Faces of Katrina: Former NOPD superintendent Eddie Compass reflects on the storm 20 years later
With New Orleans almost entirely underwater following catostrophic levee breaks at three seperate locations, it was chaos in the city. People left stranded, widespread looting, and even rampant ...
Priceless art was destroyed by L.A. wildfires. Experts want to protect other cities from the same fate
Across the globe, cultural institutions are implementing new measures to protect their artifacts from the ravages of climate ...
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This economist survived a wildfire. Now she's taking on California's insurance crisis
An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.
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Insurance and wildfires
For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...
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Two found dead in Auburn house destroyed by fire, two displaced
Two people were found dead during a blaze that destroyed an Auburn house on Tuesday ... in about a house on fire at 12 Foote St. in the city at about 2:10 a.m. Tuesday. Two adults were found ...
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Palestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza’s ‘ghost towns’
Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of ...
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How to disable transparency effects on Windows 11
On Windows 11, desktop elements like the Taskbar, Start menu, and certain apps, such as the Settings app, use a new transparent base layer featuring the Mica material from the Microsoft Fluent ...
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SpaceX Starship destroyed during 7th test flight; Elon Musk reacts, posts video
SpaceX mission control in Texas lost contact with Starship eight minutes into flight after it separated in space from its Super Heavy first stage booster. SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on ...
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SpaceX Starship mega-rocket 'destroyed' in 7th test flight trying to bring Elon Musk closer to Mars
Space X's seventh Starship test flight was 'destroyed' less than ten minutes after its launch, as Elon Musk continues his quest to reach Mars. The uncrewed test flight was Musk's latest attempt ...
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Mel Gibson walks through rubble of $14.5M Malibu mansion destroyed by Palisades Fire
Mel Gibson walked through the ruins of his $14.5 million Malibu, Calif., mansion after the home was destroyed in the catastrophic Palisades Fire. The “Braveheart” actor, 69, surveyed the ...
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Mel Gibson takes news crew to rubble of $14.5M Malibu mansion destroyed by Palisades Fire after ripping into Gov. Newsom
Gibson was joined by a NewsNation reporter and California first responders for a ride-along where they toured the destroyed Los Angeles properties. The “Mad Max” star asked one of the first ...
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How do you clean up a fire disaster unlike any other in modern times? ‘It’s going to be an enormous undertaking’
More than 12,000 structures have been destroyed, many of them homes and businesses that are reduced to ashy foundation footprints. Cars are charred to the frame, their tires melted into black ...