SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A ferocious wildfire is approaching Lake Tahoe just hours after roads were clogged with fleeing cars when the entire California resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to evacuate. Communities just across the state line in Nevada are warned to get ready to leave. The huge Caldor Fire…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A fearsome Hurricane Ida has left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued, while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a wide swath of the state in the sweltering, late-summer heat. One of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the U.S. mainland…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ida is now a tropical storm after spending 16 hours as a hurricane over Louisiana and Mississippi. Residents are now waiting for daybreak for rescues from flooded areas to begin and damage to be assessed. Power remains out for the entire city of New Orleans, taking down the backup system for…
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Fire officials have ordered more evacuations around the Tahoe Basin as crews deal with a two-week old blaze. Officials said Sunday evening the fire was “more aggressive than anticipated” as it continues to edge toward Lake Tahoe. People throughout an area known as Desolation Wilderness were ordered to leave,…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Ed Asner, the blustery but lovable Lou Grant in two successful television series, has died. He was 91. Asner’s representative confirmed the death in an email Sunday to The Associated Press. Asner was a journeyman actor in films and TV when he was hired in 1970 to play the grumpy…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge has ruled that Florida school districts may impose mask mandates. Leon County Circuit Judge John C. Cooper on Friday agreed with a group of parents who claimed in a lawsuit that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on the mandates is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced. The governor’s order gave…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to Census Bureau data, roughly 3.5 million people in the United States said they faced eviction in the next two…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The attacks that killed at least 12 U.S. service members outside the Kabul airport have left President Joe Biden with increasingly difficult choices. He can continue the evacuation and risk more deaths or he can end it earlier than planned and risk leaving behind Americans still seeking to leave the country. The…
Sen. Robert Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, has called the situation unfolding in Kabul “a full-fledged humanitarian crisis.” He said that his prayers are with the victims of the twin suicide bombing outside Kabul’s airport on Thursday that killed at least 13 people and wounded 15. Menendez describes the bombings…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says as many as 1,500 Americans in Afghanistan may still await evacuation, as concerns of a terror attack targeting Kabul’s airport grow in the airlift’s final days. New European warnings of an immediate threat Thursday came after a U.S. security alert, urging Americans to stay away from…