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NEW YORK (AP) — Cleanup efforts and damage assessment were underway Friday in Delaware’s capital and on Long Island, New York, after tornadoes touched down during storms that battered the Northeast with heavy rains and left dozens of people stranded in their cars during flash flooding. Officials said there were no reports of any serious injuries. The National Weather Service said a trained spotter reported a tornado in Dover, Delaware, […]

COPENHAGEN, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Iceland’s referendum on August 29 on whether to open accession talks with the European Union is only the first of several steps in the pro-EU government’s plan to nudge the island nation towards membership. The vote is expected to be a close-fought race, with opinion polls showing a near dead heat between those who want Iceland to hold talks on joining the bloc and opponents who […]

COPENHAGEN/REYKJAVIK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Gylfi Geirsson and Sigurbjorn Svavarsson cut British fishing trawl wires and dodged Royal Navy frigates on board small Icelandic coastguard vessels 50 years ago, using guerrilla-like tactics to keep foreign fleets out of their waters. Iceland won the series of confrontations known as the Cod Wars, and control of those waters became the foundation of the volcanic island’s economy.  Half a century later, the fear […]

By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY, Aug 21 (Reuters) – A social media post by U.S. President Donald Trump declaring that the Keystone XL oil pipeline “may be awoken from the grave” attracted attention this week in the midst of U.S.-Canada trade talks. Below is a look at the history of that project running through parts of Canada and the U.S., as well as details on the new oil pipeline proposal that […]

By Amy-Jo Crowley, David French and Milana Vinn LONDON/NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Vista Equity Partners is weighing a potential sale of Allvue Systems, in a deal that could value the provider of data and analytics for asset managers and credit investors at as much as $3 billion including debt, four people familiar with the matter said. The move comes almost five years since Allvue’s efforts to list via […]

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to South Carolina on Friday to make a last-minute appeal for Sen. Darline Graham, his chosen candidate to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, ahead of a Republican runoff next week. Voters will decide Tuesday whether Graham or Rep. Ralph Norman will be Republicans’ nominee on the November ballot. The Myrtle Beach rally is an opportunity for the president to […]

Fans hoping to catch some of the opening matches at the 2026 U.S. Open continue to face steep prices on the reseller market. The get-in price for the first round at Flushing Meadows in New York, which gets underway on Aug. 30, sits at $197, according to TicketData.com. That spans all combined day and night sessions for the Round of 128, and is 33.1% higher than the final get-in price […]

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Ebola outbreak that is spreading at unprecedented speed in Congo has not peaked yet and could be three times the current known size, according to data from authorities and Africa’s top public health agency. It is history’s fastest Ebola outbreak, and the World Health Organization says it is on track to surpass the deadliest on record, which was between 2014 and 2016, with over 11,000 […]

Nearing the six-month mark of the Iran war and facing diminishing stockpiles of key weapons, the Trump administration is touting a crushing financial campaign against Tehran, promising an “economic D-Day” against a country that has so far withstood nearly five decades of punishing American sanctions. With sparse details, President Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. would be imposing an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare and isolation on Iran, […]