…8217;ve got more to do when it comes to enforcement.” Wiping away tears as he spoke on Friday, President Barack Obama today signaled he would push for tight gun control in the wake of the massacre of 26 at an elementary school in Connecticut, saying there had been “too many” mass shootings in America. During a moving appearance, he said the time had come to “take meaningful action to prevent more…
New York’s Attorney General has launched an investigation into hundreds of complaints of prices being increased in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Eric Schneiderman said the largest number of complaints concerned increased fuel prices, but other emergency supplies were also affected. “Price gouging” of essential consumer goods is forbidden under New York law. More than one mil…
tors, and markets participants,” NYSE spokesman Rich Adamonis told Reuters news agency. Similar precautions were taken last year as Hurricane Irene approached the East Coast. It killed more than 40 people from North Carolina to Maine and caused an estimated $10 billion worth of damage. FEMA director Craig Fugate said: “This is not a coastal threat alone. This is a very large area.̶…
Seventeen people aboard HMS Bounty have abandoned ship off the coast of North Carolina amid Hurricane Sandy. The captain gave the order for the crew to enter the lifeboats at 4:30 EST and a rescue attempt by a US coastguard helicopter is under way. The HMS Bounty Organization said it would assess whether the ship could be saved but its concern was for the crew. HMS Bounty is a replica of the orig…
ked by Superstorm Sandy, including two children killed instantly by a falling tree Police in Toronto said a woman was killed by a falling sign as high winds closed in on Canada’s largest city. A 30-year-old man was killed when a tree fell on his house on 166th Street in Flushing, New York City. Meanwhile a 62-year-old man was killed as he let his dog out on his porch in Oley, Pennsylvania. A…
…panicked and overly prepared, but you want to be prudent, you want to do what’s necessary,” he said. Andrew Cuomo also said the National Guard would be deployed, 200 troops in New York City, and 400 on Long Island. In addition, nearly 4,000 flights were canceled for Monday, with 857 cancellations at Newark in New Jersey, followed by 632 at New York’s Kennedy Airport and more than 500 c…
58th and 55th Streets. All occupants of buildings on West 57th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues have been advised to move to the lower floors. The streets were deserted from early this morning after 375,000 people were evacuated from their homes, subways stopped and shops and businesses closed in preparation for what is thought to be one of the worst storms in history. Manhattan streets were de…
was built using the original ship drawings from files in the British admiralty archives, but its dimensions were enlarged by around a third to fit the enormous 70 mm cameras used in the filming. Some 400,000 feet of lumber were used, 10,000 square yards of canvas were sewn by hand and 10 miles of rope were rigged before it was ready for the silver screen. The plan was to burn the ship in a dramat…
…al doesn’t fail. There’s no reason to think at this point in time that the inspection wasn’t adequate.” Firefighters closed streets for several blocks surrounding the site, evacuated 300 apartments in three buildings and were preparing to evacuate more, a Fire Department spokesman said. A spokeswoman for Lend Lease, construction manager for the project, said the company was worki…
Adam Lanza, a troubled 20-year-old loner with a history of autistic behavior, is the monster behind a horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people, including 20 children, dead on Friday. Adam Lanza shot his mother Nancy, a kindergarten teacher, at the upscale suburban home they shared together and then took three of her guns and drove the Sandy Hook Elementary School a…
…ator’s plan to introduce a bill on the first day of the next Congress. Barack Obama would also consider curbs on high-capacity ammunition and loopholes, Jay Carney said. Gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults in Friday’s attack. Barack Obama has previously stated his support for the reintroduction of an assault weapons ban, which lapsed in 2004. But he has not backed a spe…
…spoken to Mitt Romney, Chris Christie said: “No. We exchanged emails last night. We haven’t spoken on the phone yet.” Chris Christie, who is up for re-election in New Jersey next year and is a likely 2016 presidential candidate, is partly blamed by some senior Mitt Romney aides for the Republican nominee’s defeat. They believe that his outspoken commendations of Barack Obama helped create a…
…end of the hurricane season, with September typically the most active period. The storm threatening to wreak havoc on the Atlantic coast began to form on October 19 in the Caribbean Sea and in October 22 forecasters labeled it a Tropical Storm and named it Sandy. It made landfall on October 24 near Kingston, Jamaica with 80 mph winds and it moved toward Cuba the same day, sustaining winds of 110 m…
…Bloomberg said: “This is a dangerous storm. But I think we’re going to be OK.” Earlier in the week, Hurricane Sandy caused havoc as it ploughed across the Caribbean, killing at least 44 people in Haiti, 11 in Cuba and four more in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and the Bahamas….
of making the laws governing the sale of firearms <<more strict>> fell from 78% in 1990 to 62% in 1995, and 51% in 2007,” Gallup reported. “In the most recent reading, Gallup in 2010 found 44% in favor of stricter laws. In fact, in 2009 and again last year, the slight majority said gun laws should either remain the same or be made less strict.” Barack Obama was forced to address the i…
…y saddened by Friday’s senseless violence”. The attack at Newtown is the second deadliest shooting attack at a US school or university, after the Virginia Tech killings of 2007, which left 32 people dead and many injured….
north to south between Canal Street and Broadway, and East to West between the East River and 14th street. At 6:00 p.m. the Chelsea network went back up between the Hudson River and Fifth Avenue, and 31st Street on north and 15th street The news comes as a huge relief to the hundreds of thousands of people who have been without power since Monday night. Many of them had left the so-called Dark Zo…
aid in recent days he had decided that Barack Obama was the best candidate to tackle climate change, which the mayor cited as a contributory factor to the violent storm that took the lives of at least 38 New Yorkers and brought carnage costing billions of dollars. “The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast – in lost lives, lost homes and lost bus…
…ho did not heed evacuation orders were putting themselves and rescue workers in harm’s way, calling them “stupid and selfish”. Hurricane Sandy was thought to have caused $20 billion of damage and left 17 dead up to now….
eing were cut off last week. Parts of neighboring Connecticut saw more than 1ft (30cm) of snow on Wednesday, and wind speeds of as much as 50 mph (80 km/h) – and resulted in power cuts for about 300,000 customers….
…n control measures in Congress appear to have stalled. Correspondents say the president will use it to increase pressure on lawmakers in Washington. Gun control measures passed by Connecticut on April 4 include: an expansion of the state’s assault weapons ban background checks for all prospective firearms purchasers, including in private transactions a ban on the sale or purchase of ammunit…
…ount during the early morning. Voting machine problems have caused delays and long lines at one polling station in a heavily populated Indianapolis suburb. Hamilton County residents had to wait nearly 30 minutes to vote at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers because voting machines weren’t operating when that polling site opened Tuesday. WTHR-TV reports that by the time the problem…
ecided to call Alex. “I first rang him at 12 o’clock but his phone was off,” she said. “I thought his battery was dead. I rang him again at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. but it was still off. The trip finished at 4.30 and we went back to Alex’s restaurant, round the corner. I thought Alex would have finished his break by then. I asked his boss where he was and he said he wasn’t back from his break. So we wait…
…) bringing down trees and power lines. New Jersey state governor Chris Christie said: “I am waiting for the locusts and pestilence next.” Power companies in the two states report more than 100,000 customers suffered power outages. Some 650,000 buildings were already without power one week after storm Sandy struck, killing more than 100 people. But the damage from the latest storm, a no…
…f the firearms control bill. Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid made the decision, saying the proposal could not get enough votes. An assault-type weapon was used in the December massacre that killed 26 at Sandy Hook primary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The shooting shocked the US and revived efforts in Washington DC to prohibit such firearms. While polls show most Americans back an assault we…
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Brad Pitt says he felt he was wasting his life while married to Jennifer AnistonBrad Pitt has revealed he felt he was wasting his life on drugs while he was married to Jennifer Aniston. In yet another blow to his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt…
George Michael fell out of his car at 70 mph while travelling on a four-lane stretch of M1 motorwayAn M1 motorway driver has described the moment she nearly ran over George Michael as he lay covered in blood on the road after falling from his car at 70 mph. Katherine Fox,…
Lady Gaga is back in her favorite high heels after recovering from hip surgeryLady Gaga has been reunited with her favorite heels as she hit the town in New York in her trademark super high boots. Lady Gaga's re-emergence comes after she was seen…
Hilaria Baldwin joins husband Alec at Cannes Film Festival 2013 to promote his documentary Seduced and AbandonedAlec Baldwin famously lost his cool with film producer Harvey Weinstein at last year's Cannes film festival. But it appears that Alec Baldwin, 55, has managed to keep his…
Jennifer Lawrence wears blue body paint to portray X-Men's MystiqueJennifer Lawrence has hit the X-Men set like a bolt from the blue and her fans have been given a glimpse of the 22-year-old star in all her painted glory as she reprises her…
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