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Typhoon Trami latest maps: Spaghetti models, path trackers and satellite radars

9/27/2018, 10:06:23 PM
TYPHOON Trami is set to put lives at risk as it barrels through the Ryukyu Islands and mainland Japan on Friday into Monday. Here are the latest spaghetti models, path trackers and satellite radars. ✔ Time is running out for preparations in the Ryukyu Islands ✔ Typhoon Trami has picked up 103mph wind speeds with gusts up to 126mph ✔ This makes Trami the equivelant of a category two hurricane according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale ✔ After that, the storm will track across the mainland and pour rain for the rest of the weekend into early next week



Tropical Storm Kirk tracker: Latest spaghetti models and NOAA warnings - Where is Kirk NOW

9/27/2018, 8:46:39 PM
TROPICAL Storm Kirk is churning toward the Caribbean Sea and is due to hit the Lesser Antilles imminently as a powerful storm. Here is all the latest. ✔ The storm is packing maximum sustained winds near 50mph, with some higher gusts ✔ There is the additional rainfall hazard, with up to 10 inches of rainfall possible across Martinique and Dominica ✔ Small craft should remain in port and cruise interests may want to consider alternate routes until the storm has passed in a few days



'Medicane,' a rare, hurricane-like storm, is on track to hit Europe

9/27/2018, 9:00:10 PM
A powerful and rare storm is set to hit the Eastern Mediterranean this weekend. ✔ Models are in very good agreement in potentially intense warm core cyclone *MEDICANE* in the Ionian sea this Friday ✔ The Medicane could make landfall in SW Greece early Sunday with extremely severe winds, high waves, torrential rainfall & flash floods: https://t.co/WsGna2s3Vs pic.twitter.com/1VDeTuqjiF severe-weather.EU (@severeweatherEU) September 25, 2018 Read More The system is expected to move slowly over the island of Crete and southern Greece on Saturday before picking up speed and heading into Western Turkey on Sunday ✔ CNN's Judson Jones also contributed to this story



Chris Wallace of Fox News calls Christine Blasey Ford testimony a ‘disaster’ for Republicans

9/27/2018, 8:16:51 PM
Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony Thursday on Capitol Hill made for riveting - and potentially devastating - TV, with Fox News’ Chris Wallace calling it a “disaster” for Republicans, and some commentators at other networks echoing that assessment. ✔ Why do we have to step back and with absolute maximum caution have her interviewed by another woman ✔ … It was all a fumbled attempt to make out with a girl at a party ✔ • Associated Press reporters Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this story



Hurricane Rosa path MAPPED: Where is Hurricane Rosa NOW?

9/27/2018, 9:33:59 PM
ROSA has quickly intensified into a major hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Centre. Here is Hurricane Rosa’s path mapped, including where Rosa is now. ✔ Rosa will create swells which will affect parts of the coasts of southwestern Mexico ✔ Other areas affected will include the southern Baja California Peninsula, and southern California late this week and over the weekend ✔ Both with end on November 30, after bringing dangerous storm systems across warm waters



Championship conkers ‘imported from GERMANY’ as Brit crops ‘too tiny and shrivelled’

9/27/2018, 11:26:04 PM
CONKERS may have to be imported from Germany after the summer heatwave left this year’s poor crop too tiny and shrivelled up for games. ✔ Panicked enthusiasts at the World Conker Championships, held in the UK next month, fear the event could be ruined due to the weak batch of nuts ✔ It would be the first time in more than 40 years the event would be forced to use foreign horse chestnuts ✔ At present, conkers are smaller, fewer and dropping earlier



Midterm elections in US: Democrats face WILDERNESS like Labour in 2010 by lurching to LEFT

9/27/2018, 9:46:11 PM
THE Democratic Party face the prospect of years in the political wilderness by leaning too far to the left, a shock new poll by Lord Ashcroft ahead of the midterm elections has claimed. ✔ Nearly half of Democratic voters think the party's (Image: LORD ASHCROFT POLLS) But after 13 years in power, Labour were defeated by the Conservatives in the 2010 general election, when the Tories formed a coalition Government with the Liberal Democrats



Small islands use big platform to warn of climate change

9/27/2018, 11:28:48 PM
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On the map, their homes are tiny specks in a vast sea of blue, rarely in the headlines and far removed from the centers of power. But for a few days each yea ✔ UNITED NATIONS (AP) On the map, their homes are tiny specks in a vast sea of blue, rarely in the headlines and far removed from the centers of power ✔ Medina said his Caribbean country backs calls for an international fund to compensate poor nations for the loss and damage caused by climate change



Tears and raw fury: Kavanaugh hearing makes for riveting TV

9/27/2018, 10:23:20 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's political divide and the burgeoning #MeToo movement played out in a riveting daytime drama Thursday before millions of Americans watching the Senate J ✔ NEW YORK (AP) The nation's political divide and the burgeoning #MeToo movement played out in a riveting daytime drama Thursday before millions of Americans watching the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh ✔ NBC's Savannah Guthrie said Ford's description of Kavanaugh and a friend of his laughing uproariously during the alleged attack is a moment that will resonate with many Americans



Celebrity MasterChef finalists revealed - find out who's made the last three

9/27/2018, 8:12:59 PM
The last woman standing - Paralympian Stef Reid - was kicked off the show, paving the way for an all-male final ✔ The Celebrity MasterChef final is an all-male affair, following the departure last night of the last woman standing, Paralympian Stef Reid ✔ I just came back from Lake Como, and went to a little restaurant up in the mountains, where a young man cooked sausage in the back of his van



Boris Johnson urges Theresa May to rip up Chequers plan and prove she has the 'guts for Brexit'

9/27/2018, 11:49:12 PM
BORIS JOHNSON is demanding Theresa May prove she has the “guts” for Brexit – by ripping up her Chequers plan and negotiating a new trade deal with the EU. In a staggering eve of p… ✔ Use the two year post-Brexit transition phase to thrash out a trade deal based on the one struck between Canada and Brussels ✔ Launch practical preparations to operate our own trade and immigration policy and to leave the Customs Union ✔ We have the chance to get it right, and I am afraid that future generations will not lightly forgive us it we fail



How Fox is reacting to the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing

9/27/2018, 10:59:39 PM
How Fox News is reacting to the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing ✔ Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday ✔ There is so much for Republicans riding on the next few hours...Everyone on the edge of their seats, and Judge Kavanaugh has to bring it or it’s not going to happen ✔ Lindsey Graham’s decision to be the first Republican senator to question either witness, instead of Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell



Opinion | What was Rachel Mitchell doing?

9/27/2018, 8:01:11 PM
A fish out of water among the D.C. sharks ✔ Instead, it was her lawyers providing the polygraph and a bunch of sympathetic Americans setting up GoFundMe sites for an assault survivor ✔ They are ultimately responsible for any torment they imposed and yet may well conduct a whisper campaign criticizing their own lawyer ✔ The only question is how he will throw them and Kavanaugh under the bus



Katie Price's ex Kieran Hayler claims there were drugs in their home

9/27/2018, 11:56:59 PM
The former stripper, 31, said celebrities are known for doing drugs socially while discussing Katie, who is spending 28 days at The Priory after she was filmed rapping 'I love coke' while on holiday. ✔ Good for her: Kieran, who split with the glamour model in April after admitting to cheating for a second time, said he's not 'surprised' she's seeking professional help and believes it will help save her career Devoted mum: It comes amid claims the Loose Women panellist is 'desperately' missing her kids and has been 'FaceTiming' them  The party-goers, named as Lewis and Patrick, claim they returned to the apartment to 'have a shower, get cosy and do drugs.' WHAT IS PTSD



What Trump’s Twitter feed was — and wasn’t — showing him during the Kavanaugh hearing

9/27/2018, 11:34:24 PM
While Ford spoke, the accounts Trump follows tweeted their skepticism of her and their support for Kavanaugh — but many stayed away from the hearing entirely. ✔ Some said they were crying with her, others praised her courage ✔ But on the country’s most famous Twitter feed, the tone was markedly different ✔ A dozen boys I slightly knew claim we dated in college ✔ https://t.co/1dolyHwiGE DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) September 27, 2018



Emotional, 'heroic' and with factual gaps: Highlights from Kavanaugh’s accuser’s testimony

9/27/2018, 8:08:23 PM
Professor Christine Blasey Ford has given emotional testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about her allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. ✔ If having an interest in the outcome renders you untrustworthy, well.. ✔ Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 27, 2018 Asked by Hirono if there was any political motivation for her to come forward, Ford said no there was not ✔ For the thousandth time, polygraphs are junk science



27 Years After Anita Hill, Congress Still Got It Wrong

9/27/2018, 8:09:15 PM
Women are still having to bear the burden to prove they're telling the truth about powerful men. ✔ The Senate’s treatment of Anita Hill in 1991 is considered a national embarrassment ✔ I yelled, hoping someone downstairs might hear me, and tried to get away from him, but his weight was heavy ✔ A younger generation of people are going to look at it right now and say, ‘How is this OK?’ It makes the Senate look very disconnected



EMTs puzzled by patients who say no to life-saving measures

9/27/2018, 10:06:30 PM
Ambulance attendants are increasingly being forced to make the difficult choice of continuing life-s ✔ Those people may not be able to accept the death of their family members, a Saitama official said ✔ In the FDMA survey, families and others said in 176 cases, the largest among other answers, that they called ambulances despite the patients’ unwillingness to undergo resuscitation, as they were upset and panicked so did not know what to do then ✔ (This article was compiled from reports by Takuya Kado, Akiyoshi Abe and Mutsumi Mitobe.)



Kavanaugh hearing: There's never been anything like it on TV

9/27/2018, 11:59:38 PM
The hearing at which Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh testified started off unusual, went off the rails and then stayed there. ✔ The uproarious laughter between the two (Kavanaugh and a friend), and they’re having fun at my expense ✔ The more hesitant, the more fragile she has seemed, the more powerful and credible I think she comes across to the audience, the network’s Brit Hume said of Ford ✔ Reach Goodykoontz at bill.goodykoontz@arizonarepublic.com



Analysis | Brett Kavanaugh’s modern-day 'high-tech lynching’ speech, annotated

9/27/2018, 9:51:16 PM
Another "high-tech lynching," 27 years later. ✔ By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow September 27 at 5:24 PM Twenty-seven years after Clarence Thomas followed Anita Hill and declared the hearing at which they testified to be a high-tech lynching, Brett Kavanaugh delivered his own angry, defiant response under similar circumstances ✔ Fourth, I have submitted to this committee detailed calendars recording my activities in the summer of 1982



This Is Brett Kavanaugh's Heated Opening Statement To Senators On Christine Blasey Ford's Allegations

9/27/2018, 9:44:49 PM
"I swear today under oath before the Senate and the nation and before my family and God, I am innocent of this charge." ✔ This post will be updated when the official transcript of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's remarks is released ✔ Fourth, I've submitted to this committee detailed calendars recording my activities in the summer of 1982 ✔ Explaining this to our daughters has been about the worst experience of our lives



Kavanaugh arrives with his wife to save his Supreme Court nomination

9/27/2018, 8:18:54 PM
Neither Kavanaugh or his wife smiled as they walked into the Senate committee room for his testimony, in which he will have to convince Republican senators he is worth voting for. ✔ Brett Kavanaugh nearly broke down in tears multiple times in a 45-minute emotional opening statement to senators on Thursday, as he described the effect of the allegations against him on his family and his daughters, saying his youngest even wanted to pray for Christine Blasey Ford ✔ Of Ramirez, Feinstein said: 'She was at a college party where Kavanaugh exposed himself to her.' 'Each of these stories are troubling on their on and each of these allegations should be investigated by the FBI,' said Feinstein



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