ORLANDO, Fla. — As Hurricane Dorian surges toward Florida’s east coast with the potential for destructive winds and high surf, hundreds of the state’s elder care facilities still don’t meet all of the requirements for emergency power plans under state law. Instead, many sites are still asking for more time to get their backup power […]
A woman faces a fine of £10,000 after she refused to let airport security staff look in her adult nappy. Transport Security Administration workers at Los Angeles International Airport demanded to see inside the waterproof underwear being worn by Nancy Furlong. The 78-year-old refused the request. She subsequently missed her flight before officials refused to let […]
Family members and friends in tears as 680 mostly Latino workers were taken away by immigration agents in Mississippi. US immigration officials have raided seven meat processing plants in the southern state of Mississippi, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade. The raids on Wednesday happened just […]
City officials in Milwaukee, Wisc., are sounding the alarm on e-cigarette smoking and urging residents to stop using vaping products, after at least 16 people were hospitalized with lung problems in the city. “Severe pulmonary disease has been discovered among teens and adults who reported vaping,” a health alert released Wednesday stated. All of the […]
Hurricane Dorian is expected to strengthen into an “extremely dangerous” storm as it heads towards the US mainland, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned. Dorian is currently a category one hurricane, but could be at least category three by the time it reaches the mainland, news agency AP reports. The storm is expected to […]
Here’s what you need to know: Florida residents have been put on alert for a Category 4 hurricane. Forecasters’ warnings grew increasingly dire on Thursday as they ratcheted up their expectations for Hurricane Dorian, saying it could hit the Florida coast as a Category 4 storm, with winds of at least 130 miles per hour. […]
Good morning. Today, I’m writing from the Bay Area, where I’m set to talk about California music with Jon Pareles, our chief pop music critic, at the San Francisco Public Library. It’s an event inspired by our California Soundtrack feature. We thought it’d be a fun opportunity to take a quick trip through time. Our […]
Election day is still more than a year away, but the race to become the Democratic challenger to Donald Trump is already well under way. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have thrown their hats into the ring, but most of the other candidates are relatively unknown outside the Washington DC bubble. The group features the […]
UNITED STATES (NYTIMES) – Cottey College, a women’s college in Nevada, Missouri, accepted six students from Ethiopia this year, and officials were disappointed when two of them were denied visas. They were puzzled by the reason: The students, the State Department said, did not have strong enough ties to their home country and might not […]
Donald Trump came under fire yesterday after footage emerged of him appearing to summon his wife over by tapping his leg. The video of the US president's visit in Dayton, Ohio, on August 7, three days after the El Paso shooting, appears to show Trump looking in the First Lady's direction and tapping his right […]