Helene death toll now at least 166 as Biden plans to visit ravaged Carolinas
President Joe Biden will survey the devastation in North and South Carolina on Wednesday as rescuers continue their search for anyone still unaccounted for after Hurricane ...
Online voting in Alaska’s Fat Bear Week contest starts after an attack killed 1 contestant
Let the chunk-off begin. Voting starts Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite ...
11 workers at a Tennessee factory were swept away in Hurricane Helene flooding. Only 5 were rescued
As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept working. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power ...
Push to map Great Lakes bottom gains momentum amid promises effort will help fishing and shipping
Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean ...
Sex workers are hit hard by Congo’s mpox outbreak but say their only option is to keep working
It’s been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she’s still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma ...
Thai police arrest driver and work to identify victims of the school bus fire that killed 23
Thai police have arrested the driver of a bus carrying young students and teachers that caught fire and killed 23 in suburban Bangkok, as families arrived in the capital Wednesday ...
Harris, Trump’s approach to Mideast crisis, hurricane to test public mood in final weeks of campaign
A trio of new trials — a devastating hurricane, expanding conflict in the Mideast and a dockworkers strike that threatens the U.S. economy — are looming over the final weeks of ...
Tokyo shares fall, Hong Kong’s advance as tensions escalate in the Middle East
Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday, with Tokyo’s benchmark falling while Hong Kong’s advanced despite the sharp escalation of tensions in the Middle East. Oil prices extended gains after Iran ...
Harris and Biden are fanning out across the Southeast as devastation from Helene grows
Over the last four years, President Joe Biden has jetted off to survey damage and console victims after tornadoes, wildfires and tropical storms. It’s not a role that ...
Step up…or Step Out: Ouachita Christian WR room thriving early in season
The OCS Eagles have been untouchable through four weeks of the season.Up front on the offensive line, on the ground and even on the defensive side.But there is one ...
Poll: Who won the Walz-Vance VP Debate?
Political scientists will tell you that vice presidential nominees rarely swing the election in favor of the candidate at the top of the ticket. But poll after poll shows this ...
Walz on Tiananmen Square screw-up: ‘I’m a knucklehead at times’
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), pressed at the vice presidential debate over false statements he made in which he said he was present during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, said: “I’m a ...