By Brooks Hays (0) Astronomers suspect the comet C/2019 Q4 — imaged here by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii’s Big Island — is just passing through our solar system. Photo by Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Sept. 13 (UPI) — Astronomers have identified a new comet, named C/2019 Q4, traveling inbound toward the sun. Early analysis of the […]
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Sackler family protecting $1B using Swiss accounts
By Danielle Haynes Sept. 13 (UPI) — The Sackler family has transferred $1 billion from Purdue Pharma, a pharmaceutical company they own, to their own bank accounts to avoid relinquishing the funds amid legal action over the company’s involvement in the opioid crisis, the New York attorney general office said Friday in a court filing. Attorney […]
China grants year-long tariff exemptions for 16 U.S.-made items
By Clyde Hughes (0) Shipping containers are transferred to trucks after being unloaded from arriving cargo ships at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., on May 13. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Sept. 11 (UPI) — The Chinese government announced Wednesday it will exempt several U.S. items from its tariffs list […]
‘Hour of darkness’ for Bahamas; 43 dead, with toll to rise
1 of 16 A woman is overcome as she looks at her house destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, in High Rock, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Friday Sept. 6, 2019. The Bahamian health ministry said helicopters and boats are on the way to help people in affected areas, though officials warned of delays because of severe flooding and […]
Carolinas coast braces for flooding, hazards from Dorian
1 of 2 FILE – In this file image made from Sept. 21, 2018 drone video provided by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality, light gray material flows out of a flooded coal ash dump toward the Cape Fear River at Duke Energy’s L.V. Sutton Power Station near Wilmington, N.C. Duke Energy said Wednesday, Sept. […]
Dorian scrubs another 800 U.S. flights at major Southeast airports
By Nicholas Sakelaris (0) The total number of U.S. flight cancellations this week due to Hurricane Dorian are now up around 4,000. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Sept. 4 (UPI) — Airlines have canceled another 800 U.S. flights for Wednesday due to Hurricane Dorian off the southeastern coast, bringing the total number caused by […]
New Jersey man charged with possessing explosives near Labor Day parade route
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy had planned to march in the South Plainfield, N.J., Labor Day parade Monday. | License Photo Sept. 2 (UPI) — Police apprehended a New Jersey man Monday after they discovered several pipe bomb-like devices near the route of a Labor Day parade in South Plainfield, resulting in the cancelation of the annual […]
Dorian cuts power to Bahamas; several dead; 62K without clean water
By Nicholas Sakelaris (0) Sept. 3 (UPI) — Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said the country is in the midst of a “historic tragedy” after Hurricane Dorian battered the Atlantic islands for most of Monday and killed several people.Minnis said his office in downtown Grand Bahama is flooded, as is the first floor of the hospital. So far, there […]
Five killed in series of West Texas shootings, one suspect killed by
By Ben Hooper (3) Aug. 31 (UPI) — One suspect was killed in a series of shootings in two Texas cities that killed at least five people and injured 21 others. Police in Midland and Odessa said at least one suspect, possibly two separate suspects, were driving around committing a series of shootings around the two cities […]
Bahamas, southeast U.S. coast on high alert as Dorian reaches…
Accuweather.com (1) Hurricane Dorian was located about 445 miles to the east of West Palm Beach, Fla., and about 280 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas. Photo courtesy of NOAA Aug. 30 — Hurricane Dorian became a major hurricane on Friday, as government officials and residents in the United States and Bahamas continued to prepare […]