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Tropical Storm Katia Weakens As It Enters Mexico

According to CNN Weather , this is the first time since 2010 that there have been three active hurricanes in the Atlantic. A direct hit by Hurricane Jose w...

Witches Responsible For My Party's Woes - S/Africa President Zuma

Dlamini-Zuma has been approached by various ANC structures, particularly the ANC Women's League, to run for ANC president - a nomination that she has made herse...

How Nasty Will the December Budget Fight Be?

Jordan - one of the top conservative voices in the House - likened the proposal to giving a young adult an unlimited credit card. "As an effective speaker, th...

Lebanese court frees director arrested for filming in Israel

Doueiri also told AFP that he must appear Monday morning before a military tribunal "for an investigation into the charges". The film caused backlash while it...

Sociedad Quimica y Minera SA (SQM) Upgraded at Citigroup Inc

A number of other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Jennison Associates LLC increased its stake in Socied...

Rain and Gusting Winds Expected as Irma Remnants Move Through Region

Past 5 or 6 p.m., bands of rain will rotate into our area and at times will be quite heavy through the night. A wind advisory is in effect for the mid state, ...

North Carolina shifts resources west as experts track Hurricane Irma path

Hurricane watches are expected to be posted for the state Thursday. Many football games across coastal Georgia have been canceled as well. Current projections...

Hurricane Irma: Boil water notices

Boil water notices were also issued Monday morning for two areas of Charlotte County. Those affected should boil water for 60 seconds at a rolling boil before...

California Crushes Dreams of Weed Drone Delivery

California plans to begin issuing licenses to marijuana businesses early next year. The Bureau of Cannabis Controls is calling for all marijuana products to b...

BJP President Amit Shah visits Swami Vivekananda's ancestral house

The Trinamool, however, ridiculed Shah's visit to Swami Vievekananda's house, and accused the party of placing the iconic ascetic on the same pedestal with late...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has refused "to remain silent" on San Suu Kyi

In an open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi , Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu talks of his profound sadness at the deadly situation playing out in the Rakhine State...

John Oliver: Donald Trump is 'Out Of His F**king Mind'

You might know Arpaio from his carefully cultivated image as "America's toughest sheriff", a role he built by using inmates as "props for a reality show, and ...

Irma weakens to Category 1 as it lashes Tampa

It will then move through southwestern Georgia and eastern Alabama through the night and into Tuesday. Hurricane Jose , weakened to Category 1, was 250 mil...

Hurricane Irma's trail of destruction in Cuba leaves 10 dead

The company took offline one of two reactors at a nuclear plant south of Miami . "I'm going with the Coast Guard down to see the Keys, I've heard that there ...

Fox & Friends Likens 9/11 Memorial to Confederate Statues

The purposefully dense hosts of "Fox & Friends" - Donald Trump's only news source - were up to their usual dipshitting on Monday morning, asking whether in 10...

Storm surge inundating Battery in downtown Charleston

The outages grew quickly, from about 4,000 Beaufort County customers around 6 a.m. Monday to over 9,400 customers by 7 a.m. Monday, according to SCE&G's outa...

Wind Advisory issued as Irma approaches the Tennessee Valley

The latest update follows the decreased wind threat from the previous assessment, which is what had triggered the Tropical Storm Warning late Sunday night. Thes...

Afghanistan will never again be militant sanctuary - U.S. ambassador

The Taliban swiftly took credit for the afternoon attack near the US -run Bagram military air base. "A small number of Resolute Support service members and Af...

Trump administration asks top USA court to lift refugee ban limits

The Justice Department is not challenging that part of the ruling , which is set to go into effect Tuesday. The moves over the scope of the injunction agains...

Drone Footage Captures Hurricane Irma's Destruction Path in Naples

Several Floridians posted videos to social media of catfish attempting to swim along city streets in the greater Orlando area as Irma caused extensive flooding...

Trump on 9/11: 'We pledge to never ever forget them'

The morning remembrance is scheduled for about the time the first plane struck one of the Twin Towers on the morning of September 11, 2001. At the Pentagon ...

Blue Whale game: Court issued notice over the killer game

Taking the cognizance of the recent deaths in Mumbai and West Bengal, the ministry said the proponent of Blue Whale Challenge should be reported to law enforcem...

Irma now a tropical storm, but still lashing Florida and Georgia

The nation's busiest airport cancelled about 800 flights Monday as a weakened Irma moved from Florida into Georgia, where the governor had declared an emergen...

Abe, Moon agree on greater pressure against North Korea

Korea University's politics and global relations professor Kim Byung Ki noted that Russian Federation is "distant enough for comfort and has no conflict of inte...

Somali troops flee to Kenya to escape Shabaab attack

Many civilians ran for their lives across the town's sandy streets when al-Shabab briefly took control of the town, said Beled-Hawo resident Mohamed Hashi. "We ...

U.S. using N Korea to maintain military presence around China

North Korea has recently sped up its weapons development program, drawing strong condemnation from the worldwide community and a demand for the United Nations t...

Korea closely monitors China's further moves over THAAD deployment

Hundreds of South Koreans have clashed with security forces in a village where the USA military is to start installing launchers of the US anti-missile system c...

Jose strengthens to a Category 3 hurricane

Katia has developed in the Gulf of Mexico. The closest land mass Jose will approach is the northern Leeward Islands, the same ones Irma just devastated....

Four police officers killed in Egypt blast

Four policemen and four medics were injured in the attack, they added. Security forces were exchanging fire with militants near the explosion site and managed...

Thousands call for withdrawal of Suu Kyi's Nobel Prize

The 85-year-old South African archbishop, who was also awarded a Nobel peace prize, said the "unfolding horror" had forced him to speak out against a woman he c...