[dropcap]H[/dropcap]eavy rains are complicating efforts to provide aid to communities on Indonesia’s remote western islands cut by last week’s massive tsunami that killed 429 people. The rains have made roads impassible, holding up convoys delivering heavy machinery and relief supplies to isolated areas, forcing disaster officials to send helicopters to drop supplies and evacuate residents. There […]
Even as the government is in the midst of a partial shutdown, nothing can stop NORAD from its yearly task of tracking Santa’s journey through the Christmas Eve skies as the jolly one treks to locations across the planet to deliver his toys to girls and boys everywhere. For the past 63 years NORAD, who […]
A tsunami that struck late Saturday has killed over two hundred people along Indonesia’s Sunda Straits. “Two hundred twenty two people are dead, 843 people are injured and 28 people are missing,” said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Indonesia’s national disaster agency spokesman. Casualties are expected to rise. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported an […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON — The Republican-led House of Representatives has passed a temporary spending bill that gives U.S. President Donald Trump $5 billion for his border wall. The House voted 217-185 late Thursday in hopes of averting a government shutdown at midnight Friday. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it has no chance of being approved. Trump […]