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Powerful storm expected to bring historic flooding, damaging winds and power outages to Alaska

Powerful storm expected to bring historic flooding, damaging winds and power outages to Alaska

brytta/Getty Images/Stock (NEW YORK) — A powerful storm is bearing down on western Alaska, with historic tidal surges, damaging winds and widespread power outages expected throughout the weekend. As is typical for fall storms in Alaska, this one was a typhoon at one point. The remnants of post-tropical typhoon Merbok are […]

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Man who sent bomb and mass shooting threats to Merriam-Webster over gender-inclusive entries pleads guilty

Man who sent bomb and mass shooting threats to Merriam-Webster over gender-inclusive entries pleads guilty

Tim Boyle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A disgruntled man upset about Merriam-Webster dictionary’s update to their definitions of gender pronouns and adjectives to make them more fluid has pleaded guilty in a federal court to making bomb threats and for threatening to kill the company’s employees in a mass shooting. The […]

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Half a billion dollars of illegal narcotics seized in massive bust

Half a billion dollars of illegal narcotics seized in massive bust

Stocktrek Images/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Coast Guard has recovered almost 30,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana, valued at more than $475 million, after seizing the drugs in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. The crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Legare offloaded 24,700 pounds of cocaine and […]

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Martha’s Vineyard lawmaker weighs in on DeSantis flying migrants to island

Martha’s Vineyard lawmaker weighs in on DeSantis flying migrants to island

Dominic Chavez/The Washington Post/Getty Images Martha’s Vineyard became the latest blue state location targeted by a Republican governor who transported undocumented migrants without any planning or warning to lawmakers. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took credit for flying two planes with migrants to the Massachusetts island Wednesday as social service organizations […]

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Hispanic identity may fade with each generation but some Gen-Z Latino-Americans are reclaiming their culture via language

Hispanic identity may fade with each generation but some Gen-Z Latino-Americans are reclaiming their culture via language

Julia Schutz (WEST PALM BEACH, FL) — Seventh-grade Spanish class was the first time Alex Del Dago sat down with the intention of learning his father’s native language. Although simplistic, this class served as the gateway for meaningful communication with his grandma, whom he calls abuela, who only speaks Spanish. […]

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Near-total ban on abortion becomes law in West Virginia

Near-total ban on abortion becomes law in West Virginia

Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images (CHARLESTON, WV) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Friday signed a bill that bans nearly all abortions in the state, days after legislators approved the ban. This makes West Virginia the second state to pass an abortion ban after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe […]

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Tropical Storm Fiona approaches Puerto Rico: Latest forecast

Tropical Storm Fiona approaches Puerto Rico: Latest forecast

NOAA (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Fiona is taking aim on the Caribbean and is set to bring heavy rain and possible flash flooding and mudslides to Puerto Rico. National Hurricane Center is calling for up to 1 foot of rain in Puerto Rico this weekend. Widespread power outages are […]

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Hispanic Heritage Month is more than a weekslong party

Hispanic Heritage Month is more than a weekslong party

Geraldo Cavada, director of the Latino and Latina Studies Program at Northwestern University, speaks with ABC News via videoconference on Sept. 14, 2020. – ABC News (NEW YORK) — Sept. 15 marks the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. For many across the country, this is […]

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Woman arrested over bomb threat made against Boston Children’s Hospital

Woman arrested over bomb threat made against Boston Children’s Hospital

Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (BOSTON) — A Massachusetts woman was arrested Thursday in connection with a “hoax” bomb threat made last month against Boston Children’s Hospital, which has seen weeks of harassment and threats for providing gender-affirming care, federal officials announced. Catherine Leavy, 37, of Westfield, has […]

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One rower injured, one missing after apparent lightning strike in Orlando: Fire department

One rower injured, one missing after apparent lightning strike in Orlando: Fire department

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (ORLANDO, Fla.) — One person has been injured and another is missing after an apparent lightning strike during rowing practice at Lake Fairview in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday night, the fire department said. Members of the nonprofit group North Orlando Rowing Club were practicing in the water […]

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