Floridians prepare for the worst as Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Caribbean, and a cyber heist at Equifax leaves the personal information of over 140 million Americans vulnerable. Sports editor Noah Brown has today’s News in :90.
AP: Nations rush to help islands devastated by Hurricane Irma
Florida is bracing for the onslaught of Hurricane Irma, with forecasters warning Irma could slam headlong into the Miami metropolitan area of 6 million people, punish the entire length of the state’s Atlantic coast and move into Georgia and South Carolina.
News in :90 – Sept. 7, 2017
This is News in :90 for Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017.
Sports in :60 – Sept. 7, 2017
This is Sports in :60 for Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017.
News in :90 – Sept. 6, 2017
This is News in :90 for Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017.
Trivia on a stick: Minnesota State Fair by the numbers
Designer Christine Hastings breaks down the statistics behind the Minnesota State Fair.
AP: Trump orders end to program protecting immigrant ‘dreamers’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday began dismantling Barack Obama’s program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children.
Tommie-Johnnie student tickets available online tonight
Vouchers for student tickets for the Sept. 23 Tommie-Johnnie football showdown will be made available online tonight at 7. Per a sponsorship with the Undergraduate Student Government, a limited number of free tickets are available for current undergraduate students. Students are allowed only one ticket per person.
Class of 2021 marches through the arches
Director Lauren Andrego captured Tuesday’s March through the Arches, where St. Thomas’ class of 2021 was welcomed by students, faculty, staff and community members before the first day of classes.
AP: Trump raises stakes in escalating North Koreans nuke crisis
North Korea claimed Sunday “perfect success” in an underground test of what it called a hydrogen bomb — potentially vastly more destructive than an atomic bomb.
Canvas to replace Blackboard as new learning management system
St. Thomas professors have started to transition from Blackboard to Canvas, a new instructional platform that technology consultants say will better suit the university’s needs.
AP: Houston endures more rain and chaos; 6 feared drowned in van
There was no relief in sight Monday from Tropical Storm Harvey, the storm that spun into Texas as a Category 4 hurricane then parked itself over the Gulf Coast. With nearly 2 more feet of rain expected, authorities worried whether the worst was yet to come.
AP: Rescuers pluck hundreds from rising floodwaters in Houston
Tropical Storm Harvey sent devastating floods pouring into the nation’s fourth-largest city Sunday as rising water chased thousands of people to rooftops or higher ground and overwhelmed rescuers who could not keep up with the constant calls for help.
AP: Trump names hate groups, denouncing Charlottesville violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under relentless pressure, President Donald Trump on Monday named and condemned “repugnant” hate groups and declared that “racism is evil” in a far more forceful statement than he’d made earlier after deadly, race-fueled weekend clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
AP: Blast at Minnesota school kills 2, injures others
An explosion at a school in Minneapolis killed two people, injured several others and reduced part of a building to rubble, fire officials said.
