A stingray that has lived for years in a North Carolina aquarium without a male companion is pregnant. The animal is named Charlotte and is expected to give birth in the next two weeks.
As part of the Biden Cancer Moonshot, the First Lady visited Atrium Health Levine Cancer, Charlotte, where she highlighted the Biden Administration’s efforts to expand access to patient navigation services and address the financial burden of cancer care.
The military says efforts are underway to recover the remains of five U.S. Marines who were killed when their helicopter went down during stormy weather in the mountains outside of San Diego Tuesday night.
A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing historic downpours that caused hundreds of landslides, is expected to move out of the region after one final drenching. But authorities say it leaves behind the threat of dangerous mudslides because the soaked soil cannot hold any more water.
Crews were searching for a Marine Corps helicopter carrying five troops from Nevada to California that was reported overdue early Wednesday. The Marines were flying a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from Creech Air Force Base in Clark County, Nevada, to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego.
Los Angeles officials says crews had responded to at least 475 mudslides and that seven buildings had been deemed uninhabitable since an atmospheric river-fueled storm moved into the region over the weekend.
A Senate deal on border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid has suffered swift and total collapse. Republicans withdrew support despite President Joe Biden urging Congress to “show some spine” and stand up to Donald Trump. But Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says that a deal to pair border policy changes with $60 billion in wartime aid for Ukraine is dead.
Country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith, whose pro-American anthems were both beloved and criticized, has died. He was 62. A statement posted on his website says Keith died peacefully Monday surrounded by his family. He had stomach cancer.
A storm of historic proportions has unleashed record levels of rain over parts of Los Angeles. The weather is endangering the city’s large homeless population, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes and knocking out power for more than a million people in California.
Senate Republicans are distancing themselves from a bipartisan proposal intended to clamp down on illegal border crossings, signaling a likely defeat in Congress that would leave leaders with no clear path to approve wartime aid for Ukraine.
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