FILE - Daniel Valdez places a fresh bag of ice in a cooler he brought on foot from his apartment as volunteers at the Memorial Assistance Ministries distribute water and ice, Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Houston. Extreme heat in Mexico, Central America and parts of the U.S. South has left millions of people sweltering, strained energy grids and resulted in iconic Howler monkeys in Mexico dropping dead from trees.
A heat advisory issued by the NWS was in effect for parts of Texas Thursday. Temperatures along the Rio Grande were expected to rise up to 111 degrees Fahrenheit and 95 degrees Fahrenheit in the Davis and Chinati mountains. Mexico's brutal heat wave has been linked to the deaths of more than two dozen people since March. But the worst is expected for the end of this week and early next week.
Protests have multiplied. A group of police agents blocked six lanes of traffic Wednesday on a main Mexico City avenue, saying their barracks lacked water for a week and the bathrooms were unusable.Low levels at hydroelectric dams have contributed to power blackouts in parts of the country, and this week the nation's largest convenience stores chain -- OXXO -- said it was limiting purchases of ice to two or three bags per customer in some places.
Canadian soldiers and government officials arrived in northeastern France this week for a historic mission: returning an unknown Newfoundland soldier back home. Tennessee's attorney general said Thursday that his office is looking into a company's attempt to sell Elvis Presley's home Graceland at a foreclosure auction, a move that was stopped by a judge after the king of rock n' roll's granddaughter filed a lawsuit claiming fraud.The one remaining wrongful death lawsuit filed after 10 people were killed during a deadly crowd crush at the 2021 Astroworld music festival has been settled, an attorney said Thursday.
More than two years after British Columbia-based Paper Excellence, owners of Northern Pulp – the idled pulp mill in Pictou County – filed a lawsuit against the Nova Scotia government, the two parties have reportedly reached a settlement agreement.Manitobans are being warned about a major weather event heading to the southeast part of the province that could bring between 50 and 60 millimetres of rain.
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