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Storms dump record rain in Oklahoma and cause death in Texas

9/23/2018, 1:30:42 AM
DALLAS (AP) — A storm system dumped record amounts of rain in parts of Oklahoma and caused flooding in Texas, including in the Dallas area, where floodwaters swept a man from a br ✔ The weather service has said a zone of low-pressure over West Texas, tropical moisture off the Gulf of Mexico and an approaching cold front combined to produce the heavy rain that was moving into Arkansas, prompting flash flood watches until Sunday morning


National park in Hawaii reopens more than four months after volcanic eruption - Los Angeles Times

9/23/2018, 12:11:02 AM
A national park in Hawaii has reopened after being closed for more than four months because of Kilauea volcano's latest eruption, which caused widespread damage to park infrastructure and dramatically changed its landscape. ✔ The crater looks completely different, Johanson said ✔ And from there, they can see down into the crater itself ✔ While volcanic activity has slowed significantly in the past month and no lava is reaching the surface at Kilauea, scientists aren't ready to declare the latest eruption over


Florence's rain leads to destructive wall of water snaking down Carolinas

9/23/2018, 12:03:40 AM
South Carolina's Waccamaw River and North Carolina's Cape Fear River are still rising ✔ So coming in from our north is the Waccamaw River and what you see here is already the low-lying areas, Matheny said ✔ 42 Photos Hurricane Florence strikes southeastern U.S. A powerful, slowly-moving storm slammed into the Carolinas, bringing deadly storm surges and flooding


Saving pets without a permit: Good Samaritan arrested after helping animals survive Florence

9/23/2018, 2:09:22 AM
An animal rescuer in North Carolina was arrested after trying to help shelter animals after Hurricane Florence. ✔ The non-profit updated a Facebook status to breakdown the charges: 1 count of administering amoxicillin to Big Momma, 1 count of administering Tramadol to Big Momma, 3 counts of administering amoxicillin to a white Siamese cat, 3 counts of administering a topical antibiotic ointment (triple antibiotic from Dollar Tree) to a white Siamese cat, 3 counts of administering amoxicillin to a cat known as Sweet Pea, 1 count of administering amoxicillin to an unnamed black kitten, and 1 count of solicitation to commit a crime, the non-profit writes


Ministers warn harder EU exit risks breaking up Britain

9/23/2018, 12:05:42 AM
Senior Conservatives fear diplomatic disaster ‘on scale of Suez crisis’ is brewing ✔ Theresa May is being warned by cabinet colleagues that a shift towards a harder Brexit will hasten the break-up of the UK, amid a renewed attempt by Brexiters to secure a clean split from the European Union ✔ Since May’s Chequers deal was rejected in humiliating fashion by EU leaders last week, momentum has been building once again among some Tories behind the idea of securing a free trade deal, similar to that given to Canada


60mph winds set to round off wet and windy weekend

9/23/2018, 2:32:32 AM
But the fallout from storms Ali and Bronagh, which saw widespread disruption, including fallen trees and flooded, blocked roads, is unlikely to be repeated ✔ Gusts of up to 60mph are expected to round off a wet and windy weekend, but conditions are not expected to be as severe as storms in recent days ✔ (Image: Mercury Press & Media) Three-day UK weather forecast Today (Sunday) : It will be overcast with rain and brisk winds in the south during the morning


Bank boss says huge numbers of Britons are making dishonest PPI claims

9/23/2018, 2:22:27 AM
Barclays chairman John McFarlane (pictured), one of the UK's most senior bankers, said customers made a large amount of dishonest claims, adding it was 'inconceivable' they were all legitimate. ✔ The rush to claim PPI compensation has turned huge numbers of Britons into fraudsters, one of the country’s most senior bankers claims today ✔ In other instances, they were sold PPI even though they would never have been eligible to claim on the policy, or despite having protection already


Kirstjen Nielsen approves welfare limits on immigrants

9/23/2018, 1:27:49 AM
The Homeland Security has announced new rules designed to enforce a long-standing, but also long-ignored, requirement that immigrants not become a burden on American taxpayers. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who signed the proposal Friday, said it would push immigrants eithrt to be self-sufficient or to rely on their family or the business that’s sponsoring them to be in the U.S. for help, rather than to take assistance from the government. ✔ Today he’s selling the lie that immigrants weaken the U.S. economy when exactly the opposite is true, said Rep ✔ Disaster relief, assistance to immigrants serving in the armed forces or their families, and emergency medical care would not count against a immigrant under the Trump administration’s proposal


DAN HODGES: The word has gone out from Corbyn's Lubyanka

9/23/2018, 12:56:38 AM
DAN HODGES: Biographical and childish antipathy aside, there are hard political reasons why Corbyn has always feared Tom Watson, who was elected deputy Labour leader in 2015. ✔ ‘Watch yourself, Austin Powers is eyeballing us,’ one of our number warned me ✔ But Corbyn’s team have decided the time has come to move against him ✔ Why’s he sitting with all the rest of us?’  It had to be discretely pointed out that Hinds is still Education Secretary and a full member of the Government


Creepy messages from missing flight MH370 captain to Malaysian models

9/23/2018, 1:18:00 AM
Obsessive messages sent from the pilot of missing flight MH370 have been revealed, showing how he stalked the social media profile of Malaysian twin model sisters. ✔ Messages from the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have revealed a creepy man who obsessed over twin sister models' social media profiles ✔ Interest in the co-pilot was renewed when it was revealed he was the last person to communicate from the cockpit after the communication system was cut off


My Aunty June, who ran her own race in a very different Victoria

9/23/2018, 1:07:39 AM
This spring, flowers in bloom have turned my mind to the life of my aunt, who died in May aged 91. Some years ago, she made a record of her memories. ✔ She helped operate the milkers with their dangerously exposed motors and big leather pulleys ✔ It’s that time of year when the wind warms the topsoil, the sunshine nurtures the seed, and the scent of the flowers is sweeter not just for those who have grown them, but those who know the place from which they come


‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years?

9/23/2018, 12:18:09 AM
Mechanical exoskeletons, bionic limbs, uploadable brains: six experts’ visions of 2118 ✔ Predicting the future is a fool’s game at the best of times ✔ The benefits will be extraordinarily valuable; it will pay for itself in no time ✔ Darpa (the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) recently chipped an individual so he could telepathically control multiple drones ✔ The modern information environment is far more complex and faster than anything we’ve experienced


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