Hurricane Sally batters the Gulf Coast. Here’s how you can help
Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday morning, exactly 16 years to the day Hurricane Ivan made landfall in 2004, and on the same point on…
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Exhausted firefighters sing together after a 14-hour shift battling wildfires in Oregon
Sprawled on a smoky street, a crew of Oregon firefighters belted out a song after a long day fighting fires. Take me out to the fire. Take me out to…
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Exhausted firefighters sing together after a 14-hour shift battling wildfires in Oregon
Sprawled on a smoky street, a crew of Oregon firefighters belted out a song after a long day fighting fires. Take me out to the fire. Take me out to…
Continue Reading The surviving ‘fifth girl’ of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing asks Alabama’s governor for restitution
Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and her sister was killed when Ku Klux Klan members bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. Since that day,…
Continue Reading Spider-like venom found in Australian stinging trees — and the pain can last for weeks
Australia is synonymous with venomous spiders and snakes — but scientists have discovered new toxins in what they label a “truly…
Continue Reading More than 240 schools in US are named after a Confederate leader. About half serve majority Black or nonwhite students
Thousands of children across the US attend schools that bear the names of Confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery and White supremacy in…
Continue Reading Oldest animal sperm discovered in 100-million-year-old amber
Scientists have found the oldest sample of animal sperm, concealed in a 100 million-year-old piece of amber. Paleontologists discovered the sample in…
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Parents send student to school while knowingly infected with coronavirus, mayor says
Almost 30 teenagers have to quarantine after parents sent their child to a Massachusetts school despite knowing they were positive with Covid-19,…
Continue Reading Parents send student to school while knowingly infected with coronavirus, mayor says
Almost 30 teenagers have to quarantine after parents sent their child to a Massachusetts school despite knowing they were positive with Covid-19,…
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Testing deal promoted by White House failing to fix lack of Covid-19 screening strategy
A deal for 150 million rapid coronavirus tests the White House promoted last month as a potential game-changer in battling the pandemic fails to fix…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for September 17: Covid-19, Sally, census, William Barr, Venezuela
Cutting down on greenhouse gases is a huge environmental goal, but if the world wants to get to net zero emissions by 2050, it will cost a staggering…
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Masked men, assault and abandonment
North Aegean Sea — The warm glow of a bright orange life raft lights up the pitch black night. A small hand opens the floating tent, revealing 11…
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Sally drenched parts of Florida with ‘4 months of rain in 4 hours,’ officials say
Hundreds of people near the Florida-Alabama border were being rescued from floodwaters brought on by Sally on Wednesday and authorities fear many…
Continue Reading Only the US has more coronavirus cases than India. But unlike Trump, its leader seems immune from criticism
India is in crisis. Its economy has crashed, with the largest slump on record decimating millions of jobs. Its already fragile healthcare system is…
Continue Reading Bacterial outbreak infects thousands after factory leak in China
Several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease, authorities said on Tuesday, in an outbreak caused by a leak…
Continue Reading Report noisy karaoke singers to help fight coronavirus, Philippine governor urges public
A provincial governor in the Philippines has set his sights on a set of people who he says are hurting the fight against the pandemic: karaoke…
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Report noisy karaoke singers to help fight coronavirus, Philippine governor urges public
A provincial governor in the Philippines has set his sights on a set of people who he says are hurting the fight against the pandemic: karaoke…
Continue Reading Los Angeles deputy who was critically injured in Compton shooting was released from hospital, sheriff says
One of the two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies attacked by an unknown gunman Saturday has been released from the hospital. The…
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Hundreds of thousands of migratory birds found dead in New Mexico
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Biologists at New Mexico State University are trying to find out why hundreds of thousands of migratory birds have…
Continue Reading California governor emphasizes wildfires show reality of climate change
Firefighters are making tremendous progress combating the huge wildfire complexes afflicting California — but the real battle is against…
Continue Reading This man has an idea to keep trick-or-treating safe this Halloween
An Ohio man has an idea to keep the coronavirus from knocking on his door this Halloween. Andrew Beattie last Saturday shared on Facebook a photo of…
Continue Reading Rochester officials intentionally delayed the release of Daniel Prude body cam video
The city of Rochester, New York, released 325 pages of internal emails, police reports and other documents on Monday that show a concerted effort by…
Continue Reading This all-Black real estate team is on a mission to #BuyBackTheBlock
Timothy Webb, Rashae Bey and Kayla Rogers hail from different parts of South Carolina, but their shared interest in helping people find homes led…
Continue Reading Breonna Taylor settlement is among largest payouts linked to a police shooting
The $12 million settlement with Breonna Taylor’s family is a historic move for Louisville, Kentucky, but across America it’s the latest…
Continue Reading A Boston University lecturer was killed in an elevator accident
A respected lecturer at Boston University was killed in what is believed to be a freak elevator accident. Boston police found Carrie O’Connor,…
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A Boston University lecturer was killed in an elevator accident
A respected lecturer at Boston University was killed in what is believed to be a freak elevator accident. Boston police found Carrie O’Connor,…
Continue Reading New Jersey governor calls YouTubers’ massive party at ‘Jersey Shore’ house an ‘egregious display of knucklehead behavior’
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy again denounced the behavior of partygoers in the state, this time citing a recent house party that drew more than 1,000…
Continue Reading Grand jury indicts Omaha bar owner in fatal shooting of Black protester
A grand jury has indicted an Omaha bar owner in the fatal shooting of a Black protester after authorities had decided not to bring charges against…
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