SURFSIDE, Fla. — The death toll from the collapse of a Florida beachfront condo building has risen to nine as search-and-rescue efforts continue, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday. One person died in the hospital, and workers pulled four more bodies from the wreckage, the mayor said. Scores of […]
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Families cling to hope as Surfside condo collapse toll rises to 9
SURFSIDE, Fla. — The death toll from the collapse of a Florida beachfront condo building has risen to nine as search-and-rescue efforts continue, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday. One person died in the hospital, and workers pulled four more bodies from the wreckage, the mayor said. Scores of […]
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Families Cling To Hope As Condo Collapse Death Toll Rises To 9
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a Florida beachfront condo building has risen to nine as search-and-rescue efforts continue, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday. One person died in the hospital, and workers pulled four more bodies from the wreckage, the mayor said. Scores […]
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Body found in rubble after Florida building collapse as death toll rises to 5; 156 unaccounted for
SURFSIDE, Fla. – Responders found a body and human remains Saturday in the rubble at the site of a 12-story beachfront condominium building that collapsed just north of Miami early Thursday morning, killing at least five people and leaving 156 more unaccounted for. “Today, our search and rescue teams found […]
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Mustafa’s ‘When Smoke Rises’ Is a Softly Stunning Debut
Mustafa_by_Dexter_Navy – Credit: Dexter Navy* The more you listen to Mustafa, you begin to realize that the juxtaposition of the gritty street life he depicts and the gentle music he makes shouldn’t be much of a juxtaposition at all. Half of the singer-songwriter’s debut project, When Smoke Rises, has been […]
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Number of Immigrant Families Illegally Crossing U.S. Border Rises to Pre-Covid-19 Levels
DEL RIO, Texas—Throughout the pandemic, this border city’s Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition has typically assisted about 25 migrants a week who enter the U.S. illegally with their families and seek asylum. In the last week of January, 341 migrants passed through its center, quickly overtaxing the organization’s resources and […]
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Russia Rises Up Against Putin as Thousands Defy Kremlin’s Medieval ‘Castle’ Crackdown
MOSCOW—The opulent, fortified Kremlin, which stands right in the center of Moscow, looked like a besieged castle on Sunday. Metal fences, traffic cops and interior ministry riot troops blocked all the streets around Lubyanka square, the Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters, and Red Square. The metro stations were closed. It […]
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‘It may have come from an employee’: Hudson County jail rises to 33 positive COVID-19 cases
A COVID-19 outbreak at the Hudson County jail is now up to 33 positive cases, according to a county official. None of the 33 infected inmates are showing “serious symptoms,” but now health officials believe that an asymptomatic employee may be the source of the spread in the facility, county […]
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From ‘role models’ to sex workers: Kenya’s child labor rises
A teenage girl who became a sex worker after schools in Kenya were closed in March due to coronavirus restrictions, sits in the rented room where she and others work, in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. The girls saw their mothers’ sources of income vanish when Kenya’s government restricted […]