Florida Sheriff: Ian’s Death Toll in the ‘Hundreds’

Lee County, Florida, Sheriff Carmine Marceno estimates the number of dead in his area from Hurricane Ian to be in the “hundreds.” He made his comments during an interview on Thursday’s “Good Morning America” on ABC. “While I don’t have confirmed numbers I definitely know the…

Questions over SA’s role in sending cheetahs to India

Read More South Africa’s involvement in a controversial project to send an initial batch of 12 African cheetahs to India is fraught with problems, conservationists have warned. Next month, the big cats from South Africa are expected to join eight cheetahs that were flown from Namibia to India earlier this month, more than 70 years […]

‘Brutal’: media deride Liz Truss’s local radio interviews

Read More Liz Truss spent the morning speaking to local BBC radio stations to insist her government’s economic policy is on the right course despite Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget prompting an emergency intervention from the Bank of England to prevent a run on pension funds, a slump in the value of the pound and a rise […]

‘A reverse Robin Hood’: Liz Truss faces local radio interviews amid market turmoil

Read More After days of market turmoil and currency volatility since the “fiscal event” of the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, last week, Liz Truss has run the gauntlet of local radio with a series of back-to-back morning interviews with stations from Bristol to Teesside, Norfolk to Lancashire. Below is a selection of the prime minister’s most […]

Mark Carney accuses Truss government of undermining Bank of England

Read More The former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney has accused Liz Truss’s government of “undercutting” the country’s economic institutions and working at “cross purposes” with Threadneedle Street. Carney’s comments come after the Bank was forced to step in with a ?65bn emergency bond-buying programme on Wednesday as part of efforts to […]

Philadelphia Sets Record for Carjackings

Philadelphia hit a citywide record of 1,000 carjackings this year as vehicle theft and overall crime continues to skyrocket, Fox’s WTXF-TV 29 reported.With time still left in 2022, the 1,005 total carjackings surpassed the previous record of 847 in 2021, itself a double…