A cattle ship blamed for causing a foul smell engulfing Cape Town has departed for Iraq, an animal welfare group has confirmed. The Al Kuwait ship docked in the city’s harbour from Brazil on Sunday to load feed for its cargo of 19,000 cows. Residents soon began complaining of a “nauseating” stench emanating from it. […]
A “nauseating” stench engulfing the South African city of Cape Town comes from a ship docked in the port carrying 19,000 cows, local officials say. “It was the worst stench I have ever come across in my life,” Lerato Bashing, a 29-year-old Cape Town resident, told the BBC. The smell has been traced to the […]
Democrat Tom Suozzi on Tuesday won a special election to reclaim his old New York congressional seat that was vacated by disgraced former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y. Suozzi led Republican Mazi Pilip 54-46 Wednesday morning with nearly all of the votes counted, according to The Associated Press. Suozzi, a centrist who pushed for tougher border […]
The disruptions and ongoing salary dispute in Durham Public Schools are attributed to faulty calculations and a “failure of communication” from top leaders in the district’s administration, according to a report released Wednesday night. After DPS board chair Bettina Umstead announced Wednesday that Superintendent Pascal Mubenga had resigned, she revealed the main findings of an […]
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager described a plan to shoot up his Michigan school in a personal journal, writing that his parents wouldn’t listen to his pleas for help, according to evidence presented Thursday at his mother’s trial. An investigator read portions of Ethan Crumbley’s journal moments before jurors watched a partial video of […]
Four senior members of Iran’s security forces have been killed in a suspected air strike on the Syrian capital. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard blamed Israel for the attack, which it said killed four military advisers as well as a number of Syrian forces. Israel has not commented. For years it has carried out strikes on […]
Jan. 18—An apartment house caught fire Sunday in Elkhart. Elkhart City Police were called to 1826 Hemlock Lane around 7:20 p.m. Sunday for smoke in the building. After further investigation, the ceiling was pulled down and an active fire was found in the floor joist assembly between the first and second floor near the laundry […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At least 14 deaths in Tennessee have been linked to a storm system that blanketed the state in snow and sent temperatures plummeting, as bitterly cold weather kept an icy grip Thursday on a swath of the U.S. stretching from Oregon to the Northeast. Tennessee officials updated the state’s death toll […]
At a Senate Republican leadership press conference on Tuesday, a reporter asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) if it’s accurate to call those incarcerated for January 6th crimes “hostages” after House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) echoed Donald Trump‘s language on this. The reporter asked, “In light of the anniversary of January 6th, […]
(Bloomberg) — This year’s hottest derivatives trade, and perhaps also its most divisive, stole the limelight one final time for 2023 as market watchers cast zero-day options as the villains behind Wednesday’s rally-ending slump in US equities. Most Read from Bloomberg With the S&P 500 Index in overbought territory and turnover curtailed by looming holidays, […]