With parts of Oregon expected to see wind gusts as high as 40 miles an hour, the state “could be looking at a challenging Sunday.”Right Now“I drove 600 miles up and down the state, and I never escaped the smoke,” Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, said on the ABC program “This Week.”VideoAt least 23…
With parts of Oregon expected to see wind gusts as high as 40 miles an hour, the state “could be looking at a challenging Sunday.”Right NowMayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles criticized President Trump’s efforts to loosen climate control regulations, saying that the administration has had its “head in the sand” on environmental issues. “This…
The mayor of Portland declared a state of emergency as fires burned toward the city. California and Washington State are battling growing fires, too.Right NowGov. Greg Abbott of Texas said the state would send 190 more firefighters and 50 more fire trucks to help fight wildfires in California.VideoMore than three million acres have burned in…
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closeVideoFirefighters work around clock battling dozens of wildfires in Western USCalifornia sets record with 2 million acres burned; Jeff Paul reports from Los Angeles.Massive fires continued to rage in California and Oregon into Wednesday morning.More than a dozen firefighters in California defended a fire station in the Los Padres National Forest on the state's central…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…