By Travis Fedschun | Fox News As rescue teams fan out in attempts to reach areas of the Bahamas devastated by Hurricane Dorian, dramatic accounts of survival are emerging from the blasted landscape of smashed and flooded homes. Dorian’s punishing winds and torrential rain battered the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama for more than a day and a half, which have a combined […]
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Some 8,000 National Guard troops in 4 states ready for Hurricane Dorian relief efforts
By Melissa Leon | Fox News Nearly 8,000 troops across four states are preparing for relief efforts as Hurricane Dorian shambles toward the Southeast coast, U.S. National Guard officials said Wednesday. Air and Army National Guard members were activated in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina in anticipation of the storm’s arrival this week. “As this storm moves north, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina will in succession … add more forces to National Guard […]
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Hurricane Dorian’s path: What you need to know
By Travis Fedschun | Fox News The fourth named storm of the hurricane season, Dorian, now a Category 2 storm, finally moved away from the battered Bahamas leaving coastal residents from Florida to the Carolinas to warily eye the storm’s path — which is now off the Southeast seaboard. The storm had been stationary for over a day and a half over the northwest Bahamas, flooding the islands of […]
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Hurricane Dorian downgraded to Category 3 storm, continues its assault on the Bahamas
By Travis Fedschun, Edmund DeMarche | Fox News Hurricane Dorian, the monster of a storm that’s pummeled parts of the Bahamas for the past 36 hours, has been downgraded to a Category 3 storm as it finally starts to inch away from Grand Bahama — but the storm is showing signs it’s growing before taking aim at the Southeast. The National Hurricane Center said, as of 8 a.m. EDT, the […]
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Hurricane Dorian Ties ‘Strongest Atlantic Hurricane Landfall on Record,’ NHC Says
220-mph wind gusts hammer Bahamas BY JACK PHILLIPS Hurricane Dorian has tied with the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane as the strongest Atlantic storm to make landfall in history. The U.S. National Hurricane Center noted that the storm’s 185-mph maximum sustained winds puts the storm in a tie fort the second-highest sustained wind speed among all hurricanes in the […]
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Hurricane Dorian, Category 5 storm, bears down on Bahamas while islands hunker down, ‘taking no chances’
By Travis Fedschun | Fox News A menacing Hurricane Dorian is taking aim at the northern Bahamas early Sunday, strengthening to a “catastrophic” Category 5 storm — packing winds of 180 mph and the threat of torrential rain that could last for days as millions in the U.S. along the Southeast coast from Florida to North Carolina are keeping an eye on where the storm may head next. […]
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Hurricane Dorian becomes Category 3 storm with winds recorded at 115 mph
By Greg Norman | Fox News Hurricane Dorian has become a Category 3 storm, the National Hurricane Center announced Friday. As of Friday afternoon, the major hurricane – which has maximum sustained winds blowing at 115 mph – was centered about 625 miles east of West Palm Beach, moving northwest at 10 mph. “If it makes landfall as a Category 3 or 4 […]
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Republicans predict IG’s Comey rebuke is tip of the iceberg for FBI, DOJ over anti-Trump ‘biases’
By Alex Pappas | Fox News Republicans on Capitol Hill said Thursday they believe the searing reprimand of former FBI director James Comey by a Justice Department inspector general is only the start of a series of blows to the reputations of key law enforcement figures. “This is the first of what I expect will be several more ugly and […]
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Focus in Spygate Scandal Shifts to CIA, Former Director Brennan
By Jeff Carlson More than two and a half years after President Donald Trump assumed office, focus on actions taken during the 2016 presidential campaign is starting to shift toward the CIA and its former director, John Brennan. While some observers, including this publication, have pointed out for more than a year that Brennan appears to […]
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DOJ files brief with Supreme Court opposing workplace discrimination claims by transgender workers
By Shannon Bream, Bill Mears | Fox News The Justice Department is signaling its opposition to providing federal protections for transgender employees who claim workplace discrimination. In a brief filed Friday at the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is opposing the position taken by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which had been supporting a transgender employee in her lawsuit against a […]
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ICE raids on Mississippi food processing plants result in 680 arrests
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Wednesday that its officers had raided seven food processing plants in Mississippi and detained approximately 680 “removable aliens” in what a federal prosecutor described as “the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation’s history.” Nearly 600 ICE agents swarmed the plants in Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol, […]
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Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common… and it’s not guns
Revisiting an article written by Dan Roberts Manasquan, NJ –– Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and its not the weapons used. The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is […]
