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Emergency crews are assessing damage amid widespread power outages, Mayor Welch says. St. Petersburg, Fla., Mayor Ken Welch said emergency workers and city officials ventured out at daybreak Thursday (Sept. 29) to assess damage from Ian, one of the most powerful hurricanes to strike Florida, the Tampa Bay Times reports. They will note the locations of fallen trees obstructing roadways […]
The rapper ran for president in 2020 before being conceded that November. Kanye West is back in the headlines and this time, he’s saying that he wants to run for president again. Chatting with Good Morning America correspondent Linsey Davis, she asked if he has any future political aspirations. The Donda rapper answered “yes.” West previously made a run for president […]
The decision was a reversal of a decision made last year. In a reversal of a decision made last year, a Texas state agency has reportedly decided against recommending that the governor grant a posthumous pardon to George Floyd for a 2004 drug conviction. According to Reuters, in a letter sent on Thursday (September 15) to the Harris […]
The storm has also made landfall in the Dominican Republic. Hurricane Fiona is hitting Puerto and the Dominican Republic hard as it’s nearly wiping out the island’s power and causing major flooding. CNN reports that Fiona made landfall Monday morning (September 19) in the DR after crossing onto land a day earlier in southwestern Puerto Rico, […]
The WNBA superstar has been sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison for drug smuggling. Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner and the wife of Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine convicted on espionage charges in Russia, met with President Joe Biden. According to ESPN, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre met with the wives separately to assure Griner and […]
‘They lock me up in front of my children, in front of my wife, in front of my church,’ Bishop Lamor Whitehead said. A woman awaited arraignment Monday (Sept. 19) in Brooklyn Criminal Court after officers took her and Bishop Lamor Whitehead into custody for clashing during his Sunday morning sermon. The New York Daily News reports that the […]
