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After corruption allegations, Trump says G7 summit won't be at his resort

Chinese national convicted for trespassing at Trump’s Florida resort

3:04 am September 12, 2019

Fort Lauderdale, Florida: A Chinese national arrested for bluffing her way into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida resort, sparking concerns she could pose an intelligence threat, was found guilty on Wednesday of lying to a federal officer and trespassing. The woman, Yujing Zhang, 33, stood blinking rapidly as each of the 12 jurors told […]

NOAA chief thanks Alabama weather office in Hurricane Dorian forecast

8:34 pm September 10, 2019

Huntsville: The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is both defending the administration and thanking a local weather office that contradicted President Donald Trump’s claims about Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama. Acting administrator Neil Jacobs told a meteorology group Tuesday that a NOAA statement which criticized a local forecast office that contradicted Trump […]

‘One last adventure’: Bottle with man’s ashes resumes journey in Gulf of Mexico

4:55 am September 9, 2019

A bottle containing the ashes of a Texas man along with some handwritten notes from loved ones has been returned to the Gulf of Mexico, resuming its ocean journey after it washed up on a Florida Panhandle beach. The beachgoer who found the bottle near Miramar Beach handed it over to local authorities last week. […]

Hurricane Dorian still slamming eastern Canada at hurricane force

9:38 pm September 8, 2019

Toronto: The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina brought hurricane Dorian-force winds to far-eastern Canada on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Dorian hit near the city of Halifax Saturday afternoon, ripping roofs off apartment buildings, toppling a huge construction crane and uprooting trees. There […]

NOAA assailed for defending Trump’s Hurricane Dorian claim

3:48 am September 8, 2019

Washington: Former top officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are assailing the agency for undermining its weather forecasters as it defends President Donald Trump’s statement from days ago that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama. They say NOAA’s action risks the credibility of the nation’s weather and science agency and may even risk lives. […]