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FORT MCMURRAY , Canada (AFP) — The center of the city at the heart of the forest fires raging through Alberta’s oil sands region remains “largely intact” even though outlying neighborhoods have suffered serious damage, the authorities said Friday. Fort McMurray’s downtown area “is largely intact, the hospital is still standing, the telephone center is intact and the water treatment center is back up and running,” Alberta’s Premier Rachel Notley told reporters during a news […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – by Paul HANDLEY US employers cut back hiring in April in the wake of the economy’s sharp downturn, raising worries of a protracted slowdown in the world’s largest economy. Net new jobs fell unexpectedly to the lowest level in seven months, with just 160,000 additional jobs generated, over 40,000 less than economists predicted, the Labor Department reported Friday. That was still a strong enough pace to continue absorbing new entrants to […]
https://youtu.be/ykzGXeQ2Eck Tens of thousands of people are evacuated from the Canadian city of Fort McMurray as forest fires rage in Alberta’s oil sands region. (courtesy AFPTV)
HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) — Houston firefighters were battling a massive warehouse fire on Thursday (May 5) fueled by hazardous materials. A nearby elementary school was evacuated and a shelter in place order was issued to the nearby vicinity. Firefighters encountered several explosions as the battled the aggressive fire which was being fanned by strong winds. No injuries have been reported.
BELTSVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) — One adult was fatally shot and a second person was wounded on Thursday (May 5), in a shooting on the grounds of a high school in Maryland that “appears to be a domestic-related” incident, police said. The Prince George’s County Police Department said it received reports of gunfire at High Point High School in the community of Beltsville, Maryland, about 15 miles northeast of Washington. “One adult fatally shot, second wounded […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A jury in Los Angeles convicted an ex-garbage collector and police garage attendant on Thursday of murdering nine women and a teenage girl over a period of two decades. Jury members reached the verdict against Lonnie Franklin Jr. in the so-called “Grim Sleeper” killings after less than two days of deliberations, ending a macabre case that exposed the city’s seedy underbelly. Franklin, 63, who faces a possible death sentence, […]
MONTREAL, Cnada (AFP) — Tens of thousands of people evacuated from the Canadian city of Ft. McMurray because of raging forest fires face a long wait to return home, an official said Thursday. The damage from the blazes is major and there is no way to predict when evacuees can go home, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said. “Unfortunately, we do know that it will not be a matter of days,” she told a news conference. […]
by Michael Mathes WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the nation’s top Republican, said Thursday he was not ready to support Donald Trump as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee in the November election. “To be perfectly candid… I’m just not ready to do that at this point,” Ryan told CNN. “I am not there right now,” Ryan went on. “I hope to though, and I want to. But […]
by Michel COMTE WANDERING RIVER , Canada (AFP) — A handful of abandoned cars wrapped in yellow police ribbons still lined the ditches along the main roadway to Fort McMurray Thursday, days after a massive exodus from the wildfire-stricken Canadian city. The bumper-to-bumper traffic that had clogged the roadway in recent days has dissipated. Only a few government and emergency vehicles still speed up and down Highway 63, which has been closed to non-essential traffic […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) — A proposal for a higher, stronger White House fence was presented to Washington planning officials on Thursday (May 5) in a bid to halt fence-jumping security breaches at one of the world’s most heavily guarded buildings. The fence at the U.S. president’s residence will be roughly twice as high and include devices to detect intruders and block climbers, according to the presentation by the National Park Service and Secret […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) – by Kerry Sheridan The United States Thursday issued a sweeping ban on sales of e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and hookahs to those under 18, marking the first time these products have been federally regulated. The ban will go into effect in 90 days, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, which described the final rule — issued after several years of study and debate — as “historic.” “As cigarette […]
LAC LA BICHE, Canada (AFP) – by Michel Comte Sitting on the tailgate of his truck, strumming his guitar, the only item that he was able to salvage in a hurried evacuation of Fort McMurray as wildfires raged closer to the Canadian oil city, Alan Javierto says: “I just want to go home.” “Hopefully soon,” he adds. “But probably it will take weeks, maybe more.” The wildfires that forced almost 100,000 to flee and […]
