BAY ST LOUIS, Missouri/HOUSTON, Texas (REUTERS) – Hurricane Sally rapidly strengthened on Monday (Sept 14) over the Gulf of Mexico, the US National Hurricane Centre said, and could hit the central Gulf Coast on Tuesday as nearly a major hurricane. The second strong storm in less than a month to threaten the region, Sally’s winds […]
HENDERSON, NEVADA (BLOOMBERG) – The Nevada company that allowed US President Donald Trump to hold a rally indoors with few masks and little social distancing faces fines for violating Covid-19 safety regulations. The city of Henderson had warned Xtreme Manufacturing that the Sunday event would have to comply with state orders to keep gatherings under […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Joe Biden’s campaign is establishing a major new legal operation, bringing in two former solicitors-general and hundreds of lawyers in what the campaign billed as the largest election protection programme in the US presidential campaign history. Legal battles are already raging over how people will vote – and how ballots will be […]
OTTAWA (AFP) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Monday (Sept 14) that Canada was “not out of the woods” with the coronavirus, urging citizens to be vigilant amid an uptick in virus cases nationwide. The country recorded more than 1,300 cases over the weekend – a level not seen since early summer. On Monday, Quebec […]
Donald Trump had a simple message for emergency officials in California: “It’ll start getting cooler.” The US president, who in the past has blamed the widespread blazes on poor forest management, visited the state on Monday. Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for National Resources, told Mr Trump: “We had temperatures explode this summer. You may have […]
SACRAMENTO (AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Monday (Sept 14) suggested global warming will reverse itself and dismissed climate change as a cause of ferocious fires engulfing swaths of the US West during a briefing with local officials in California. Mr Trump, who flew into Sacramento in central California on the third day of […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Scientists said on Monday (Sept 14) they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbour, a tantalising sign of potential life beyond Earth. The researchers did not discover actual life forms, but noted that on Earth phosphine is produced […]
Britain’s Got Talent judge Ashley Banjo has said the negative reaction to a Black Lives Matter routine on the show was “in the minority” after it attracted 15,500 complaints. The dance group Diversity, which won the contest in 2009, took to the stage with a politically-charged routine during the ITV show’s semi-final earlier this month. […]
Hurricane Laura left a wake of destruction across southwest Louisiana after making landfall late last month. In its aftermath, clouds of mosquitoes have overrun the area. The swarms of skeeters are so thick that as many as 400 cattle have been lost, according to Craig Fontenot, a large-animal veterinarian based in Ville Platte, Louisiana. The […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump said on Sunday (Sept 13) he had signed a new executive order aimed at lowering drug prices in the United States by linking them to those of other nations. “My Most Favored Nation order will ensure that our Country gets the same low price Big Pharma gives to […]