MIAMI — Tropical Storm Norbert formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean and wasn’t threatening land, forecasters said. The storm was about 685 miles (1,102 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. It had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (64 kph) and was
READ MOREA Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s was scheduled Thursday to become the state’s 15th person executed this year. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was sentenced to die for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery, whose
READ MOREWASHINGTON — Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through
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