SURFSIDE, Fla. — With nearly half of the building no longer looming over them, rescuers resumed searching the rubble of a collapsed condominium complex north of Miami Beach on Monday, finding four more bodies and bringing the death toll to 28 in the hours after the still-standing portion of Champlain Towers South was leveled. The […]
A Democratic lawmaker has called on Congress to hold a series of hearings on reported UFO sightings after the US released an intelligence report on the matter. Rep André Carson, who chairs the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation, said an investigation into UFOs is needed because the report was ‘inconclusive’ on the […]
The remaining part of a collapsed Miami apartment building has been demolished in a controlled explosion. Some 121 people are still missing after the disaster and rescuers now hope to be able to reach new areas of the rubble to search for victims. Demolition crews set off a series of explosives before the building started […]
CHICAGO (NYTIMES) Tyson Foods is recalling nearly 8.5 million pounds (3.87 million kg) of frozen chicken that might have been contaminated with listeria, the US Department of Agriculture said. The voluntary recall was issued after USDA investigators were notified last month about two people who had been sickened with listeriosis, the department said in a […]
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA (REUTERS) – The partially collapsed Miami-area condo where 24 people are confirmed dead will be demolished on Sunday (July 4) night, ahead of the possible arrival of Tropical Storm Elsa, officials said. Search-and-rescue efforts for 121 people missing have been suspended. “The demolition will take place tonight between 10pm and 3am (between 10am […]
Search and rescue work has stopped temporarily at the partly collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Fla., while workers prepare to demolish the part of the building that is still standing, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of Miami-Dade County said Saturday evening. “We are proceeding as quickly as we possibly can,” Ms. Levine Cava said […]
A leak in an underwater gas pipe sparked a swirling fire that raged for hours in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, creating a biblical scene that drew comparisons to Mordor, the volcanic hellscape from “The Lord of the Rings.” The circular inferno formed at 5:15 a.m. after a pipeline about 12 inches in diameter […]
A former Democratic centrist senator says too many lawmakers come to Washington to obstruct rather than be constructive. By Carl Hulse WASHINGTON — The senator adamantly insisted on bipartisanship. As his fellow Democrats enthusiastically embraced major priorities of the new president, he threatened to withhold his crucial vote unless changes were made and Republicans brought […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee will resume work later this month on Democratic-led legislation intended to boost competitiveness with China and push Beijing on human rights, after two days of debate on the measure. A spokesman said on Friday (July 3) the panel would consider its consideration of the […]
In a bland, sprawling warehouse in Manhattan, election workers carefully inspected piles of absentee ballots on Friday, an exercise that might be described as tedious if it were not so important. The ballots will most likely decide the winner of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, a race that is currently led by Eric Adams, […]