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HONG KONG-- The United States was in a public diplomatic spat with both Russia and China Tuesday as a Hong Kong lawyer revealed that Beijing had turned a blind eye to Edward Snowden’s escape from U.S. extradition attempts.Russia angrily denied it was involved in the fugitive NSA leaker’s attempts to reach Ecuador, where he has applied for political asylum.The former defense contractor, who fled Ho...
President Barack Obama will direct his administration on Tuesday to begin addressing the issue of climate change with executive branch actions, sidestepping a Congress that has displayed little appetite for addressing the issue. Among a range of initiatives aimed at cutting carbon emissions both at home and internationally, the president will announce a directive for the Environmental Protection ...
Flash flood and wildfire warnings were issued on Tuesday, as severe thunderstorms and torrential rainfall were again expected to hit the Midwest and Northeast."Once again, thunderstorms are expected to fire in parts of the northern Plains to Lower Great Lakes on Tuesday," the National Weather Service said."A separate area of severe weather is possible in the Northeast. Large hail and damaging wind...
Twenty-three scouts were hospitalized after a lightning strike in New Hampshire on Monday night, a fire chief said.Chief David Parenti, of Belmont Fire Station, said the scouts, aged from 12 to 16, were at the Griswold Scout Reservation in Belmont when the incident happened.He said they were taken to local hospitals for further evaluation.When asked about their conditions, he said he “wouldn't eve...
Tiny, winged bark beetles have been the ecological bad guys of the West for more than a decade, and rightfully so. They've killed off millions of acres' worth of trees in Colorado. Now all those dead trees are feeding the flames across tens of thousands of acres in the southern part of the state.The West Fork Complex fire raging through southwest Colorado has already burned through more than 75,00...
A trove of items once owned or gifted by Monica Lewinsky, including a black negligee and a letter signed by President Bill Clinton, is being auctioned online, Nate D. Sanders Auctions announced Monday.The 32-item collection was submitted by Lewinsky’s one-time lover Andy Bleiler to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr during his investigation of the former White House intern’s sexual relationship with...
A Florida judge will decide Tuesday whether calls George Zimmerman made to a police dispatcher in the months before he killed Trayvon Martin can be admitted as evidence.A jury on Monday afternoon heard one of the calls to a non-emergency police number, in which Zimmerman previously reported a suspicious person in his neighborhood — before the defense objected and said it was irrelevant.Prosecutors...
