St. Croix: Partly sunny, breezy, brief showers, high 89
CHRISTIANSTED – Today St. Croix will be partly sunny with a brief shower or two and breezy in the afternoon with a high of 89, AccuWeather said. Tonight St. Croix…
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Saudi warned Iran to reach nuclear deal with Trump or risk Israeli strike
TEHRAN (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia's defense minister delivered a blunt message to Iranian officials in Tehran last month: take President Donald Trump's offer to negotiate a nuclear agreement seriously because…
Puerto Rico governor pledges to improve island’s crumbling power grid after repeated outages
SAN JUAN (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor pledged Thursday to improve the island’s crumbling electric grid and boost the economy in her first address after being elected last year as anger intensifies…
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Robert Prevost, first pope from US in history of the Catholic Church, takes the name Leo XIV
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment…
US forecasters are more hobbled than ever as hurricane season nears
MIAMI (CNN) — The National Weather Service is in worse shape than previously known, according to interviews with current and former meteorologists, due to a combination of layoffs, early retirements and…
Haitians fleeing gang violence swim across the country’s longest river
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of people swam and waded across Haiti’s longest river on Wednesday in a desperate attempt to flee gangs that launched a fresh attack on a…
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Scientists map part of a mouse’s brain that’s so complex it looks like a galaxy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring…
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Condos on a cruise ship? Why a Miami developer is planning luxury homes at sea
MIAMI (Uniquely) — Russell Galbut and his wife, Ronalee, have been hooked on cruising since their first voyage 47 years ago. Galbut’s decades-long, ambitious career as a real estate developer…
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Trump calls for deporting some citizens to El Salvador, testing US law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump said he wants to deport some violent criminals who are U.S. citizens to Salvadoran prisons, a move that experts said would violate U.S. law. Trump's comments…
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Baggage handler’s shirtless stunt in airplane’s turbine could have got him killed: ‘Stupid’
They didn’t appreciate his air strip-tease. A judge has blasted an ex-baggage handler as “vain and stupid” after he filmed himself working out shirtless inside a moving jet engine at…