Near record heat can be expected until October, according to predictions from the Barbados-based Caribbean Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) in its Heat Outlook for April to September 2024. Intense, near-record night-time and daytime heat is…
ATLANTA — An armed man trying to rob a Chick-fil-A was sent running when an employee fought him off for more than three minutes in the kitchen, according to investigators in Georgia. The brawl was…
Keeping an eye on the tropical wave that could enter the Gulf this weekend MIAMI — A large tropical wave was tagged by the National Hurricane Center as Invest 97-L this morning. This well-defined wave…
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A St. Thomas elementary school custodian who used the information from her co-workers’ credit cards to shop online at Walmart has been arrested. Tatiana C. Thompson, 30, was arrested and charged with…
CARACAS (AP) — A former U.S. Green Beret who in 2020 organized a failed cross-border raid of Venezuelan army deserters to remove President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested in New York on federal arms smuggling charges. A…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will introduce legislation today reaffirming that presidents do not have immunity for criminal actions, an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last month. Schumer’s No Kings Act…
COLUMBUS (AP) — Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone…
HAVANA (AP) — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the mastermind of al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The development points to a long-delayed resolution…
TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (AP) — As the heavy, barrel-shaped waves of Teahupo’o, Tahiti — where the Paris Olympics surfing competition is being held — crashed in the distance, another, smaller surf session was underway just off the shore.…
SAN JUAN — A well-defined tropical wave is producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms over Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the northern Leeward Islands, and the adjacent waters of the southwestern Atlantic…