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Hundreds presumed dead, thousands more trapped in Florida

Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, destroying the only bridge to Sanibel Island, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit, and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain across the peninsula on Thursday. One of… Read More

Longtime NBC News star announcers cancer battle

Katie Couric said Wednesday that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent surgery and radiation treatment this summer to treat the tumor. Couric, who memorably was tested for colon cancer on NBC News’ “Today” show in 2000, announced her diagnosis in an essay on her website, saying she hoped… Read More

The latest: Hurricane Ian slams into Florida

Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified as it neared landfall along Florida’s southwest coast Wednesday morning, gaining top winds of 155 mph (250 kph), just shy of the most dangerous Category 5 status. Damaging winds and rain lashed the state, and forecasters said the heavily populated Fort Myers area could be inundated… Read More

Tampa Bay braces as Hurricane Ian makes landfall

Hurricane Ian tore into western Cuba on Tuesday as a major hurricane, with nothing to stop it from intensifying into a catastrophic Category 4 storm before it hits Florida on Wednesday. Ian made landfall at 4:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday in Cuba’s Pinar del Rio province, where officials set up 55… Read More

[Video] Harris gives another non-speech about space

Earlier this month, Vice President Kamala Harris was speaking at a National Space Council meeting… and she gave another one of her characteristic non-speeches. Harris hammered points about “expanding our STEM workforce,” “addressing the climate crisis,” and “promoting international rules and norms to govern space activities.” But before long, Harris… Read More

NASA planetary defense successfully hits asteroid

A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (11.3 million kilometers) away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the space rock at 14,000… Read More

NASA to crash spaceship into asteroid tonight

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away… and you can watch it live. A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday at 7:14 pm, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). The… Read More

[Shock video] Dem staffer gunned down in Philadelphia

Police in Philadelphia are asking the public to help them identify the man who shot and murdered a Democratic Party staffer on a sidewalk late last week. Everett Beauregard, 23, was a recent graduate of Temple University and was walking home in Philadelphia when he was murdered on Thursday. Sponsored:… Read More

Warning: Hurricane Ian heads toward Florida as Category 4

Hurricane Ian moved near the Cayman Islands and closer to western Cuba early Monday on a track to hit Florida as a major hurricane this week. Ian was forecast to intensify rapidly and hit Cuba as a major hurricane late Monday, and then become an even stronger Category 4 hurricane… Read More

Congressman pushes Biden on murder of Republican

“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes We’ve heard President Joe Biden issue an endless stream of warnings about political violence—but when it came, it came from one of his supporters…and he hasn’t said a word to condemn it. Police say that a liberal ran over and killed a teenager… Read More