The partial failure of Minnesota’s 114-year-old Rapidan Dam highlights risks that many communities face as the number of dams in disrepair rises and climate change makes rainfall more frequent and severe. Before the breach, which led floodwaters to carve away at the bank of the Minnesota River and swallow a waterside home, local leaders in […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The visuals were stunning: Water from the Blue Earth River surged around a southern Minnesota dam, carrying a shipping container with it as it toppled utility poles, wrecked a substation and washed away part of a riverbank. A home teetered on the edge of an eroded slope as floodwaters rushed underneath. Earlier […]
The viability of a US-backed proposal to wind down the war in Gaza has been cast into doubt after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would only be willing to agree to a “partial” ceasefire deal that would not end the conflict. His comments sparked an uproar from families of Israeli hostages held by […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — This week, the Oregon Department of Transportation is letting drivers know to expect traffic delays and congestion related to bridge work near Southwest 26th Avenue. This comes one week ahead of the planned closure of a four-mile stretch of I-5 in the last weekend of June, officials said. Partial nighttime closures […]
By Luc Cohen (Reuters) – New York prosecutors say they are open to a partial lifting of a judge’s gag order now that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been convicted on criminal charges stemming from an effort to influence the 2016 election by buying a porn star’s silence. Prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For 27 years, federal courts have held special oversight over custody conditions for child migrants. The Biden administration wants a judge to partially lift those powers. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee will consider the request at a hearing in Los Angeles on Friday, barely a week before new safeguards take effect […]
Jun. 6—The 60-mile gravel McCarthy Road was reopened Wednesday after a partial collapse near Chitina prompted state officials to enact emergency repairs. The road runs from Chitina to just outside the town of McCarthy, about 225 miles east of Anchorage. State transportation officials reopened one lane of the road Monday evening after shutting it down […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa was heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time Friday as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority. With more than half of votes counted across the country’s nine provinces, the ANC had received just under 42% […]
UPDATE: Traffic is flowing as normal. A partial closure of Interstate 79 in Cranberry Township is causing major delays. One of the northbound lanes, approaching the Route 228 exit, is closed after a crash on Thursday afternoon. Traffic is being diverted to Route 19, causing major congestion in the area. Drivers are being advised to […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration will seek to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants traveling alone, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment, an attorney involved in the case says. The Justice Department has told opposing attorneys it will ask a […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia – A volcano in Indonesia has recently experienced a series of powerful and explosive eruptions, prompting concerns of a potential tsunami. Mount Ruang on Tagulandang Island, one of the Sangihe Islands located off the northern coast of Sulawesi, has erupted at least five times since Tuesday, the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia said. Lava […]
(Bloomberg) — Spain faces a setback in its efforts to unlock European Union post-pandemic recovery funds as the government is increasingly unlikely to complete an overhaul of unemployment benefits that is needed to trigger full disbursement. Most Read from Bloomberg The EU executive’s arm and the Spanish government have come to the conclusion that a […]