Aging Infrastructure May Create Higher Flood Risk in L.A., Study Finds
Between 197,000 and 874,000 city residents could experience a foot of flooding during an extreme storm, scientists found. Most of them don’t live in beachfront mansions.
Between 197,000 and 874,000 city residents could experience a foot of flooding during an extreme storm, scientists found. Most of them don’t live in beachfront mansions.
But he has not conceded Brazil’s presidential election.
With the world still struggling to get global warming under control, diplomats will gather in Egypt for United Nations climate talks. Here are some key facts.
Teams searched the Machchhu River in Morbi, India, for missing people the day after a suspension bridge collapsed and killed at least 134 pedestrians, many of whom were children.
Russia launched dozens of missile attacks across Ukraine at civilian targets. The barrage knocked out power in parts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and left 40 percent of the city without water.
By Brian Witte,The Associated Press Wes Moore could soon make history if elected Maryland’s first Black governor, and he’s not alone: Rep. Anthony Brown would be the state’s first Black attorney general. Aruna Miller, Moore’s running mate who emigrated from India, would be the first Asian-American elected statewide in Maryland. If these Democrats win —
By Black PR Wire WASHINGTON – In 2018, Howard University announced a goal of raising $100 million in grants and contracts for research by 2024. Recently, Howard surpassed that goal two years early by raising $122 million in Fiscal Year 2022, a record sum for any Historically Black College or University (HBCU). “Research and academic excellence
By Sudhin Thanawala and Gary Fields, The Associated Press Black church leaders in Georgia organized rallies Oct. 30 in a push to get their congregants to vote — a longstanding tradition known as “souls to the polls” that is taking on greater meaning this year amid new obstacles to casting a ballot in the midterm
By Tim Reynalds, The Associated Press Joe Dumars might have been destined for this job. He played with the Bad Boys, those Detroit Pistons teams that were physical, aggressive and intimidating. And even in those rough-and-tumble times, he wound up becoming the first recipient of the NBA’s sportsmanship award — now called the Joe Dumars
By Stacy M. Brown, Special to NNPA Newswire APGA Tour star Willie Mack III emerged victorious in a three-man playoff thanks to a tap-in par on the first extra hole, capturing the Butterfield Bermuda APGA Championship at Port Royal Golf Course. It was the first international competition in the history of the burgeoning APGA Tour.