SACRAMENTO (NYTIMES) – The National Weather Service said it was planning to investigate reports of a rare occurrence of fire tornadoes arising Saturday (Aug 15) from a 8,093ha wildfire in Northern California. Dawn Johnson, a meteorologist with the service in Reno, Nevada, said Sunday that the agency had received reports of fire tornadoes in an […]
California officials issued a warning Saturday for a “fire tornado” — or “firenado” — in a new blaze in the eastern Sierras. The wildfire is burning so hot that it has the power to create its own weather phenomenon with deadly blasts of blazing heat, flames and wind. The wildfire raging near the small community […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – US President Donald Trump said on Saturday (Aug 15) that he would consider pardoning Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who faced criminal charges after leaking classified documents about vast government surveillance. “There are many, many people – it seems to be a split decision – many people think that […]
BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY (REUTERS, NYTIMES) – US President Donald Trump said that his younger brother, Robert Trump, died on Saturday night (Aug 15), a day after the president visited him in a New York hospital. “It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight. He was not just […]
NEW YORK/BENGALURU (REUTERS) – A YouTube alert interrupted Jack Erricker’s schoolwork on Friday morning (Aug 14) as he and children all over the world woke up to the news that their favourite game, Fortnite, had been taken down from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store. “It’s basically the only game I play,” said […]
SAO PAULO (REUTERS) – Almost half of Brazilians think President Jair Bolsonaro bears “no responsibility at all” for the country’s more than 100,000 dead from the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s second highest death toll, according to a new Datafolha poll. The poll was published on Saturday (Aug 15) in Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US President Donald Trump on Friday (Aug 14) ordered the Chinese owner of the popular music video app TikTok to sell its US assets within 90 days, citing national security concerns and delivering the latest salvo in his standoff with Beijing. Mr Trump’s decision came after an investigation by the Committee on […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Taiwan finalised the purchase of F-16 fighter jets from US aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin on Friday (Aug 14), a source confirmed to AFP, in a US$62 billion (S$84 billion), 10-year deal sure to anger Beijing. Underscoring the sensitivity of the transaction, the Pentagon announced the contract without specifying the buyer, but a […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Senior White House officials on Friday (Aug 14) sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside long-standing tensions and make similar agreements. A senior White House official said President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, […]
A three year-old boy died after his ‘neglectful’ parents left him in a roasting car and went to bed for 15 hours, investigators believe. Bentley Fowler is believed to have been left in the car by his mother Brandi Burks, 21, and her partner Dakota Fowler, 20, between 11:30pm on Saturday night and 3pm the […]