Washington Governor Bob Ferguson said it was a “nightmare situation”, adding: “This is likely the worst natural disaster in Spokane history.” The city’s mayor Lisa Brown said there was still “the potential for lives to be lost” and that it was too early to say when people might be able to return home. No deaths […]
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Grande began singing at the age of eight and made her name as a teenage actress in Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious and its spin-off, Sam & Cat. Since releasing her debut single in 2011, she has scored 10 US number one hits and earned 20 Grammy Award nominations, winning three times. She has also made a […]
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David Cifaldi was hiking Montana’s Granite Peak with friends when he slipped and was impaled by his trekking pole. Remarkably, the pole missed all major organs. Rather than call for a helicopter rescue, Cifaldi hiked 10 miles down the mountain on foot. As a wound care nurse, he immediately shifted into professional mode, assessing and […]
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President Donald Trump’s media company has launched a paid subscription service on Truth Social that offers users access to posts from the website’s most prominent accounts milliseconds before they appear to the general public. While the company’s announcement does not specifically mention the US president’s account, his is the most popular on the site, with […]
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On Friday, exactly six months after Nancy Guthrie was abducted, police released two ransom notes in the hope that they would help identify her kidnappers. Guthrie, the mother of US news presenter Savannah Guthrie, was 84 when she went missing from her Arizona home in January. Her disappearance sparked a months-long investigation which has turned […]
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While it is unclear what negotiations may – or may not – be happening away from the public eye, Trump and the White House have often accused Iran of saying one thing privately and another publicly. Back on 7 April, the US president warned that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” if Iran refused to […]
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It’s a Friday night. A young woman trudges back to her apartment after a day of work. She enters a spotless kitchen, unloads a bag of groceries, and unwraps a frozen pizza before sliding it in the oven. What follows is a nightly routine that is almost meditative in its mundanity: she lights a candle […]
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Iran says it is negotiating with Oman to reach “an understanding” over a temporary route through the Strait of Hormuz to allow commercial shipping to resume. The statement came after US President Donald Trump said new talks on ending the war in Iran would begin on Monday – and that he had called off “massive” […]
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Wildfires have forced around 60,000 people to evacuate parts of Washington state, destroying hundreds of buildings and leaving thousands without power. Three major blazes continued to burn around the city of Spokane on Monday, with officials warning that the fires had not been contained. Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown described the situation as “the worst natural […]
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The BBC has contacted the contractor for comment. Hearn’s lawyers said in a statement to BBC News, that the case “should have never been brought”. “Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. The government’s approach was ready, fire, aim.” The […]
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