CORRECTED-Poor nations pay price as millions flee 'climate chaos', Oxfam says
(Corrects to add dropped words “a year” in first paragraph) By Laurie Goering LONDON, Dec 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Fiercer weather and worsening wildfires drove more than 20 million people a year from their homes over the last decade – a problem set to worsen unless leaders act swiftly to head off surging climate…
Detained Huawei executive spends Canada bail reading and painting as two Canadians denied lawyer in China
Meng Wangzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese phone company Huawei currently on bail in Canada as the US seeks to extradite her, has revealed that she spends her days reading, talking to colleagues and painting. US prosecutors say Ms Meng is linked to fraud that allowed Huawei to evade sanctions against Iran, and are…
Florida flight diverted after woman fakes medical emergency
Click:Custom Peptide Synthesis TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A woman demanding a larger seat on an American Airlines flight was taken into custody after faking a medical condition that prompted the pilot to head back to a Florida airport. Flight crews summoned authorities once the Miami-bound flight arrived back in Pensacola early Friday morning. A Pensacola…
Woman fakes illness to get bigger seat on plane, causing flight to make emergency landing
A woman who pretended to have health issues during a flight in order to get a bigger seat caused the pilot to make an emergency diversion. The unnamed passenger from Florida was flying from Pensacola, Florida, to Miami on American Eagle flight 3508 when she claimed to have trouble breathing, the Pensacola Police Department told…
American flight bound for Miami diverted after woman fakes medical condition, police say
An early morning American Airlines flight from Pensacola, Florida, to Miami had to be diverted back to Pensacola on Friday after a female passenger attempted to fake a medical condition to get a bigger seat on the flight, reports the Pensacola News Journal, which is a part of the USA TODAY Network. Mike Wood, spokesman…
Biden launches eight-day 'no malarkey' bus tour amid flagging poll numbers
Joe Biden has embarked upon an eight-day “no malarkey barnstorm” bus tour across Iowa as the former US vice-president attempts to arrest his flagging poll numbers in the key state, which is the first to vote in the race to be the Democratic 2020 presidential nominee. Biden started his election blitz on Saturday, telling supporters…
No malarkey? Biden's old-school slogan gets mocked and praised in Iowa
CARROLL, Iowa – “NO MALARKEY!” screams the campaign slogan on Joe Biden’s bus chugging through 18 Iowa counties this week. At stops along the way, aides hand out stickers and posters to voters featuring the rallying cry. But when one high schooler attending the former vice president’s event in Council Bluffs was asked if she…
Amid Heroism in London, Gnawing Fear of a Simmering Terrorism Threat
LONDON — It was midafternoon when Mike Finnerty, who sells cheese at his Borough Market shop just south of London Bridge, realized that something was wrong. An unusual flow of people had suddenly gathered in front of his stall, he said, and they seemed “alarmed.” What he did not know was that a man dressed…
Would Republicans Follow Their Garland Rule for the Court in 2020?
WASHINGTON — When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital last weekend after another in a string of health scares, blue America breathed a sigh of relief. Only one more month, many whispered, until the start of a presidential election year when filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court would be off limits…
Trump's Intervention in SEAL Case Tests Pentagon's Tolerance
He was limp and dusty from an explosion, conscious but barely. A far cry from the fierce, masked Islamic State fighters who once seized vast swaths of Iraq and Syria, the captive was a scraggly teenager in a tank top with limbs so thin that his watch slid easily off his wrist. Chief Petty Officer…