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A co-defendant in the racketeering and gun conspiracy case against Atlanta rapper Young Thug accepted a plea deal Tuesday after days of speculation over whether Georgia's longest-running criminal trial may end in a mistrial. Young Thug and the others have been jailed since 2022 on charges of conspiracy and criminal street gang activity and additional firearm- and drug-related charges. The indictment accuses Young Thug, 32, of leading a street gang, Young Slime Life, or YSL, with members committing illegal and violent acts, including murder, armed robbery, drug dealing and carjacking. Opening statements finally began last November after several defendants had already taken plea deals while others chose to be tried separately from Young Thug. The defendants have denied they are part of a street gang and critics contend the RICO law is being unfairly used against Black hip-hop artists.

Persons: Young Thug, Quamarvious Nichols, Racketeer, Paige Whitaker, Whitaker, Nichols, Young, Jeffery Lamar Williams, Wunnie Lee, Shawty, Lee, it’s, “ We’re, ” Nicole Westmoreland, —, Scott Dudelson, Fani Willis Organizations: Atlanta, Georgia's, Fulton, Bloods Locations: Fulton County, Atlanta

☆ Two found guilty of robbing off-duty Secret Service agent at gunpoint after Joe Biden fundraiser
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Two men have been convicted of robbing an off-duty Secret Service agent at gunpoint after the agent had finished working at a Los Angeles fundraiser that President Joe Biden attended, prosecutors said Monday. Johnson was convicted Monday by a jury in connection with the robbery, found guilty of one felony count of second-degree robbery, one felony count of possession of a firearm by a felon, and two felony enhancements of personal use of a firearm. Meanwhile, E’shon Dwayne Dodson, 21, of Compton, was arrested in Los Angeles on July 17. He was also found guilty by a jury Monday of one felony count of second-degree robbery and one felony enhancement of being armed with a firearm during the commission of a felony. Bell was hospitalized in Los Angeles and was treated for gunshot wounds sustained in the confrontation.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Jamonte Fitzgerald Johnson, Johnson, he’s, He’ll, E’shon Dwayne Dodson, He’s, Bertran Claude Bell, Bell, Todd Spitzer, “, ” Organizations: Democratic, Attorney’s, Tustin, Prosecutors, NBC News, Orange Locations: Los Angeles, Fontana, Tustin , California, Orange County, Riverside, California, San Bernardino, Compton

☆ As a child, he was kicked out of Macao’s grand Hotel Central. Now he’s the owner
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Maggie Hiufu Wong | Jane Sit | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Fast forward to 2024 and Sio could recently be found cutting the ribbon to officially reopen the 96-year-old Hotel Central as its new owner. Hotel Central, formerly named the President Hotel, opened a few years later and became a key feature of the neighborhood. Simon Sio, pictured, grew up across from Macao's Hotel Central. Hotel Central was the first hotel in Macao to install an elevator. Courtesy Lek Hang GroupThe newly renovated Hotel Central has 114 rooms with a retro interior design inspired by the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

Persons: “, I’d, Ribeiro, Ma Lo, ”, San Ma Lo, Simon, hasn’t Organizations: CNN, Hang, Avenida, Hotel Central, Macao's Hotel, Central, UNESCO, Hotel, MGM Locations: Macao, –, Portuguese, Central, Ma, Hotel, San Ma, China, Barra

☆ Four Seasons Atlanta: Active shooter at hotel taken into custody after multiple shots fired
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The 70-year-old suspect used a handgun, shotgun and rifle to fire shots during the altercation, Atlanta Chief of Police Darin Schierbaum said at a press conference. Two police officers shot back during the exchange. One officer and the suspect were taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, but authorities didn’t know whether either were shot, Schierbaum said. Officers were told that the suspect had been involved in an altercation with a hotel employee, he said. The suspect eventually raised his hands, and a SWAT team went to his door and took him into custody, Schierbaum said.

Persons: Darin Schierbaum, Schierbaum Organizations: Atlanta, Police, SWAT, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Locations: Atlanta, Atlanta’s Midtown

☆ Millennial couple who left the U.S. for an island in Japan where they run a honeybee farm: 'Our lives here are so rewarding'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Dani Benton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

We spent the next year and a half traveling through Mexico, before arriving in the fall of 2023 on Ōmishima Island in Japan's Ehime Prefecture. Today, we own a guesthouse, a primary residence that used to be an inn, and have a small, growing honeybee farm. Photo: Dani BentonOur work on the honeybee farm includes hive health inspections, monitoring colony growth, building hive boxes and, of course, harvesting and processing honey. The community has made us feel so at homeWe found Bosco living under another abandoned house next to our property. Photo: Dani BentonI love animals, and thanks to ours, I got involved with One No Wa, the dog rescue on the island.

Persons: Evan, they've, Ōmishima, Bosco, Dani Benton, Hani, Shimanami Kaido, Cherry, Dani Benton …, Ino Ino, Ponkan Locations: New Orleans, Mexico, Ōmishima, Japan's Ehime Prefecture, Hakatajima, Ōmishimafuji

☆ Hurricane season isn't over. Experts predict a final surge of storms and maybe even a December cyclone.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Hurricane season may end with a November surge of storms starting next week, AccuWeather forecasts. Chance of a December cycloneIt's already been a nasty hurricane season, with storms so far causing more than 300 deaths and nearly $500 billion of losses in the US, according to AccuWeather. Hurricane season ends on November 30, but DaSilva said there may be a rare December cyclone this year. However, the NHC said in August that this Atlantic hurricane season would likely produce 17 to 24 named storms total. AdvertisementThis could lead to a tropical storm or even a hurricane in the first few days of November," DaSilva said.

Persons: —, Hurricane Milton, Alex DaSilva, Chance, DaSilva, Hurricane, Sean Rayford, Bernie Rayno, Milton, Nicole, Hurricane Ian, Kate Organizations: Hurricanes, Service, Associated, National Hurricane Center, Business, NHC, Florida, Yankee Locations: Florida, Carolinas, Milton, Hurricane, Gulf Coast — Alabama, Mississippi , Louisiana, Texas, AccuWeather ., Bat Cave , North Carolina, Caribbean, Sarasota , Florida, Cuba

☆ At 26, I set off on a yearlong adventure to South America. It's been 6 years, and I have no plans to leave.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Sinead Mulhern | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She saved up for a yearlong adventure in South America, planning to move back to Canada at the end. AdvertisementI often think back to the day I arrived in Cuenca, Ecuador, the Andean city that accidentally became my home. It was 2018, I was 27, and halfway into what was intended to be a yearlong adventure in South America. But as the years passed, the city felt too fast-paced, I was stressed out, and everything was expensive. When I returned home, my life felt limited, and I wanted what she had.

Persons: Sinead Mulhern, —, it's, I'm, I've, everyone's, El Mercurio Organizations: Service, UNESCO, North Locations: Toronto, South America, Canada, Cuenca, Ecuador, Colombia, Quito, Yunguilla

The base GOP voters Trump is most focused on aren’t necessarily the same voters who are key to the coalition Snyder is trying to build. Gretchen Whitmer, and two-seat majorities in both the state House and the state Senate (Democrats also hold a majority on the state Supreme Court). “The only advantage they have is old notions,” Whitmer said last week at her own event to support state House candidates in Oakland County. All the districts he’s targeting “can swing either way,” Snyder said. Rick Snyder is openly trying to get MAGA extremists elected to the state House,” Kubitschek said.

Persons: Rick Snyder, ” Snyder, “, Donald Trump, There’s, Snyder, Kamala Harris, Fred Upton, Trump, Peter Meijer, ”, Tommy Brann, ” Paul Hudson, Hillary Scholten, Meijer, “ I’ve, ” Hudson, Mike Rogers, ’ “, Gretchen Whitmer, Whitmer, —, ” Whitmer, Geoff Robins, Joe Biden, I’ve, ‘, ’ ” Snyder, Ron Robinson, Tom Kuhn, Tommy Kubitschek, Snyder’s, It’s, MAGA, ” Kubitschek, Jennifer Conlin, Ann Organizations: Michigan Gov, GOP, Republicans, Trump, Republican, NBC News, White, Michigan’s Republican U.S, Senate, Democratic, Michigan, Getty, Pepsi, Michigan ”, Council, Brann, Affordable, Democrats, Michigan Democratic Party, ”, Republican Party Locations: WYOMING, Mich, —, Michigan, There’s, Grand, Detroit, Battle, Traverse City, Grand Rapids, ”, Lansing, Oakland County, Flint, AFP, Utica, Troy, Ann Arbor

☆ Doburoku: once illegal, this Japanese alcohol is making a comeback
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Jonathan Delise | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

To distinguish this type of turbid Japanese alcohol from that of the ubiquitous and transparent sake, there are two distinct if slightly misleading categories: seishu (清酒), or clear sake, and doburoku (濁酒). However, when making doburoku, they are all simultaneously placed in with the yeast starter, causing the resulting mixture to be comparatively overflowing with sugars. For nearly as long as rice has been cultivated in Japan, doburoku has existed. In essence, all doburoku made from then on came to be called mitsuzoushu (密造酒), “secretly produced alcohol,” or moonshine. The state of doburoku todayOpened in 2015, Tokyo’s Sake Hotaru was the first legal spot to offer doburoku in Japan’s capital.

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☆ The Philippines is prone to extreme weather. But few expected Tropical Storm Trami to be this devastating
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The Philippines is struck by multiple typhoons a year and Trami was not an especially strong storm when it made landfall, at least in terms of windspeed. Residents use a boat to recover items from their flooded homes as the storm inundated Libon town, Albay province, Philippines on Thursday October 24, 2024. A neighborhood in Talisay, Batangas province, Philippines was swept away by a landslide triggered by Tropical Storm Trami on October 26, 2024. Villagers gather to pay respects to family and friends who died after a landslide hit their homes triggered by Tropical Storm Trami, in Talisay, Batangas province on October 26, 2024. A man crosses a flooded rice field as Trami dumped heavy rains at Libon town, Albay province, Philippines on October 24, 2024.

Persons: Trami, Kristine, ” Garlan, Garland, “ We’re, ”, John Michael Magdasoc, Ferdinand Marcos, we’ll, ” Marcos, Aaron Favila, Hermilando Mandanas, Raynaldo Dejucos, –, “ I’m, ” Dejucos, Heinrich Sandrino, Sandrino, Marcos, Kong Rey, Gaemi, Typhoon Yagi Organizations: CNN, Trami, Residents, Typhoon Kong, PTV, AP, Kong Locations: Philippines, Bicol, Sorsogon, Bulan, Sorsogon –, Manila, Libon, Albay, Philippine, Batangas province, Trami, Talisay, Batangas, Typhoon, Leon, Bicol’s, Camarines Sur, China, Vietnam, Thua Thien Hue, Taiwan, Luzon, Southeast Asia

The alleged shooter, John Sawchak – Moturi’s neighbor – surrendered around 1:24 a.m. Monday, following an hourslong standoff with police, O’Hara said at a news conference early Monday. Sawchak has been charged with attempted murder, felony assault, and stalking and harassment for allegedly shooting Moturi, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said in court filings. By the time of his arrest, Sawchak had a yearslong history of harassing, threatening and attacking his neighbors, with three active warrants against him – including one for threats against Moturi. Police had been trying since April to arrest Sawchak, who has a history of mental illness, O’Hara said. I call because I want my family to be safe,” Moturi told KARE.

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☆ He was stressed out and unfulfilled living in NYC. So, at 25, he left and moved to Bangkok to start anew.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Paul Lee, 28, left New York City to move to Thailand in 2021. Life in NYC felt competitive and materialistic, which left him feeling unfulfilled. AdvertisementFour years ago, Paul Lee, 28, left New York City to move to Bangkok. Advertisement"It's already much nicer, bigger, and cheaper than the one I was living in New York City," he added. AdvertisementEven though Bangkok is a vibrant city, the pace of life is still slower than in NYC, Lee said.

Persons: Paul Lee, —, Lee, It's, I'm, Lee isn't, there's, I've, Paul Lee . Organizations: Service, Big Apple, Business, New, Suvarnabhumi, Economist Intelligence Locations: New York City, Thailand, Bangkok, Macon , Georgia, Georgia, South Korea, New York, Thong Lo, SoHo, NYC, Jeju, Lee's, In Thailand, Pattaya, United States

☆ Israel leaves a trail of destruction after dayslong siege at one of Gaza’s last hospitals
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-27 | by ( Freddie Clayton | Freddie Clayton Is A Freelance Journalist Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Israeli forces withdrew from Kamal Adwan hospital in the city of Beit Lahia on Saturday after a dayslong siege, leaving a trail of destruction inside one the area's last medical lifelines, with overnight strikes on the city killing at least 30 people, local authorities said. Outside the hospital, local authorities reported Israeli airstrikes demolished several houses including in Beit Lahia's Al-Khazan neighborhood. The IDF called the overnight bombings in Beit Lahia “a precise strike using precise munitions,” targeting Hamas infrastructure and militants. A damaged ambulance outside Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia on Saturday. The nation's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told Blinken that Israel was ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza.

Persons: Kamal Adwan, Beit Lahia, Volker Turk, Beit Lahia's Al, Munir Abdullah Al, Bursh, Tedros Adhanom, Joyce Msuya, Jordan, Antony Blinken, Ayman Safadi, Blinken, ” Organizations: Troops, IDF, United, Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Israel Defense Forces, NBC News, World Health Organization, NBC, Kamal, AFP, Getty, Health Ministry, Humanitarian Affairs, Israel, American Locations: Beit, Beit Lahia's, Khazan, Beit Lahia, Gaza, Israel, United States, London

It’s a feeling permeating the heavily Jewish neighborhood — and one that has affected how the swing-state community has processed the 2024 election. Amid a somber anniversary and with Election Day on the horizon, concerns about rising antisemitism are at the forefront of many voters’ minds. “I don’t believe a word Trump says, period, much less how he is trying to court Jewish voters. Republicans are aiming to make inroads with Jewish voters and chip away at the margins, with groups including the Republican Jewish Coalition spending big on ads like one featuring three Jewish women discussing antisemitism at an iconic Jewish deli in the Philadelphia suburbs. He says the Jewish community has felt a “political awakening” after the terror attacks on Oct. 7, and if that does not manifest in the presidential race, there could be signs of it in down-ballot races.

Persons: Seth Adelson, ” Adelson, ”, Rona Kaufman, John Kerry’s, Barack Obama’s, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, I’m, Harris, ” Kaufman, Kaufman, Lynda Wrenn, Trump, Wrenn, Trump’s, John Kelly, Adolf Hitler, ” Harris, David, Joe Biden, “, Jackie Orlanksy, Barbara Walko, ” Walko, Orlasnky, Doug Emhoff, ” Orlanksy, Walko, Summer Lee, Democratic Sen, Bob Casey, Lee, Lee’s, Jeremy Kazzaz Organizations: PITTSBURGH, Beth Shalom Synagogue, Democratic, Democratic Party, Republican, NBC News, The New York Times, Trump, Brandeis University, Jewish, Republican Jewish Coalition, Democratic Rep, Beacon Coalition, Jewish American Locations: Beth, Israel, Gaza, Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

☆ My home was damaged in Hurricane Milton. I was shocked at how fast FEMA sent me $9,200 after I applied.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-27 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Rick Shiver said Hurricane Milton damaged the awning and ductwork of his Port Orange, Florida, home. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rick Shiver, a 72-year-old retired firefighter in Port Orange, part of the Daytona Beach metropolitan area on Florida's Atlantic Coast. I live in Port Orange, Florida. AdvertisementA lot of the Port Orange area was underwater. Rick Shiver's home in Port Orange, Florida, after Hurricane Milton.

Persons: Rick Shiver, Milton, Port, Shiver, —, I'm, Augustine, It's, Rick Shiver's, Hurricane Milton, Dan Latu, I've, We've, we've, they're Organizations: FEMA, Service, Daytona, Hurricane Locations: Port Orange , Florida, Port Orange, Daytona Beach, Coast, St, DeLand, Florida, Pennsylvania

☆ I refuse to do 'Boo Baskets' for my kids. They already have too much stuff, and I don't want to be trapped doing it yearly.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-27 | by ( Elliott Harrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

'Boo Baskets' are Halloween-themed presents that some parents give their kidsAs a parent, I don't want to bring meaningless stuff into our house. On top of that, there's also a growing trend for "Boo Baskets," where parents give kids Halloween-themed gifts and trinkets. As a parent to two young girls, I refuse to hop on the Boo Basket bandwagon. Related storiesDoing a Boo Basket would mean that I'd deliberately be adding more knickknacks into the mix, which is not something I want to do. If I were to put together Halloween presents one year, I'd worry that I'd feel trapped into continuing each year.

Persons: —, there's, Boo, I'm, it's Organizations: Service

☆ Andrew Webber's forever war
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-27 | by ( Sam Fellman | Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

Like others in Chosen Company, Webber had been drawn to Ukraine for reasons he couldn't quite explain. AdvertisementNow, as Webber and his fellow members of Chosen Company got acquainted in the bar, uncertainty hung over the gathering. One showed an assault team clearing a World War I-style bunker, using live rounds. AdvertisementCats are everywhere on the front lines in Ukraine; Webber rescued one from a building under fire. "It seemed like he had stuff he was working on," says O'Leary, the CO of Chosen Company.

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Between 2022 and 2023, over 690,100 people left California, according to new census data. So, in January 2022, Speakman and her family packed up and left Temecula, California, for the Dallas-Fort Worth area. AdvertisementBetween 2022 and 2023, about 54,200 people also left California for Arizona, a decline from 74,100 the year before. AdvertisementWhere people are moving to California fromWhile fewer people from other states moved to California between 2022 and 2023 than between 2021 and 2022, the allure of the Golden State remains robust. She left California seeking a more favorable political climate and a better chance at achieving the American dream.

Persons: —, Kellee, California's COVID, Speakman, Jeffrey VonderHaar, Jeffrey VonderHaar Jeffrey VonderHaar, VonderHaar, Michelle Clifford, Michelle Clifford Michelle Clifford, Clifford, Abby Raisz, Raisz, It's, Kimberly Wilkerson, Wilkerson, Dannielle Price, Eiman, Zora, Price Dannielle Price, Price, Eiman Monam Organizations: Golden State, Service, Texans, Dallas, American Community Survey, BI, Council Economic Institute, CBS News Locations: California, Texas, Temecula , California, Fort Worth, Golden State, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Florida, California's, Calabasas , California, Houston, Celina, Dallas, New York, Oregon, Illinois, Bay, Austin , Texas, Oakley , California, Austin, Tyler , Texas, Riverside , California, Henderson , Texas, Tyler

In the relatively affluent Milwaukee suburbs of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Rochelle Gamauf said each week she is seeing new faces at her food pantry, Friends With Food, which she started during the pandemic. The organization has gone from giving out around 420,000 pounds of food in 2022 to over a million pounds in 2023. “I’m seeing people that have never visited a food pantry in their life,” Gamauf said. In Michigan, Phil Knight, executive director of the Food Bank Council of Michigan, said he’s also seeing more regulars. Even then, he said there are times when they run out of food with hundreds of people still in line.

Persons: Ken Estelle, “, ”, Estelle, “ We’ve, Joe Arthur, —, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Harris, Trump, Rochelle Gamauf, ” Gamauf, “ It’s, Arthur, “ We’re, ” Arthur, Melody McCurtis, she’s, McCurtis, Heidi Gould, ” Gould, Gould, Phil Knight, he’s, That’s, Gamauf Organizations: America, Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, ”, Jewish Community, Food Bank Council of Locations: Michigan, America West Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, ” Michigan, Milwaukee, Waukesha County , Wisconsin, Lancaster County, Dauphin County, Harrisburg, Metcalfe, Food Bank Council of Michigan, Dairy State, Waukesha

☆ What the rising popularity of Yemeni coffee shops say about third places
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | Monica Haider | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Times Square will be home to two other chains, MOKAFÉ and Qamaria Yemeni Coffee Co. But Yemeni coffee houses have taken up both those trends and boomed. Where did Yemeni coffee shops come from? We own the coffee farms in Yemen, we grew up with the coffee, we loved coffee,” Alhasbani said. “Several Yemeni entrepreneurs are opening coffee houses of their own, each with its own sort of style and atmosphere.”The coffee chains have big ambitions beyond Dearborn.

Persons: Ahmed, Ahmed Moustafa, Bhavishya, ”, Sally Howell, Howell, ” Ibrahim Alhasbani, “, Ibrahim Alhasbani, Carlos Osorio, ” Alhasbani, Alhasbani, “ There’s, Hovig Tchalian, don’t, ” Howell, Haraz, Yemen it’s, ‘, ” Moustafa Organizations: New, New York CNN, Carmine, Times, Yemeni, Co, University of Michigan – Dearborn, Qahwah, CNN, Entrepreneurship, USC Marshall School of Business, New York City Locations: New York, Detroit, SoHo, Manhattan, Qahwah, Ethiopia, Yemen, Dearborn, Yemen's, Mich, Michigan, Dallas, Dearborn , Michigan, United States, Downtown Dearborn, Canada, Qahwah House’s, Soho, Brooklyn, Queens

☆ Why these Republicans think voting against Trump could save the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( John King | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

A Nikki Haley voter in the April GOP primary who will be a Kamala Harris voter a week from Tuesday. “If Trump loses, then I think Republicans will start coming back to what they were,” Pesce said. But London is voting for Harris – the first time she will vote Democrat for president. As she ponders hers, she shares this: “I think Trump is going to win.” That, she said, is based on betting lines, not the polls. “They think at the 11th hour people will have such reservations about Trump that it will cause them to vote for Harris.

Persons: Pennsylvania CNN — Michael Pesce, Pesce, ” Pesce, “, Nikki Haley, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Harris, Trump, I’m, Michael Pesce, Haley, Joe Biden, ”, Joan London, Harris –, John King, Biden, Pat Toomey, ‘, Hillary Clinton, Harris Cynthia Sabatini, Sabatini, “ Trump, ” Sabatini, ” Cynthia Sabatini meditates, CNN Sabatini, Harris aren’t, meditates Organizations: Pennsylvania CNN, Coast Guard, Reagan Republican, White, CNN, Republicans, South, Democratic, Trump, Republican, GOP, Biden, Media, Pennsylvania Locations: Tripoli, Pennsylvania, New Tripoli , Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, South Carolina, New Tripoli, Lehigh County, Bucks County, Berks, battlegrounds . Berks, London, Philly, Montgomery County, Wyomissing, Wyomissing , Pennsylvania, Ukraine, ”, …, Berks County, Delaware County, Media , Pennsylvania, “, Trump

☆ A mega-earthquake could strike the Pacific Northwest any day — and we're not prepared
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

People along the coast now have 10 to 30 minutes to reach high ground before a giant wave engulfs the Pacific Northwest. The scene above is a worst-case scenario of a megaquake striking the Pacific Northwest. "It's ominously quiet," Harold Tobin, Washington's state seismologist and the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, told BI. The Pacific Northwest, by contrast, only found out about the danger posed by the Cascadia subduction zone in the 1980s. The Cascadia subduction zone pushed those mountains up about 10 million years ago, carving the mountain range that makes the Pacific Northwest so stunning.

Persons: Seattle isn't, Robert Ezelle, Rick Bowmer, Ted S, Warren, Juan, Harold Tobin, Tobin, Ezelle, Andrew Selsky, Itsuo Inouye, They've, Wally Santana, Barbara Ortutay Organizations: Washington state's Military, ., Puget Sound, Washington Army National Guard 792nd Chemical Company, Washington state's Military Department, Business, Northwest Seismic Network, AP, Columbia University, Big One, Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Navy, FEMA, Northwest Seismic Locations: Seattle, Pacific, Long Beach , Washington, Northern California, Vancouver, Grandview , Washington, Pacific Northwest, Washington, Washington's, Cascadia, Sitka spruces, Oregon, Japan, Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, Tohoku, Natori

☆ Witchcraft isn’t all broomsticks or cauldrons. How real witches make magic
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But witchcraft, to Green, isn’t about finding answers to life’s big questions (or death’s, for that matter). “Knowing is overrated.”The way Green practices witchcraft defies stereotypes of broomstick-wielding, cauldron-toting, pointy-hatted witches. The traits others might find strange only strengthen one’s witchcraft, Green said. As long as your intentions are clear and your mind is open, you can become a witch, Samayoa said. “Taking care of yourself is better for your witchcraft.”Both witches said that practicing witchcraft is healing, even if the process remains unfinished.

Persons: Green, they’re, he’s, ”, ” Green, He’s, “ We’ve, It’s, Andrea Samayoa, wasn’t, Samayoa, — Green, WitchTok, Pam Grossman, Agatha, “, they’ve, you’re Organizations: CNN Locations: Northern, Green’s, Green, Tampa, Hurricane Milton

The notice of claim was filed Thursday on behalf of Nyisha Ragsdale, the aunt of Jahmeik Modlin, who died on Oct. 14 in the Harlem neighborhood. His parents, Nytavia Ragsdale and Laron Modlin, have been charged with second-degree manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child. A poster in memory of Jahmeik Modlin in New York City. The apartment where Jahmeik Modlin lived in New York. A march held in memory of Jahmeik Modlin.

Persons: Nyisha Ragsdale, Jahmeik Modlin, Jahmeik, Nytavia Ragsdale, Laron, “, ”, ” Nyisha Ragsdale, Jahmiek Modlin, Stephanie Gendell, Gendell, Modlin, Jahmeik’s, Prosecutors, ” Modlin, Nyisha, Sanford Rubenstein, Rubenstein Organizations: Administration, Children’s Services, NBC, York, The, Defender Services, of, New York City Department of Investigation Locations: New York City, Harlem, New York, York, The New York, Modlin

MIAMI — With less than two weeks before the presidential election, NBC News and MSNBC checked in with a group of voters in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, where 69% of its residents are Latino. In the six months that followed, the race changed drastically, with Biden dropping out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. The conversation took place as Harris and Trump criss-cross the country amid an evenly split presidential race, with both candidates appealing to the growing Latino electorate in appearances at separate town halls. We wanted to know how these voters are thinking about the race now and the issues that matter to them. They also discussed the urgent need to find common ground — and lower the temperature of the political rhetoric.

Persons: Joe Biden's, MSNBC’s José, Balart, Biden, Kamala Harris, Harris, Trump, Donald Trump’s Organizations: MIAMI, NBC News, MSNBC, Democratic, U.S . Congress, Latina Trump, Democrat, Republican Locations: Florida’s Miami, Dade County, Haitian American, Miami’s Little Haiti

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