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Hurricane Roslyn made landfall in the Mexican state of Nayarit, where the storm flooded roadways. Hurricane Roslyn made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Sunday, bringing a powerful storm surge and damaging winds, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The storm was moving inland with heavy rainfall and winds clocking 70 miles an hour, forecasters said. Flash-flooding warnings were issued for portions of west-central Mexico.
The Uvalde school police force has been widely criticized for its role leading the response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. A Texas state trooper who was among the responding officers to the elementary-school mass shooting in Uvalde was fired Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. Juan Maldonado was served with termination papers, a spokesperson for the agency said.
ESPN, Formula One Reach New Broadcast Agreement
  + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
An increased focus on qualifying is included in the new deal, which was disclosed ahead of Sunday’s U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. ESPN and Formula One announced a new broadcast deal Saturday that will keep the global motor-sports series on the network through 2025. The agreement will keep the current commercial-free format for live races on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, which are all owned by Walt Disney ESPN has broadcast F1 in the U.S. since 2018.
A musical version of ‘Back to the Future’ is coming to Broadway in 2023. Marty McFly will land on Broadway this summer in “Back to the Future: The Musical.”The Broadway adaptation of the 1985 classic film—which featured a time machine made from a DeLorean—will start performances on June 30, 2023.
The Nakia Creek Fire in Clark County, Wash., has burned more than 1,500 acres as of Monday. A fast-moving wildfire in Washington has charred more than 1,500 acres and forced thousands of evacuations, officials said Monday. Additional firefighters from Oregon will travel to Clark County, Wash., to help get the Nakia Creek Fire under control, said Trina Contreras, a spokeswoman for Washington’s Department of Natural Resources. The fire was about 5% contained on Monday, she said.
Kanye West attended the Givenchy Spring-Summer 2023 fashion show in Paris last week. Twitter locked Kanye West ’s social-media account after the musician and designer posted a message that violated its policies, the company said Sunday. The social-media platform removed an anti-Semitic tweet from Mr. West’s account that was published overnight Saturday.
Amazon Adds Second Prime Day in October
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Ian strengthened into a hurricane Monday morning as it closed in on Cuba, where it could bring rain, floods and mudslides, and threatened Florida’s western coast, hurricane forecasters said. The National Hurricane Center urged residents in Cuba and Florida to prepare for a possible major hurricane this week, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday declared a state of emergency ahead of the storm’s arrival.
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Former Hurricane Fiona left hundreds of thousands of Canadians without electricity Sunday, as coastal communities grappled with washed out roads, downed trees and power lines, and homes swept into the sea. After churning its way up the Atlantic last week, Fiona came ashore in Atlantic Canada around 3 a.m. local time Saturday as a powerful post-tropical cyclone.
A storm system moving across the Caribbean Sea is expected to become a hurricane this weekend, threatening the Cayman Islands, Cuba and southern Florida as it makes its way to the Gulf of Mexico, hurricane forecasters said. The National Hurricane Center Friday urged residents in Cuba and Florida to prepare for a possible major hurricane early next week, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an emergency order for 24 counties in the storm’s potential path.
Fiona Makes Landfall in Eastern Canada
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Fiona Floods and Lashes Eastern Canada
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Fiona, no longer a hurricane but still a mighty storm, left a trail of devastation across eastern Canada on Saturday as it knocked down power lines, uprooted trees and flooded roads. Roughly half a million people in Atlantic Canada were without electricity as Fiona raged across Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Eastern Canada is bracing for what forecasters said could be a once-in-a-lifetime storm. Hurricane Fiona is set to make landfall there Saturday as it barrels up the Atlantic Ocean, where it has left behind a trail of destruction in parts of the northern Caribbean.
EuropeInvestigators say they found signs of torture on some of the hundreds of bodies buried in a forest at the edge of Izyum, which was recaptured this month.
Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico Sunday, after the storm’s strong winds and pounding rain knocked out the island’s power grid, overflowed rivers and created flash-flood conditions. “Remain sheltered!” the National Weather Service of San Juan urged on social media as the eyewall of the storm gathered off the southern coast about midday.
‘The Phantom of the Opera’ has won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. “The Phantom of the Opera,” Broadway’s longest-running show, will hold its final curtain call in February 2023, amid a slow pandemic rebound for theater attendance in New York. A hit since its Broadway debut in 1988, the romantic musical will have its final performance on Feb. 18, a spokesman said Friday. Its closure concludes a decadeslong, award-winning run, with 13,925 performances and seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
Small Business Marketing
  + stars: | 2022-07-17 | by ( Richard Vanderford | David Benoit | Annamaria Andriotis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Pro Cyber NewsToo many small and medium-size businesses rely on usernames and passwords alone to secure their systems, leaving them vulnerable to cyberattacks that could otherwise be prevented, government officials and cybersecurity chiefs say.
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