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Small plane that crashed off California coast was among a growing number of home-built aircraft

Small plane that crashed off California coast was among a growing number of home-built aircraft

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small airplane that crashed into the ocean off the California coast on Sunday was constructed piece by piece over nearly a decade, one of tens of thousands of home-built aircraft that are part of a high-flying hobby taking off across the country. Federal investigators said they believe four people were aboard the single-engine Cozy Mark IV when it went down in the evening just south of San Francisco. No survivors were found and only one body had been recovered from the… Source link

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Houthi rebels strike a U.S.-owned ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions

Houthi rebels strike a U.S.-owned ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions

JERUSALEM (AP) — Houthi rebels fired a missile, striking a U.S.-owned ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after they launched an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea. The attack on the Gibraltar Eagle, later claimed by the Houthis, further escalates tensions gripping the Red Sea after American-led strikes on the rebels. The Houthis’ attacks have roiled global shipping, amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip,… Source link

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CFP lacks juice as Alabama, Georgia coast

The chants that have become the soundtrack of college football will be heard on repeat in the upcoming weeks. In Indianapolis, the inexplicable site of the College Football Playoff title game on Jan. 10, the vocal flex of Southern football superiority will reverberate in the heart of Big Ten country. With No. 3 Georgia and No. 1 Alabama set to square off in an SEC title game rematch, we’re left wondering if there’s a way for the sport to provide a surprise ending — both in result and,… Source link

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‘We do need to back away from the coast,’ climate scientist warns

Sea levels will continue to rise over the next century as a result of climate change, and this could drastically alter the lives of the 127 million people in the U.S. who live in coastal areas. “We do need to back away from the coast,” Christian Braneon, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said at Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit (video above). “And I think what we need to do is actually proactively set up areas with affordable housing before the real… Source link

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Gold Coast road rage fist fight caught on camera

Motorists on the Gold Coast watched on in shock as two drivers traded blows in a disturbing road rage incident. Video captured the moment the confrontation between a 23-year-old man and a 67-year-old man became violent at an intersection in Queensland. It’s believed the incident began after a minor collision, Nine News reports. Video captured the moment the confrontation between a 23-year-old man and a 67-year-old man became violent. Source: Nine News In the vision the older man can be seen… Source link

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Massive internet outage hits U.S. East Coast taking down Gmail, Slack, and Amazon AWS

Benzinga Apple Expected To Join The $100 Billion Revenue Club When Earnings Are Released Did someone say $100 billion? And then some? Wall Street analysts did. A consensus sees Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) as joining that rarefied corporate crowd that’s broken the $100 billion in quarterly revenues mark when it opens the books Wednesday on its fiscal Q1. That’s a record for AAPL, of course, and may have been assisted by holiday sales of its new iPhone 12. But it’s one in a series of fresh… Source link

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Hurricane Hanna Makes Landfall, Rakes Texas Coast With High Wind

(Bloomberg) — Hanna, 2020’s first Atlantic hurricane, made landfall on Padre Island Saturday evening, bringing “life-threatening” storm surges, flooding rains and tree-toppling winds to south Texas. The storm came ashore with 90-mile-per-hour (145 kmph) winds, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 6 p.m. EDT. Hanna is moving west-south-west at about 8 miles per hour. A Category 1 storm, the lowest on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale, much of Hanna’s damage is likely… Source link

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