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The largest city in Alaska, Anchorage, has been hit by an earthquake. It had a power of 6.7. The epicenter was 12 kilometers north of Anchorage, at a great depth.

The first polling stations in the mid-term elections in the United States have been closed. These polling stations are located in parts of the states of Indiana and Kentucky. An hour later the other polling stations close in these states.

Jokers in the US have been diving over each other since yesterday to weather the weather forecasts.

An eighteen-year-old miner was killed in a grizzly bear in Alaska. It is the second time this year that someone has been killed by a bear attack in the American state.

The former 'running mate' of John McCain is not invited for the ceremonies around his funeral. The deceased senator's family has asked former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to stay away via an intermediary, reports US media based on anonymous sources.

The conservative American soldier and politician John McCain became war hero as a prisoner of war and a powerful politician, despite unsuccessful attempts to become president. He came from a family of navy people and both his father and grandfather were admiral. He was born in the Channel Zone of the US in Panama at the end of August 1936. McCain also seemed to spend his entire life with the Navy for a long time.

At the airport of the American city of Seattle an aviation officer took off with a passenger plane and crashed not much later. There were no people on board the aircraft according to the airport.

Scientists believe that the largest wave has ever been established in the southern hemisphere. A solar buoy registered a wall of 23.8 meters high water during a flying storm near Campbell Island, some 700 kilometers south of New Zealand.

Two prominent Republican senators have called on President Trump to pursue a nuanced trade policy at a conference in Houston and to be cautious about extra charges.

US security services have evidence that Russian-backed hackers had broken into voter registration systems in seven states prior to the 2016 elections. However, they never made it known to those states, reports NBC News.

Residents of parts of San Francisco must prepare for a possible evacuation due to a tsunami that may have been caused by the Alaska earthquake. That is what the San Francisco crisis management department reports on Twitter.

A heavy earthquake with a force of 8.2 took place in Alaska. The epicenter of the quake was located 250 kilometers south of Chiniak, reports the geological research center USGS. A tsunami warning has been issued.

The Iranian tanker, which sank on Sunday after a collision in the East China Sea last week, is leaking oil. Around the ship, the Sanchi, an oil slick of ten square kilometers has already emerged, according to Chinese state television.

In the US state of California, the sale of marijuana for recreational use has been permitted since Monday. Dozens of stores that sell marijuana are opened in the state, which has 39.5 million inhabitants.

The son of former US republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been charged with assault and burglary in his parents' home in Alaska. On Sunday, Track Palin (28) was arrested there during a violent confrontation with his father.

The American armed forces tried a long-distance raid on Wednesday in California. The Minuteman III rocket was fired on the Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles and landed 6780 kilometers west of the American Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Because his wife did not want to stop blaming him, an American killed his wife during a cruise. This is evidenced by court documents where the US KTVA is on notice. Therein is to read how Kenneth Manzanares explained to an FBI agent why he killed his wife Kristy.

US intelligence services have observed at the North Korean city of Kusong, indicating that North Korea is preparing a new missile test. According to US officials, it is a medium-distance racket or perhaps even an intercontinental rocket (ICBM). The trial launch could take place in a few days.

The tsunami danger that occurred after a heavy seaquake on the coast of Kamsjatka in the far east of Russia is over. That reported the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii about two hours after the quake in the night of Monday on Tuesday.

The US state of Nevada has a major shortage of weeds. Since July 1, weed has been regulated in the state and is not able to drag it. Emergency measures are considered by the authorities.

Russia and China agree on a joint set-up to reduce tensions around the Korean peninsula. North Korea must freeze its atomic and rocket programs, but the United States and South Korea must also quit their large-scale military exercises, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.

In the US state of Nevada, where gambling and prostitution are already legal, free marijuana can also be purchased from Saturday. In the night of Friday on Saturday a law came into force that makes it possible.

President Trump wants to allow drilling for oil and gas in the northern waters of the United States again. President Obama has just banned Alaska drills.

Russian armors were approached this week four days in a row, reaching the coast of the American state of Alaska. The aircraft then flew into the so-called State Security Identification Zone (ADIZ), the Alaska Dispatch News newspaper reported Friday (local time).

The FBI does not mean Esteban Santiago with his shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport had terrorist motives. The research indicates that the 26-year-old Iraq veteran his attack in any case, had planned carefully.

The shooter Friday in Fort Lauderdale in Florida shot and killed five people, was already on the radar of the FBI. Iraq veteran Esteban Santiago (26) had in November itself reported to the FBI in Alaska that he commands about Islamic state heard in his head.

The man who five people Friday (local time) shot dead at the Fort Lauderdale airport is very likely an Iraq veteran. It would be the 26-year-old Esteban Santiago. This was reported by the local sheriff.

A man from Alaska found in a frozen river to two moose. The animals are presumably drowned during a fight for a female.

Now Donald Trump has won the presidential elections, everyone asks himself how his government will look like. Officially pardoned no jobs yet, but US media are mentioned already names according to sources in the Trump kamp.Mogelijk Newt Gingrich