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After shootings in Dayton and El Paso last month, the issue was already expected to top the agenda when lawmakers return from their recess next week. Now the pressure has intensified.
Djokovic, the No. 1 seed and defending champion, was trailing Stan Wawrinka by two sets to none on Sunday when he retired from their fourth-round match.
Dorian may be super-powerful, but it’s moving at a snail’s pace. That gives its torrential rains more time to produce floods, and its winds more time to destroy.
A powerful Category 5 storm has bound together a disparate community of people across states and nations.
White House advisers want to expand the C.I.A.’s presence as troops leave Afghanistan, but the agency’s director and others expressed reservations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 28, 2019, covering September 2, 2019.
Young Thug
Lionel Richie
Various Artists
Billie Eilish
Ed Sheeran
2019Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.[†]
Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone, which became the most intense on record to strike the Bahamas. It is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of maximum sustained winds. It is regarded as the worst natural disaster in The Bahamas' recorded history. With winds peaking at 185 mph (295 km/h), it was also one of the most powerful hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in terms of 1-minute sustained winds, and the strongest since Wilma in 2005. Dorian was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, the first major hurricane, and the first Category 5 hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Dorian struck the Abaco Islands on September 1 with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), tying with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the highest wind speeds of an Atlantic hurricane ever recorded at landfall. Dorian went on to strike Grand Bahama at similar intensity, stalling just north of the territory with unrelenting winds for at least 24 hours. The resultant damage to these islands was catastrophic; most structures were flattened or swept to sea, and at least 70,000 people were left homeless. After it ravaged through The Bahamas, Dorian proceeded along the coasts of the Southeastern United States and Atlantic Canada, leaving behind considerable damage and economic losses in those regions.
2019The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34.[†]
The sinking of MV Conception occurred on September 2, 2019, after the 75-foot (23 m) dive boat caught fire and eventually sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California, United States, killing 34 of the 39 aboard. The boat was anchored overnight at Platts Harbor, a small undeveloped bay on the island's north shore, when a fire broke out on the main deck shortly after 3 a.m. The 33 passengers and 1 crew member who were sleeping below the main deck were trapped by the fire and killed. The remaining 5 crew had sleeping berths on the top deck and were able to escape. The five survivors placed an initial mayday call to the Coast Guard and attempted to alert the people below deck, but all routes to the main sleeping area were blocked by fire, and they were forced to jump overboard. The surviving crew retrieved the Conception's skiff and motored to a nearby boat where a second radio dispatch was made. The rescue and recovery operations were coordinated by the United States Coast Guard.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]