Saturday, October 24, 2015

Hurricane Patricia And Other Stories

Hurricane Patricia, called the most powerful storm in history, made landfall yesterday on the western coast of Mexico, and has weakened down to a tropical depression.  Spawned by the current el niƱo, Patricia had strengthened from a tropical storm all the way to category 5 hurricane on Thursday.

Read more at The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, CNN and The Weather Channel.

In other stories:

From the Express, ISIS sends their assassins into refugee camps to target Christians.

From The Jerusalem Post, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says that his government will not allow Kurds to "seize" northern Syria.

From Fox News, Secretary of State John Kerry says "Leaders must lead," to stop the violence in Jerusalem.

From the Chicago Sun-Times, some lessons to be learned from a domestic violence tragedy.

From the Chicago Tribune, bison are back at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie "after a few thousand years".

According to Eagle Rising, 97% of the newly insured under Obamacare are from its Medicaid expansion.

From ABC News, President Obama calls for limiting the amount of class time used to prepare students for taking standardized tests.  (How about getting rid of federal tests and let education be a state matter, like it mostly was before Common Core and No Child Left Behind?)

From The Blaze, California adopts a visa for illegal aliens victimized by domestic violence.

From The Washington Times, according to a report, the Bureau of Land Management "illegally sold thousands of wild horses for slaughter".

From American Thinker, how to apply the "broken window theory of policing" to illegal immigration.

From Blabbermouth.net, Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden and owner of Cardiff Aviation, talks about his company and the aviation industry.

From CNS News, Republican legislators in Wisconsin move to end "John Doe" probes.

And from The Washington Post, Maureen O'Hara, the Irish-born actress who became a U.S. citizen in 1946, has died at age 95 at her home in Boise, Idaho.

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