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Hurricane Ian made landfall for the third time this week in South Carolina after tearing a ruinous path across Florida and Cuba. Ian roared ashore as a Category 1 storm near Georgetown with sustained winds of 85 miles per hour (140 kilometres per hour) at 2.05 pm (eastern time) on Friday. Georgetown is around 60 miles north of the city of Charleston. The National Hurricane Center warned of life-threatening storm surge to the coast of the Carolinas. The hurricane previously made landfall on Tuesday in western Cuba, plunging the entire island into blackout after the power grid collapsed. Ian then gathered steam in the warm Gulf waters and plowed through southwest Florida near Fort Myers on Wednesday afternoon as a near Category-5 hurricane. President Joe Biden has issued an emergency declaration for South Carolina, following his previous order for parts of Florida. |
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| There are 20 deaths that have not yet been confirmed to be Ian-related |
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| Haberman's book 'Confidence Man' is released soon |
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| 'He's not going to scare us and he doesn't intimidate us' |
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| A new trove of documents shows prosecutors trying to influence key witness's testimony |
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Did Jeffrey Dahmer kill the son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh? |
A retired FBI agent has claimed that Jeffrey Dahmer murdered the son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh. Investigator Neil Purtell told Radaronline compelling evidence that linked the serial killer to the 1981 murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh had been bungled by Florida police. Mr Purtell interviewed Dahmer in prison after he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 17 boys and men in Wisconsin. "He said if he did admit to it, he would be killed in prison as a paedophile," Mr Purtell told RadarOnline. "My impression was he was admitting he did it." Adam was abducted from a Sears department store in the Hollywood Mall in Florida in 1981. His severed head was found 16 days later in a canal 120 miles away, and the case became one of the most infamous child murders in American history. |
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– US Navy sailor Ryan Sawyer Mays has been found not guilty of starting a 2020 fire that destroyed the $1.2bn warship USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego. |
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| "America and its allies ... are not going to be intimidated by Putin and his reckless words and threats. He's not going to scare us and he doesn't intimidate us." |
– President Joe Biden on Friday said the United States and its allies will not back down on supporting Ukraine's fight against Russian invasion forces despite Vladimir Putin's claims to have annexed the country's Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions. |
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