Category 3 Hurricane Willa about to make landfall
MAZATLAN, Mexico — Hurricane Willa swept onto Mexico’s Pacific mainland with 120 mph winds Tuesday evening, threatening a major resort area along with fishing villages and farms after roaring over an offshore penal colony.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an evening bulletin that the eye of the dangerous Category 3 storm was about to make landfall, and little variation in strength was expected beforehand.
It warned people not to venture outside during “the relative calm of the eye, since hazardous winds will suddenly increase” as it passes.
U.S. to revoke visas of Saudis implicated in killing of writer
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday described the killing of a Saudi journalist as a botched operation and a “bad original concept” as his administration took its first, careful steps toward punishing the Saudis by moving to revoke the visas of the suspects.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the entire operation was a fiasco.
“They had a very bad original concept,” Trump said. “It was carried out poorly, and the cover-up was one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups. Somebody really messed up, and they had the worst cover-up ever.”
O’Connor announces likely Alzheimer’s diagnosis
WASHINGTON — Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday in a frank and personal letter that she has been diagnosed with “the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease.”
The 88-year-old’s letter was addressed to “Friends and fellow Americans.” And it was a farewell of sorts from a woman who was not only a trailblazer for women in the law but also for much of her quarter century on the high court a key vote on issues central to American life.
O’Connor said doctors diagnosed her some time ago and that as her condition has progressed she is “no longer able to participate in public life.”
By wire sources
