Table Mountain wildfire threatens University of Cape Town
Feb 6 (Reuters) – Nearly 2,000 residents of eastern Ohio remained under evacuation orders on Monday as railroad crews drained and burned off a toxic chemical from five tanker cars of a freight train that derailed in a fiery wreck three days earlier, officials said. The venting of pressurized vinyl chloride, a highly flammable and…
Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general says the proposal to launch a Catholic virtual charter school violates the Constitution’s First Amendment. WASHINGTON — Conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday leaned toward allowing Oklahoma to approve the first-ever religious public charter school in a case that could weaken the separation of church and state. While several…
Greetings from Tyler, By next week’s Update, Trump will be President. He’s already introduced subjects we’d given up on, and is putting everybody on notice. The Panama Canal? They’re probably running around like chickens with their heads cut off. He’s going to take it back? Says the rules have been broken and now… We’ll have…
PARIS, July 29 (Reuters) – Vandals sabotaged France’s telecoms networks overnight, piling pressure on French security services trying to secure the Olympics after authorities said they suspected left-wing groups of attacking rail lines ahead of the opening ceremony in Paris. The cuts to long distance telecoms cables at five sites early on Monday “look like…
DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters) – Iran seized a second oil tanker in a week on Wednesday in Gulf waters, and the U.S. State Department called for its release, in the latest escalation in a series of seizures or attacks on commercial vessels in Gulf waters since 2019. The Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet of the U.S. Navy…
Greetings from Tyler, They’ve decided to keep the Covid fear machine in place, at least until May 11, and you can bet there will be crocodile tears if it ever happens. You can hear them now. Covid did what Global Warming was supposed to. Not that they’re not still throwing fits about stuff we’ve never heard of. National Geographic…