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In New Orleans, Anxiously Watching the Levees As Hurricane Ida Arrives
The New York Times - 30 Aug 2021 03:32
The prospect of "another Katrina" has haunted New Orleans, and the rest of the nation.
Anti-mask activist who organized protests in Texas dies of COVID-19
The Week - 30 Aug 2021 03:53
Anti-mask activist who organized protests in Texas dies of COVID-19
51 dogs and cats relocated by humane society before Hurricane Ida made landfall
NY Daily News - 30 Aug 2021 00:58
"Our Disaster Response Team worked diligently with our shelter partners throughout the Southeast to ensure that as many animals as possible were moved out of harm's way ahead of Hurricane Ida's landfall," the Atlanta Hum...
Hurricane Ida knocks out power to all of New Orleans
CNN - 30 Aug 2021 03:55
• CATEGORY 3: Ida wreaks havoc in Louisiana, leaving 740,000 without power • STORM TRACKER: See where Ida is headed • IN PHOTOS: Ida lashes US Gulf Coast • VIDEO: Wind rips roof from building
Police: Station shooting, Lyft driver's death may be linked
ABC News - 30 Aug 2021 03:44
Authorities are trying to determine if there is a connection.
Trapped in Afghanistan, Rescued by Volunteers: How a Handful of Americans Freed 5,000 Afghans
Wall Street Journal - 30 Aug 2021 02:41
From a lounge at the Willard Hotel in Washington, a group of men and women mobilized a global network to conduct a two-week military-style rescue operation.
Tesla vehicle on 'auto-pilot' crashes into Florida state trooper
New York Post - 30 Aug 2021 01:10
A Tesla vehicle operating on autopilot slammed into a Florida police cruiser on a highway near Orlando on Saturday, just days after CEO Elon Musk admitted the self-driving software is "actually not great."
Hedges: The Empire Does Not Forgive
OpEdNews - 30 Aug 2021 20:17
Empires are fragile constructions. Their power is as much one of perception as of military strength. The virtues they claim to uphold and defend, usually in the name of their superior civilization, are a mask for pillage...
EU to recommend reinstating restrictions on US travelers
ABC News - 30 Aug 2021 15:59
European Union diplomats say the bloc plans to recommend that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infection levels there
Raging California wildfire threatens Lake Tahoe, prompts evacuations
New York Post - 30 Aug 2021 15:33
The Caldor Fire broke out Aug. 14 and is now only 19 percent contained after destroying more than 600 structures and putting at least 18,000 under threat.
'Our elected leaders failed': Hundreds of Afghan girls left behind in Kabul
New York Post - 30 Aug 2021 15:15
According to Stryk and Taylor, the buses were sent to three different airport gates and honored a request from the US government to add seven US citizens to the busload
Chicago teen charged in woman's slaying eyed in carjacking spree: cops
New York Post - 30 Aug 2021 15:07
The suspect, identified by CBS Chicago as Malique Long, 17, and a second unidentified teen are accused in the caught-on-camera killing of Yvonne Ruzich as she sat outside the grocery store.
North Korea's Apparent Plutonium Moves Boost Nuclear Program, Invite U.S. Attention
Wall Street Journal - 30 Aug 2021 14:56
The nation's apparent resumption of plutonium production may be aimed at elevating the country as a U.S. priority, while increasing its weapons pile.
Catastrophic photos and video show Hurricane Ida's path of destruction across Louisiana
USA Today - 30 Aug 2021 14:23
Ida is tied for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the U.S. mainland, and President Joe Biden declared Ida a federal disaster.
U.S. Shoots Down Rockets as Afghan Withdrawal Looms
The New York Times - 30 Aug 2021 14:00
The U.S. military intercepted rockets aimed at the Kabul airport on Monday morning. The U.S. has warned that more attacks, like the one last week outside the airport, are possible before it withdraws on Tuesday.
China Sees Opportunity After America's Withdrawal From Afghanistan. But Can Beijing Do Any Better?
Time - 30 Aug 2021 11:55
China hopes to fill the political void, but Afghanistan isn't called the "graveyard of empires" for nothing
Marine Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, 'a Massachusetts hero,' killed in Afghanistan airport attack
USA Today - 30 Aug 2021 05:26
Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, killed in Thursday's Afghanistan airport bombing, receives praise for her heroism in Massachusetts.
Multiple Afghan relatives, including children, killed in US strike in Kabul: report
New York Post - 30 Aug 2021 03:00
US officials said the drone strike wiped out a vehicle carrying multiple suicide bombers that posed an "imminent ISIS-K threat" to the city's airport.
New Orleans loses power due to 'catastrophic transmission damage' caused by Ida
The Week - 30 Aug 2021 02:56
New Orleans loses power due to 'catastrophic transmission damage' caused by Ida
Fauci Rips Ron DeSantis Fundraising Site Selling Anti-Vax Shirts Amid COVID Crisis
The Huffington Post - 30 Aug 2021 02:25
"There's no place" for "that kind of politicization" in a health crisis, the nation's top infectious disease expert told Jake Tapper.
Biden pays respects to service members killed in Kabul
The Week - 30 Aug 2021 02:01
Biden pays respects to service members killed in Kabul
Getting very ill with COVID-19 is like rattlesnake bite: study
New York Post - 30 Aug 2021 01:02
Researchers including from Stony Brook University on Long Island have identified an enzyme in the coronavirus that ravages the body like the neurotoxins from rattlesnakes