PALM BEACH • US President Donald Trump’s prized Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida could be directly in the path of Hurricane Dorian, which is forecast to become an extremely destructive storm. The National Hurricane Centre’s most recent track for Dorian places Mar-a-Lago in the crosshairs of a possible Category 4 storm with winds of almost 225kmh. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Brazil’s foreign minister said his country is successfully extinguishing the fires in the Amazon region that have generated international concern after discussing the situation with US President Donald Trump on Friday (Aug 30) at the White House. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said earlier in the day that his son and Foreign Minister […]

Everything you think you know about American cheese is wrong. That’s what the cheese makers and cheesemongers of the US want to tell you. They’re fed up with people thinking their prized product is a joke. When you do a Google search of “why is American cheese…”, among the top suggestions for completing the sentence […]

An Alabama judge has ordered that a man who robbed a bakery of $50.75 be released from his life sentence. Alvin Kennard, 58, was handed the harsh sentence under strict rules introduced in the 1970s to deter repeat offenders. The ruling provoked an emotional reaction from friends and family, who have been visiting Kennard throughout […]

President Donald Trump has set a new standard for extraordinary presidential behaviour. Not only has he tweeted what would normally be a highly classified, military-quality satellite image showing the devastation around the launch pad at Iran’s main space centre following a significant explosion. He has gone further by apparently taunting the Iranians, insisting the US […]

The Los Angeles Angels baseball team has confirmed the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs. He was 27 years old. The announcement was made on the team’s Twitter page and came hours before they were scheduled to play against the Texas Rangers. Southlake Police said he was found unconscious in his Hilton hotel room in Texas […]

For many, Burning Man conjures up images of dust-covered attendees, known as “burners”, dancing in the desert cut off from society. The annual arts and cultural gathering in the Black Rock desert in Nevada prides itself on “radical inclusion”, “self-reliance” and providing a space for counter-cultural expression. However, grumblings of discontent have been growing in […]

Ty Jones, who plays a special agent in charge on the Starz television series, “Power,” is also in charge of the Classical Theater of Harlem. As its producing artistic director, he oversees productions of classic plays retold from the African-American perspective. The theater, celebrating its 20th anniversary, has plenty to celebrate. A decade ago, it […]

It was still dark out in Fort Smith, Ark., as Debbie Stevens tended to her newspaper delivery route as she had for more than 20 years. That’s when her gray Mazda S.U.V. was swept up by quickly rising floodwaters from heavy rainfall. She first called her mother-in-law, who was also driving a paper route, but […]

Here’s what you need to know: An ‘extremely dangerous’ hurricane that could inundate coastal areas. As Hurricane Dorian struck the Abaco Islands in the northwestern Bahamas on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said that the maximum sustained winds around the eye of the “extremely dangerous” storm had reached 185 miles an hour, making it a […]