, the criminal complaint said.

Bowie had allegedly discussed her plans with FBI informants and spent weeks doing surveillance of the Capitol, including taking pictures from various vantage points, including an “observation hall nearby,” the criminal complaint said.

She allegedly bought bomb materials from a hardware store on Aug. 5 and plotted with the informants for the next two weeks, according to the complaint.

The informants allegedly met with Bowie on Wednesday and provided her with an inert explosive device and an inert handgun along with instructions on how to detonate the explosive, the complaint said.

The FBI soon arrested her, the complaint said.

Upon being interviewed by FBI agents she allegedly said, “There’s no helping me, you guys know enough, there’s no helping me, I’m … going to prison for the rest of my life,” according to the complaint.

“Material support is up to 20 years in prison, I already Googled it before, I know I’m going to jail,” she allegedly said.

Attorney information for the suspect was not immediately available.

This is a developing story.

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