Hurricane Sally’s center roars into Alabama, and its crawling pace threatens catastrophic flooding
(CNN)Hurricane Sally is pummeling southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle as a Category 2 storm after it crossed land Wednesday morning, prompting water rescues, sapping power, dropping trees and threatening worse as it crawls at an agonizingly slow pace. … Read More
Live Updates: Hurricane Sally makes landfall in Alabama as Category 2 storm, ‘life-threatening’ flooding expected
Hurricane Sally roared ashore the northern Gulf Coast early Wednesday morning, making landfall as the storm threatens to bring devastating flooding to the region. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) says Hurricane Sally made landfall at 4:45 a.m. CDT near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. The … Read More
Trump issues stark warning to Iran after reports country is considering plot to assassinate US ambassador
Officials have been reportedly aware of threats against the ambassador since the spring. President Trump took to Twitter late Monday to issue a stern warning to Iran that an assassination attempt or attack against the U.S. in retaliation of the airstrike … Read More
Pentagon Lists Companies Connected to Chinese Military, Including Huawei
The U.S. Department of Defense listed 20 companies with alleged relationships to the Chinese military, including telecommunications company Huawei, which has already been charged with racketeering by the U.S. Department of Justice. The document cleared the prepublication review process in … Read More
UK’s Johnson Defends Plan to Rewrite Brexit Deal, Says EU ‘Unreasonable’
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a debate on the Internal Market Bill at the House of Commons in London, Britain, September 14, 2020. Photo courtesy UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday defended his … Read More
Study: Possible Sign of Life May Exist on Venus
(J. Greaves/Cardiff University/JAXA via AP) Scientists may have found evidence that some type of life possibly exists on Venus, according to a new study. A study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy reports the first detection of phosphine, which is a possible … Read More
Testing positive: half of Argentina’s coronavirus checks yield infection
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s coronavirus “positive rate,” the number of daily infections to the number of tests carried out, has topped 50%, underscoring how much work the South American country has to do to bring the virus under control. … Read More
Up in smoke: Brazil’s Pantanal region engulfed by flames
Last year, record-breaking fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest sparked international outrage. But the fallout from this year’s fire season, which lasts until October, could be even worse. This time around, the Pantanal region, in the west of the country, is being engulfed … Read More
More than a dozen police chiefs faced backlash – and left – after George Floyd’s death. Here’s a list.
U. Reneé Hall, the first Black woman to lead the Dallas police force, on Tuesday became the latest police chief to resign amid protests that have swept the country since the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died … Read More
Palestinians strongly condemn Israel-Bahrain deal, withdraw ambassador
Last month, the Palestinian leadership issued a similar response to the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki. (photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY) The Palestinian Authority leadership on Friday strongly condemned and … Read More
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi says situation not ‘generally speaking unruly’ while standing outside burning building
An MSNBC journalist attempted to explain that the violence that erupted in Minneapolis on Thursday night was “mostly a protest” despite a building burning right behind him. Ali Velshi was reporting live from the Twin Cities amid the uproar following the death … Read More
Germany coronavirus: Hundreds arrested in German ‘anti-corona’ protests
Police in Berlin have arrested 300 demonstrators during protests against Germany’s coronavirus restrictions. Some 38,000 people took to the streets in the city for mostly peaceful demonstrations. Later hundreds of protesters, many from the far right, tried to storm the … Read More
Talking Heads Finally Accept Reality of Riots — Only to Pin Blame on White Nationalists and Russians
Rioters make a barricade in Portland, Ore., August 23, 2020. (Terray Sylvester/Reuters) Others have continued to argue it doesn’t exist or has been blown out of proportion. After months of daily unrest and violent crime surges in major American cities, some … Read More
Pelosi on wildfires in California and West: ‘Mother Earth is angry’
“The climate crisis is real and has an impact,” the San Francisco Democrat says. There’s a message in the raging wildfires that have scorched her home state of California as well as neighboring states, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “Mother Earth is angry,” the … Read More