As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida, expected to make landfall some time Wednesday evening, locals across the state are scrambling to make emergency preparations and hundreds of thousands are attempting to leave what are expected to be the hardest-hit areas. But with one million people in coastal areas under evacuation orders, highways to higher ground
After 67 years of welcoming guests on the Las Vegas Strip, the historic Tropicana hotel is no more. The hotel and casino tumbled to the ground in a planned implosion that featured a fireworks and drone show in the early hours of Wednesday morning, reducing to rubble the last true mob building on the Strip.There
An already hurricane-ravaged Florida faced down a powerful Hurricane Milton Wednesday night, with officials warning it could be the “storm of the century.” The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Milton to a Category 3 hurricane early Wednesday evening shortly before landfall on Florida’s west coast, with sustained winds up to 195 kilometres per hour.The
Less than a month from election day in the U.S., Vice-President Kamala Harris is on a media spree. In recent days, the Democratic nominee sat down with CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s The View, the Call Her Daddy podcast and Howard Stern’s radio show. To cap it all off, Harris joined late-night host Stephen Colbert on
Australian airline Qantas has apologized to passengers after an R-rated movie was broadcast to every in-flight entertainment screen during a trip from Sydney to Tokyo. Travellers on board the plane Saturday were told technical difficulties meant individual movie selection was not available for the international flight.Crew members took requests from flyers for one movie selection
Many Canadians flock to Florida as cold weather nears but as Hurricane Milton barrels towards the state as a Category 5 storm — though is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 — it may have some north of the border worried about property they own down south. The latest survey by the National
Brothers convicted in the United States of helping Iran evade sanctions were allowed to legally adopt new identities in Ontario, records released to Motorcycle accident toronto today show.Amin and Arash Yousefijam were sentenced in Michigan in the fall of 2021 for using shell companies to illegally export sensitive manufacturing equipment to Iran, where they were born.They then
The mayor of Tampa Bay, Florida has a blunt message for Floridians in the path of Hurricane Milton – this storm could kill you. “If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you’re going to die,” Tampa Bay mayor Jane Castor said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.Hurricane Milton regained Category
The live-streaming platform Kick has banned a controversial influencer from its service after he broadcast himself crashing his McLaren on a Miami highway while appearing to be distracted on his phone. Jack Doherty, while only 20 years old, has amassed nearly 15 million followers on YouTube. Scrolling through his page, viewers are greeted by sensational
The conditions are ripe for people to catch the Draconid meteor shower on Monday evening and into Tuesday morning. And Canadians won’t have to stay up late to catch it. This particular meteor shower takes place in the evening and is most visible just after nightfall as opposed to happening early in the morning.Jenna Hinds