For most New Yorkers, it was a blink-or-you-miss-it event. Lights flickered across the city on Sunday night. Some clocks reset. But for the city’s subway system, the power blip had a far greater impact: Five trains were stuck on the tracks in the Bronx and in a tunnel under the Harlem River, as delays snarled […]
The fire had spread to more than 177,000 acres and was 14 percent contained, according to Cal Fire. By Neil Vigdor Thousands of people along the southern and western shores of Lake Tahoe were ordered to evacuate on Monday as the Caldor fire intensified amid dry and windy conditions, threatening the popular vacation destination on […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Tropical Storm Julian formed in the Atlantic on Sunday (Aug 29), becoming the 10th named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters said. The storm emerged as Louisiana braced for Hurricane Ida, which forecasters described as an “extremely dangerous major” hurricane. Ida, which made landfall on the 16th anniversary of […]
By Christine Hauser Hurricane Ida’s devastating winds, flooding and heavy rains swept through southeastern Louisiana on Sunday, and the brunt of its destructive path became apparent on Monday: Homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of people were left without power. Local and national volunteers and aid groups are prepared to […]
In 1960, while working as an artist and graphic designer, and some years before the Rolling Stones were born, Charlie Watts began work on “Ode to a High-Flying Bird,” a captivating children’s book about his hero, the jazz great Charlie Parker. The book featured charming drawings of a bird named Charlie who realized he didn’t […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Heavily-armed assailants stormed a small city in southeast Brazil early Monday, in a brazen operation to rob banks that included explosives, charred vehicles and hostages that were tied to the roof of cars. The mayhem in Araçatuba, a city that is home to some 200,000 in São Paulo state, left at […]
The man convicted of murdering Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 27, appeared stoic on Monday as Judge Joel Yates sentenced him to a ‘lifetime sentence with no eligibility of parole’. ‘You, and you alone, forever changed the lives of those who loved Mollie Tibbetts,’ […]
A secondary school headteacher has defended his decision to install CCTV in student toilets. Cameras have been put into communal areas of bathrooms to ‘prevent bullying and vandalism’. But some furious parents have called it a privacy violation and demanded the school remove them. One parent of a student attending Framwellgate School in County Durham […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Hurricane Ida gained power rapidly on Sunday (Aug 29) as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico on its way to smashing into Louisiana, threatening to unleash mass flooding and destruction in New Orleans. The Category 4 hurricane has top winds of 241kmh, the National Hurricane Centre said at 7am local time. Only […]
MANAWAN, Quebec — As Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Indigenous mother of seven, moaned in pain at a hospital in Quebec, in the final hours of her life, the torrent of insults began. “You’re stupid as hell,” good only at having sex, and “better off dead,” a nurse at Joliette Hospital in Quebec berated Ms. Echaquan, […]