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Released 911 calls reveal desperate pleas and tragic outcomes during Texas Hill Country flood
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Many of the voices were frantic and desperate. A few were steady and calm amid mounting, frightening danger, and in some cases, inescapable doom.They came from families huddled on rooftops to escape rising, swirling waters, mothers panicked for the wellbeing of their children and onlookers who heard people yell for help through the dark as they clung to treetops.
One man, stuck high in a tree as it began to break under the pressure of the floodwaters, asked emergency dispatchers for a helicopter rescue that never came.
Their pleas... Read More
Hong Kong police arrest man for posts about deadly fire
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s national security police arrested a man on Saturday in the first publicly confirmed arrest relating to criticism of authorities over a high-rise apartment blaze that killed at least 159 people.Police said he had been accused of posting “information with seditious intention” on social media.
“That mainly included (materials intending to) incite hatred among (others) toward the Hong Kong government and the central government,” Steve Li, chief superintendent of the police National Security Department, told reporters.
The Supreme Court weighs another step in favor of broad presidential power sought by Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court 's conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency, starting well before Donald Trump's time in the White House.The justices could take the next step in a case being argued Monday that calls for a unanimous 90-year-old decision limiting executive authority to be overturned.
The court's conservatives, liberal Justice Elena Kagan noted in September, seem to be “raring to take that action.”
They already have allowed Trump, in the opening months of the... Read More
Nearly half the tickets for Milan Cortina Olympics still unsold with 2 months to go
ROME (AP) — Construction on the main hockey arena is still not finished. Spectator and media areas at the controversial sliding venue also need to be completed.And with exactly two months to go to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, there is another major area that local organizers are concentrating on: only slightly more than half of the 1.5 million tickets for the games have been sold.
As the torch relay began in Rome on Saturday, just over 850,000 tickets had been sold.
While sales abroad are meeting expectations, interest among Italians remains low.
Starc torments England with bat and ball in 2nd Ashes test as Australia eyes another big win
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Mitchell Starc has been menacing England with the ball in this Ashes series. Now he's doing damage with the bat, too.At stumps on Day 3 of the second test, England was teetering on 134-6 in its second innings and still needed to score 43 runs to make Australia bat again.
Starc was voted player of the match for his 10-wicket haul in Australia's thumping eight-wicket win in the series opener at Perth last month.
Now he's in line for another award in the day-night test in Brisbane. After taking six wickets in England's first innings... Read More
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