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Foreign News

PAHOA, Hawaii (AP):

If Hawaii's Kilauea volcano blows its top in the coming days or weeks, as experts fear, it could hurl ash and boulders the size of refrigerators miles into the air, shutting down airline traffic and endangering lives in all directions, scientists said Thursday.

"If it goes up, it will come down," said Charles Mandeville, volcano hazards coordinator for the US Geological Survey. "You don't want to be underneath anything that weighs 10 tons when it's coming out at 120 mph."

The volcano, which has been spitting and sputtering lava for a week, has destroyed more than two dozen homes and threatened a geothermal plant.

The added threat of an explosive eruption could ground planes at one of the Big Island's two major airports and pose other dangers. The national park around the volcano announced that it would close because of the risks.

"We know the volcano is capable of doing this," Mandeville said, citing similar explosions at Kilauea in 1925, 1790 and four other times in the last few thousand years. "We know it is a distinct possibility."

PHILADELPHIA (AP):

Yesterday a nurse, Christann Shyvin Gainey, was charged in the death of the father of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser.

Gainey, 30, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and records tampering in the death of HR McMaster Sr.

Authorities said she failed to give him a series of neurological exams following his fall at a Philadelphia senior care facility.

The 84-year-old retired US Army officer died April 13, about eight hours after falling and hitting his head at the Cathedral Village retirement community.

Surveillance video showed that Gainey, who worked as a contract nurse at Cathedral Village, failed to conduct a series of eight neurological evaluations of McMaster as required, prosecutors said. Gainey then allegedly falsified documents to make it seem she had.

Gainey's attorney, Sharon Piper, said her client intends to plead not guilty.