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Potential nor'easter could bring flooding, gusts to NYC this weekend
NEW YORK — As autumn arrives, a rare September nor’easter could bring coastal flooding, high winds, rain and coastal erosion to the region and potentially disrupt travel, meteorologists warned Tuesday.
A full moon’s tides will exacerbate the situation, the National Weather Service noted.
The storm’s path depends a bit on which weather ...Read more
Lindsay Clancy case could spur legislative action on postpartum depression, psychosis
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The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial earlier this month places her future in doubt, three years after she killed her three children in Duxbury, ...Read more
Analysis: 'Into hell': Trump signals aggressive lame-duck foreign policy at UN
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s unapologetic and chest-thumping address Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly signaled an aggressive lame-duck foreign policy that will continue to reframe the world order.
He stepped to the lectern in the massive hall in New York City for the fifth time — his 2020 General Assembly address was ...Read more
Nick Reiner asks court for trust fund money owed to him before parents' slayings
LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner is asking a court to grant him access to a trust fund set up by his parents so he can defend himself on charges he killed them, arguing the money was owed long before the slayings, according to court filings that were recently made public.
Reiner, 32, said he wants $558,000 that the trust was supposed to disburse ...Read more
'Freedom is coming to Cuba,' Trump tells General Assembly at the United Nations
President Donald Trump said his administration is seeking “a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba,” which he described as “an absolutely failed state” that “will fall” during a speech Tuesday at a United Nations gathering of world leaders in New York.
Trump said Cuba is “under great pressure, the biggest pressure they’ve ...Read more
Nick Reiner seeks trust left by late grandfather Carl Reiner
Nick Reiner is continuing to push for access to his family trust, specifically the portion left directly to him by his grandfather, Hollywood legend Carl Reiner, and not his slain parents.
Reiner has been repeatedly blocked from accessing the fund, which is worth roughly $1.6 million. Despite being the only beneficiary listed, the fiduciaries ...Read more
Smuggling boat with people from China, Ecuador, Cuba is stopped off Florida Keys
MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a boat off the Florida Keys smuggling people from China, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic last week, federal agents say.
The Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations began tracking the twin outboard engine 27-foot cabin cruiser late last Tuesday, Sept. 15, as the ...Read more
Influencer Clavicular charged with rape, drugging teenage girl in Massachusetts
Controversial manosphere influencer Clavicular, who amassed a following with his looksmaxxing content, is facing felony charges apparently in connection to his alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Clavicular, born Braden Eric Peters, was charged earlier this month with one felony count of rape and one felony count for ...Read more
Lawyer for Lindsay Clancy holdout juror blasts defense attorney Kevin Reddington for inquiry motion
BOSTON — A lawyer for the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial is calling a motion to look into his client’s background, “disgusting,” saying it’s an attack on the U.S. Constitution.
“The Looney Tunes motion filed ... by Kevin ‘Shooter McGavin’ Reddington to investigate Michael (Peguy Desronvil) is not just an attack ...Read more
Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate urges US attorney to investigate $2 billion Springfield courthouse deal
BOSTON — “It’s the worst financial deal in the history of Massachusetts.”
GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue is calling on U.S. Attorney Leah Foley to investigate “everything around” the $2 billion Springfield courthouse deal — especially the political connections held by the business partnership awarded the lucrative ...Read more
Trump threatens to send Iran 'into hell' if war carries on
UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump threatened to escalate the war with Iran by “annihilating” the Islamic Republic if it fails to negotiate a deal over its nuclear program, delivering a defensive speech justifying the mission at the United Nations on Tuesday.
His remarks come more than six months into a war that has grown ...Read more
This major California river has gotten too warm for its salmon
Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia. But California’s biggest river is now so warm that biologists expect a significant number of the eggs won’t hatch.
Environmental advocates blame the Trump administration. They say the federal government took too much water out of Shasta Lake for ...Read more
With one emoji, Meghan Markle is seen as endorsing Charles Spencer's critique of king
In the days after Earl Charles Spencer plunged the British monarchy into its biggest crisis in years by alleging in a forthcoming book that King Charles said bitter things about Princess Diana after her death, Meghan Markle chose an interesting way to promote the pantry items on sale through her lifestyle company, As Ever.
The American wife of ...Read more
How the pro-nicotine ‘wellness’ movement rebranded an addictive drug
An ironic development emerging alongside the “Make America Healthy Again” movement is the portrayal of nicotine as a wellness and performance-enhancing product. Across social media, podcasts, wellness communities and tech startups, prominent wellness personalities and other influencers are portraying nicotine as a misunderstood compound ...Read more
EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate leaves out health and climate costs
The Trump administration is repealing federal rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants.
It says the changes will make electricity cheaper for Americans. What consumers pay will depend partly on the cost of keeping older plants running compared with building and operating new ones. Even if the ...Read more
Seattle Police Department blames budget, 'distractions' in Bite of Seattle shooting response
SEATTLE — In a report published Monday, the Seattle Police Department blamed budget constraints and distractions from elected officials for the hourslong delay in publicly communicating information about the Bite of Seattle shooting on July 26.
Interim police Chief Andre Sayles and Assistant Chief Tyrone Davis are scheduled to present the ...Read more
Gulf states set to urge Trump to avoid any escalation with Iran
Gulf Arab states are set to urge U.S. President Donald Trump to avoid any escalation of hostilities with Iran at a meeting on Tuesday, according to several people familiar with the matter.
Officials from the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-member bloc including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, have been coordinating ahead of a ...Read more
NHC tracking distant tropical wave as Fay devolves into depression
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay diminished back into a tropical depression on Tuesday as the National Hurricane Center continued tracking it and a forecast tropical wave coming off the coast of Africa.
As of the 11 a.m. advisory, the center of Fay was located about 645 miles southwest of the Azores moving southwest at 10 mph with maximum ...Read more
Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public.
Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it said — so long as the ...Read more
Judge Thomas Ludington to get alcohol counseling in 'super drunk' case
DETROIT — Thomas Ludington, a federal judge in Bay City, will undergo alcohol counseling and remain on paid leave for one more year from his job handling criminal and civil matters for much of the eastern half of Michigan following a judicial complaint and conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The counseling and paid leave, ...Read more
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