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Appalachian Power sending hundreds to Florida, Georgia

14 Setiembre 2017, 05:52

Some 4.3 million homes and businesses, or about 9 million people, were without power at midday Wednesday in Florida and nearby states. Most of the outages are in Savannah, Ga., and the surrounding areas. Schools in the state planned to close Mo...

Photos show island paradises are now disaster areas after Irma

14 Setiembre 2017, 04:41

Mapp says the NY troops and police officers will help with security on St. Thomas and St. John . Cuba is seeing flooding, uprooted trees, and downed power lines. Thousands were left without homes. Crews were working to fix the lone highway conn...

Hurricane Jose to turn a half-loop in Atlantic

14 Setiembre 2017, 04:25

Well, we're about to get punched in the face. "People that are anxious to get in are sleeping here on the side of the road in their vehicles so they can survey the damage". "We'll wait until the noise is gone and until it's quiet enough for us to c...

Trump Wants Lawmakers To 'Move Fast' On Taxes

14 Setiembre 2017, 04:10

Tax reform faces significant obstacles on Capitol Hill, where unless it is passed through the complicated legislative mechanism of reconciliation , it would require 60 votes, including Democratic support. A lot of your fellow Republicans were agh...

Nursing home residents found dead in Florida after Hurricane Irma

14 Setiembre 2017, 02:58

Three of the patients died at the facility, the others died while being treated at a nearby hospital. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has said that restoring power to hospitals and nursing homes was a priority. He didn't answer questions regarding whethe...

Jean-Claude Juncker: Britons will 'soon regret' Brexit vote

14 Setiembre 2017, 02:11

Juncker did not utter the word " Brexit " until the very end of his 80-minute speech, saying only that "we will regret it" - and then adding "you will regret it too" when British eurosceptics in the chamber jeered him. The Commission leader also prop...

ESPN Anchor's 'White Supremacist' Comment Is a 'Fireable Offense'

13 Setiembre 2017, 11:38

Hill, who is African American, asserted that Trump's administration was uniquely unsafe for people of color and that his "rise is a direct result of white supremacy". Hill's comments drew pushback from some social media users and were met with a rebu...

British troops deployed to restore law and order on British Virgin Islands

13 Setiembre 2017, 11:24

The entire Caribbean region saw at least 38 deaths as a result of Hurricane Irma . In the fishing town of Caibarien, residents swept mud from beach side homes after storm surge drove 3 feet (1 meter) of seawater up the shore. "Everything has bee...

United Kingdom government increases support for victims of Irma

13 Setiembre 2017, 10:07

The Category 5 storm, which killed at least 28 people across the region, devastated housing, power supplies and communications, leaving some small islands nearly cut off from the world. Martin. "Communities have been supporting each other and are e...

Apple iPhone X: is it worth it for music makers?

13 Setiembre 2017, 09:51

All three new phones will offer wireless charging using the Qi global standard. Enter, then, FaceID. It's a facial recognition technology that uses the TrueDepth Camera system-which sits just above the display-to map your face with 30,000...

Sen. Manchin joins President Trump at White House dinner

13 Setiembre 2017, 08:46

That's why he ran. He demolished it and is building the Trump party in its place. And as president, Trump's negotiating abilities should come in handy when working to advance the interests of the American people, Ingraham said. However, Democrats d...

Al Qaeda Warns Myanmar of 'Punishment' Over Rohingya

13 Setiembre 2017, 07:55

A spokesperson for her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), told Reuters news agency late on Tuesday that the Nobel Peace Prize victor had withdrawn from the meeting in NY on September 20. Every Myanmar citizens of all ethnicities working ...

Hurricane Jose still a potential threat to Florida after Hurricane Irma

13 Setiembre 2017, 06:43

Statewide , an estimated 13 million people, or two-thirds of Florida's population, remained without power. Tornado watches disappeared for central and eastern portions of Florida . Each announced a limited schedule. He told CNN he has homes ...

Clinton's really not running again - and her book is proof

13 Setiembre 2017, 06:10

In the interview , Bannon slammed Clinton for a speech she gave on the presidential campaign trail past year attempting to connect the "alt-right" and white supremacists to the Trump campaign, saying her comments "landed flat" and were "nonsense...

About 7.3 million lose power from Irma in US Southeast

13 Setiembre 2017, 05:57

One death in Florida , of a man killed in an auto accident during the storm , has been blamed on Irma and another death in south Georgia. That's more than the population of NY and Los Angeles combined. In Naples, plenty of destruction can be seen...

Tougher Sanctions Enacted Against North Korea

13 Setiembre 2017, 05:09

The United States has softened language in its draft for new sanctions on North Korea ahead of a U.N. Security Council vote on Monday that risks a veto by Russian Federation or China , Reuters reports . How significant is the textiles ban? It st...

United Nations sanctions likely to target NK oil supply

13 Setiembre 2017, 05:01

UN Security Council meeting held on September 4 following North Korea's nuclear test on the previous day. "It will be a war more serious in terms of human suffering than anything we've seen since 1953", US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in Jun...

Matthews: Time to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi's honorary Canadian citizenship

13 Setiembre 2017, 04:04

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, has come under pressure to halt violence against Rohingya . Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever peace prize victor, said on Monday "the world is waiting" for Suu Kyi to act. "Please see us as a hu...

UN Security Council approves new North Korea sanctions

13 Setiembre 2017, 03:49

Instead, the resolution caps refined oil imports at 2 million barrels and crude oil imports at their current levels. Even the possibility of a military strike on Japan marks a significant deterioration in the regional political environment, and Trump...

New UNSC Sanctions Against North Korea

13 Setiembre 2017, 03:39

A tougher initial United States draft was weakened to win the support of China, Pyongyang's main ally and trading partner, and Russian Federation, both of which hold veto power in the council. China's United Nations ambassador, Liu Jieyi, called ...

PHOTOS: Hurricane Irma hits Florida with wind, flooding

13 Setiembre 2017, 03:29

KEVIN PETERS: That's when a bulk of our resources can really get out there work from sunup to after sundown on Tuesday, and we can have full day's work at cleaning up the mess left behind by Irma . The Miami Herald shared its front page, which cap...

United States seeks Kim Jong-un assets freeze

13 Setiembre 2017, 03:11

North Korea says it detonated a hydrogen bomb in its sixth nuclear test on Sunday. South Korea has said the launchers for the USA missile defense system known as Thaad would be installed in the face of the growing threat from Pyongyang.

Would you pay $1830 for an iPhone?

13 Setiembre 2017, 03:08

On the other hand, the 32GB iPhone 7 priced at Rs 56,200 will now be available at a price of Rs 49,000. There's no word yet on how much carriers will charge to add an Apple Watch to an existing plan. YUP. That could help significantly reduce th...

Bluetooth flaws leave billions of devices open to attacks

13 Setiembre 2017, 03:01

If you're not keeping count, that's most of the estimated 8.2 billion devices that use Bluetooth , which allows for our gadgets to connect and communicate wirelessly. By probing the device, the attacker can determine which operating system his victi...

UN Security Council adopts new NKorea sanctions

13 Setiembre 2017, 02:50

NIKKI HALEY: Today we are saying the world will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea . Washington told the U.N. Security Council on Friday to call on a meeting on Monday to vote on a draft resolution establishing additional sanctions on North...

At least three killed as Hurricane Irma lashes Florida

13 Setiembre 2017, 02:45

By late Monday, the storm will reach northern Alabama but the impact will be felt well in advance because of the its size, Ward said . Her building manager told her about flooding there, but further updates were hard to come by because of limited ph...

Horsham man helps rescue effort in aftermath of Hurricane Irma

13 Setiembre 2017, 02:46

Bahamas' Ministry of Education also called on all teachers and administrators in islands given the all clear to return to work on Monday. There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect. As he travelled to the storm-ravaged region, the Foreign ...

LGBT Trailblazer Edith Windsor Dies At 88

13 Setiembre 2017, 12:55

Two years later , in June 2015, SCOTUS put the final nail in the coffin for marriage inequality, ruling in favor of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. "Ultimately when they met Thea, it was perfectly obvious that we were ...

Ahmedabad all set to welcome Shinzo Abe, tweets Modi

13 Setiembre 2017, 12:14

Prime Minister's home state Gujarat is leaving no stone un-turned to welcome Abe. The two leaders most recently spoke during a three-way call with French President Emmanuel Macron on September 9, when they discussed the possibility of further sanct...

Check out Apple's new 'spaceship' campus in Cupertino

13 Setiembre 2017, 11:52

It is replaced by swipe gestures to unlock, multitask, and a new side button allows you to activate the Siri voice assistant and Apple Pay. It's water and dust resistant. If the Cupertino, Calif. company follows tradition, it will issue the upgrade a...

European Union seeks to ramp up North Korea sanctions pressure

13 Setiembre 2017, 10:43

The tests show a series of advancements and that the country is well on its way to being able to deliver a nuclear weapon to the continental U.S. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a massive celebration to congratulate his nuclear scientist...

United States will 'suffer greatest pain' over sanctions

13 Setiembre 2017, 08:29

The United States had pushed for a complete oil embargo, but China and Russian Federation, two of the five veto-wielding council members, reportedly balked at any move that could destabilize the impoverished country. suffer the greatest pain it h...

South Korea Deploys US Anti-Missile Launchers Amid Protests

13 Setiembre 2017, 08:27

For this reason, even though a conflict with North Korea could cost hundreds of thousands of lives in an ally's capital city and potentially even result in the destruction of USA cities from a hydrogen bomb delivered via an intercontinental ba...

N. Korea warns United States of 'greatest pain,' rejects new UN sanctions

13 Setiembre 2017, 08:15

North Korea's government blasted the sanctions and claimed the US would "suffer the greatest pain ever" for supporting them. On Monday the UN Security Council unanimously voted to boost sanctions on North Korea, with its profitable textile ex...

Tension And Protests Mark Trump Voting Commission Meeting