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☆ At least 31 dead in floods, landslides in south Philippines
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

At least 31 people died and nine others were missing in flash floods and landslides set off by torrential rains that swamped a southern Philippine province overnight and trapped some residents on their roofs, officials said Friday. “The amount of rainwater that came down overnight was unusually (heavy) and flowed down mountainsides and swelled rivers,” Sinarimbo told The Associated Press by telephone. Five people were missing in Datu Blah Sinsuat, according to the town’s mayor, Marshall Sinsuat, and Sinarimbo said four others were reported missing elsewhere. Heavy rain from an approaching storm lashed the southern Philippines, with some residents stranded on rooftops. He added that many areas, which have not been flooded for years, like Cotabato city where he lives, were swamped overnight.

☆ New frontline of U.S. abortion battles emerges in New Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Brad Brooks | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

A woman and child attend an anti-abortion rally outside of the Hobbs City Commission Chamber in Hobbs, New Mexico, U.S., October 17, 2022. The New Mexican abortion provider within closest reach for most Texas women is currently in Albuquerque - about a four-hour drive from Clovis and five hours from Hobbs. Voters in Lubbock, Texas, which is near the New Mexico border, outlawed abortion in 2021. In New Mexico, Dickson worked with conservative lawyer Jonathan Mitchell, who was the architect of Texas’ 2021 “heartbeat” abortion law. Read more:U.S. abortion clinic moves up the street to escape one state’s banEXPLAINER-How abortion became a divisive issue in U.S. politicsHow Texas’ abortion ban hurts Big Oil’s effort to transform its workforceWIDER IMAGE-With U.S. abortion access in jeopardy, this doctor travels to fill a void

FILE PHOTO: Boats make their way along the Mississippi river in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., August 28, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/Oct 20 (Reuters) - Low water levels on the Mississippi River are likely to persist this winter as drier-than-normal weather is expected across the southern United States and Gulf Coast, U.S. government forecasters said on Thursday. Crucial shipments of fertilizer, farm chemicals and road salt that move up the Mississippi River ahead of the winter have also been disrupted. "Across the lower Mississippi Valley, we are favoring continuation of below-normal precipitation," said Jon Gottschalck, chief of the Operational Prediction Branch of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. "That would certainly, if the prediction is realized, lead to continued low water levels and exacerbate drought conditions there."

☆ Photos show the Mississippi River is so low that it's grounding barges, disrupting the supply chain, and revealing a 19th-century shipwreck
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The Mississippi River is receding to historic lows amid drought across the Midwest. A barge tow floats past the exposed banks of the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Louisiana, on October 11, 2022. Drought is drying the Mississippi River to record lowsA passenger paddle wheeler passes between the river bridges in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on October 11, 2022. Rogelio V. Solis/AP PhotoJust a few months ago, the Mississippi River basin was flooding. In early October, low water levels revealed the old sunken ship along the banks of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

☆ Low-cost airline Breeze is launching 19 new routes next year from $29 one-way as it beefs up its leisure network — see the full list
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Fares start at $99 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Charleston or Richmond, depending on the day. Fares start at $99 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Las Vegas. Fares start at $69 one-way and will be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via Orlando. Fares start at $29 one-way. Fares start at $89 one-way and be a one-stop, no-plane change BreezeThru via White Plains.

☆ Viral TikTok shows bison charge woman in Texas park
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A Texas hiker is warning other outdoor enthusiasts to beware of bison through a viral TikTok video that shows one charging her on a trail, sending her to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Clark, the Texas Park and Wildlife Department, and United Regional Wichita Falls, the hospital where Clark said she received treatment, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Once nearly extinct, bison now number half a million, with most part of private herds, according to the Texas Park and Wildlife Department. Caprock Canyons State Park is the home of the Texas State Bison Herd, which is monitored by park officials, according to the department. "As a rule, bison require at least 50 yards (half a football field) between them and people," the Texas Park and Wildlife Department said.

☆ Johnson's campaign is paying the law firm of a Trump attorney allegedly connected to Jan. 6 fake elector plot
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Natasha Korecki | Natasha Korecki Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

The records show he made regular payments, totaling at least $30,000 in payments this year, to another law firm, Wiley Rein, for legal consulting. Other numbers publicly listed for Troupis Law Office appear disconnected or are inoperable. Phone, email and text messages left with Johnson’s campaign were not immediately returned. On May 11, Chesebro donated $5,800 to Johnson’s campaign, the maximum amount an individual can contribute during the primary, under FEC rules. That lawsuit alleges that Troupis was a link between the Trump campaign and the fake electors.

A cold blast could bring record freezing temperatures to more than 60 million people across the country this week. Freeze watches and warnings are in effect as far west as Colorado, into the Northeast and south to Florida, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures of 35 degrees and colder are expected to affect all but a handful of states throughout the week. "This may be the first freeze of the season for many places across the Central Plains, Middle Mississippi Valley and Ohio/Tennessee Valleys which will impact sensitive crops/livestock," according to the National Weather Service. This cold front could break more than 50 record lows by the end of the week, with temperatures as low as 24 degrees in Minneapolis, 27 in St. Louis and 57 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

☆ U.S. winter wheat farmers plant into dust as Plains drought persists
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Julie Ingwersen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

CHICAGO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - With planting roughly halfway complete, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains, wheat experts said. The drought threatens Kansas, the top winter wheat growing state, and Oklahoma in two ways: discouraging farmers who have not yet planted from trying, while threatening crops already in the ground from developing properly. About two-thirds of wheat in the United States, among the top five global exporters, is grown as a winter crop rather than spring. As a result, Justin Gilpin, chief executive of the Kansas Wheat Commission, expected the number of Kansas wheat acres planted for harvest in 2023 to remain steady with the 7.3 million acres seeded for 2022. A key driver of the drought is the La Nina weather phenomenon, which tends to favor warm and dry conditions in the Plains.

CNN —The death toll from the worst flooding Nigeria has seen in a decade has passed 600 people, the country’s humanitarian affairs ministry tweeted on Sunday. NEMA said the release of excess water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon had contributed to the flooding. While many parts of Nigeria are prone to yearly floods, flooding in certain areas has been more severe than the last major floods in 2012, a Red Cross official in Kogi told CNN last week. Video Ad Feedback NASA images show decimating reach of worst flood this region has seen in a decade 02:19 - Source: CNNNigeria’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Sadiya Umar Farouq warned Sunday that more flooding was likely and urged regional governments to prepare accordingly. The country will soon implement its National Flood Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, aimed at improving coordination of the flood response efforts.

U.S. corn yield is now nearly 10 bushels per acre lower than the earliest projections, though the trade has anticipated that decline very well. Analysts have nearly nailed the last two corn yield estimates, their best-known performance for these months. When considering all of the past 20 years, U.S. soybean yield in January was lower than in October eight times. This is the third month in a row where USDA’s corn yield is lower than in the previous month. In the last 20 years, U.S. corn yield was lower in both September and October four other times, most recently in 2020.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg's old camp counselor just sold the Meta CEO's Little League baseball card for $105,000
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Zuckerberg's Little League baseball card sold for $105,000 on Wednesday evening. Zuckerberg's ex-camp counselor, Allie Tarantino, sold the card at a Comic Connect auction. In August, Zuckerberg posted a photo of the baseball card on Instagram saying it would be an NFT. Tarantino told Market Watch he originally asked an eight-year-old Zuckerberg to sign the card to make him feel like a star. In August, Zuckerberg posted a photo of the baseball card on Instagram announcing that it would soon become an NFT.

☆ Brazil’s Right-Wing Leader Spends on Poor Before Elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Luciana Magalhaes | Samantha Pearson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

RIO VERDE, Brazil—Toiling on the dusty plains of central Brazil, Edilamar Caetano and her husband had long been loyal supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , the leftist front-runner in next month’s presidential elections whose own family worked the land as farmhands. In April, President Jair Bolsonaro , the former army captain who took office four years ago promising fiscal restraint and a smaller state, came to town. He gave Ms. Caetano and her husband, Wagner Vieira, a title to 84 acres they had been farming as squatters, delivering the paperwork personally with an awkward hug in a local ceremony.

A group of partial hearing visitors touch a four-month-old jaguar cub named Cindy at the Cuba's national zoo in Havana, Cuba, September 21, 2022. Earlier this year, sign language interpreters began accompanying groups of deaf visitors aboard the bus and trails that take them across an enclosed plain designed to imitate the African savannah. "Previously, very few (deaf) people visited the zoo because they could only see the animals," said Yoandra Oliva López, an interpreter and educator with the zoo. Zoo officials said they were also working to begin similar tours specifically for deaf children. Cuba's National Zoo is a favorite attraction for Cubans, with 1,473 specimens of more than 120 species of animals.

☆ Analysis: FedEx investors frustrated with new CEO after withdrawn forecast
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Lisa Baertlein | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A FedEx Ground truck drives near a FedEx regional hub at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 16, 2022. Investors, already frustrated by last year's overly optimistic estimate for the holiday shopping season, were disappointed with its profit warning on Sept. 15. Reuters spoke with Bradshaw and five other investors who bought FedEx stock when it looked cheap versus its more profitable and better performing rival United Parcel Service (UPS.N), believing a FedEx business revamp promised healthy returns. FedEx warned business conditions would worsen in the current quarter, which ends as the key Christmas package delivery season begins. Late last month, FedEx told Reuters it was confident in its "stress tested" holiday forecast for this year.

☆ U.S. home sales post seventh straight monthly decline in August
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Lucia Mutikani | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

"High prices and Fed rate hikes will likely remain constraints for sales going forward," said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in White Plains, New York. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast sales decreasing to a rate of 4.70 million units. House prices typically slow in July and August. There were 1.28 million previously owned homes on the market, unchanged from a year ago. The NAR attributed the higher cash sales share to people needing loans to buy a home dropping out of the market.

☆ Morgan Stanley says buy these dividend stocks to optimize returns in turbulent times
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Morgan Stanley sees earnings headwinds building and has some dividend stocks for investors to optimizing returns despite the volatility. Still, the strategist thinks investors can find returns in some dividend stocks that perform well in a late-cycle environment. Morgan Stanley highlighted some top systematic dividend picks to own based on total expected return, upside to the price target, projected dividend yields for 2023 and one-year volatility. Eastman Chemical made the list with the highest total expected return of 77%, as of Sept. 15. Morgan Stanley has a price target of $53 on the stock and sees a dividend yield of 4% for 2023.

☆ A short guide to understanding heat domes.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-01 | by ( Isabella Grullón Paz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Temperatures are soaring in California this week, the result of what is known as a heat dome. And earlier this summer, heat domes were parked over the Central Plains for weeks in June, and then again in July, breaking records for consecutive triple-digit days. But what is a heat dome? Many meteorologists actually use the terms “heat dome” and “heat wave” interchangeably, because you can’t have a heat wave without a heat dome, said Greg Carbin, forecast operations chief at the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center. How do heat domes form?

Persons: Greg Carbin Organizations: Prediction Locations: California, Plains

☆ Atmospheric river of moisture will trigger storms and tornadoes this week
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-11 | by ( Jennifer Gray | Cnn Meteorologist | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

(CNN) You may have heard of atmospheric rivers impacting the West Coast. Apparently, atmospheric rivers also occur in the eastern US, unleashing a river of moisture like what we will see this week. The reason East Coast atmospheric rivers aren't talked about much isn't because they are rare. The West gets about half that number of atmospheric rivers each year, yet they account for double the annual rainfall percentage. It will combine with the available moisture provided by the atmospheric river we talked about and will result in the perfect setup for severe weather.

☆ Japan's best castles to visit at least once
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-20 | by ( David Mcelhenney | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —During Japan’s Sengoku “Warring States” era (1467-1615), castles were constructed, bolstered and fortified all across the Japanese archipelago, resulting in approximately 5,000 individual keeps. Here are some of Japan’s best castles that you can still visit. Edo CastleEdo Castle, bearing the former name of Tokyo, has one of the longest lineages of all Japan’s castles. Edo Castle was huge in its prime, surrounded by a 15-kilometer outer moat crossed by over 30 gates and bridges. Bicchu Matsuyama CastleThe 13th-century Bicchu Matsuyama Castle, perched above quiet Takahashi City in Okayama prefecture, is thought to be Japan’s original yamajiro (mountain castle).

☆ Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Reflect on 75 Years of Marriage
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-04 | by ( Rick Rojas | More About Rick Rojas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter, a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy, wanted to marry Rosalynn Smith, a girl he met on the day she was born and knew mostly as his sister Ruth’s best friend until they went on a double date, riding to the movies together squeezed in the rumble seat of an old Ford. Of course, he persisted. And on a recent morning, the pair of them — the former president and first lady, now known as Mrs. Carter — were still side by side, his hand resting on top of hers, explaining that the rejection had merely been a hiccup before a marriage that is about to reach its 75th anniversary. “After a while, I changed my mind,” said Mrs. Carter, 93, noting that she hesitated because of a request by her father on his death bed that she finish college.

Persons: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Smith, Carter —, ”, Carter Organizations: U.S . Naval Academy, Ford Locations: Ga

☆ Rapperul DMX a murit la vârsta de 50 de ani
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-10 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Rapperul şi actorul american DMX, pe numele real Earl Simmons, a murit vineri, scrie revista People, după ce a suferit un atac de cord în urma a ceea ce mass-media a spus că a fost o supradoză de droguri. DMX s-a luptat cu abuzul de substanţe de ani de zile şi a petrecut mai multe perioade la reabilitare. Acum respiră singur, dar există puţină activitate cerebrală", a spus Richmond. Simmons, care are 15 copii cu mai multe femei, a fost arestat în iulie 2017. Earl Simmons a mai fost arestat pentru posesie de droguri şi de arme.

Persons: Rapperul, DMX, Earl Simmons, Reuters . DMX, JAY, Eve, Richmond . Simmons, Louis Locations: Plains, New York, Richmond, St, justiţie, Arizona

☆ Crește vaci pe teren, dar a aflat că sub el e o comoară. Îl vinde cu 10 milioane de dolari, deși face 1 miliard
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-12 | by ( ) www.ziarulnational.md time to read: +1 min

Proprietarul unui teren a aflat că acesta ascunde sub el o „comoară” care valorează până la 1 miliard de dolari. Proprietatea Meridan Plains, din Queensland, are pe ea un mare depozit de nisip aluvial, cel mai mare descoperit vreodată în statul australian. Pe terenul de 208 hectare se află o fermă de vaci, dar în urma descoperirii proprietarul l-a scos la vânzare. O „comoară” din ce în ce mai rarăRezervorul descoperit este suficient de mare pentru a furniza nisip în zona de sud-est a statului Queensland pentru următorii 35 de ani. Potrivit lui Rafter, terenul este excelent și pentru o fermă solară.

Organizations: Coast, Real Locations: Queensland, australian

☆ Turkish foods: 23 delicious dishes
▼ + stars: | 2020-04-09 | by ( Lisa Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

SaksukaA traditional Turkish side dish, saksuka consists of eggplant, zucchinis, garlic, tomatoes and chili. ShutterstockTurkish cuisine incorporates a huge range of vegetable dishes known as zeytinyagli yemegi – foods cooked in olive oil. ShutterstockKisir is a salad made from fine bulgur wheat, tomatoes, garlic, parsley and mint. Hamsili pilavHamsili pilav -- an oven baked rice dish with a layer of fresh anchovies on top. GozlemeThis traditional Turkish pastry is often stuffed with salty white cheese, minced beef or spinach.

Persons: Manco, tahini, Ezogelin, Shutterstock, Ezo, Turkey it’s, pul, munch, Yaprak, Inegol, Mustafa Efendi, İskender Efendi, they’re, Shutterstock Hamsi, perde, Su, They’re, It’s, Suleyman the, Evliya Celebi, Cig, bulgur, Lokum, Shutterstock Lokum Organizations: CNN, biber, Turks, Oxford English Locations: Turkey, Turkish, Anatolia, Gaziantep, Mercimek, Shutterstock, Turkish Aegean, Bulgaria, Inegol, Bursa, Erzurum, marinate, Rize, Siirt, Kayseri, Central Anatolia, Avanos, alfoil, Borek, Central, Eastern Europe, Ottoman, Sanliurfa, Turkey’s, Istanbul

☆ At the age of 95, Jimmy Carter says he's 'completely at ease with death'
▼ + stars: | 2019-11-04 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Jimmy Carter said at a church service on Sunday that he is "absolutely and completely at ease with death." Carter, 95, was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, and said he figured he was "going to die very quickly." And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death. Except I was going to miss my family, and miss the work at the Carter Center, and miss teaching your Sunday school service sometimes and so forth. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are pictured attending the funeral of former President George H.W.

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