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The Festivus Report 2024
Happy Festivus! How is 2024 already wrapping up? It feels like we blinked, and history dumped a year’s worth of plot twists on us. Donald Trump dodged two assassination attempts, Vice President Kamala Harris ousted President Biden from the presidential race last minute only to fail spectacularly, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris captured global…
Magnitude 6.3 quake shakes Colombian capital, one dead
BOGOTA, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A strong earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck the Colombian capital Bogota on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, prompting frightened residents to flee into the street and leading a woman to fall to her death. There were no immediate reports of major damage from the quake, which Colombia’s national…
Tens of millions under air quality alerts in US as Canada fire smoke drifts south
Eastern US states including New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut issue alerts as hundreds of wildfires burn in Canada Tens of millions of people in the US were under air quality alerts on Wednesday, as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted south, turning the sky in some of the country’s biggest cities a murky brown and saturating…
Nigerian troops rescue 62 hostages in crackdown on armed gangs, army says
Mass kidnappings are increasingly common in Nigeria, with armed gangs targeting remote communities where security and government presence is limited. Nigerian troops have freed 62 hostages – and killed two militants in a separate operation – as part of an ongoing offensive against armed gangs, the army has said. Army spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Olaniyi Osoba…
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – September 30, 2022
Greetings from Tyler, We’re all seeing the catastrophic devastation along the path of Hurricane Ian. You can only imagine the emotional impact of seeing your home leveled and everything destroyed. But people have not even been able to return to pick through whatever remains. The clean-up will take years. The storm raged for some…
More Cuba Sanctions as Pressure Builds
The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on Cuba in the Trump administration’s latest move to ramp up pressure on the Communist-led Caribbean island, which is already facing fuel shortages and an economy in free fall. The fresh sanctions are set to be imposed on five entities as well as Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife…
