FEMA faces Hurricane Florence with range of housing options from 2017 storms
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has thousands of modular homes on hand along with other temporary housing options tested by last year’s spate of storms, as Hurricane Florence bears down on the U.S. Southeast, the agency said on Thursday.
U.S. Congress aim to delay border wall funding fight until December
U.S. Congress negotiators on Thursday moved to put off until after the Nov. 6 elections decisions on future funding for President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar southwest border wall, as lawmakers advanced legislation funding many other government …
‘Pure evil’: Ex-New England mob boss gets life in prison for 1993 murder
An octogenarian former New England mob boss was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday as the grown children of a nightclub owner he was convicted of murdering in 1993 accused him of devastating their lives and being “pure evil.”
California to attend Justice Department meeting on social media
California will join other states planning to participate in a meeting organized by the U.S. Justice Department to discuss concerns about conservative voices being stifled on social media, the state’s attorney general said on Thursday.
General Dynamics wins $481 million U.S. defense contract: Pentagon
General Dynamics Corp’s Electric Boat unit has been awarded a $481 million U.S. defense contract in support of the Columbia class fleet ballistic missile submarines, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Winds, rain intensify as Hurricane Florence pummels North Carolina
The outer edges of Hurricane Florence began lashing coastal North Carolina with heavy winds and flooding roads on Thursday hours before expected landfall that will bring walls of water and lingering downpours
Hurricane Florence seen maintaining strength as it approaches coast: NHC
Little change in strength is expected before the eye of Florence reaches the Carolina coast, with slow weakening expected after the center moves inland or meanders near the coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Indiana bishop cleared after sexual abuse investigation
A Pennsylvania prosecutor on Thursday cleared a Roman Catholic bishop who presides over an Indiana diocese of wrongdoing after questions arose about a relationship he had with a young man he counseled decades ago.
California gunman who killed five, including ex-wife, had recently divorced
A gunman who killed five people in Bakersfield, California, and then took his own life was recently divorced and may have forced his ex-wife to accompany him to a trucking business before shooting her and other victims, authorities said on Thursday.
Excessive force toward prisoner does not require sadism: U.S. appeals court
A federal appeals court said proof of sadism is not needed to hold prison officers liable for excessive force under the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment, as it revived an Oregon state prisoner’s civil damages lawsuit over his treatment.
