Attorneys say prosecutors diverted attention from evidence during grand jury proceedings into the death of Halyna HutchinsDefense attorneys for Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Thursday to dismiss a grand jury indictment against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the western movie Rust.The indictment in January charged Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on 21 October 2021 at a movie ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe. Continue reading...
Bernie Moreno, a hardline LGBTQ+ opponent running to face Sherrod Brown, seemed to seek men for 1-on-1 sex' in 2008 profileA former intern to Bernie Moreno, Donald Trump's endorsed candidate for US Senate in Ohio and a hardline opponent of LGBTQ+ rights, said he wrote as an aborted prank" a post on the Adult Friend Finder website in which Moreno appeared to look for young guys to have fun with" and men for 1-on-1 sex".I am thoroughly embarrassed by an aborted prank I pulled on my friend, and former boss, Bernie Moreno, nearly two decades ago" in late 2008, the former intern, Dan Ricci, said in a statement provided to the Associated Press by Moreno's lawyer. Continue reading...
They're trapped in a deal they can't uphold, scrutinised by a nation of trolls who demand they live perfect, trouble-free livesKensington Palace, which remains in its private quarters the London residence of Prince William and Kate (for ever to be known as) Middleton, currently has an exhibition in its public rooms of Untold Lives", a medley of royal servants. If any of the tourists walking round on Thursday felt the piquancy of treading so close to a home Kate Middleton may or may not be in (for the first time since her marriage, probably, nobody can say for sure where she is), that didn't show on their politely interested faces.The opening portrait is of Bridget Holmes: 96 years old, carrying a mop in comedic representation of her role as a necessary woman" to monarchs all the way from Charles I to William III. Taking into account the different conception of childhood in the 1590s, when she was born, we can reasonably assume Holmes spent about 90 continuous years shovelling shit, her life remaining untold so that the story of kings could be told. Continue reading...
Chain of private members' clubs increases debt as it continues its international expansionSoho House, the private members' club popular with celebrities including Kate Moss, Kendall Jenner, Ellie Goulding and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, has reported losses of $118m (92.5m) for 2023.The company, which has expanded from a single house" in London's Soho to 42 locations around the world, has lost money every year since it was founded by the restaurateur Nick Jones in 1995. Continue reading...
As disaster capitalists' text survivors with offers to buy their ruined homes, a land trust is trying to help residents keep themMere days after wildfires tore through Maui last August and leveled the historic town of Lahaina, community organizers warned that longtime residents were vulnerable to predatory land grabs.And they were right. As search and rescue teams painstakingly combed through the scorched ruins, traumatized survivors began receiving texts, voice messages, and letters from speculators and realtors offering to buy their burnt-out homes. Continue reading...
Independent lawmaker says it's time for workers to have a better quality of life with a 32-hour workweek without loss of payBernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, introduced a bill to establish a four-day US working week.Studies and pilot programmes have shown that four-day workweeks can increase productivity and happiness. Given Republican control of the House and a Senate split 51-49 in favour of Democrats, however, the legislation stands little chance of success. Continue reading...
Could this national madness have been Meghan's revenge? Plus, questions about chafing and a vet bills shockPlease make sure you are sitting down before I break this news to you. The Princess of Wales edited a photo of herself and her three children. It is thought she used several shots taken by her husband, a bald man, and sort of mushed them together to make a slightly better one. As a result, millions died. Continue reading...
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The new season kicks off on Friday night with the NWSL Challenge Cup. Our panel of writers deliver their verdicts on the MVP, champions and plotlines to watchVibrant, young players looking to make their mark on professional football. USWNT stars Trinity Rodman, 21, and Jaedyn Shaw, 19, will lead the frontline for Washington Spirit and San Diego wave respectively, while draft picks Ally Sentnor (No 1) and Savannah King (No 2) will bolster expansion teams Utah Royals and Bay FC. JR Continue reading...
Millions of young Americans love the social media app - but it's alarmingly addictive and a national security riskImagine a world where America's foreign adversaries don't need spies or hackers to infiltrate our society or meddle with our democracy. Instead, they can deploy a far more insidious tool: a digital platform, addictive by design, that captivates its users and then mobilizes them to influence our democratic institutions.The scenario may sound farfetched, but something like that recently happened. Earlier this month, while the US Congress was considering a bill that would curtail TikTok's operations in the United States, the popular, Chinese-owned social media platform confronted its users with a kind of digital ransom note calling for political action. As the New York Times reported, TikTok's campaign sparked a deluge of calls to Capitol Hill, overwhelming some congressional offices and demonstrating the platform's political influence.Nita Farahany is the author of The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology and the Robinson O Everett professor of law and philosophy at Duke University Continue reading...
The point guard is a talented prospect. But the French Federation of Basketball's ban on religious headwear means she cannot play in her hometown of ParisThe energy radiating from Diaba Konate is palpable, even over our transatlantic Zoom chat. The wide-smiling college star has dreamed of playing basketball in the States ever since she was a young girl. She moved to the US from France in December 2018 on a full scholarship from Idaho State University, later transferring as a junior to the University of California, Irvine.The 23-year-old point guard's collegiate highlights include averaging 8.7 points, 2.9 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.2 steals per game as a junior, ranking among the top-30 in the nation with her free-throw percentage, and tying eighth in single-season school history with 63 steals. She also reached 1,000 points in her collegiate career after dropping a season-high 20 against UC Santa Barbara in February 2023. Continue reading...
With restaurants serving dinner until 1 am, we are outliers in Europe. But some are attacking calls for change as a loss of freedomSpain's employment minister and deputy prime minister, Yolanda Diaz, described the late opening hours of restaurants and bars, earlier this month, as madness". A country that has its restaurants open at one o'clock in the morning is not reasonable," she said. Hospitality industry figures and conservative politicians responded with outrage. The deputy prime minister thinks she lives in Sweden instead of Spain," a furious restaurant owner in Barcelona told El Pais, pointing out the late sunset in her city. That day, 6 March, the sun set in Stockholm at 5.29pm, and in Barcelona at 6.48pm. In Stockholm, restaurants typically close at 11pm; in Barcelona, restaurants and bars are allowed to open until 2.30am on weekdays, and until 3am at weekends.Spain is not Sweden in many ways. In 2022, in Sweden, the GDP value of a worker's hour was $75, compared with $53 in Spain, which is below the European average. GDP per capita is almost double in Sweden. The standard working week in Sweden is one hour longer than in Spain. Overall life satisfaction is higher in Sweden.Maria Ramirez is a journalist and deputy managing editor of elDiario.es, a news outlet in Spain Continue reading...
Five years on from the massacre, the government is preparing to roll back gun reforms and progress to make New Zealand safer is falteringThe day before the fifth anniversary of a terrorist attack at my mosque, New Zealand's prime minister Christopher Luxon sent an email to the bereaved and survivors of the massacre in Christchurch, including me. Fifty-one Muslims were killed at Masjid al-Noor and at Linwood Islamic Centre during Friday prayers on 15 March 2019, and 40 were injured. In his note on Thursday, Luxon praised our strength, courage, compassion and dignity.The government is committed to keeping New Zealanders safe and secure," he wrote. We will ensure that lessons learned from these attacks continue to inform how we keep New Zealand safe." Continue reading...
In a groundbreaking verdict, James Crumbley has been found criminally responsible for the conduct of his son Ethan Crumbley. Ethan took a gun from home and killed four students at Oxford high school on 30 November 2021
Denver expected to receive up to 2ft of snow as city rolls out the plows and airport braces for delays and cancellationsA major storm dumped heavy snow in Colorado on Thursday - forcing flight cancellations and shutting down a highway that connects Denver to Colorado ski resorts for much of the day, stranding some people in their cars for hours.Numerous schools and government offices closed due to the severe weather, along with stretches of highway, as meteorologists warned of difficult-to-nearly-impossible travel by Thursday afternoon. Continue reading...
Groundbreaking verdict holds James Crumbley, father of teen who killed four students, criminally responsible for actions of his childThe father of a school shooter in Michigan has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a case that created headlines across the United States for seeking to find a parent criminally responsible for the actions of their child.James Crumbley, 47, is the father of Ethan Crumbley, a 15-year-old boy who took a gun from home and killed four students at Oxford high school on 30 November 2021. Continue reading...
Michael Christian Green faces up to year in prison after pleading guilty over incident in town of Pearl in DecemberA Mississippi police officer pleaded guilty on Thursday to a federal misdemeanor charge after authorities accused him of forcing a prisoner to drink his own urine.In court filings, first reported by the Daily Beast, prosecutors for the US district court for the southern district of Mississippi alleged that the patrol officer, Michael Christian Green, ordered a prisoner to lick up his own urine after the man had urinated in the corner of his holding cell. Continue reading...
Aileen Cannon indicates that argument from ex-president's attorneys that law is too vague is question for jury at trialThe federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents has rejected an effort by his lawyers to throw out the case, indicating that their argument that the law is too vague is a question for a jury at trial.The two-page ruling from the US district judge Aileen Cannon came on Thursday evening after a daylong hearing in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida. Throughout the hearing, Cannon expressed reservations about the former president's complaints against the case. Continue reading...
After undergoing extensive refurbishment, a Concorde aircraft has been floated on a barge down the Hudson River in New York to return to the museum where it resides. This Franco-British jet, which last flew across the Atlantic in 2003, had been housed at the Intrepid Museum until it was removed for refurbishment in August 2023; it has now been returned to the museum. Leslie Scott, a former Concorde pilot said: 'I've never seen it look so good. I mean, it is a beautiful, beautiful job that the Intrepid have managed to do. As I said, when I used to fly it, it didn't look like that'
Manhattan prosecutors say they are willing to delay ex-president's trial - due to start later this month - up to 30 daysManhattan prosecutors on Thursday said they are willing to delay Donald Trump's trial on charges related to making hush-money payments for up to 30 days so they can review records newly obtained from federal authorities.The request has the potential to delay the proceedings, which were to begin with jury selection on 25 March in New York and would be the first of the four criminal indictments against the former US president to go to trial. Continue reading...
Michelle Mack allegedly recruited women to steal for her and would then sell the goods on Amazon, raking in almost $2m in 2022From a mansion in a San Diego suburb, Michelle Mack allegedly oversaw a retail theft ring that stole $8m in cosmetics from stores such as Ulta and Sephora, which she then sold on Amazon.In December, police arrested the 53-year-old along with her husband, Kenneth, taking the pair into custody on their sprawling property, according to footage taken by CNBC and published this week. Their teen daughters watched nearby, the outlet reported. Continue reading...
Secretary of state Jocelyn Benson denounces Republican effort as PR campaign masquerading as a meritless lawsuit'The Republican National Committee (RNC) has sued Michigan's secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, in federal court, using a flawed analysis of population data to argue that the state's voter rolls are bloated and inaccurate.The filing claims that in 76 of the state's 83 counties, registered voters exceeded the number of citizens eligible to vote there or have rates of active voter registration" that are suspiciously high". The claim closely matches a similar one that has been circulating since Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden - that a high level of voter registration is a smoking gun for fraud. Continue reading...
Vice-president toured Planned Parenthood facility signaling issue will be key in electionKamala Harris visited a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on Thursday, becoming what is believed to be the first vice-president ever to do so.Harris stopped by a clinic in Minnesota, a state where abortion remains legal following the overturning of Roe v Wade, as part of her nationwide tour to highlight the impact of Roe's downfall. Harris also toured the clinic, which remained open to patients as the nation's first female vice-president made her historic visit. Continue reading...
A Democratic Pac is running an ad meant to boost a Trumpist in the Republican primary in effort to protect Sherrod Brown's seatDemocrats working to boost a Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for the US Senate in Ohio, as a way to boost their own progressive senator, should be careful, an aide to the Republican said, lest such efforts backfire and they lose a precious seat.Such tactics have been used by Democrats before - when they support a more extreme Republican to be nominated out of a calculation that that candidate will then stand less chance of winning against a Democrat in a general election. Of course, such tactics could backfire and see extremists elected. Continue reading...
The death of a non-binary teenager followed a fight in a bathroom at Owasso high school in FebruaryThe death of a non-binary teenager following a fight in a bathroom at Owasso high school in Oklahoma has been ruled a suicide, according to the state's medical examiner.In a summary report released on Wednesday, the state's medical examiner listed 16-year-old Nex Benedict's probable cause of death as combined toxicity from an antihistamine and an antidepressant.In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 800-273-8255 and online chat is also available. You can also text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis text line counselor. A list of prevention resources can be found here. The Trevor Project offers 24/7 support for LGBTQ+ young people in the US via text, phone and chat. Other resources are available via It Gets Better. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org Continue reading...
Steve Kramer and two Texas companies spoofed president's voice to suppress turnout in New HampshireA political operative and two companies that facilitated a fake robocall using AI to impersonate Joe Biden should be required to pay thousands of dollars in damages and should be barred from taking similar future actions, a group of New Hampshire voters and a civic action group said in a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday.The suit comes weeks after Steve Kramer, a political operative, admitted that he was behind the robocall that spoofed Biden's voice on the eve of the New Hampshire primary and urged Democrats in the state not to vote. Kramer was working for Biden's challenger Dean Phillips, but Phillips's campaign said he had nothing to do with the call and Kramer has said he did it as an act of civil disobedience to draw attention to the dangers of AI in elections. The incident may have been the first time AI was used to interfere in a US election. Continue reading...
Prisoners are being released early because jails are overflowing. We know what better policies would look like - but politicians won't actGuess which public service is hardly ever mentioned in stories about austerity? The answer is prisons. Last week, prison governors were told by the justice minister, Alex Chalk, to send prisoners home two months early to free up cells because 99.7% of prisons were full. He must have been desperate. Imagine hospitals being told to send patients home two weeks early because car parks were full of ambulances. Imagine schools leaving students unattended in classrooms because there weren't enough teachers. For a sign of a society in decay, you need to look no further than our booming prison population.In 1960, there were 30,000 people in prison in England and Wales and the government of the day declared it a crisis". In 2000, there were about 60,000; the present total of 85,000 is predicted to rise to up to 105,000 by 2027. The UK as a whole has almost 150 prisoners per 100,000 people; by contrast, Germany has 70 per 100,000. The nation is prison-mad, and has the largest prison population per head in western Europe. The total number was boosted in 2020 when normal sentence remission was reduced from half to a third in what seemed a fatuous bid to get tough on crime". To that was added 25,000 immigrants and asylum seekers in detention - in effect prisoners awaiting Home Office bureaucracy at the taxpayers' expense. Such is the chaos in the court system that there are also 15,000 prisoners on remand, legally innocent until they are proven guilty. This is not cheap. Prison costs 48,000 a year for each inmate. That is almost the same as Eton, perhaps a preferable source of rehabilitation.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
The Democratic Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has said Benjamin Netanyahu has emerged as a 'major obstacle to peace' in Gaza, in a further sign of growing tensions between the US and its ally Israel. Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the US, accused Netanyahu of bowing to pressure from 'extremists' in his cabinet and appealed to Israel to 'change course', warning that the US would be prepared to use its leverage to shape Israeli policy if it failed to do so
Though the list is broad, many of the 4,240 books were targeted because they related to issues of LGBTQ+ communities or raceMore books were banned in 2023 in US schools and libraries than any other year for which records have been kept, the American Library Association (ALA) reported on Thursday.Many of the books were targeted because they related to issues of LGBTQ+ communities or race, though the list was broad, including commonly taught novels such as Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird. Continue reading...
Thousands of voters in latest states to hold primaries sent message that support depends on ceasefire in Israel-Gaza warThe protest vote against President Joe Biden's stance on Gaza continued in Washington and Georgia this week, where thousands of voters chose no one, sending a message to the president that their votes depend on a ceasefire.Washington, a reliably blue state, saw support from local elected officials and major unions in its multi-faith push for uncommitted" delegates. They spent about $20,000 and began organizing on 24 February. More than 56,000 voters selected uncommitted delegates on the ballots counted so far, though more than 200,000 ballots remain uncounted there as of Thursday morning. Continue reading...
Lawsuit accuses South Dakota governor of not disclosing that she has a financial relationship with that company'South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, a contender to be named Donald Trump's presidential running mate, was sued over a video in which she promoted a cosmetic dentistry company showing off work on her own teeth.Travelers United, a consumer advocacy group, filed suit in Washington DC on Wednesday, accusing Noem of advertis[ing] a product or service without disclosing that she has a financial relationship with that company". Continue reading...
Alabama senator pleased Scarlett Johansson parodied her much-mocked Republican response to Biden's State of the Union addressKatie Britt, the Alabama senator who delivered a much-mocked State of the Union response last week, rued the irony" of being told by the Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, that it'll be fine" before giving her disastrous speech.Speaking to the hard-right Texas senator Ted Cruz, on his Verdict with Ted Cruz podcast, Britt said Johnson told her: People are going to tell you horror stories about all of these things that happen and people's career being blown up over it.' Continue reading...
Ro Khanna, Biden campaign surrogate, believes US president should take tougher line with insufferably arrogant' Israeli PMJoe Biden has committed a strategic mistake" by bear-hugging" the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as he prosecutes war with Hamas, a leading congressional progressive Democrat and Biden campaign surrogate said.The bear-hugging of Netanyahu has been a strategic mistake," Ro Khanna said, accusing the Israeli leader of conducting a callous war" in Gaza, in defiance of the United States. Continue reading...
In speech in Budapest, David Pressman says while Hungary under Viktor Orban tries to wait out US government, we will act'The US ambassador to Hungary has said Washington will act amid Budapest's dangerously unhinged anti-American messaging" and expanding relationship with Russia".In a landmark speech in Budapest on Thursday, David Pressman took direct aim at the controversial foreign policy of Hungary's longtime prime minister, Viktor Orban, while also accusing the Hungarian government of rampant corruption and undermining independent institutions. Continue reading...
If poetry is to be a necessity for life rather than a luxury, then it should be accessible - and the bestselling Instagram poet has allowed many to see their feelings reflected in textual form for the first timeIt's 2016, and you're on the wean off Tumblr. That's OK; Instagram's made some algorithmic changes to your explore page and now exercise videos are sandwiched between Kermit the Frog memes and RIP Harambe tribute posts. You continue to scroll through Vampire Diaries gifs and share the Harambe in Heaven pic because you care about animal rights. You scoff to yourself.Wait. You can't just be a meme girl, so you keep scrolling. Till you find it. The one thing that will make you a bit more cultured. Poetry. A snippet from Rupi Kaur's book Milk and Honey arises from the digital ashes. You share it on your story and, just like milk, the DMs come pouring in. A gaggle of My queen", Poet of our generation" and, omg she speaks to my soul", materialise on your screen.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...
Experts say most guns smuggled from states with lax firearms laws such as Florida, Arizona and GeorgiaAs Haiti has again plunged into violent chaos, images of gang members bearing high-powered rifles, pump action shotguns or automatic weapons in the streets of Port-au-Prince have become ubiquitous.But this weaponry is not made in Haiti, a country with no firearms or ammunition manufacturing capabilities. Continue reading...
Alexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 in 2020 - the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens' role in Ukraine businessAn American company that paid the now indicted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in 2020 is connected to a UK company owned by Trump business associates in Dubai, according to business filings and court documents.Smirnov is now accused of lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, alleging that they engaged in a bribery scheme with executives at Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Smirnov's accounts to the FBI, beginning in 2020, that federal prosecutors now say are impossible fabrications, served as a major justification of the House impeachment investigation into the Bidens. Continue reading...
If Jonathan Glazer's brave Oscar acceptance speech made you uncomfortable, that was the pointIt's an Oscar tradition: a serious political speech pierces the bubble of glamour and self-congratulation. Warring responses ensue. Some proclaim the speech an example of artists at their culture-shifting best; others an egotistical usurpation of an otherwise celebratory night. Then everyone moves on.Yet I suspect that the impact of Jonathan Glazer's time-stopping speech at last Sunday's Academy Awards will be significantly more lasting, with its meaning and import analyzed for many years to come. Continue reading...
The basketball Hall of Famer is excelling in a new sport as he approaches 80. He is not the only senior player who has found a new field to compete inIn a way, Rick Barry is a rookie again. With his 80th birthday approaching in late March, the NBA legend is eligible to be among the youngest players in the oldest age group in a sport that he is starting to dominate as he did long ago in basketball.Like many septuagenarians over the past few years, Barry gave up his other post-retirement athletic pursuits, in his case tennis and golf, for another sport once widely associated with slow-moving retirees: pickleball. Continue reading...
NFL legend Emmitt Smith and the NAACP have made a stand against Ron DeSantis' anti-DEI policies, but it might not have the desired consequences in college sports' new world orderEmmitt Smith is the exceptional Florida man. The pride of Pensacola, Smith racked up the second-most running yards in US high school history and smashed a haul of records at the University of Florida before leading the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl titles in the 1990s and retiring in 2004 as the NFL's all-time leading rusher. Now 54, Smith is hurtling head-first into the goalline stand that is Ron DeSantis's war on wokeness.Last year the Florida governor ratified a law prohibiting the state's public universities and four-year community colleges from spending on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, as Texas and a handful of other states have taken aim at university DEI programs. In response the University of Florida eliminated 28 DEI positions earlier this month, vowing to shift the savings from those cuts - some $5m - into a faculty retirement fund. The school put on a diplomatic face after the fact; we will continue to foster a community of trust and respect," read the official statement. But DeSantis's tone rang far more true. Florida is where DEI goes to die," he wrote in a triumphant social media post. Continue reading...
The countless individual tributes to Alexei Navalny show there is another Russia, and it's one the west must supportBy next Monday, Vladimir Putin will have been re-elected" president of Russia. In truth, Russian voters have no genuine choice this weekend, since Putin has killed his most formidable opponent, Alexei Navalny, and ordered the disqualification of any other candidate who presented even a small chance of genuine competition. This plebiscitary legitimating procedure - quite familiar from the history of other dictatorships - will also be implemented in some parts of eastern Ukraine, which Russian official sources describe as the New Territories. Large percentages for turnout and the vote for Putin must be expected, and will be no more accurate than his historical essays on Russo-Ukrainian relations.Encouraged by signs of western weakness such as the refusal of the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine and Pope Francis's recommendation for Ukraine to hoist the white flag, Russia's brutal dictator will continue to try to conquer more of Ukraine. Not only does Putin believe that Ukraine belongs historically to a Russia whose manifest destiny it is to be a great, imperial power. Unlike western governments, his regime is both politically and economically committed to continue this war, with as much as 40% of its budget devoted to military, intelligence, disinformation and internal security spending, and a war economy that can't easily be switched back to peacetime mode. Continue reading...
Outrage over killing of Ryan Gainer, shot three times on Saturday, as sheriff denounced for defending deputies' use of lethal forceThe San Bernardino, California sheriff released new body-camera footage of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Ryan Gainer, who was holding a gardening tool.The Saturday killing of Gainer, who was autistic and having a mental health crisis, sparked national outrage and escalating criticisms, prompting the head of the department, sheriff Shannon Dicus, to show reporters additional footage during a Wednesday press conference. The sheriff also revealed that it appeared two deputies on the scene had fired three rounds at Gainer. Continue reading...
Hail as big as baseballs possible from Kansas to Missouri, with torrential rain from Louisiana to ArkansasVolatile weather is expected to hone in on parts of Kansas and Missouri Wednesday night, and the biggest worry is the potential for massive chunks of hail.Some are calling it gorilla hail" because it has the potential to be so big, said Alex Sosnowski, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather. The Kansas City metro area is at the center of the worry zone. Continue reading...
Slide occurred in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood, where the fire department evacuated several people from a residenceA landslide in a wealthy neighborhood reduced a Los Angeles house under renovation to a jumble of lumber, pulled the pool and deck away from a second home, and left the pool at a third residence on the edge of a huge fissure early Wednesday.The slide occurred just before 3am in Sherman Oaks, a neighborhood of expensive homes about 12 miles (19km) north-west of downtown. An initial search found no victims, but several people were evacuated from one house, the Los Angeles fire department said in a statement. Continue reading...
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