Battered Florida begins long recovery from back-to-back major hurricanes
Fort Pierce, Florida, US Reuters Millions of Floridians began a long and difficult recovery on Friday after the state’s second major hurricane in two weeks, restoring power, shovelling mud from flooded homes and clearing mountains of debris left by Milton and Helene. While some coastal cities such as Tampa were spared the catastrophic surge of […]
Hurricane Milton leaves at least 10 dead, millions without power in Florida
Fort Pierce/St Petersburg, Florida, US Reuters Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after cutting a destructive path across Florida that spawned tornados, killed at least 10 people and left millions without power, but the storm did not trigger the catastrophic surge of seawater that was feared. Governor Ron DeSantis said the state […]
Florida braces for Hurricane Milton on the heels of Helene
Reuters Florida prepared on Sunday for its largest evacuation since 2017 as Hurricane Milton intensified in the Gulf of Mexico on its path toward the US state’s western coast, coming on the heels of the devastating Hurricane Helene. Milton, which strengthened from a tropical storm to hurricane on Sunday, was projected to make landfall on […]
Debby, now a tropical storm, soaks northern Florida, kills at least four
Steinhatchee, Florida, US Reuters Tropical Storm Debby dropped buckets of rain on northern Florida on Monday and killed at least four people as the downgraded hurricane churned toward Georgia and the Carolinas, threatening a week of torrential downpours and flooding across the region. The slow-moving storm plowed into Florida’s Gulf Coast around 7am on Monday […]
Trump lauded by former rivals Haley, DeSantis in show of unity at Republican convention
Milwaukee, US Reuters Donald Trump’s former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, offered full-throated endorsements of his candidacy at the party’s convention, in a display of unity days after he survived an assassination attempt. Haley, who had described Trump as unfit for office during her campaign, urged her supporters to […]
Updated: In show of strength, Trump dominates Iowa caucus, DeSantis edges Haley for second
Updated: 4:45pm (AEDT) Des Moines, Iowa Reuters Donald Trump secured a resounding victory in the first 2024 Republican presidential contest in Iowa on Monday, asserting his dominance over the party as he seeks a third consecutive nomination and a rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden. Edison Research projected the win and said Florida Governor Ron […]
Dangerously cold temps continue across US as 2024 presidential race begins in Iowa
Reuters Much of the United States remained gripped by an Arctic blast on Monday, cutting power to tens of thousands of customers in northern states and Texas and potentially dampening turnout in Iowa, where voters will cast the first ballots for a Republican candidate in November’s presidential race. The dangerously frigid weather is expected to […]
US Vice President Harris critiques Florida’s slavery view at AME churchwomen’s meeting
United States RNS In a speech to a women’s convention of the African Methodist Episcopal Church on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a written invitation from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to discuss the state’s controversial standards for teaching the history of slavery in public schools. “I’m here in Florida and I will tell you there […]
Migrant politics: DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls “reprehensible”
OLGA R RODRIGUEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT, of Associated Press, report…
US politics: Trump or DeSantis?- Neither, say Ukrainian-American voters angry at war stance
GRAM SLATTERY, of Reuters, reports from Pennsylvania…