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Weakened Dorian strands people on North Carolina island
WILMINGTON, N.C. - A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a ferocity that seemed to take storm-hardened residents by surprise, and hundreds were feare...
Sep 06, 2019
Hurricane Dorian rakes Carolinas as it moves up the coast
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Hurricane Dorian raked the Carolina coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, spinning off tornadoes and knocking out power to more than 200,000 homes an...
Sep 05, 2019
Johnson seeks UK election bid as political foes push back
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson kept up his push Thursday for an early general election as a way to break Britain's Brexit impasse, as lawmakers moved to stop the U.K. leaving the European Union...
Sep 05, 2019
Dorian, back to a Category 3 hurricane, creeps up US coast
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Hurricane Dorian, back to a Category 3 storm, began raking the Southeast U.S. seaboard early Thursday and left tens of thousands without power as it threatened to inundate low-...
Sep 05, 2019 Gordon and Dina Reynolds, with their 11-year-old granddaughter, Abby, sit on cots in the hall way of the North Myrtle Beach High School that is currently being used as a Red Cross evacuation shelter Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019 in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Weakened but still deadly, Hurricane Dorian crept up the Southeastern coast of the United States and millions were ordered to evacuate as forecasters said near-record levels of seawater and rain could inundate Georgia and the Carolinas. (Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP)
‘I feel like Job’: Hurricane lays waste to homes in Bahamas
FREEPORT, Bahamas - The ground crunched under Greg Alem's feet on Wednesday as he walked over the ruins of his home, laid waste by Hurricane Dorian. He touched a splintered beam of wood and pointed to...
Sep 04, 2019
NTSB: Tesla on Autopilot when it hit California firetruck
DETROIT - A government report says the driver of a Tesla that slammed into a firetruck near Los Angeles last year was using the car's Autopilot system when a vehicle in front of him suddenly changed l...
Sep 04, 2019 (The Associated Press)
Hong Kong withdraws extradition bill that sparked protests
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Wednesday the government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations, bowing to one of the proteste...
Sep 04, 2019 (The Associated Press)
Bahamians begin rescues as Dorian moves on toward US coast
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) - Bahamians rescued victims of Hurricane Dorian with jet skis and a bulldozer as the U.S. Coast Guard, Britain's Royal Navy and a handful of aid groups tried to get food and med...
Sep 04, 2019 Volunteers walk under the wind and rain from Hurricane Dorian through a flooded road as they work to rescue families near the Causarina bridge in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. The storm’s punishing winds and muddy brown floodwaters devastated thousands of homes, crippled hospitals and trapped people in attics. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Shattering Taliban attack in Kabul even as U.S. deal nears
KABUL - The Taliban on Tuesday defended their suicide bombing against an international compound in the Afghan capital that killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 119 people, just hours after a U.S. ...
Sep 03, 2019
Coast Guard: 25 bodies found after California boat fire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A middle-of-the-night fire swept a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California coast early Monday, leaving at least 25 dead and ...
Sep 03, 2019 Local law enforcement along with search and rescue teams help unload the bodies of those who died in a diving boat fire, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019, in Santa Barbara, Calif. A fire raged through a boat carrying recreational scuba divers anchored near an island off the Southern California coast early Monday, leaving multiple people dead and hope diminishing that any of the remaining people still missing would be found alive. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)
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