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In an off-the-cuff comment with legislators gathered in the Oval Office on Thursday to discuss immigration, President Donald Trump laid bare his world vision. There are wealthy white countries such as Norway, which are welcome to send immigrants to the United States. Then there are what the president called “shithole countries” — Haiti and all the nations of Africa — whose people (overwhelmingly black and brown) the president doesn’t think belong here. Trump’s comment was outrageous, immature, inhumane and vulgar — and it sha...
Cassini, the NASA spacecraft whose breakthrough discoveries about Saturn and its many moons revolutionized the search for life beyond Earth, disintegrated Friday morning in the skies above the ringed planet. It was one month shy of its 20th anniversary in space. The explorer’s death was swift and deliberate. Traveling at 76,000 mph, it hurtled into the planet’s atmosphere shortly after 3:30 a.m. Pacific time and stopped communicating with Earth one minute later, according to NASA’s carefully choreographed plan. Within three...
MIAMI — Florida prepared for deadly winds and life-threatening storm surge from Hurricane Irma Saturday by asking 700,000 more residents to leave their homes in advance of a storm that already has killed at least 20 people as it moved through the Caribbean. Irma was poised to emerge from northern Cuba Saturday afternoon and head through the warm waters of the Florida Straits. From there, it is expected to intensify, and then cross the Keys for a potentially catastrophic d...
MIAMI — Hurricane Irma continued its deadly sweep through the Caribbean on Friday as residents of Florida waited with frazzled nerves and growing fears over just how bad the storm would be. The Category 4 hurricane, with a footprint as big as Texas, is expected to make landfall early Sunday and blow through central Florida with 150 mph winds, reaching Georgia by Monday morning. Mandatory evacuations were in place for most coastal communities, affecting 650,000 people or more....
