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President Donald Trump is seen in his motorcade driving through West Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, en route to Palm Beach International Airport. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

President Donald Trump calls Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’ as tensions rise between the leaders over the Russia-Ukraine war

February 19, 2025 at 11:08 a.m.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections,” lashing out after the Ukrainian president said Trump was being influenced by Russian disinformation as he moves to...

Una madre da las gracias a la notaria Adela Morales, a la derecha, y a Nora Sandigo, a la izquierda, tras firmar los documentos que otorgan a Sandigo la tutela legal de sus hijos, el domingo 19 de enero de 2025, en Miami. (AP Foto/Marta Lavandier)

Tras críticas de líderes legislativos, el gobernador de Florida promete vetar ley de inmigración

January 29, 2025 at 11:55 a.m.

El gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, prometió el miércoles vetar un amplio proyecto de ley sobre inmigración, en la última escalada de un enfrentamiento en la legislatura estatal entre el...

FILE – Rep. Randy Fine, R-South Brevard County, closes on a gambling bill during a special session, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)

What to know about Tuesday’s US House primaries to replace Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz

January 28, 2025 at 8:21 a.m.

The races to fill the U.S. House seats of former Reps. Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz begin Tuesday with primaries in reliably conservative districts that solidly back President Donald Trump.

Kelli Roiter, a condo owner in one of the few residential buildings designed in 1971 by architect Morris Lapidus, looks out her balcony at other waterfront high-rise buildings, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Hallandale Beach, Fla. Roiter supports new rules that require condo associations to maintain reserves and make necessary structural repairs. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Florida condo owners look at higher costs as new regulations take effect in the new year

December 27, 2024 at 7:46 a.m.

Florida condominium owners are looking at higher costs from condo associations in the new year, a consequence of a safety law passed by state lawmakers in 2022.

Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump will appear in court

September 30, 2024 at 10:38 a.m.

The man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course will appear in court on Monday after being indicted on additional charges.

This photo provided by Hédi Aouidj shows Ryan Routh, a suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, in Maidan, Ukraine on April 10, 2024. (Hédi Aouidj via AP)

US to seek attempted assassination charge against man accused of staking out Trump at golf course

September 23, 2024 at 4:53 p.m.

The man accused in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida left behind a note saying that he intended to kill the former president...

Police drive in to the Mar-a-Lago estate of Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, one day after an apparent assassination attempt, in Palm Beach, Fla., Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Florida will launch criminal probe into apparent assassination attempt of Trump, governor says

September 17, 2024 at 4:35 p.m.

Florida law enforcement will launch a state-level criminal probe of the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday.

<p>A slow-moving weather system in early July unleashed astonishing amounts of water in a short period of time across the U.S. Northeast, causing rivers to swell and flooding streets, homes, and businesses.</p><p>Several inches of rain dropped over 48 hours in parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania. Vermont received the brunt of the deluge, hit with two months' worth of rain in a matter of hours. The storm conjured bad memories of Hurricane Irene in 2011, the greatest natural disaster to hit the Granite State since 1927, according to the National Weather Service. (Here is the <a href="https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/06/25/worst-natural-disaster-in-every-state-4/?utm_source=tribune&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tribune&utm_content=worst-natural-disaster-in-every-state-4&utm_term=812696811&wsrlui=812696811">worst natural disaster in every state</a>.)</p><p>Instruments measured more than 9 inches of rain over 24 hours in the town of Plymouth, Vermont, while 7 inches of rain fell over four hours further south at the West Point Military Academy in New York's Hudson Valley. At least one person was reportedly killed in New York as she attempted to escape her flooded home.</p><p>While this weather system inundated the region, it does not come close to past U.S. records for the largest amount of rain over a period of time. For example, a storm in July 1942 dumped as much as 23 inches of rain over three hours in the town of Smethport, in north-central Pennsylvania. That storm also holds the U.S. record for the most rain in 60 minutes, six hours, and 12 hours. <br/>
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Similarly, Waipa Garden on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai holds the U.S. record for the most rain in a 24-hour period after a storm in April 2018 dumped nearly 50 inches of rain in that amount of time. That storm also holds the U.S. record for the most rain in 18 hours (42.5 inches) and 48 hours (54.4 inches).</p><p>To identify the record rainfalls in the U.S., 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the<a href="https://www.weather.gov/owp/hdsc_usa_record"> Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center USA Record Precipitation Measurements</a>, published by the NWS. Data was last updated by the NWS on Nov. 10, 2021, and some records are estimates. Record rainfalls are ordered by their duration, from one minute to one year. Some rainstorms broke multiple records for the amount of rain dumped over a period of time.</p><p>The longest-running U.S. rainfall record dates back to July 1889, when 19 inches of rain fell in 2.17 hours in Rockport, West Virginia. Two of the 20 weather events on the list, one in the Big Bend region of west Texas in May 1935 and the other one in Holt, Missouri, in June 1947, also hold the world record for the most amount of rain over 2.75 hours and 42 minutes, respectively. Speaking of, these are the <a href="https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/07/08/largest-rain-storms-ever-recorded-on-earth/?utm_source=tribune&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tribune&utm_content=largest-rain-storms-ever-recorded-on-earth&utm_term=812696812&wsrlui=812696812">largest rain storms ever recorded on Earth</a>.</p>

Hurricane season 2024 is here. Here’s how to stay prepared

July 2, 2024 at 6:25 p.m.

Hurricane season is upon us, and emergency management officials are urging residents to stay prepared. Unlike previous hurricane seasons, this summer brings record hot temperatures nationwide and an early onset...

FILE – Walt Nauta, center, valet to former president Donald Trump, his attorney Stanley Woodward, rear, and Carlos De Oliveira, foreground, the property manager of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, leave the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse, Aug. 10, 2023, in Fort Pierce, Fla. Lawyers for Nauta and De Oliveira are set to ask U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon during a Frida, April 12, 2024, hearing to throw out charges of conspiring with Trump to obstruct an FBI investigation into the hoarding of classified documents at the former president’s Palm Beach estate. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Trump’s co-defendants in classified documents case are asking judge to dismiss charges against them

April 12, 2024 at 12:27 p.m.

Lawyers for two co-defendants of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case are asking a judge on Friday to dismiss charges against them.

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