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Beginning July 30, Walt Disney World in Florida will begin requiring attendees to wear face masks, as the US state sees a rise in COVID-19 cases. The new rules will apply to all guests aged two and up while indoors and using public transport facilities in the park, regardless of …

The Miami-Dade County fire and rescue department on Friday declared an end to its search for human remains in the rubble of a Florida condominium tower that collapsed on June 24, killing at least 97 people. Authorities said one victim was still believed to be unaccounted for. The Miami-Dade Police …

217 people now accounted for, 31 others ‘potentially unaccounted for’ at the collapse in Surfside Four more victims were pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in the US state of Florida on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 90, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. Of …

The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Florida has risen to 79, after 14 bodies were recovered from the rubble, authorities said Friday. “It is a staggering and heartbreaking number that affects all of us very, very deeply,” said Miami-Dade county mayor Danielle Levine Cava. Champlain …

Two weeks following a seaside condominium tower collapsed just north of Miami,Florida rescuers have said that there are no survivors in the tragic incident. The rescuers said on Thursday their mission was no longer one of rescue, but had shifted to recovery. There were no survivors, Reuters reported. “My sister …

Rescue teams at the site of a Miami building collapse shifted to a recovery effort on Wednesday evening after authorities said there was “no chance of life”. “We have all asked God for a miracle, so the decision to transition from rescue to recovery is an extremely difficult one,” Miami-Dade …

The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its 14th day on Wednesday, with the death toll at three dozen, more than 100 people still unaccounted for, and authorities sounding grimmer The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its …

Wind gusts and heavy rains from Tropical Storm Elsa are expected in Surfside on Tuesday. Miami-Dade mayor said that search continued overnight through “extremely adverse and challenging conditions.” The confirmed death toll in the partial collapse of a 12-story residential building in Surfside, southeastern U.S. state Florida, has risen to …

Three more victims were discovered in the rubble of the collapsed South Florida condo building on Monday after crews set off a string of explosives that brought down the last of the structure, allowing search efforts to resume. Miami-Dade’s assistant fire chief, Raide Jadallah, told family members that the bodies …

Tropical storm warning is in effect for parts of Cuba and Jamaica, as well as areas in the US state of Florida. Cuba has evacuated 70,000 people in the island’s southern region amid concerns Tropical Storm Elsa could cause severe flooding after three people were killed across the Caribbean in …

Former US President Donald Trump has once again attacked his successor Joe Biden, calling him “the most unpatriotic president in American history.” Trump made the remarks Saturday in Sarasota, Florida, during a rally billed as a Fourth of July celebration with fireworks, the latest in a series of appearances as …

The storm already ripped off roofs, destroyed crops, and downed trees and power lines in the eastern Caribbean on Friday. Hurricane Elsa is racing towards Haiti and the Dominican Republic, threatening to unleash flooding and landslides before taking aim at Cuba and Florida. The Category 1 storm was located about …

The death toll from last week’s condominium collapse in Florida rose on Friday to 20 after search-and-rescue crews found two more bodies, including the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter, officials said. The grim, painstaking search for victims in the rubble, which was suspended for most of Thursday over safety …

Search-and-rescue efforts stretched through a sixth day on Tuesday at the site of a collapsed Florida condominium complex where at least a dozen people died and 149 more remained missing amid fading hopes of finding anyone else alive. Remains of the 12th casualty in the disaster, which could rank as …

Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more bodies from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster. Pouring rain and slabs of cement hampered round-the-clock efforts to pick …

The official death toll from the partial collapse of a high-rise condominium complex near Miami rose to nine on Sunday, with more than 150 people still missing, as rescue teams picked through the rubble for a fourth day without detecting further signs of life.

Rescue workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials on Friday raised the number of people unaccounted for to 159 and the confirmed death toll to four. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters that …

Hundreds of fire and rescue workers scoured through tons of rubble after a 12-story oceanfront residential building partially collapsed just north of Miami Beach early Thursday, leaving at least one person dead and at least 10 injured, officials said.

The explosives used during Friday’s trials were so powerful, the shock they caused was registered as a small earthquake measuring 3.9.

Ten people killed in a two-vehicle crash in Alabama that appeared to be linked to the weather, says official.