International News
Philippines: 10 million people in the path of Mangkhut
Al Jazeera
Thousands of people will be evacuated as the most powerful typhoon so far this year roars towards the northern Philippines, officials said.
As of Wednesday, Typhoon Mangkhut was carrying maximum sustained winds of 205km/h and gusts of up to 255km/h, according to the Philippine weather bureau.
El Salvador's disappearing farmers
Al Jazeera
El Milagro, El Salvador - Cecilia Lopez loves breathing the fresh air in the countryside of El Salvador but, like many her age, the 18-year-old doesn't plan on staying in her rural village much longer.
Balancing a heavy sack of fertiliser on her head as she descends the steep path leading to her family's plot of corn, Lopez says she dreams of studying to become an accountant, or if she can get a scholarship, an aircraft engineer.
US News
Hurricane Florence: North Carolina fears possible environmental disaster
The Guardian
Hurricane Florence could cause an environmental disaster in North Carolina, where waste from hog manure pits, coal ash dumps and other industrial sites could wash into homes and threaten drinking water supplies.
Preparations are also being made at half a dozen nuclear power plants that stand in the path of the 500-mile-wide hurricane, which is barreling toward the US east coast, expected to make landfall Thursday night. More than 1.4 million residents across North and South Carolina have been ordered to evacuate.
Stormy Daniels announces memoir she says will 'blow minds'
The Guardian
Stormy Daniels intends to tell all.
The pornographic actor who alleges she had a brief affair with Donald Trump will publish a memoir titled Full Disclosure next month, she said Wednesday.
“It will blow your minds,” Daniels said during an appearance on ABC’s The View talkshow.
Storm’s uncertain track sows fear; 10 million in crosshairs
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs Wednesday as the monster storm closed in on the Carolinas, uncertainty over its projected path spreading worry across a widening swath of the Southeast.
Faced with new forecasts that showed a more southerly threat, Georgia’s governor joined his counterparts in Virginia and North and South Carolina in declaring a state of emergency, and some residents who had thought they were safely out of range boarded up their homes.