Springfield mayor gives himself emergency powers amid false migrant claim controversy
Springfield, Ohio Mayor Rob Lew issued an emergency declaration on Thursday to allow the city to quickly address public safety concerns following false claims by former President Trump and vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) that Haitian immigrants in the city were eating residents' pets. “Ensuring the safety of Springfield residents is our number […]
Door falls off plane, forcing emergency landing in South Carolina
A plane in South Carolina made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff on Tuesday after a door on the small aircraft fell off. The single-engine Diamond DA40 plane declared a medical emergency after a door crashed into a vacant yard just minutes after taking off from Myrtle Beach International Airport at 2:53 p.m. WMBF-TV reported. […]
GOP lawmakers wrestle with emergency Secret Service funding amid government shutdown fight
House Republicans are considering adding additional funding for the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) as part of a short-term spending plan aimed at averting a partial government shutdown on October 1. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, is preparing to vote Wednesday night on a plan to avert a government shutdown, a six-month spending supplement known as […]
Video shows small plane make emergency landing on one wheel
Dramatic video shows the moment a small plane pilot made a “textbook” emergency landing on one landing gear. Footage from Tuesday afternoon shows a Cape Air Cessna 402C detecting a landing gear problem shortly after taking off for Maine and returning to Boston's Logan Airport. WCVB reported. As the plane approached the airport, only the […]
‘Butterfly emergency’ declared as UK summer count hits record low | Butterflies
A butterfly conservation group has declared a nationwide “butterfly emergency” following the record low numbers. Large butterfly count Since records began. During butterfly watching this summer, participants recorded an average of just seven butterflies per 15 minutes of watching, the lowest figure in the survey's 14-year history. It was the worst year on record for […]
Carolina Beach flooding leads to state of emergency as Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 slams North Carolina
Carolina Beach, North Carolina As a potential tropical storm swirled near the North Carolina coast on Monday, one coastal town declared a state of emergency due to storm-related flooding. Officials in Carolina Beach urged residents to stay home as they dealt with more than 18 inches of rain that fell since midnight. Video from the […]
Wilders-Led Dutch Gov’t to Enact Emergency Limits on Asylum Seeking
The populist-led Dutch government has announced it will use emergency powers to declare a refugee crisis and formally request “withdrawal” from European Union migration policy. Dutch Refugee Protection Minister Marjolein Faber, a member of Geert Wilders' populist Party for Freedom (PVV), said this week that the government would institute a “legal refugee crisis” to stem […]
Mpox vaccines pledged to Africa amid global public health emergency
Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the United States have pledged to donate MPOX vaccines from their national stockpiles to African countries currently battling outbreaks of the disease. The World Health Organization declared the current MPOX epidemic a global public health emergency in August. The European Union has committed to supplying 215,000 doses of the vaccine […]
Harvey Weinstein is recovering, but ‘in a lot of pain’ following emergency heart surgery: rep
Convicted rapist and notorious Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is recovering from emergency heart surgery at Bellevue Hospital but is still in “severe pain,” his representative said. Weinstein, 72, was rushed to the hospital on Monday from Rikers Island, where he is being held awaiting retrial on sex crimes charges. “He's in intensive care recovering from […]
Southern California representatives call for federal state of emergency amid transboundary pollution crisis
U.S. congressional representatives from Southern California on Monday called for a federal emergency declaration in hopes of bringing emergency relief to areas plagued by toxic cross-border air pollution. Democratic Reps. Juan Vargas, Sara Jacobs, Mike Levin and Scott Peters called for urgent action “in light of new findings indicating dangerous levels of toxic gases are […]