WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and five states have finalized a settlement worth more than $20 billion arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, federal officials announced Monday.
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) – Nine people have died in South Carolina as the result of flooding from unprecedented rainfall in the state in recent days, Governor Nikki Haley said on Monday. Haley urged residents to stay off roads as rain continued to fall. Floodwaters have forced the closure of 550 roads and bridges around the state. (Reporting by Greg Lacour; Writing by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Bill Trott)
The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday said its crews had found a body and an empty, heavily damaged lifeboat in their search for the cargo ship El Faro, assumed to have sunk off the Bahamas in towering waves and howling winds whipped up by Hurricane Joaquin. “We’re assuming the vessel has sunk,” Coast Guard Captain Mark Fedor told reporters in Miami. Coast Guard vessels and aircrews continued to search, however,
The train, en route from St. Albans, Vermont, to Washington D.C., was reported derailed near Roxbury, about 20 miles south of the state capital Montpelier, after it hit debris on the track from a rock slide, Amtrak said in a statement. The U.S. national passenger rail service said the derailment of Train #55 was reported to local law enforcement agencies at 10:30 a.m. (10:30 a.m. EDT). Police and emergency crews
Donald Trump continues to court Second Amendment supporters in the wake of last week’s deadly shooting in Oregon, suggesting the teachers at Umpqua Community College should have been armed — just like he is.
Hillary Clinton says House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s suggestion that the select committee investigating Benghazi was summoned to derail her 2016 presidential bid is “deeply distressing” because it dishonors the four Americans who died in the terror attacks.
Spark Therapeutics Inc’s experimental gene therapy helped improve vision in patients with a type of inherited eye disorder in a late-stage study, bringing it a step closer to becoming the first gene therapy to win U.S. approval. Spark said its lead drug, SPK-RPE65, met the goals of improving vision and sensitivity to light in patients with inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) who were previously at the risk of total blindness. SPK-RPE65
Doctors Without Borders on Monday called for a full investigation into the Kunduz air strike that killed 22 people at an Afghan hospital run by the aid group, citing discrepancies in U.S. and Afghan accounts of the incident. The United States bears responsibility for the targets it hits, Christopher Stokes, general director for the group, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), said in a statement. “Their description of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health authorities are ordering manufacturers of specialized medical scopes to study how the reusable devices are cleaned following a series of life-threatening bacterial outbreaks at U.S. hospitals.
By Kate Kelland LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – – Some 30 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk, deer and wolves, scientists said on Monday. “When humans are removed, nature flourishes – even in the wake of the world’s worst nuclear accident,” said Jim Smith, a specialist in earth and environmental
