President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit the Miami-area building collapse site on Thursday, it was announced as the death toll rose to 11. Biden hinted at the trip on Tuesday morning as he departed the White House for Wisconsin. White House officials confirmed the trip to Surfside, Florida, shortly after. The […]
A man was shot three times by a father who found him looking through his daughter’s bedroom window. The peeping Tom was chased by the girl’s angry parents after allegedly being caught staring through the window in Houston, Texas, at around 2.30am on Monday morning. After noticing the man in the window the girl screamed, […]
The cure for high prices is high prices. That’s an old line used in commodity markets, and it helps explain why the great inflation scare of 2021 has eased some in recent weeks. When the price of something soars because demand outstrips supply, it has a way of self-correcting. Buyers, scared off by high prices, […]
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump’s family business mounted a last-ditch effort on Monday to fend off criminal charges against the company, meeting with Manhattan prosecutors investigating whether it had awarded valuable benefits to a top executive without paying taxes, according to people with knowledge of the matter. At a meeting with senior officials with the […]
MIAMI, FLORIDA (REUTERS) – Another body was recovered on Monday (June 28) from the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium tower, the county mayor said, bringing the death toll to 11. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said 150 people remained missing as of Monday afternoon as searchers continued to comb through the ruins of […]
The United States has no peer when it comes to capabilities in the realm of cyberspace, but China is rapidly gaining ground in terms of strategic competition, according to a new report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The report released yesterday evaluates the cyber capabilities of 15 countries and how this intersects […]
FLORIDA (REUTERS) – With search-and-rescue teams still sifting through the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium building, authorities by Monday (June 28) had identified eight of the 10 confirmed victims of the disaster, with 151 people still missing. Those recovered from rubble in the oceanside town of Surfside included a young Puerto Rican graphic artist […]
Residents of a Miami Beach-area apartment building in the sister block of the tower that partially collapsed last week are moving out in fear that their complex could also fall. Champlain Tower North residents are fleeing despite officials saying that they do not need to evacuate. Champlain Tower North was constructed one year after Champlain […]
WASHINGTON – A new, much-awaited legal definition of “ecocide” has moved the world a step closer to recognising the plunder and mass destruction of nature as criminal. This raises the possibility of having ecocide included under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), alongside four already recognised international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, […]
Two New York lawmakers who said they were surrounded, beaten with bicycles and pepper-sprayed by the police during a Black Lives Matter protest in Brooklyn last year filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the city on Monday, adding to the blizzard of litigation over the Police Department’s conduct during the protests. The suit from State […]