Storm Beryl kills three in Texas, knocks out power

Reuters Tropical Storm Beryl brought howling winds and torrential rain to south-east Texas on Monday, killing at least three people, flooding highways, closing oil ports, canceling more than 1,000 flights and knocking out power to more than 2.5 million homes and businesses. Beryl, the season’s earliest Category 5 hurricane on record, weakened from a hurricane […]
Ports along Texas coast close, restrict traffic as Tropical Storm Beryl approaches

Houston, US Reuters Ports along the Texas coast were closing or restricting vessel traffic on Sunday to prepare for Tropical Storm Beryl, which was expected to strengthen back to a hurricane before hitting the area early on Monday. The storm, which at one point intensified to a Category 5 hurricane, left a deadly trail of […]
The Interview: “We still have work to do” – Wheaton’s Theon Hill on the new US holiday, Juneteenth

PAUL O’DONNELL, of Religion News Service, speaks with Theon Hill, an associate professor at Wheaton College who teaches rhetoric, race and social change in American culture and politics, about the newly declared US national holiday, Juneteenth…