More than 20 counties in western and Central Florida have issued evacuation orders as Hurricane Idalia approaches, including parts of Tampa, the state’s third-largest city. Each county in Florida has its own website that residents can check for the recommended level of preparation. Here is the latest, as of 5 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday.…
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said on Friday that he had authorized a review of the emergency response to the devastating fires that decimated the town of Lahaina, even as he said that unusually powerful winds and fast-moving flames had complicated the effort. Pressed in an interview on CNN about the lack of audible sirens…
Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said on Friday that he had authorized a review of the emergency response to the devastating fires that decimated the town of Lahaina, even as he said that unusually powerful winds and fast-moving flames had complicated the effort. Pressed in an interview on CNN about the lack of audible sirens…
The death toll from the fires that overtook Maui was already growing significantly on Thursday as questions mounted over whether officials had acted with enough urgency to evacuate the tourist haven of Lahaina, where many people described harrowing escapes. When the brush fire was first spotted early on Tuesday, Maui County officials ordered evacuations in…
A Maryland appeals court on Tuesday reinstated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the subject of the “Serial” podcast who was freed last year after he had spent 23 years fighting charges that he had killed his former high school girlfriend. The Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that a trial court had violated the right…
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it instructed the operator of the freight train that derailed near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border to test for dioxins, toxic pollutants that could have formed after officials decided to burn the train’s cargo of vinyl chloride in order to avoid the threat of an…
Neither a spokesman for Mr. Trump nor Ms. Habba immediately responded to requests for comment. Ms. Habba was the lead lawyer among a group who filed the suit on Mr. Trump’s behalf in March. She is also representing Mr. Trump in a sweeping fraud case brought by the New York State attorney general and a…