Puerto Rico
Laura Rapidly Intensifies Into 115 MPH Category 3 Major Hurricane
Laura has rapidly intensified in the Gulf of Mexico. Laura is predicted to make landfall as a major hurricane on the upper Texas or southwest Louisiana coasts. Life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds will affect areas near where Laura makes landfall. Storm surge could penetrate as much as 30 miles inland in southwest Louisiana. Laura …
Latest Sewer Main Break Turns Broward Neighborhood Into ‘War Zone’ – NBC 6 South Florida
A Fort Lauderdale neighborhood has been plagued with a toxic and smelly odor for almost two weeks due to three back-to-back sewer main breaks. Sewage flowed for nine days in the Rio Vista neighborhood during the first break earlier this month. Two days after a repair, the 54-inch pipe ruptured in another spot a block …
Man busted for breaking woman’s jaw on Norwegian Cruise ship
A man was arrested by the FBI for assaulting a woman on a cruise liner in international waters after chasing her around the ship, authorities said. The suspect, identified by the FBI as Jeff Smiley III, chased the woman around the Norwegian Cruise Line ship on Nov. 4 then beat her so badly that her …
Bernie Sanders heart attack: San Juan mayor, top Sanders surrogate, fiercely defends candidate’s health
Nashua, New Hampshire — Hours before Senator Bernie Sanders returned to his Burlington home Saturday to recover from a heart attack, Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, campaigned through New Hampshire in his place. At a town hall in Nashua, the mayor pointed out what she called the “elephant …
Tropical Storm Dorian: Live coverage of Puerto Rico track, path, trajectory, models, latest forecast of storm today – latest updates
Puerto Rico braces for Tropical Storm Dorian amid threat of life-threatening floods Puerto Rico’s governor, Wanda Vázquez Garced, has declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Dorian approaches the island. Residents rushed to stores for supplies to prepare for power outages and heavy rains. The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch for …
Trump’s attorney general announces return of federal capital punishment after 20 years – live | US news
12.35pm EDT 12:35 Here’s where the day stands so far. The Justice Department announced it would resume capital punishment after a 16-year lapse of the policy. They have scheduled five executions of death-row inmates, with the first execution set for December 9. Nancy Pelosi has told House Democrats that they have to do their “own …
Puerto Rico governor clings to power amid threat of impeachment | World news
The fate of Puerto Rico’s besieged governor, Ricardo Rosselló, hung in the balance on Wednesday evening as the US territory’s legislature threatened impeachment proceedings if the governor did not resign. Mass demonstrations on the island are approaching their second week, as local press reports on Tuesday evening indicated the governor would resign by midday on …
