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House passes $7.9bn Harvey aid bill
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Sep 07 2017
FEMA Head: Agency Not Letting Money Issues Hinder Mission
Other FEMA centers can provide temporary housing, such as trailers, to help keep people in the region during the recovery. The agency is set up to handle several emergenc...
Sep 07 2017
White Christians no longer a majority in America
It includes a sample of more than 101,000 Americans from all 50 states. This share of the population is down 6 percent since 2006, and 38 percent since 1976. In all, 40 p...
Sep 07 2017
Sanctions doubts grow as North Korea warns of 'gift packages' for US
Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un is not in anyway backing down in its war of words with the USA after Pyongyang's UN ambassador says its biggest...
Sep 07 2017
'Potentially catastrophic' Irma still headed for Florida
President Donald Trump has issued an emergency declaration for Puerto Rico, which hasn't seen a storm like Irma since Hurricane San Felipe in 1928. The potential for ...
Sep 07 2017
Another train goes off tracks in Uttar Pradesh, no injuries reported
He also added, we immediately cleared the site, and all the passengers were out on the remaining coaches. No one was injured. The derailment of the train is the third i...
Sep 07 2017
'We're Not Backing Down': Lexington DACA Supporters Respond
Here in North Carolina, here we are the state with the 7th highest number of DACA recipients , at roughly 27,000, so the impact could prove very significant. I'm not sur...
Sep 07 2017
US Seals Train SKorean Team to Kill Kim in Case of War
As tensions between the United States and North Korea ratchet higher and higher, who could become the voice of reason? Not at all. I've always said that from day one. "...
Sep 07 2017
Three powerful hurricanes now in the Atlantic ocean: NHC
The last category five hurricane to make landfall in the United States was Hurricane Andrew back in 1992. The NHC said the storm is expected to stay off the coast of Me...
Sep 07 2017
Trump returns to Harvey-hit Texas
In Houston, no poorly built or badly maintained federal government levies broke open, instantly flooding whole neighborhoods with sea water up to their rooftops and killi...
Sep 07 2017
Congress Faces a Tense Agenda, With Little Margin for Error
Senate Republican leaders want to use the Federal Emergency Management Agency funding measure to suspend the nation's debt ceiling past the November 2018 elections, and p...
Sep 07 2017
How the decision to end DACA affects "Dreamers"
In addition to DACA, Congress will have to raise the debt ceiling, ensure government funding beyond the end of the month, renew key federal programs and come up with an a...
Sep 07 2017
In Final Primary Debate, de Blasio Again Defends His Record
During the second debate, hosted by CBS 2 News at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, the candidates fielded questions about key issues facing New Yorkers, including p...
Sep 07 2017
Fate of Abu Salem, others to be decided today
Dossa, who had been held responsible for acquiring weapons used in the attacks from Pakistan, had died on June 28. Siddiqui was convicted under Section 3 (3) of the TAD...
Sep 07 2017
Suu Kyi says Myanmar working to protect Rohingyas
Turkey said it will start the first foreign deliveries of aid on Wednesday to northwestern Myanmar , where hundreds of people have been killed and almost 125,000 have...
Sep 07 2017
Fire evacuation ordered in Glacier National Park
Fire crews understood the significance of the lodge and were ready to protect it, fire information officer Diane Sine said. "We don't know the intensity of the fire", s...
Sep 07 2017
With Irma Already Looming, Another Tropical Storm Forms in the Atlantic
If Irma's center marches north directly over Florida's eastern coastline, former hurricane hunter Jeff Masters says high winds and storm surges could turn the Gold Coast ...
Sep 07 2017
Oakland task force heading to Florida to help Hurricane Irma victims
Hurricane Irma , right now a Category 5, is hitting the Caribbean with a forecast track that takes it right down the center of Florida or along the eastern coast of the S...
Sep 07 2017
Trump Sides With Democrats on Interim Debt-Limit Fix, Harvey Aid
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, overridden by Trump during the meeting, said he would bring the deal to the Senate floor for a vote. The GOP leaders had no heads ...
Sep 07 2017
Katia now third hurricane in tropics; forms in SW Gulf of Mexico
National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory on Tuesday. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's ...
Sep 07 2017
Putin on phone with South Korean president about North Korea
However, he called for dialogue and warned against other actions that could escalate the crisis. "All of this could lead to a global planetary catastrophe and a great n...