Fed, Der Spiegel, Jeremy Corbyn: Your Thursday Briefing

The cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key bridge’s supporting columns and caused the bridge to collapse. The 984-foot Dali started moving shortly before 8:30 a.m. with four tugboats. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Dali was sailing under its own power with a full crew of 22 and six salvage experts, the U.

North Sioux City, S. D. — Flooding in the Midwestern U. S. killed at least two, collapsed a railroad bridge and sent water surging around a dam Monday after days of heavy rains that have forced hundreds of people to evacuate or be rescued from rising waters. An Illinois man died Saturday while trying to go around a barricade in Spencer, Iowa, Sioux City’s KTIV-TV reported Monday. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Little Sioux River swept his truck away, according to a news release from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office provided to the station.

Washington — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U. S. Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according to court papers filed late Monday. Assange is scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.

At least six people swimming along Florida’s coast died over the weekend after getting caught in a series of rip currents, bringing attention to one of the many dangers of the sea. Experts say that there are many precautions people can take to stay safe from rip currents—which can move as fast as eight feet per second and faster than any Olympic swimmer.

Kelly Estrella has been performing drag in the South for nearly four decades. But it wasn’t until her performance was canceled on June 9 due to a bomb threat at the Brewtorium, a local brewery in Austin, Texas, that she felt her life was at risk. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “I’m used to being aware of my surroundings and always being vigilant,” says 54-year-old Estrella, who goes by the stage moniker Kelly Kline.

Ouray’s embattled police chief was fired Monday after six months on paid administrative leave because of his “poor work performance, violations of state law and other actions inappropriate for the Chief of Police,” according to city officials. Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood, pictured in December 2019 after he was hired to lead the department.