WASHINGTON: The U.S. Capitol Police are struggling. One officer was killed and another injured when a driver slammed into them at a barricade Friday afternoon. The attack comes after officers were overrun and injured when a violent mob of Trump supporters overran the Capitol on Jan. 6, breaking through insufficient barriers and pushing their way […]
Read MoreHuntsville: 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 […]
Read MoreToronto: 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 […]
Read MoreWashington: 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. […]
Read MoreNags Head, North Carolina: Skies cleared and floodwaters receded Saturday from North Carolina ’s Outer Banks, leaving behind a muddy trail of destruction wrought by Hurricane Dorian, which turned north and began lashing parts of eastern Canada. Dorian’s worst damage in the U.S. appeared to be on Ocracoke Island, which even in good weather is […]
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