❗🌀At least 46 people in five states have died from Hurricane Ida related flooding, as flash floods engulfed homes and automobiles. The death toll was highest in New Jersey, with 23 people dead. The majority died in their cars. Floodwaters and a falling tree also took lives in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York. In New York City, 11 people died when they were unable to escape rising water in basement apartments. 🌊❗
❗️🇺🇸🔥Afghan victims of a U.S. drone strike on Thursday have called for an apology after people from their family were killed.
The family says the strike killed 10 relatives, including six children.
The family says the strike killed 10 relatives, including six children.
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🎥✈️🥺🔫 Footage has circulated on social media showing US troops and Afghan security personnel standing behind barbed wire fencing at an entrance to Kabul airport while firing and throwing smoke grenades, indiscriminately shooting what look like blanks or rubber bullets into a crowd of Afghan civilians.
🍽🍛 A Florida diner that posted a sign telling Biden supporters to take their business "elsewhere" was forced to temporarily close after not having enough food to meet a surge in demand.
❗🇦🇫🔫 At least 17 people are dead and 41 more injured in Kabul in the wake of Friday night’s celebratory gunfire by Taliban fighters, a source in the Afghan capital’s emergency hospital has told Sputnik.❗
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⚠️ 🇺🇸 About one in three Americans live in a county that was hit by a weather disaster in the past three months, The Washington Post reports. More than 60% of Americans live in places that experienced a heatwave this summer.
Starting from June this year, at least 388 people died in the US because of hurricanes, flooding, heat and wildfires.
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Starting from June this year, at least 388 people died in the US because of hurricanes, flooding, heat and wildfires.
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🇺🇸 🌉 US Vice President Kamala Harris will start her trip to California, which had been postponed because of the Kabul airport suicide bombing, next week on Wednesday, her spokesperson Symone Sanders confirmed.
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⚡️💥 🇺🇸 At least three people were killed and three others were injured in a shooting in Washington D.C. on Saturday night. According to police, the suspects exited a vehicle and fired shots into a crowd of people.
🚤US coast guard has reported that clean-up crews were responding to a large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida.
According to the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, the slick is estimated to be 14 miles long, consisting of a 4-mile black sheen and a 10-mile rainbow sheen. The growing crude spill appears to be coming from an underwater source at an offshore drilling lease, approximately two miles south of Port Fourchon.
According to the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, the slick is estimated to be 14 miles long, consisting of a 4-mile black sheen and a 10-mile rainbow sheen. The growing crude spill appears to be coming from an underwater source at an offshore drilling lease, approximately two miles south of Port Fourchon.
🥺A Pennsylvania boy is determined to save his lemonade stand earnings for a real-life fire truck for his community.
The Friendship Fire Company has been raising money for a new ladder truck since at least 18 June 2020, according to its GoFundMe page, as the truck is expected to cost $1.3 million. 8-year-old Andrew decided he wanted to help and raised $200 at his summer lemonade stand.
"I think it’s just a great way to teach kids about making a product, selling it, making money and then, well what do we do with this money? We could buy something with it, you know, to treat yourselves. But I just feel like my job as a mother, the biggest role is to help my kids have the biggest heart they can and to want to help and not always put themselves first," said Andrea Dembeck, the boy’s mother.
The Friendship Fire Company has been raising money for a new ladder truck since at least 18 June 2020, according to its GoFundMe page, as the truck is expected to cost $1.3 million. 8-year-old Andrew decided he wanted to help and raised $200 at his summer lemonade stand.
"I think it’s just a great way to teach kids about making a product, selling it, making money and then, well what do we do with this money? We could buy something with it, you know, to treat yourselves. But I just feel like my job as a mother, the biggest role is to help my kids have the biggest heart they can and to want to help and not always put themselves first," said Andrea Dembeck, the boy’s mother.
📊Former president Donald Trump would beat current POTUS Joe Biden if their electoral race were repeated today, according to a new poll.
A survey conducted by Emerson College between 30 August and 1 September, and released on Friday, shows that 47 percent of voters would choose Trump in a hypothetical re-run of last year’s election, as opposed to 46 percent who said that they would back Biden. Some 6 percent of voters said they would opt for another candidate.
A survey conducted by Emerson College between 30 August and 1 September, and released on Friday, shows that 47 percent of voters would choose Trump in a hypothetical re-run of last year’s election, as opposed to 46 percent who said that they would back Biden. Some 6 percent of voters said they would opt for another candidate.
🍺🍺A US Open fan went viral on Friday night thanks to her crowd-pleasing talent for knocking back beer. During the tennis match between Roberto Bautista-Agut and Felix Auger-Aliassime, cameras on the court stopped at the blonde girl with a glass of beer in her hand which she immediately drank in one gulp.
But there was a sequel: later, the cameramen returned to the girl, who didn't have a beer. Nothing daunted, when she saw her face on the big screen, she grabbed a neighbour's beer and downed it in one, prompting a standing ovation from the stands.
But there was a sequel: later, the cameramen returned to the girl, who didn't have a beer. Nothing daunted, when she saw her face on the big screen, she grabbed a neighbour's beer and downed it in one, prompting a standing ovation from the stands.
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🎥🔥🇺🇸 A new ad by former POTUS Donald Trump noscriptd "Failure", produced by Trump’s Save America PAC and released earlier this week, "ran briefly on cable TV".
The ad criticises Biden over events that transpired last month in Afghanistan when the Taliban terrorist organisation ended up seizing control of the country and capturing vast amounts of military hardware abandoned because of the hasty withdrawal of US troops from the country.
The ad criticises Biden over events that transpired last month in Afghanistan when the Taliban terrorist organisation ended up seizing control of the country and capturing vast amounts of military hardware abandoned because of the hasty withdrawal of US troops from the country.
❗️🗞 The New York Times reportedly changed a headline on Saturday about criticism President Biden has received for bringing up his grief over his late son Beau with some of the families of the 13 fallen U.S. service members from the Kabul terror attack last month.
🇬🇳 The US condemns the seizure of power by the military in Guinea, calling on all parties to avoid violence and engage in dialogue, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
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The body-worn camera footage shows members of NYPD Special Ops rescuing a man who fell approximately 30 feet into a storm drain.
The body-worn camera footage shows members of NYPD Special Ops rescuing a man who fell approximately 30 feet into a storm drain.
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🖥Alphabet's Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts.
An unnamed former government employee was cited by Reuters as saying that the Taliban had ordered him last month to save the data on the servers of the ministry he used to work for, but he refused.
“If I do so, then they will get access to the data and official communications of the previous ministry's leadership," said the source, who is now in hiding.
An unnamed former government employee was cited by Reuters as saying that the Taliban had ordered him last month to save the data on the servers of the ministry he used to work for, but he refused.
“If I do so, then they will get access to the data and official communications of the previous ministry's leadership," said the source, who is now in hiding.
📝A spelling error has landed a woman in court
An Illinois resident was arrested in Hawaii attempting to use a fake COVID-19 vaccine card on which the word “Moderna” had been misspelt.
Chloe Mrozak was detained at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu on Saturday, after airport screeners found suspicious errors. The first thing they noticed was the mistake in the vaccine name – “Moderna” was spelt “Maderna”.
The woman was charged with violating Hawaii’s emergency pandemic rules and she was granted bail of $2,000.
An Illinois resident was arrested in Hawaii attempting to use a fake COVID-19 vaccine card on which the word “Moderna” had been misspelt.
Chloe Mrozak was detained at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu on Saturday, after airport screeners found suspicious errors. The first thing they noticed was the mistake in the vaccine name – “Moderna” was spelt “Maderna”.
The woman was charged with violating Hawaii’s emergency pandemic rules and she was granted bail of $2,000.
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🇺🇸🇦🇫 The United States assisted four of its citizens in leaving Afghanistan overland on Monday, the State Department tells Sputnik.