After the collapse of a condominium tower in North Miami in June 2021, Rebecca Fishman Lipsey realized her organization needed to overhaul how it responded to disasters. Source link
NEW YORK — Donald Trump, fresh off launching his presidential bid at Trump Tower, allegedly told his lawyer Michael Cohen to be ready that negative stories from women were about to pour in. “There’s gonna be a lot of women coming forward,” Mr. Cohen testified that Mr. Trump told him in 2015. Mr. Cohen recounted […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of their first legislative gathering in five years – one that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy. After a day off on Sunday, delegates to the General Conference […]
OPINION: Dear Mama Bears: In my daily life, I strive to follow the teachings of Jesus, and I understand that suffering is an inevitable part of the human experience. However, I struggle with the thought of intentionally preparing for suffering. It feels counterintuitive to embrace hardship instead of seeking ways to avoid it. Should I […]
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April. The total solar eclipse on April 8 will be the first to touch the province since 1979, and Niagara Falls was declared by National Geographic […]
As hundreds of Teamsters members hit the picket lines in Texas, thousands more plan to strike at the country’s biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch. More than 400 union workers at a Molson Coors facility in Fort Worth went on strike Saturday after contract negotiations broke down over pay raises. The union said the company’s offers were “insulting.” […]
Ukraine had been independent since 1991 when President Vladimir Putin ordered his tanks across the border nearly two years ago. Russian soldiers quickly found themselves battling not just a rival army but an entire nation at arms, retired Army Gen. Mark Milley said Tuesday in a forum sponsored by the Association of the U.S. Army. […]
“Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum,” Roman general Vegetius advised in his 5th-century work, “Epitoma rei militaris.” “If you want peace,” in English, “prepare for war.” But what if you wanted a nice, easy peace but without all the bother of those difficult things that Vegetius wrote about, like […]
President Joe Biden said last week that military strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen will continue even as they fail to stop attacks on shipping. “Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?” Biden was asked last week as he departed the White House. “Well, when you say ‘working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they […]
Storms that have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death from Oregon to Tennessee and even sent a plane skidding off a taxiway were expected to sock both coasts with another round of weather chaos on Friday. Source link
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