Tropical Storm Norma was named in the Pacific on Tuesday evening and could impact Cabo San Lucas mid to late week as a Category 2 hurricane. It’s one of three systems meteorologists are tracking amid a hurricane season that has yet to fully simmer.
In addition to Norma, a second disturbance in the Pacific looks primed to become a named storm and could spin up rather quickly in the next couple of days.
Kathleen Skelcy was freaking out. It was the Fourth of July and the summer that started with giddy vindication for her and many other Democrats — Donald Trump convicted on 34 felony counts — had turned into a nightmare.
President Biden was facing calls to drop out after a disastrous debate. Trump’s odds of winning looked better by the day. The Supreme Court had just granted presidents sweeping immunity for “official acts,” renewing 72-year-old Skelcy’s worst fears about a second Trump term.
Tyre Nichols Criminal Record – All five officers who were fired from the Memphis Police Department over the death of Tyre Nichols, who died following a ‘violent’ traffic stop, have been charged.
Each of the officers have been charged, though charges were listed for just three of them.
Justin Smith, Emmitt martin and Tadarrius Bean have been charged with two counts of official misconduct, one count of second-degree murder, official oppression, aggravated assault-act in concert and an additional two counts of aggravated kidnapping.
What is a caliphate? | PBS NewsHour
2024-08-11
Sunni armed militants, who have taken control of parts of Syria and northern Iraq, on Sunday declared their territory a new “caliphate” governed by strict sharia law.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said in a document that they are now called the “Islamic State” and their caliph, or the leader of Muslims everywhere, is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. They urged all Muslims to support the new caliphate, which they said extends from Diyala province in northeastern Iraq to the city of Aleppo in Syria.
Similarly, there is the Royal Collection, which contains most of the royal family’s extensive artworks —the largest private collection in the world — and their jewels. All together, it makes up more than 1 million objects, some of them going back to the time of Henry VIII.
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Why roses cost what they do
2024-08-11
The majority of roses Americans give one another on Valentine’s Day, roughly 200 million in all, grow here, the savanna outside Bogota, summoned from the soil by 12 hours of natural sunlight, the 8,400-foot altitude and an abundance of cheap labor.
Thousands of acres of white-tarped greenhouses, some the size of several football fields, are crammed with seven-foot stems topped with rich red crowns. Many are pulled into warehouses by horses, chilled to sleep in refrigeration rooms, and then packed with other flowers onto planes — 1.
That’s one way to show you prefer Android to Apple’s iOS.
An image of an Android bot peeing on an Apple logo has popped up on Google Maps.
The comical, albeit lewd, image was discovered in a small area near the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, alongside the Soan River.
In a statement to Mashable, a Google spokesperson said the prankster likely used Map Maker, a program that lets users edit and contribute to Google Maps using their local knowledge.
Chris Manzo Net Worth 2024
2024-08-10
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Date Lab - The Washington Post
2024-08-10
Here's how it works: We search our database of thousands of Washington, D.C.-area singles until we find a pair with romance potential. Then we send them out on a blind date on our dime and report the results in the pages of the Washington Post Magazine and online. Our requirements: To participate you must be over the age of 21, single and living in the greater D.C. area. You must agree to have your name, age and picture published and to participate in a telephone interview.