Customers in the areas of Orleans Parish that were hardest hit by Hurricane Ida should plan for the possibility of experiencing extended power outages, the power company that serves the region says. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l…
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Idaho hospitals are so overwhelmed with the surge in coronavirus cases that doctors and nurses have to contact dozens of regional hospitals across the West in hopes of finding places to transfer individual critical patients.
The need for ICU bed space is affecting a range of patients: those suffering from Covid, as well as people who have had heart attacks or strokes or were involved in accidents, for instance.
BREAKING: Robert E. Lee statue, erected in 1890, removed from its pedestal on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.
Last week, Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state could remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, saying “values change and public policy changes, too” in a democracy.
Virginia promised to forever maintain the statue in the 1887 and 1890 deeds that transferred its ownership to the state. But the justices said that obligation no longer applies.
BREAKING: US has completed efforts to evacuate remaining civilians and troops from Afghanistan, effectively ending the longest war in American history, Pentagon says. nbcnews.to/2Y1lu7i
"They're a part of the bravest, most capable and most selfless military on the face of the Earth, and they are part of simply what I call the backbone of America ... the best the country has to offer," President Biden says of the 12 U.S. service-members killed in Kabul.
President Biden:
"To those who carried out this attack... We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay"