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Forty dead, neighborhoods burned to ash in California fires
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Reuters) – Dry, warm gusts of wind are forecast for Sunday as firefighters continue to grapple with the deadliest blazes in California’s history, which have killed at least 40 people and reduced entire neighborhoods to ash. Fast-moving fires spread by shifting winds forced thousands more people to evacuate their homes on Saturday as the death toll crept upwards. Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for. More than 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters battled 16 major wildfires in areas north of San Francisco that have consumed
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Read MorePuerto Rico seeks waiver of shipping restrictions to speed hurricane relief
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Puerto Rico officials pressed the Trump administration on Wednesday to lift a ban on foreign shipping between American ports as the U.S. island territory struggled with fuel, water and medical supply shortages one week after Hurricane Maria struck. Even as federal emergency management authorities and the U.S. military stepped up relief efforts, many residents on the island of 3.4 million people voiced exasperation at the prolonged lack of electricity, reliable drinking supplies and other essentials. Maria, the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto
Read MorePrince Harry and I are in love, says U.S. actress Meghan Markle
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. actress Meghan Markle, the girlfriend of Britain’s Prince Harry, has said they are in love and happy together, in her first frank comments about their relationship since they became a couple last year. In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine published on Tuesday, Markle said she began dating Harry, fifth in line to the British throne, in July last year after she met him through friends. ”We’re a couple,“ Markle told the U.S. magazine. ”We’re in love. I‘m sure there will be a time when we Read More
Nissan adds range to cheaper Leaf, but new drivers are key
Nissan’s new Leaf electric car will go farther on a charge and has a new type of drive technology and the possibility of single-pedal driving. It will also be cheaper, though the world’s top-selling electric car still won’t match the driving range of its prime competitors. The zero-emissions vehicle — which Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. unveiled in the U.S. late Tuesday and in a Tokyo suburb Wednesday — promises a travel range of about 400 kilometers in Japanese driving conditions or 150 miles in the U.S., before needing another Read More
BRIEF-Digital Ally prices $3.0 mln registered equity offering
Aug 21 (Reuters) – Digital Ally Inc * Digital Ally prices $3.0 million registered equity offering * Digital Ally – agreed to issue & sell, in a registered direct offering, an aggregate of 1 million shares of common stock at an offering price of $3.00 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: Source link #USA #News #USnews #worldnews #headlinenews #Breakingnews #weathernews #UnitedStates news #CanadianNews #weatherforecast top news #stories, #hourlyweather #Reuters
Another statue removed amid debate over symbols of U.S. slave past – world news headlines from reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Maryland authorities took down a statue on Friday of a 19th century chief justice who wrote an infamous pro-slavery decision, the latest example of action across the United States over memorials that have triggered racially charged protests. Meanwhile, the mother of a woman killed when a man crashed a car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in the Virginia city of Charlottesville on Saturday said that after hearing Donald Trump’s latest comments, she did not want to talk to the president. In what
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