Matt Gagnon discusses his plans for a road trip with Greg, who shares memories of a memorable trip to Oregon. Matt considers two routes for his trip, one traditional and one through upstate New York. Jim from Scarborough expresses his enjoyment of retirement and concerns about Maine’s political climate. He hopes to stay connected with Matt. The conversation shifts to a local shark sighting, with Matt recalling past shark incidents and the introduction of purple flags for warnings. Matt plans to visit Florida and hopes Jim will return to Maine occasionally.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
