The Trump administration is suspending the discharge of recent nationwide dietary tips. The up to date vitamin recommendation, now anticipated in December, might convey main modifications to what the government considers a healthy diet.
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Melissa has now intensified right into a Category 5 hurricane with 175 mph winds, making it the strongest storm on the planet this year. Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued throughout susceptible coastal areas of Jamaica because the unprecedented storm barrels towards landfall in the approaching hours. Up to 40 inches of rain, 13 toes of storm surge and 160 mph sustained winds will trigger “extensive infrastructure damage” that can lower off communities, the National Hurricane Center warned. The storm has already killed seven individuals — three in Haiti, three in Jamaica and one in the Dominican Republic. View NCS’s Storm Tracker to observe Melissa’s projected path.
What Jamaica will face as Category 5 hurricane makes landfall
President Donald Trump held talks on Tuesday with Japan’s new conservative prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, on the second leg of his Asia tour. Takaichi heralded what she hoped would mark “a new golden age of the Japan-US alliance,” and Trump advised her she can be “one of the great prime ministers.” The leaders signed a rare earths agreement following their bilateral assembly in Tokyo. Separately, the president has recommended he could meet with North Korean chief Kim Jong Un this week, saying he would “love to see” him. During his first time period in workplace, Trump and Kim held a collection of unprecedented conferences in 2018 and 2019 — and had an notorious handshake in the Korean Peninsula’s demilitarized zone.
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As lawmakers spar over who’s to blame for the weekslong authorities shutdown, thousands and thousands of Americans are on the verge of losing critical food aid. Unless a deal is made earlier than Saturday, greater than 40 million individuals in the US will lose entry to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Democrats argue that President Trump might save this system if he selected to. They are additionally criticizing the White House for offering a $20 billion bailout to Argentina whereas the large meals help program stays in danger. The US Department of Agriculture mentioned Sunday it won’t use its $6 billion contingency fund to cowl meals stamp advantages subsequent month because the deadlock continues.
The Trump administration is planning one other shakeup at Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid frustrations over lagging immigration arrests, in accordance to 4 sources acquainted with the discussions. Earlier this yr, the White House set a goal of three,000 day by day arrests nationwide — a lofty objective for an company lengthy stretched skinny on sources and personnel. Despite elevated enforcement efforts nationwide, the company has largely fallen in need of that objective. The shortfall has intensified tensions between the White House and ICE, with sources saying plans are underway to reassign no less than a dozen ICE workplace administrators nationwide who senior officers take into account underperforming.
Amazon is shedding as many as 30,000 company workers starting as we speak, in accordance to stories. The cuts would have an effect on practically 10% of the corporate’s greater than 350,000 company workers. In June, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy mentioned in a weblog submit to workers that effectivity positive aspects from synthetic intelligence would finally permit the corporate to cut back its human workforce. It’s not the primary spherical of massive layoffs for the tech giant. In 2023, the corporate lower 27,000 staff in its human sources division, Amazon Stores, Amazon Web Services and different divisions. At the time, Jassy attributed the job cuts to a worsening international financial outlook.
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Pop star Katy Perry and former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau are “officially dating,” everybody has determined.
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 in 18 innings, tying the longest game in World Series history. The Dodgers now have a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven collection.
Two expeditions are pursuing rival theories about what occurred to famed aviator Amelia Earhart. Both say they’re closing in on the answer.
Combs’ launch date from jail has been set, greater than three months after a jury delivered a combined verdict in his federal trial.
Ten individuals went on trial in Paris on Monday, accused of the web harassment of French first lady Brigitte Macron.
NCS’s Clarissa Ward embarks on a deeply private journey to find out what happened to her friend, Austin Tice. Tice disappeared in Syria in 2012 whereas masking the nation’s revolution. Ward tracks down the person accountable for holding him.
The former president is urging Americans to keep engaged amid an period of fierce political division and what he described as President Trump’s exams of government energy. Biden on Sunday mentioned in a speech that our nation would “find our true compass again” and “emerge as we always have — stronger, wiser and more resilient, more just, so long as we keep the faith.”
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NCS exhibits how hurricane hunter planes fly into the attention of a hurricane
In this video, NCS’s Derek Van Dam exhibits how hurricane hunters battle fierce turbulence as they fly into the attention of storms.