Coal baron Cline among seven dead in Bahamas helicopter crash: media
Coal tycoon and self-made billionaire Christopher Cline, 61, was among seven people who died in a helicopter crash on Thursday in the Bahamas, the Register-Herald of West Virginia reported, citing friends of Cline.
After brutal spring floods, U.S. farmers face big losses
DARKE COUNTY, Ohio (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The planting season ended more than a month ago, but much of 39-year-old Greg McGlinch’s 450-acre farm in Darke County, Ohio, is either under water or still saturated from record spring rains.
Defying critics, Trump salutes military in pomp-filled July 4 celebration
With U.S. fighter jets flying overhead, President Donald Trump praised the military and reveled in a show of pomp and patriotism on Thursday in a celebration of Independence Day that critics accused him of turning into a political event.
Big quake rattles area of 20 million people in California; no one killed
A powerful earthquake jolted Southern California on Thursday, touching off fires, damaging buildings and forcing the evacuation of a hospital in a desert town northeast of Los Angeles, but there were only minor injuries.
With pomp and flyovers, Trump embraces military in July 4 salute
With U.S. fighter jets flying overhead, President Donald Trump praised the military and urged young people to join the armed forces on Thursday in a celebration of Independence Day that critics accused him of turning into a political event.
Big quake rumbles across Southern California, some damage northeast of Los Angeles
A powerful earthquake jolted Southern California on Thursday, touching off fires and damaging buildings in a desert town northeast of Los Angeles, but authorities said there were only minor injuries.
With tanks and flyovers, Trump celebrates military in July 4 salute
President Donald Trump will praise service members in the U.S. military on Thursday in an Independence Day speech against a backdrop of tanks and jet flyovers that critics said would politicize a popular national holiday.
Big quake rattles Southern California, damage reported northeast of Los Angeles
A powerful earthquake jolted Southern California on Thursday, touching off house fires and damaging buildings in a desert town northeast of Los Angeles, but authorities said it has caused only minor injuries.
Love of country? Or a political stunt? Trump holiday speech divides Americans
Jan Shairrick and two friends drove more than a thousand miles from southern Arkansas to join President Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” Independence Day celebrations in Washington.
Chestnut crowned July 4 hot-dog champ again but can’t top his own record
This year’s Nathan’s Famous hot-dog eating contest proved a mild disappointment to Joey Chestnut, the Fourth of July event’s perennial champ, even though he handily won the annual display of gastronomical excess for the 12th time this year.
