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As jury selection plods on in Madigan trial, 82-year-old ex-speaker laughs at being called 'young'
CHICAGO — Attorneys in the sweeping corruption case against ex-House speaker Michael Madigan resumed questioning potential jurors Friday morning, a process that has proceeded slower than expected and will now spill into next week.
Eight people have already been chosen to decide Madigan’s fate. Attorneys still must select four more jurors as...Read more
Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns
Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher latitudes, and that’s changing weather patterns around the world.
The shift is worsening droughts in some regions, intensifying flooding in others, ...Read more
Bay Bridge pier protection 'deteriorated, detached and missing,' according to inspection report obtained by The Sun
BALTIMORE — The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in March launched national probes into reinforcing the country’s infrastructure, but one need not look far to find an essential span recently in need of pier protection improvements.
In multiple locations on the eastbound span of the iconic Chesapeake Bay Bridge — the original of the ...Read more
Employers haven't a clue how their drug benefits are managed
Most employers have little idea what the pharmacy benefit managers they hire do with the money they exchange for the medications used by their employees, according to a KFF survey released this week.
In KFF’s latest employer health benefits survey, company officials were asked how much of the rebates collected from drugmakers by pharmacy ...Read more
Biden will travel to Florida this weekend to survey damage from Hurricane Milton
MIAMI — President Joe Biden will travel to Florida on Sunday to survey the damage from Hurricane Milton, which tore across the state this week, carving a path of destruction from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic Ocean.
The White House did not say where exactly the president will visit, and is expected to release further details on the trip ...Read more
2 weeks without running water: This is life in Western North Carolina after Helene
Around the mountain town of Banner Elk, neighbors have endured two weeks without running water — a harsh and dirty reality that has hundreds living in the 19th century, toting buckets to the river, collecting trickles from a spring, answering nature’s call behind a bush.
Hurricane Helene carried off the town’s water and sewer system, and ...Read more
Man 'viciously' killed by '8 or 9 dogs' at home that had 24, New York cops say
A large pack of dogs — among 24 living at a home — attacked and killed a man in a backyard, New York authorities said.
James Provost, a 59-year-old from Schenectady, died on the scene, Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins said in an Oct. 10 news conference.
Shortly before 6 p.m. Oct. 9, police responding to a call found “eight or nine” ...Read more
Donald Trump just let some major news about one of his children slip: 'That's nice'
There’s been no formal announcement, but we’re pretty sure that Tiffany Trump is pregnant.
That’s because her father let the news slip, according to CNN reporter Alayna Treene. She was covering former President Donald Trump’s campaign stop Thursday at the Detroit Economic Club.
On X, formerly Twitter, Treene wrote that the Republican ...Read more
Hurricane Milton just left Miami a parting gift. What the changing forecast says
MIAMI — Hurricane Milton, now a post-tropical cyclone and no longer a threat, was a good-for-nothing beast.
Except for one little thing we may feel this weekend: a drop in the temperature and an escape from the phone-dinging heat advisory alerts that have hit almost daily into October.
South Florida woke to temperatures in the mid-70s Friday...Read more
This popular tourist island on the Gulf Coast is closed as it recovers from hurricane
MIAMI — Anna Maria Island is still closed and cannot be accessed, Holmes Beach Police said Friday.
The island, popular with tourists for weekend getaways, is expected to open Saturday morning, police said.
Manatee County officials announced Friday morning that water service is being restored to Anna Maria Island and parts of Longboat Key ...Read more
At Hurricane Milton's ground zero on Siesta Key, a double whammy of damage
MIAMI — Standing on a thick layer of sand, Adam Robinson’s head nearly reached the ceiling of his beachfront condo in Siesta Key — ground zero for Hurricane Milton.
The storm had dumped much of the beach into the living room and rearranged the furniture. The leather recliner was jammed between the wall and the kitchen counter by the front...Read more
Israel yet to make Iran call as it steps up Beirut strikes
Israel has yet to decide how to retaliate against Iran for last week’s missile attack, according to an Israeli official, and remains under pressure from the U.S. and others to limit the severity of its response.
A security cabinet meeting on Thursday ended without a decision on what the response should be, said the official, who asked not to ...Read more
Curtis Bay residents denounce proposed Maryland regulations for CSX coal terminal
BALTIMORE — Backed by science and fury, Curtis Bay residents Thursday night demanded that the Maryland Department of the Environment reject a new permit for the CSX Transportation coal terminal in their neighborhood.
The agency is moving to impose stricter requirements on the railroad giant’s operations.
“There is no reasonable amount of...Read more
Vatican synod is opening the door a bit wider for Catholic women − but they’ve been knocking for more than 100 years
In 2021, Sister Nathalie Becquart became the first woman to vote at any Vatican meeting when Pope Francis appointed her undersecretary to the synod, a gathering of bishops whose second session opened on Oct. 2, 2024.
Becquart is, in the words of Catholic media, “the synod’s face and voice,” even “a synodal icon.” She ...Read more
Israel yet to make Iran call as it steps up Beirut strikes
Israel has yet to decide how to retaliate against Iran for last week’s missile attack, according to an Israeli official, and remains under pressure from the U.S. and others to limit the severity of its response.
A security cabinet meeting on Thursday ended without a decision on what the response should be, said the official, who asked not to ...Read more
Israel yet to reach Iran decision as it steps up Beirut strikes
Israel’s government has yet to decide how to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack last week, according to an Israeli official familiar with the matter.
A security cabinet meeting on Thursday night ended without a decision on what the response should be, the official said. It’s unclear if there are divisions within Prime Minister ...Read more
Florida hospitals face IV fluids shortage after hurricanes disrupt supply chain
Florida hospitals and health providers are coping with a national shortage of IV fluids exacerbated by the two major hurricanes that have hit the Southeast in the past month.
Hurricane Helene damaged the Baxter International Factory outside of Asheville, N.C., which makes about 60% of the U.S. supply of fluids, and Hurricane Milton caused the ...Read more
'It's life, man. Mother Nature.' Far inland, they're now refugees from Milton flooding
MIAMI — Some of Hurricane Milton’s worst flooding came more than 20 miles inland — far from the affluent coastal areas of Clearwater, St. Petersburg and Tarpon Springs that had largely evacuated from the threat of the monster storm.
Nearly a day after Milton’s landfall, the water was still waist deep in a community in unincorporated ...Read more
Back-to-back hurricanes take toll on Gulf Coast neighborhoods. 'I've looked at Zillow'
MIAMI — The wallop of back-to-back storms has taken a tremendous toll on some of the oldest Gulf Coast neighborhoods.
In East Bradenton along the Manatee River, Milton piled more destruction onto what Helene brought. Warped drywall, furniture and household belongings from Helene’s floods were still piled in front of many homes as the second...Read more
Japan group of atomic bomb survivors gets Nobel Peace Prize
A Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to ban such weapons at a time nuclear rhetoric has reached post-Cold War peaks.
The grassroots movement, Nihon Hidankyo, receives the prize “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” the Oslo-based ...Read more
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