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BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala.โIt was already too late. As Hurricane Katrina blew ashore along the Gulf Coast with winds over 125 miles an hour, Truong Van Dai, an oyster shucker, drove off in his station wagon to help a friend in dire need. Before he realized what was happening, floodwaters from the hurricaneโs storm surge [โฆ]
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:
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Trump considers shorter disaster relief window
Related video: Remembering Hurricane Katrina's Devastation 20 Years Later {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Administration eyeing shorter window for disaster relief Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said this week that the Trump administration is considering providing resources for less time after a disaster. Susan Walsh, Associated Press Noem's...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Teen fatally stabbed in Sydney had fallen through the 'wrong cracks'
Zac McRae has been described as a "vulnerable person" after the teenager was stabbed to death in what police called a "vicious" attack.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Live: Wall Street indices close at record highs, ASX could test new records too
Wall Street indices have closed at record highs while the ASX 200 could test new levels in trading this morning. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:FirstFT: Fedโs Lisa Cook sues Trump over effort to fire her
Also in todayโs newsletter, Singaporeโs crackdown on e-cigarettes, and Japanโs Dentsu explores sale of international business
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:The Bulldogs' blueprint that could help Penrith pull off a premiership miracle
Resting its entire team against Canterbury was Penrith's first step on its quest to win the premiership from outside the top four, and another Bulldogs side could have the blueprint for them to follow.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:DC police close probe into Rep. Cory Mills over alleged domestic disturbance, email shows
Washington's Metropolitan Police Department closed an investigation into Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) that it launched after police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance in February, according to the congressman and an email exchange shared with The Hill. The woman, originally identified as a significant other, who had called police to a luxury building...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Russian air attack on Kyiv kills children and damages EU building
Russia struck Kyiv on, hitting the EU delegation mission and other sites in one of the heaviest attacks in months.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Aussie star Jess Hull's Diamond League dream ends in tough finish
Jess Hull has a tough finale to her bid to win a Diamond League title, miscalculating her 1,500m final charge to get pipped on the line.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Disability carer sentenced for killing client in 'terrible accident'
A disability carer who killed her client in a crash south of Adelaide when she "lost control" and mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of a brake has been spared an immediate jail term.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:CDC officials escorted from headquarters as chaos engulfs agency over director’s ouster
The nationโs top public health agency was left reeling Thursday as the White House worked to expel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and replace her with a top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:4 things to know about a new study on lithium and Alzheimer’s disease
A recent study from Harvard Medical School asks whether the element lithium might be a key factor in whether someone develops Alzheimerโs disease.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Polish Army Pilot killed as F-16 jet crashes during airshow preparation
Poland's AirSHOW Radom 2025 cancelled following crash.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Vietnamโs planned petrol scooter ban for Hanoi raises fears for livelihoods
The government's plans to bar petrol motorbikes from city centre next year have been widely greeted with scepticism.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Trump to lift de minimis exemption Friday: What to know
President Trump is lifting a tariff exemption for small packages, subjecting billions of dollars in foreign products to import taxes after months of delay. The White House is canceling the de minimis trade exemption starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday, a move that significantly increases the scale of Trump's trade reforms. The new tariffs will apply...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Trump Intel deal designed to block sale of chipmaking unit, CFO says
US chipmaker has faced pressure to sell lossmaking foundry business struggling to compete with TSMC
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Israel launches air strikes and ground raid near Damascus
Increase in attacks in Syria comes despite talks aimed at easing hostilities
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:67 percent pessimistic Russia, Ukraine peace deal will be reached: Gallup
Related video: Former VP Mike Pence tells "The Hill" on NewsNation Putin "doesn't want peace" About two-thirds of Americans are pessimistic that an agreement will be reached to halt the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to a new Gallup survey. The latest Gallup poll, which was released Thursday, found 67 percent of U.S. adults...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Morning Mail: Porepunkah suspect accused of spying on neighbour, โpermission to shootโ exploited, Sydneyโs big marathon
Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterMorning everyone. As police begin a fourth day searching for Porepunkah fugitive Dezi Freeman, a former neighbour has claimed that he spied on her family with drones, forcing her to take out a court order against him.Council workers in Adelaide are collecting hundreds of kilos of dead...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:With Latest Round of Terminations, Trump Administration Continues Dismantling EPAโs Environmental Justice Portfolio
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week terminated more than two dozen remaining staffers in the now-defunct Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR), advancing the Trump administrationโs efforts to dismantle the environmental justice initiatives of the presidentโs Democratic predecessors. A Reduction In Force, or RIF, notice obtained and reviewed by Inside Climate [โฆ]
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:The best, worst states to win the $950M Powerball jackpot in
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Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Emergency services and councils in outback Queensland turn to Starlink
Emergency services in the Queensland outback increasingly turn to low earth orbit satellites rather than Telstra towers for reliable internet connection.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:โGrasping for strawsโ: Europe floats Ukraine-Russia buffer zone in push for peace
The idea is one of several proposals European officials are considering as they scramble to establish a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:EU mission and British Council in Kyiv hit in deadly Russian attack
Ursula von der Leyen accuses Moscow of targeting European Commissionโs office and pledges more sanctions
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Sydney marathonโs debut as major is timed perfectly with Australiaโs running boom | Elise Beacom
Event will be biggest country has seen as 35,000 marathon runners share the roads with superstars Eliud Kipchoge and Sifan HassanMarathons are selling out like Taylor Swift tickets. Running is in vogue and many newer runners are seeking the shortest route from couch to marathon โ a distance once considered superhuman. Now, amid the proliferation of training shared online, and the Nedd Brockmann mentality that extreme...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Queensland government reaches pay agreement with nurses and midwives' union
The deal features an 11 per cent increase in wages over three years, which would be the biggest wage increase for the state's nurses and midwives since 2012.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor battling Donald Trump
Economistโs legal showdown with the president will have sweeping implications for the US central bank
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Nearly 300 Albanian Muslim leaders, activists condemn Israelโs genocide in Gaza
Nearly 300 Albanian Muslim leaders, activists condemn Israelโs genocide in Gaza Submitted by Elis Gjevori on Thu, 08/28/2025 - 19:52 Albania's Muslim leaders call for boycotts, solidarity and pressure on governments worldwide A protestor waves a Palestinian and Albanian flag at Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona (liri_palestines/Instagram) Off Nearly 300 Muslim religious leaders from across Albania issued a...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Rwanda confirms it received seven immigrants deported under Donald Trump
The Trump administration has struck deals with third-party countries, including four in Africa, to accept US deportees.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:President Maduro remembers Martin Luther King Jr. and denounces persistent racism in the US.
This Wednesday, Venezuelan President Nicolรกs Maduro Moros commemorated the 62nd anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, held on this date in 1963, considered a fundamental milestone in the struggle for civil and social rights for the African-American population in the United States. โMartin Luther Kingโs dream is also that of Venezuela [โฆ]
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:DHS asks military base near Chicago for immigration enforcement support
The Trump administration asked a military base outside of Chicago for support on immigration operations this week, offering a clue of what an expandedlaw enforcement crackdownmight look like in the nation's third-largest city.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Displaced return home and reclaim lost roots as Syria tries to rebuild
Syrians - both refugees and internally displaced - are returning home in increasing numbers since the fall of al-Assad.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Reception prisons to stop hiring prisoners with child abuse convictions
Tasmania's child safety regulator is inquiring into concerns that prisoners who have offended against children could โ until recently โ be employed at the state's reception prisons.
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Trump firing creates turmoil at CDC
Plus: Minneapolis shooting reignites gun debate {beacon} PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MOVES to fire key figures at the Federal Reserve and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have created turmoil in the government, provoking lawsuits and threats from Congress to intervene. The CDC was in chaos Thursday after Director Susan Monarez was fired only 27...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Trump admin offers subdued response to Russiaโs assault on Kyiv, and Europeโs outrage
Allies sought to convince Trump that deadly overnight attacks make clear that Putinโs not interested in peace. But they made little headway.
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