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WASHINGTON (AP) Biden feels heat on emissions goal as climate summit nears As President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday with 40 world leaders, he faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that will have a tangible impact on climate change efforts not only in the U.S. but throughout the world. The emissions […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) US Border Patrol hires civilians to free up agents for field Dozens, even hundreds, of asylum-seeking migrants often wait hours to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents, but the thousands of Haitians gathered at a bridge in the small Texas border town of Del Rio may be unprecedented and point to a glaring problem with the federal police agency’s staffing. Instead of conducting patrols and uncovering smuggling activity, […]
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) Florida launches investigation into hacking of its servers Florida officials acknowledged that state servers appear to have been compromised by overseas hackers who gained entry by embedding malicious code into networking software from a Texas-based software company, SolarWinds. Two Florida officials who have knowledge of the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about it […]
NEW YORK President Trump addresses United Nations General Assembly President Trump will be delivering his third address to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday morning. His speech comes amid heightened instability in the Middle East, following a recent attack on Saudi oil facilities that the U.S. believes was carried out by Iran. In Israel, Mr. Trump’s close political ally Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed […]
RSW Spirit issues continue: More flights canceled at RSW Spirit Airlines is still having issues as cancellations continued Thursday. The flight boards at Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) show that most of Spirit’s arriving and departing flights have been canceled. Those include flights to or from Kansas City, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlantic City and Pittsburgh. (Check RSW flights here.) The airline has been plagued this […]
LONDON (AP) Netflix rejects calls to add disclaimer to ‘The Crown’ Netflix has “no plans” to add a disclaimer to “The Crown” stating that its lavish drama about Britain’s royal family is a work of fiction. In a statement Saturday, Netflix said it has always presented the drama, as just that — a drama. “We have always presented ‘The Crown’ as a drama — and we […]
Worldwide virus cases top 20 million, doubling in six weeks It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday, with more than half of them from just three countries: the U.S., India and Brazil, […]
CAPE CORAL ‘Wreaths Across America’ lays wreaths on the graves of fallen soldiers Saturday At Arlington National Cemetery, people laid 250,000 wreaths as a part of Wreaths Across America. Closer to home, those in the community came together to honor our fallen soldiers. The Vietnam War changed Jack Baum’s life and took his brothers. “It was tragic. I came back a big war hero and they had the draft […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Russia renews strikes on Ukraine capital, hits other cities Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond Saturday in an explosive reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole country remains under threat despite Moscow’s pivot toward mounting a new offensive in the east. Stung by the loss of its Black Sea flagship and indignant over alleged Ukrainian aggression […]
WINK NEWS FGCU students honor MLK’s past leadership, say ‘next person is you’ We celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a nation Monday, but students at FGCU decided not to wait. A group of FGCU students rallied, marched and discussed Thursday how they could all follow King’s example and make a difference in the world. “If Dr. Martin Luther King was here, one thing I think he […]