North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is proposing a budget to deal with recovery from Hurricane Helene. He said it was the most damaging storm ever to hit the state. And at the same time, North Carolinians have already cast over 2 million ballots in the 2024 General Election.
Former President Donald Trump on Monday surveyed damage from Hurricane Helene as he visited North Carolina. He lauded the early voting record and promised to support the state’s recovery efforts. In response to a question at a news conference near Asheville, North Carolina, Trump shared his message to those early voters: “The first thing I’d […]
Early voting in the presidential election has already started in some states, with the crucial battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina breaking records. The numbers from early voting suggest that Americans are energized about the 2024 race. Supporters of early voting say that it increases voter turnout among certain groups and also accommodates more […]
Early voting has kicked off in North Carolina, amid a recovery from Hurricane Helene. Over 400 voting sites are open across the state, including in disaster-declared counties.
A Georgia judge has ruled that county election officials must certify election results by the statutory deadline regardless of irregularities or suspected fraud. Georgia law requires county election superintendents to certify election results by 5 p.m. on the Monday following the election—or the Tuesday, if the date falls on a federal holiday, as it does […]
Former President Donald Trump continued his presidential campaign on Friday, rallying in Colorado and Nevada. We hear from voters ahead of Trump’s visit to Reno, Nevada.
More than a dozen states are coming together to sue TikTok, joining many other states that had previously done so, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Oct. 8. The attorneys general announced that they are co-leading a bipartisan coalition of 14 attorneys general in filing suits against […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced new measures to tackle homelessness. This includes around $131 million in funds, as well as requirements to hold local governments accountable for clearing tents and providing shelter.
Two weeks of testimony suggested the company responsible for an experimental deep-water submersible that imploded, killing five people, either recklessly ignored warning signs in the name of profits or represented the nation’s explorer spirit in taking calculated risks to push humankind’s boundaries. Those contrasting viewpoints emerged as the Coast Guard panel tasked with determining why […]
The carbon fiber hull of the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic had imperfections dating to the manufacturing process and behaved differently after a loud bang was heard on one of the dives the year before the tragedy, an engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. Engineer […]
A key employee with the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic pushed back at a question from a Coast Guard investigator about whether OceanGate felt a sense of “desperation” to complete the dives because of the high price tag. Amber Bay, director of administration for […]
Microsoft has entered a 20-year power purchase agreement to reopen Pennsylvania’s closed Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant. Constellation Energy, the owner of the plant, announced the agreement on Friday, stating that it will restore the TMI Unit 1, adding approximately 835 megawatts to the electrical grid while creating 3,400 direct and indirect jobs […]
The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified Thursday that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive. Appearing before a U.S. Coast Guard panel, Steven Ross told the board about a platform issue the experimental submersible […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against the owner and manager of the cargo ship that collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March in a bid to recover more than $100 million that authorities spent to clear the debris from the bridge collapse and reopen the port. The […]
A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that the tragedy could have been prevented if a federal safety agency had investigated his complaint. David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former operations director, said he felt let down by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) decision not […]
The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic testified Monday that he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it for a journey several years earlier. “’I’m not getting in it,’” Tony Nissen said he told Stockton Rush, co-founder of […]
The annual International Camel and Ostrich Races are being held in the historic town of Virginia City, Nevada, and are returning for their 65th year. Spectators also get a chance to mount these exotic animals for a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience.
LOS ANGELES—As wildfires raging in the mountains cast an orange glow behind the downtown Los Angeles skyline, Southern California residents were jolted awake Thursday by another reminder of Mother Nature’s might. It was an all-too-familiar feeling for locals when a 4.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the Los Angeles area, unleashing boulders onto a Malibu road, shaking […]
A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of intentionally lighting the Line Fire in San Bernardino County, which has torched more than 35,000 acres of land so far. In a Sept.11 statement on X, Shannon Dicus, sheriff of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, said that 34-year-old Norco resident Justin Wayne Halstenberg had been arrested […]
BRUSSELS—Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday lost its fight against a 2.42 billion euro ($2.7 billion) fine levied by EU antitrust regulators seven years ago, one of a trio of hefty fines meted out to the company for various anti-competitive practices. The European Commission fined the world’s most popular internet search engine in 2017 for using its […]
