To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video At least six people have been killed as a month’s worth of rain was dumped on New York. Four people died in the city, where roads were turned into rivers, while another two were killed in New Jersey. A state […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The remnants of Hurricane Ida barrelled into the New York city region on Wednesday (Sept 1) evening with furious, wind-driven rain that flooded subway lines, splintered homes in New Jersey, raised a tornado warning for the Bronx and delayed the United States Open in Queens when the rain came into the roofed […]
A state of emergency has been declared in New York City as the remnants of Hurricane Ida sweep through the region. A state of emergency was also declared by New Jersey governor Phil Murphy. At least one person has drowned, with the city and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut under a flash flood warning. […]
As Gov. Kathy Hochul sampled a sandwich at the New York State Fair on Sunday, touring the Syracuse-area spectacle like other governors before her, she overtly embraced her role as the state’s new leader — and implicitly set down a marker for 2022, when she intends to seek election to a full term as governor. […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Since the beginning of the pandemic, doctors have found that people who become very ill with Covid-19 often experience kidney problems, not just the lung impairments that are the hallmark of the illness. Now, a large study suggests that kidney issues can last for months after patients recover from the initial […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Joe Biden will visit the hurricane damaged southern state of Louisiana on Friday, the White House said. “The president will travel to New Orleans, Louisiana to survey storm damage from Hurricane Ida and meet with state and local leaders from impacted communities,” the administration announced on Wednesday (Sept 1). This will […]
Twenty states have initiated a lawsuit against the Biden administration after the US Department of Education ordered schools to allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports teams. In the suit filed in the US district court in Knoxville on Monday, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and his counterparts in 19 other states ask a […]
The recent 2020 census data confirmed earlier estimates that urban counties grew slower than suburban ones over the past decade. But more detailed neighborhood census counts reveal that U.S. population density actually rose in the past decade after falling in the previous two decades, a result of faster growth in the most concentrated parts of […]
TRUCKEE, UNITED STATES (REUTERS) – Firefighters battled to protect homes on the fringe of tinder-dry forests near Lake Tahoe on Tuesday (Aug 31) as a wildfire chased thousands of residents and tourists from the popular resort destination in California’s Sierra Nevada range. The so-called Caldor fire, burning since mid-August in the mountains east of the […]
One of R. Kelly’s former assistants described the singer’s system of strict rules for the women in his orbit — and the anger he displayed when those rules were broken. Testifying during the ninth day of Mr. Kelly’s federal trial in Brooklyn, the assistant, Suzette Mayweather, said that the singer once confronted her over conversations […]