Hurricane Irene has become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, and it's tracking toward a Florida strike as a possible Category 2 storm. Forecast models are always changing, based upon timing, but if Irene stays on its current course, Florida could be in for days of damaging wind and rain. Here is why Hurricane Irene could be one of the worst to strike Florida in years.
David Magee
Aug 22, 2011
Hurricane Irene has strengthened over Puerto Rico, becoming the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic Season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a statement on Monday.
Sanskrity Sinha
Aug 22, 2011
Tropical Storm Irene barreled across the Caribbean toward Puerto Rico on Sunday on a course that could take it to Florida.
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Aug 21, 2011
Though Cisco's Cius tablet, created for the enterprise combining voice, video, collaboration and virtualization capabilities in a single portable device, may finally end up as a doctor's device than supporting any generic usage.
Nagesh Narayana
Aug 21, 2011
Authorities in Mexico found the decapitated bodies of four men and a woman in Acapulco on Saturday, the latest in a string of slayings in the popular Pacific resort this week.
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Aug 21, 2011
Tropical Storm Irene formed east of the Leeward Islands on Saturday and was expected to become a hurricane in the next two days heading on a northwestward track through the Caribbean that may threaten Florida.
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Aug 21, 2011
Tropical Storm Irene, which is the ninth storm for the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, formed on Saturday east of the Caribbean's Leeward Islands.
Laura Matthews
Aug 20, 2011
Recovering Representative Gabrielle Giffords now knows who died in the Tucson shooting spree this January that left six dead and her own survival from a wound uncertain, her senior press adviser said on Saturday.
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Aug 20, 2011
Antonio Diaz Chacon, who has been honored as hero after he had rescued a 6-year-old girl from an alleged kidnapper, acknowledges that he is an undocumented immigrant.
Wendy Li
Aug 20, 2011
Lady Gaga is an interesting and unique phenomenon as it is. Nevertheless, here are some fun facts about the wildly popular singer that could surprise you.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 20, 2011
Antonio Diaz Chacon revealed his immigration status.
Cristina Merrill
Aug 19, 2011
The Obama administration has announced that it will review the cases of more than 300,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation to determine if they can remain in the United States.
Joseph Lazzaro
Aug 19, 2011
Thirty thousand dollars will be offered as rewards for any information that leads the authorities in solving the mysterious death of Celina Cass, a state prosecutor has announced.
Wendy Li
Aug 19, 2011
Police in southern California have arrested 60 people and broken up an Iraqi criminal ring accused of selling drugs, machine guns and improvised bombs out of an immigrant social club, authorities said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 19, 2011
A Mexican lawyer for American drug company Baxter International Inc. was caught on tape bribing a expert testifying against the pharmaceutical manufacturer in an ongoing lawsuit.
Daniel Tovrov
Aug 18, 2011
A Colorado-based gold mining company has started minting its own gold coins with a view to paying shareholders their dividends in the precious metal.
Mike Obel
Aug 18, 2011
NASA is discounting rampant Internet rumors that comet Elenin will strike Earth or disrupt its gravitational pull in October.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Aug 18, 2011
The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets about the end of the Mayan calendar to the makers of a documentary, "Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond," TheWrap has learned.
Ann Suh
Aug 18, 2011
A New Mexico man who witnessed a little girl's abduction pursued her kidnapper in a high-speed car chase.
Ashley Portero
Aug 17, 2011
Peru's mining firms have agreed to pay higher royalties in an overhaul of the current system, sources on both sides of negotiations between companies and leftist President Ollanta Humala's government said on Tuesday.
Mike Obel
Aug 17, 2011
MAG Silver Corp., a junior mining company based in Vancouver with operations in Mexico, said it swung to a profit in the second quarter and trimmed its loss for the first half of the year.
Mike Obel
Aug 15, 2011
Not only can vampire bats locate hotspots or blood vessels in their prey using infrared vein sensors on their lips, which was revealed in a study earlier this month, the blood-sucking bats may also be carrying rabies virus, as U.S. health officials confirmed Friday the first death in the country from rabies carried by the animals.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 15, 2011