Five people were injured, including a firefighter, in an explosion at a church in Boonville, New York, following a reported gas leak, according to Fox News. The incident occurred at the Abundant Life Fellowship church on Monday morning. Authorities reported that the Boonville firefighter and a civilian were listed in critical condition.
Church leaders stated that their pastor and a congregation member were at the building and called first responders just before 10:30 a.m. local time to report "an obvious gas leak," according to Fox News. While the pastor, congregant, and the firefighter were inside the building, the explosion occurred. New York State Police are investigating the cause of the explosion. The injured were taken to Wynn Hospital in Utica.
In other news, US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson died at the age of 84 on Tuesday morning, according to a statement released by his family, as reported by BBC World. Jackson, the founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, died "peacefully." His cause of death has not been released, but he had been diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy and was in the hospital late last year. Tributes poured in for the prominent activist who twice ran to be Democrats' presidential nominee, including from former President Barack Obama.
Also, the first day of US-brokered Russia-Ukraine peace talks ended in Geneva, according to BBC World. The talks, which began a week before the fourth anniversary of Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, are the third round of trilateral talks. Top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov said the negotiations would continue in the Swiss city on Wednesday morning. Hopes for a breakthrough are low, as the Kremlin has not wavered from its demands for Ukrainian territory. Russian strikes on Ukraine continue.
In other developments, Rep. Wesley Hunt filed a police report after a campaign staffer for one of his GOP opponents posted a 2016 provisional ballot that included personal information about Hunt and his family, according to Fox News. The document included the last four digits of Hunt's Social Security number, his driver's license ID number, and a home address. Matt Mackowiak, communications director for Sen. John Cornyn's re-election campaign, posted the unredacted documents on his X account.
Finally, Apple released a major security update to fix a zero-day vulnerability, according to Fox News. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20700, affects multiple Apple operating systems. Attackers were already using it in targeted attacks.
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