Unbiased headline news for Saturday March 9, 2024 – Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, resulting in at least 10 fatalities and leaving 10 others unaccounted for, officials reported on Saturday.
Massive amounts of mud, rocks and uprooted trees cascaded down a mountain late on Friday, reaching a river that overflowed its banks and ravaged through villages situated on the mountainside in Pesisir Selatan district of West Sumatra province, according to Doni Yusrizal, who heads the local disaster management agency.
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Three individuals lost their lives and one person sustained injuries in a helicopter crash near the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday evening, as stated in a release by Joint Task Force North.
The aircraft involved was a National Guard Lakota UH-72 helicopter, according to a defense official. The helicopter, assigned to the federal Southwest border support mission, crashed at approximately 2:50 PM Friday while conducting aviation operations near Rio Grande City, Texas, JTF-N said. The cause of the accident is currently under investigation.
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‘No Labels’ may finally have identified a potential candidate for its third-party “unity ticket” in the 2024 presidential election.
Sources privy to the group’s efforts to field a third-party ticket revealed that ‘No Labels’ representatives have held meetings with former Georgia GOP Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan about the possibility of him running as the group’s presidential candidate. Duncan refrained from commenting on this report but did not dismiss the speculation.
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Haitian gangs launched a large-scale assault against multiple government buildings in or near downtown Port-au-Prince, according to a law enforcement source who participated in the fighting.
The source stated that the attack was coordinated and swift, with different groups simultaneously targeting multiple government buildings including the Presidential Palace, the Interior Ministry, and a police headquarters for Haiti’s western district which includes Port-au-Prince.
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Five children were allegedly killed in the Gaza Strip by a humanitarian aid airdrop from an unidentified foreign country on Friday, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.
Several Palestinian civilians were also injured in the airdrop, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported, calling the airdrop “random.” Bystander footage of Friday’s airdrop showed an aircraft dropping dozens of packages via parachutes, as people ran toward them upon landing.
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Local officials in Hawaii plan to open an office that will expedite Maui County’s notoriously slow processing of building permits to aid the town of Lahaina in its recovery from last year’s deadly wildfire.
Keanu Lau Hee, the county’s deputy managing director, informed a community meeting in Lahaina that a County Expedited Permitting Center will open in April. She said the county has selected a vendor to assist in reviewing applications.
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A United Airlines jetliner en route to Mexico City from San Francisco made an emergency landing in Los Angeles after the crew reported a hydraulics issue, marking the fourth emergency involving a United Airlines flight this past week.
The plane landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport around 4:30 p.m. and none of the 110 people on board were injured, United Airlines stated. Fire engines were on standby at the airport but were not needed, said Nicholas Prange, a spokesperson with the Los Angeles City Fire Department.
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Sam Altman will remain as CEO of OpenAI and rejoin its board of directors following an “extensive” external investigation into his temporary ouster last year, the company’s board announced on Friday.
The OpenAI Board said it has “full confidence” in the continued leadership of Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman following a monthslong review by the law firm WilmerHale. Nearly all 800 employees at OpenAI signed a letter calling for the resignation of the company’s board and the return of Altman as CEO.
