Tropical Storm Helene formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 24, its projected path already showing it making landfall at the eastern end of the Florida panhandle. By the next day, it had gained enough energy to become a hurricane. That same day, Sept. 25, the House of Representatives voted on a budget bill that would fund the government for a few more months, out past the presidential election. It was a continuing resolution, meaning that agencies would continue to...

After facing criticism for not doing many interviews during the election campaign so far, the Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has embarked on what is being called "a media blitz". Her appearances in the last few days include a podcast, a talk show and a televised interview. She has been defending the Biden-Harris administration's record on key issues such as immigration and the economy.

As southern cities clean up the remnants of Hurricane Helene, several Republican lawmakers have also been tasked with cleaning up misinformation spread by some of their fellow GOP colleagues. Shortly after Helene made landfall last month, inaccurate claims began to spread online about how the storm originated and whether it could target certain communities. Among those spreading the unsubstantiated claims was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who suggested the hurricane was...

The Southeast is bracing for Hurricane Milton, with the massive storm expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday. Residents there are still reeling from Hurricane Helene, which tore across the same region just days ago, killing at least 227 people and becoming one of the deadliest storms of this century. The worst of the damage is in the Big Bend region of Florida, where the storm made landfall, and in western North Carolina, where the storm battered...

During times of crisis and war, presidential leadership is critical to cut through competing bureaucratic fiefs and protect Americans from death and devastation. The Biden-Harris response to Hurricane Helene, the deadliest storm since Katrina, has the people of the Southeast and especially Appalachia paying an extraordinary price for the administration’s incompetence. Shortly after Helene made landfall in the U.S. on Sept. 26, Joe Biden was at his house in Rehoboth...

Shari Redstone, the chair of CBS parent company Paramount Global, said Wednesday that CBS leadership had made a “bad mistake” with their handling of “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil’s contentious interview last week with author Ta-Nehisi Coates. In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book...

As U.S. officials struggle to push back against misinformation about natural disasters hitting the country, at least three congressional Republicans condemned conspiracy theories repeated by fellow members of their party. Representative Chuck Edwards, who represents a North Carolina district hit hard by flooding caused by Hurricane Helene in late September, called out the "outrageous rumors" spread by "untrustworthy sources trying to spark chaos." The flooding decimated much of...

The European Union will continue to struggle to help Ukraine, allowing other global powers to deal with Russia’s full-scale invasion as a fateful U.S. election looms, in a year where it has done little and won’t be able to do much more. First, EU institutions were paralyzed by the European election. Now, the bloc foresees another year of stalling as the EU’s bureaucrats await the results of the German election in the fall of 2025. EU diplomats and officials said they were worried...

Democratic and Republican candidates are locked in tight races for Senate in Florida, Texas and Ohio, three states that have yielded increasingly close polls in recent weeks, according to a new survey. The Marist poll released Thursday showed slight leads for the incumbents in each state but within the margin of error, and two of the three were nearly tied. The poll found Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) with the largest lead, ahead of Democratic Rep. Colin Allred by 5 points, 51 percent to 46 percent....

According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's latest report on homelessness in the United States, 653,104 Americans were homeless in 2023. Last year, levels of homelessness climbed for the sixth year. While in 2017 and 2018, growth was slow, Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports that homelessness increased more in 2019 and 2020 and finally skyrocketed in 2023 by growing 12 percent compared to the year prior and even climbing 10...