Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:57:33 +0000
TRONA, Calif. – Aftershocks of last week’s big earthquakes are still rumbling beneath the California desert, but seismologists say the probability of large quakes continues to decline.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:45:19 +0000
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – The federal government is warning Americans to brace for a “floodier” future.Government scientists predict 40 places in the U.S. will experience higher than normal rates of so-called sunny day flooding this year because of rising sea levels and an abnormal El Nino weather system.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 23:16:01 +0000
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security says there was a 28% drop in the number of migrants encountered by Customs and Border Protection at the U.S.-Mexico border last month.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:56:30 +0000
NEW ORLEANS – With health insurance availability for millions of Americans on the line, supporters of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to conclude that the law is still valid even though Congress eliminated a tax it imposed on people who don’t buy insurance.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:42:51 +0000
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump gave a warm White House welcome Tuesday to the leader of Qatar amid a bitter rift between the tiny, energy-rich nation and its fellow American allies in the Persian Gulf and rising tensions with Iran.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 22:32:42 +0000
LOS ANGELES – A sprawling Navy base in the Southern California desert is still closed to nonessential personnel Tuesday as the military works to determine the damage from two powerful earthquakes last week.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:45:22 +0000
LOS ANGELES – The powerful Mojave Desert earthquakes that rocked California ended a years-long lull in major seismic activity and raised new interest in an early warning system being developed for the West Coast.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:20:14 +0000
CHICAGO – Nearly one-quarter of Americans say they never plan to retire, according to a poll that suggests a disconnection between individuals’ retirement plans and the realities of aging in the workforce.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 22:31:25 +0000
RIDGECREST, Calif. – Officials in two damaged desert communities worked Sunday to repair roads and restore utilities following the largest earthquake in Southern California in nearly two decades.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 04:30:43 +0000
TEMPE, Ariz. – Starbucks apologized after an employee reportedly asked six police officers to leave or change their location in one of the company’s shops in a Phoenix suburb because another customer reported feeling unsafe.
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