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Texas hospitals, already contending with COVID-19 patients and vaccine distribution, were further impacted by this week’s winter storm wrecking havoc on the state’s power grid. As hospitals have been dealing with a loss in water pressure and heat. St. David’s South Austin Medical Center said that it had lost water pressure from the City of Austin. Since water feeds the facility’s boiler, … Read More

After the historic winter storm this week knocked out power and froze pipes all across Texas, millions of people are left scrambling for themselves to find safe drinking water. More than 1,100 public water supply systems reported weather-related disruptions in service impacting over 14.4 million people, about half of the state’s population. Many people still don’t have water or lack … Read More

In the midst of a horrifically historic storm this week, Texas became colder than Moscow, Russia. At one of the world’s busiest airports, Dallas/Fort Worth International, the temperature hovered around minus 15 degrees Celsius (4 degrees Fahrenheit), which was colder than Moscow that day. As the extreme cold weather with ice and snow impacted air travel and canceled thousands of … Read More

Israel’s Coronavirus Cabinet voted to remove lockdown restrictions on public activity and reopen the Israeli economy, but only for those who have been vaccinated. The decision is aimed primarily at people who have received the coronavirus vaccine, while the unvaccinated will continue to be barred from a number of venues. Many venues will be reopened only for people with valid … Read More

An “unprecedented” storm continued its assault on the US with 150 million people under a winter storm warning, winter weather advisory or ice storm warning in 25 states, stretching over 2,000 miles from southern Texas to northern Maine. It has left millions without power and wreaking travel havoc across a wide swath of the central and southern USA because of … Read More

 The massive 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Japan is now reported to have caused a fuel leak at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Fears were sparked that the nuclear power plant may have been damaged by this new powerful earthquake even though it was sealed off and concreted over after the previous disaster there. According to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, there … Read More

 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has hit Japan off Fukushima prefecture leaving injured and causing widespread power outages in the region but with no threat of a tsunami from the quake. The epicenter of the quake was off the coast of Fukushima north of Tokyo, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The epicenter is near where three nuclear reactors melted … Read More

A tsunami alert was triggered for Guam after a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck near New Caledonia in the western Pacific. The National Tsunami Warning Center said the quake hit southeast of the Loyalty Islands, east of Australia at around 11:20 p.m. CHST (8:20 a.m. ET) at a depth of around 20 miles. The center warned there was a tsunami … Read More

The Biden administration has directed law enforcement and intelligence officials to study the threat of domestic violent extremism in the United States. As they say the US Capitol riot indicates a national security threat that officials see as posed by American extremists motivated by radical ideology. Reports say the involvement of the national intelligence office, created after the Sept. 11, … Read More

The United States Senate has voted overwhelmingly to keep the US Embassy in the Holy City of Jerusalem. The amendment was approved by 97 senators effectively making the embassy relocation permanent. Only Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Carper voted against it. In a move welcomed by Israel and bitterly opposed by the Palestinians, the Trump administration recognized Jerusalem … Read More