Milton’s winds have already intensified to 175 mph
BELLEAIR BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Milton strengthened rapidly Monday into a Category 5 hurricane on a path toward Florida, threatening the densely populated Tampa area
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US disaster relief chief blasts false claims about Helene response as a ‘truly dangerous narrative’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s top disaster relief official said Sunday that false claims and conspiracy theories about the federal response to Hurricane Helene — spread most prominently by Donald
UPDATE: Florida prepares for massive evacuations as Hurricane Milton takes aim at major metro areas
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Florida is gearing up for what could be its biggest evacuation in seven years as Hurricane Milton strengthens over warm
Voters in North Carolina and Georgia have bigger problems than politics. Helene changed everything
VILAS, N.C. — Brad Farrington pulls over to grab a case of water bottles being passed out in Vilas, a small rural community tucked away
Milton expected to be major hurricane when it strikes Florida’s Tampa Bay region
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Milton quickly intensified Sunday, Oct. 6, and is on track to become a major hurricane with the Tampa Bay area
Helene recovery marred in lies, misinformation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The facts emerging from Hurricane Helene’s destruction are heartrending: Businesses and homes destroyed, whole communities nearly wiped out, hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of
A Black man says a trucking company fired him because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks
A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the
5 people killed in a 4-vehicle chain reaction crash on central Utah highway
PRICE, Utah (AP) — Four people from Minnesota and a Utah man were killed in a four-vehicle chain reaction crash in central Utah, the Utah
The US could have seen shortages and higher retail prices if a dockworkers strike had dragged on
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for
Ohio girl concedes cutting off tanker that spilled chemical last year in Illinois, killing 5
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal report on a tanker-truck crash a year ago in central Illinois that spilled a toxic chemical and killed five people includes
Thousands of shipping containers have been lost at sea. What happens when they burst open?
LONG BEACH, Wash. (AP) — Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the
Truck carrying lithium batteries sparks fire and snarls operations at the Port of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California bridge critical for getting goods to and from the Port of Los Angeles remained closed to traffic Friday
Dockworkers’ union suspend strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract
DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend a three-day strike
The search for the missing hits snags at every corner as Helene’s death toll tops 200
PENSACOLA, N.C. (AP) — Rescue crews and volunteers facing obstacles at every turn in North Carolina’s remote mountains paddled canoes across swollen rivers and steered
Dockworkers may have the negotiating advantage in their strike against US ports
PHILADELPHIA — The 45,000 dockworkers who went on strike Tuesday, Oct. 1 — for the first time in decades — at 36 U.S. ports from
Hurricane Helene’s death toll passes 150 as crews search for survivors
SWANNANOA, N.C. — Cadaver dogs and search crews trudged through knee-deep muck and debris in the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday looking for
Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South
More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed
A chemical cloud moving around Atlanta’s suburbs prompts a new shelter-in-place alert
ATLANTA (AP) — Residents east of Atlanta were again warned Tuesday to take shelter where they are if shifting winds push the still-billowing chemical cloud from
Dockworkers’ strike could push up prices and cause shortages if it lasts for weeks
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — From Maine to Texas, dockworkers at 36 ports across the eastern United States are on strike for the first time in decades, a work
Supply chain in peril: Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike
PHILADELPHIA — Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday, Oct. 1, in a strike over wages and automation that