At least 32 people have been arrested in the hurricane hit state of Florida on suspicion of attacking vulnerable businesses and houses left empty by residents fleeing the ravages of Irma. The dramatic scenes come as Richard Branson’s son Sam warns of the British Virgin Islands facing civil disorder in […]
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Around 10 inches of rain fell on the port town of Livorno in two hours between midnight and 2am, causing rivers and streams to overflow. On the city of Livorno website an official wrote: “The emergency is not over.” And in a video posted on Twitter mayor Filippo Nogarin added: […]
New Hampshire is known for hosting the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. But now, another reputation is gaining steam: As a breeding ground for vote fraud. The state was one of the first targets of Donald Trump’s claims of illegal voting during the 2016 election — he lost the state by a […]
New Hampshire is known for hosting the first-in-the-nation presidential primary. But now, another reputation is gaining steam: as a breeding ground for vote fraud. The state was one of the first targets of Donald Trump’s claims of illegal voting during the 2016 election — he lost the state by a […]
The strongest storm in the history of the ironically nicknamed Sunshine State killed at least four people and left millions rushing to shelters as 130mph winds howled around them. Downtown Miami was left neck-deep in water and the whole of the Florida Keys – a 110-mile-long peninsula in the south […]
In an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Angela Merkel said EU member countries must find a common stance towards China and Russia. The German chancellor, who is standing for re-election later this month, said: “The world has to see that member states won’t deviate from a European […]
LOS ANGELES — ‘It’ is a hit. The Stephen King adaptation from New Line and Warner Bros. shattered records over the weekend, earning $117.2 million from 4,103 locations, according to studio estimates on Sunday. Not only has “It” had the largest opening for a horror movie and the largest September […]
Hurricane Irma slowly began winding down Sunday night as it headed north over Florida, where it twice made landfall and plunged millions of people into darkness. The center of Irma’s eye passed over Cudjoe Key at 9:10 a.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center reported, and by 3:35 p.m. it made […]