Hurricane Pamela makes landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast
Hurricane Pamela made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast just north of Mazatlan on Wednesday, bringing high winds and rain to the port city.
Pamela regained hurricane strength just before it hit the coast 40 miles north of Mazatlan, which also serves as a resort for Mexican tourists.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Pamela had maximum winds of about 75 mph at landfall, though it is expected to quickly weaken as it moves inland.
The hurricane was moving northeast at 14 mph and remnants could approach Texas on Thursday. The hurricane center warned of the possibility of life-threatening storm surges, flash floods and dangerous winds.
Ms. Foundation focuses funds on groups led by minority women
The Ms. Foundation for Women unveiled $4 million in funding Wednesday for more than 100 groups that are working for social justice. But the nation’s oldest women’s foundation says it hopes its grants will exert an even larger impact by helping reshape philanthropy.
More than 90% of Ms. Foundation’s donations will go to groups led by women and girls of color. Ms. Foundation CEO Teresa Younger said the decision to find and fund such groups was a response to her foundation’s report, “Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less.” The report found that annual total philanthropic giving specifically for women and girls of color in the United States averaged just $5.48 in 2018. The overall average giving for each person in the country was about $204.
“The foundation has funded women and girls of color for a long time but not in an explicit and intentional way,” Younger said. “What we wanted to do was really lean into the transparency and be explicit about what we were trying to do.”
Jail officials held in contempt for treatment of Jan. 6 defendant
A federal judge held top officials of the Washington, D.C., jail in contempt of court Wednesday, ruling they had improperly delayed medical treatment for a defendant being kept in their custody in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Calling the delay of treatment for the defendant, Christopher Worrell, “incompetent” and “inexcusable,” Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Federal District Court in Washington said he would also refer the case to the Justice Department for a potential investigation into whether Worrell’s civil rights — and the rights of other jailed defendants — had been violated.
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