Sunday, September 3rd, 2017
Funding battle looms as Texas sees Harvey damage at up to $180 billion
HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday challenged Congress to raise the government’s debt limit in order to free up relief spending for Hurricane Harvey, a disaster that the governor of Texas said had caused up to $180 billion in damage. Harvey, which came ashore on Aug. 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, has killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than 1 million and damaged some 200,000 homes in a path of destruction stretching for more than 300 Read More
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The Latest: AP EXCLUSIVE: EPA surveys toxic waste sites
The Latest on Harvey-related flooding and highly contaminated toxic waste sites near Houston (all times local): 10:55 p.m. The flooding of Superfund sites in and around Houston caused by Harvey has raised concerns about whether floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the sites. The Associated Press visited several highly toxic waste sites in and around Houston. All had been inundated with water, in some cases many feet deep. On Saturday, hours after the AP published its first report, the EPA said it had reviewed aerial imagery confirming that 13 Read More
‘We are not well prepared’: An expert’s view of climate change and the next big storm – Politics #CBC
How ready are we to cope with the impacts of climate change? “Quite honestly, I believe we are not well prepared,” says Blair Feltmate, a professor at the University of Waterloo and the new chair of an expert panel struck by the federal government to consider what Canadians and their governments should do to prepare. It was an interesting week for such a panel to be announced. Houston, of course, is under water. On a smaller scale, thousands of residents in and around Windsor, Ont., were flooded by record rainfall, the second
Read MoreRap star Lil Wayne suffers seizures, is hospitalized: reports
(Reuters) – Grammy-winning rap star Lil Wayne was taken to hospital on Sunday after suffering a seizure and being found unconscious in his Chicago hotel room, TMZ said on its web site. Lil Wayne, 34, who has become one of the biggest names in rap music over a two-decade career, suffered a second seizure at the hospital, TMZ added, and his representative confirmed to the site that he had suffered multiple seizures. Reuters could not reach representatives of the rapper to confirm the report. The incident comes more than a
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Facebook’s Watch goes up against YouTube for ad dollars
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc launched its Watch video service to U.S. users on Thursday with plans to allow people to submit shows, as the No. 1 social media network vies with Alphabet Inc’s YouTube for advertising revenue. Advertisers are shifting more of their budgets from television to online as viewers have migrated to watching shows on smartphones and tablets. On Watch, which Facebook began testing earlier this month, users can see hundreds of shows from the likes of Vox, Buzzfeed, Discovery Communications Inc, A&E Networks, Walt Disney Co’s ABC, as Read More