Texas Town Blames Phillips & Chevron for Flooding It
More than 120 residents of a small Texas town claim in state court that Chevron and Phillips 66 knowingly flooded their community without warning after Hurricane Harvey.
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Criminal Probe Under Way in Irma Nursing Home Deaths
A South Florida nursing home where eight residents died during a power outage from Hurricane Irma is blaming Florida Power & Light for the tragedy, claiming it failed to respond to reports of an impending medical emergency.
Read moreNASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Burns Up in Skies Over Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of 20 years.
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Curfews Lifted in Florida, Enormous Rebuild Begins
Curfews were lifted and Miami International Airport reopened Tuesday as 34,000 workers — 19,000 from Florida Power and Light and 15,000 members of U.S. military services — began the enormous task of repairing and rebuilding Florida from destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma.
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Seattle Mayor Resigns as Sex Abuse Claims Mount
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned Tuesday in the wake of new allegations reported by the Seattle Times that he molested a teenage cousin in the 1970s, when he was in his 20s.
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Florida Staggers From Rescue Operations Toward Recovery
Southern Florida staggered from rescue toward recuperation Tuesday morning as tropical storm Irma bore north, forcing evacuations in coastal Georgia and South Carolina. Florida Power and Light said it has organized the largest restoration brigade ever assembled in the United States: more than 19,000 line workers, arborists and other technicians, though power may not be restored for weeks to all of the more than 6 million Floridians still in the dark.
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Weakened Irma Moves Northwest After Battering Florida
Living up to the fearsome predictions, Hurricane Irma bore down on Tampa and its 3 million residents early Monday and governors as far away as North Carolina declared states of emergency. As the hurricane’s eye passed over Naples and Fort Myers, where as in Tampa curfews have been declared, residents were warned that the worst was yet to come, as the storm’s winds, rotating counterclockwise, were about to change directions behind the eye and push billions of gallons of Gulf waters onto the streets.
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Late-Season Wildfires Choke US West With Smoke
Heavy winter snow and a very wet spring in the Western U.S. generated predictions the 2017 wildfire season would be tame. But it’s shaping up to be one of the worst in U.S. history in land burned.
Read moreSoutheastern US Bracing for Worst of Hurricane Irma
A hurricane watch was issued for South Florida Thursday afternoon as the Southeastern United States braces for the arrival of the most powerful Atlantic storm in recorded history.
Read moreHurricane Irma, as Seen From the International Space Station
Hurricane Irma, the strongest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, slammed into the Caribbean packing sustained winds of 185 mph and is now taking aim at the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. This photo, taken from the International Space Station on Tuesday, shows the size of the storm and its exceptionally well-defined eye.
Read moreAsh Blankets Portland, Oregon, as Wildfire Explodes to 31,000 Acres
Residents of Portland, Oregon, awoke Tuesday to a blanket of ash and the news that a forest fire in the Columbia River Gorge had somehow leapt the mighty river overnight.
Read moreBeaten Protester Sues Charlottesville for Deliberate Indifference
A man who says he was pepper-sprayed, doused with urine and beaten with canes during the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has sued the city and state police chiefs, claiming their officers purposefully stood down during the violence.
Read moreHarvey Expected to Bring Floods to Kentucky
After leaving at least 30 people dead in Texas, Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to bring floods to Tennessee and Kentucky this week and push up gasoline prices nationwide — but city bus service was expected to return to Houston on Thursday, after buses and drivers were conscripted to drive evacuees to shelters.
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Houston, Staggered, Asks, ‘Is It Over Yet?’
Seventy-year-old Agustina Rivero sweeps water out the back door of the trailer she and her husband evacuated on Monday as Hurricane Harvey deluged Houston. On Wednesday, they found their elevated mobile home had taken on just a few inches of water, which put the flood depth at just above 4 feet.
Read moreFathers of US Newborns Getting Older, Research Shows
Fathers of newborns born in the United States today are 3.5 years older on average than they were four decades ago, according to a new study.
Read moreLeaving 20 Dead in Texas, Harvey Blows Into Louisiana
Tropical Storm Harvey is flooding southern Louisiana after dumping a record-breaking 51 inches of rain on Houston — 26 inches of it on Tuesday — leaving more than 20 people dead, 10,000 sheltering in a downtown convention center and hundreds of thousands of evacuees wondering what has become of their homes.
Read moreEvacuees, Volunteers Converge at Downtown Houston Shelter
Houston residents turned out in droves Tuesday, converging on a downtown convention center with truck and car loads of supplies for the more than 9,000 Tropical Storm Harvey evacuees inside.
Read moreBrazoria County Tells Residents to ‘GET OUT NOW!!’ as Levee Fails
Boat and truck rescues continued early Tuesday in Houston and city officials called for volunteer nurses and mental health workers, towels, socks and blankets to be delivered to a downtown convention shelter where nearly 9,000 people have taken shelter.
Read moreHouston Area Paralyzed as Harvey Rainfall Obliterates Records
Rain from former Hurricane Harvey continued to drench the Houston region Monday night, bringing the storm’s death toll to 10 people and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents in boats and helicopters as water topped levees and breached river banks.
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Family Ties Take Center Stage as Justice Department Defends Scope of Travel Ban
President Donald Trump’s travel ban was back in court on Monday afternoon, as attorneys for the Justice Department and the state of Hawaii squared off in the Ninth Circuit to settle the question of what the U.S. Supreme Court meant by “bona fide” relationship.
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