WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States will keep up “firm action” against the Myanmar authorities violently cracking down on opponents of a military coup, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday (Feb 21), after two protesters were shot dead over the weekend. Myanmar’s security forces have been unable to stop more than two weeks of […]
NEW YORK/HOUSTON (REUTERS) – The largest US oil refiners released tons of air pollutants into the skies over Texas this past week, according to figures provided to the state, as refineries and petrochemical plants in the region scrambled to shut production during frigid weather. An arctic air mass that spread into an area unused to […]
An avalanche warning has been issued for parts of Washington and Oregon as heavier-than-usual rainfall and snowfall is expected to hit part of the West Coast through Monday. The warning was issued on Saturday by the Northwest Avalanche Center, which said at least 30 people in the United States had been killed in avalanches so […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Sunday (Feb 21) it is issuing an emergency airworthiness directive following an engine failure of a United Boeing 777 in Denver, requiring immediate or stepped-up inspections of similar planes. FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said in a statement late Sunday the directive covers Boeing 777 […]
Arturo Di Modica, a Sicilian-born sculptor best known for “Charging Bull,” 3.5 tons of bronze belligerence that he illegally deposited in Lower Manhattan one night in 1989, died on Friday at his home in Vittoria, Italy. He was 80. His death was confirmed by his dealer, Jacob Harmer, who did not specify a cause but […]
HOUSTON — Across the plains of West Texas, the pump jacks that resemble giant bobbing hammers define not just the landscape but the state itself: Texas has been built on the oil-and-gas business for the last 120 years, ever since the discovery of oil on Spindletop Hill near Beaumont in 1901. Texas, the nation’s largest […]
“We knew that when the door opened, it was Larry walking in.” Larry Cummings liked to visit the Side Door Saloon after work on Mondays.Credit…Lyndon French for The New York Times Supported by By Julie Bosman CHICAGO — A nation numbed by misery and loss is confronting a number that still has the power to […]
A gunman opened fire at a gun store in Metairie, La., on Saturday, killing two people before others returned fire, killing him, the authorities said. Two other people were injured and in stable condition after the shooting at the Jefferson Gun Outlet, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said the shooting happened […]
Debris from a plane rained down from the sky and narrowly missed a home after a jet’s engine exploded mid-flight over the United States. Terrifying footage posted on Twitter by a woman who said she was the daughter of people aboard the flight showed the engine fully engulfed in flames as the plane continued to […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has raised more than $3m (£2.1m) for Texans struggling with recent extreme weather in the state. The Democrat Congresswoman from New York announced the landmark on Twitter on Saturday after she travelled to Houston to help the recovery effort. Hundreds of thousands of Texans have been struggling with the fallout of a winter […]