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☆ Floods in Romania kill at least four people as rain batters central Europe
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

VISNOVA, Czech Republic — At least four people died and thousands of homes were damaged by flooding in eastern Romania on Saturday, officials said, as surging river levels put authorities on alert in much of central and eastern Europe following days of torrential rain. Tens of thousands of households were left without power in Romania and the Czech Republic, where more rainfall is forecast in the coming days. Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, southern Germany and parts of Austria are also expected to see more heavy rain. Television images from the area showed streets flooded with muddy water, silt and debris as rescuers led residents to safety. Evacuations and blackoutsIn the Czech Republic, northern and northeastern areas bore the brunt of the deluge and 51,000 households had their electricity supply cut off, the CTK news agency said.

Persons: Marcel Ciolacu, ” Ciolacu, Petr Hladik, Roman Christof, ”, Charles, Tomasz Siemoniak, Donald Tusk, Chancellor Karl Nehammer, “, ” Nehammer Organizations: Czech Republic —, Prague Zoo, Czech Railways, ” Locations: Czech Republic, Romania, Europe, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Czech, Prague, Galati, Visnova, Brno, Bratislava, Lower Austria

“I’ve been battling this for over 20 years,” Belk, 68, said of his medical debt. The burden of medical debt has contributed to financial anxiety among voters and has become an issue in the 2024 presidential campaign. Guill, who has multiple sclerosis, lives in Aiden, North Carolina, a rural community just south of Greenville. She volunteers with a nonprofit called Down Home North Carolina to help her neighbors gain access to Medicaid. “We have a ton of people with medical debt in the state because our insurance plans didn’t cover our medical bills,” she said.

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Crews battling three major California fires could get some relief from record heat and help from the weather as a cooldown preceded minor containment for the blazes. Hot, flame-fanning winds from the desert are dissipating, and the cooler temps may help firefighters give the blaze their best. Firefighters cut and extinguish a fire in a tree as the Bridge Fire burns in the Big Pines hills near Wrightwood, Calif., on Thursday. He also said mutual aid from Washington, Utah, and North Dakota, including firefighters, were sent to Southern California. The weather outlook should give firefighters the weekend and beyond to battle the three fires without unforgiving temperatures.

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☆ How a false rumor about pets in Ohio and Laura Loomer’s presence helped derail Trump’s planned attacks on Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Donald Trump wanted to spend this week attacking one of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ biggest political vulnerabilities. The promotion of the claims overshadowed a series of speeches aimed at the economy and blaming Harris for border security failures. However, during Tuesday’s debate, Trump’s attacks on Harris over immigration veered into the outrageous, as he falsely claimed that migrants are eating dogs and cats in Springfield. Democratic National Committee rapid response director Alex Floyd on Friday highlighted Trump’s relationship with Loomer and other controversial allies. We’re going to be spending a lot more time in Pennsylvania,” Harris told reporters at a bookstore in Johnstown on Friday.

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CNN —At least eight people have died after some of the heaviest rain in years hit central and eastern Europe, causing flooding and widespread disruption. Rescuers have been working hard to rescue hundreds of people left stranded by heavy rainfall there. Garages and a house flooded in the town of Kłodzko, in Poland's southwest, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, after days of unusually heavy rain. Krzysztof Zatycki/APRising water along the Wien River during heavy rain on September 15, 2024, in Vienna, Austria. Many municipalities in Lower Austria have declared a state of emergency as heavy rainfall continued into Sunday.

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Rescue services have been launched in hard-hit counties as authorities warn that they have recorded the heaviest rainfall in 100 years over the past 24 hours. Sadly four people have been found dead in their houses or yards.”Rivers burst their banks in Poland and the Czech Republic. Firefighters fill sand bags in Glucholazy, southern Poland. Gabriel Kuchta/Getty ImagesThe swollen Biala River in Glucholazy, southern Poland. Red alerts, the highest level of warning, have been issued for portions of Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia.

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CNN —At least seven people have died after some of the heaviest rain in years hit central and eastern Europe, causing flooding and widespread disruption. The heavy rainfall continued to pummel the region into Sunday. Rescuers have been working hard to rescue hundreds of people left stranded by heavy rainfall there. In neighboring Austria, heavy rainfall has caused water levels to rise in several rivers and rescue services have been called out to parts of the country. Red alerts, the highest level of warning, have been issued for portions of Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia.

Persons: Boris, Cătălin Predoiu, Predoiu, Manfred Fesl, Donald Tusk, Sergei Gapon, Gabriel Kuchta Organizations: CNN, Romanian Emergency, AP, AFP, Getty, Poland’s, Rescue Service Locations: Europe, Vienna, Bratislava, Prague, Klodzko county, Poland, Austria, Romania, Galati, Pechea, Braunau, Czech Republic, Klodzko, Klodzko County, Czech, Černou, Glucholazy, AFP, Mikulovice, Germany, Saxony, Lower Austria, Slovakia

☆ The US drinking age law could be a model for fixing the housing crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

So, they tend to use federal funding to reward housing policies they like. One example of the kind of bold federal law that some point to as a model has nothing to do with housing. In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser argued that the next administration should implement a housing construction law that follows the model of the Drinking Age Act. Metcalf, who also pointed to the drinking age law as a model for a housing mandate, conceded that the politics of it would be tricky. "The key question would be whether Congress has overstepped the blurry line between inducement and coercion," Hemel told Business Insider.

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Her quandary was encapsulated in the debate’s very first question, when Ms. Harris was asked if she thought Americans were better off now than they were four years ago. Polls show that Mr. Trump retains a high floor of Republican support. “This is a game of inches in the swing states,” Gov. “You’ve got to attach yourself to 20, 30, 40,000 voters in these key swing districts, the swing states. I mean, it’s not even about swing states.

Persons: Harris, Mr, Biden, Trump, Gavin Newsom, “ You’ve, Ms Organizations: ” Locations: California, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wilkes, Barre, Pa

The number of pregnant women forced to travel farther to deliver their babies — or go without prenatal care entirely — is growing. A March of Dimes report published Tuesday found that over a third of U.S. counties (35.1%) are what the group calls “maternity care deserts,” meaning they don't have a single doctor, nurse, midwife or medical center specializing in maternity care. During 2021 and 2022, about 1 in 25 hospital maternity wards closed, the report found. States in which pregnant women had to travel the farthest to seek medical maternity care included Alaska, Hawaii and Montana. The closest place with maternity care was two hours away from her home in Montana.

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Mandatory evacuations were ordered for communities across San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, as the so-called Line Fire raged through woodland and burned through more than 23,700 acres by Monday night. The fire in the foothills of the San Bernardino National Forest was 5% contained as of around 8 p.m. PT Monday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire. March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, just south of San Bernardino County, reached 105, according to the National Weather Service. “The triple-digit weather down here is nasty.”Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for San Bernardino County Saturday night. State officials said vegetation is critically dry in San Bernardino County and temperatures reached more than 100 degrees on Saturday, with relative humidity ideal for the fire to spread.

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The trial of the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students will be moved out of the county where the killings took place in late 2022, a judge ruled in a decision released Monday. Latah County District Judge John Judge heard arguments last month about whether the trial of Bryan Kohberger, tentatively set for next June, should be moved to Ada County, about 300 miles south and home to Idaho’s capital, Boise. Judge did not immediately specify the new location in granting a different venue, which he said was based on “presumed prejudice” if the trial remains in Latah County. A new judge is expected to be brought onto the case once it moves, although it’s unclear when the Idaho Supreme Court could decide on the judge and venue. Latah County prosecutors will remain on the case through the trial.

Persons: John Judge, Bryan Kohberger, Judge, ”, Anne Taylor, — Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin —, Goncalves, Judge's, Latah, Kohberger Organizations: University of Idaho, Kohberger, Prosecutors, Washington State University, U.S . Constitution Locations: Latah County, Ada County, Boise, Idaho, Latah, Nez Perce, Kootenai, Pullman, Washington, U.S ., Kohberger

☆ Most striking hotel workers are back on the job, but the strike continues in San Diego
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-04 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Most of the 10,000 hotel workers who went on strike during the busy Labor Day weekend have returned to work Wednesday, but one group of 700 union members in San Diego will stay on strike for the foreseeable future. Those workers, employed at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, will remain on strike until there is a contract agreement, their union, Unite Here, says. The union has not ruled out using the same rolling strikes strategy this time, or expanding the strike to other locations. The strategy is intended to help workers keep as many days of pay as possible during a contract negotiation. Beyond the hotel workers, limited duration strikes have been used to win labor deals for school employees in Los Angeles, health care workers at Kaiser Permanente, janitors, nursing home employees and other workers in Minnesota who went on strike together in March.

Persons: Hilton San Diego Bayfront, spokespeople, Hilton, ”, Gwen Mills, Taylor Swift Organizations: New, New York CNN, Labor, Hilton San Diego, Hilton San, Hyatt, “ Workers, Union, Kaiser Permanente Locations: New York, San Diego, Hilton San Diego, Marriott, Los Angeles, Orange counties , California, Southern California, Europe, Kaiser, Minnesota

Meet the Rural Voters Who Could Swing North Carolina’s ElectionThe most rural of the battleground states this year is North Carolina. Scroll to play video Muted Gracie Torres Gracie Torres Nick Ellison Nick Ellison Sonja Stone Sonja Stone Sharon High-Jones Sharon High-Jones Gracie Torres Gracie Torres Julius Syfrett Julius Syfrett Paige Chesson Paige Chesson Connor Webb Connor Webb Julius Syfrett Julius Syfrett Connor Webb Connor Webb Gracie Torres Gracie Torres Greg Mason Greg Mason Sharon High-Jones Sharon High-Jones Paige Chesson Paige Chesson Carl Smith Carl Smith Julius Syfrett Julius Syfrett Connor Webb Connor Webb Gracie Torres Gracie Torres Nick Ellison Nick Ellison Julius Syfrett Julius Syfrett Nick Ellison Nick Ellison Connor Webb Connor Webb Nick Ellison Nick Ellison Amanda Cameron Amanda Cameron I think Trump is a good candidate. I try to make prayerful decisions whenever I’m going in to vote. Scroll to play video Muted Julius Syfrett Julius Syfrett Politicians don’t know crap about a working man out here. When I go to vote, I’m going to be thinking When I go to vote, I’m going to be thinking a whole lot about taxes and inflation.

☆ She’s Fighting Big Oil in Texas. But Republicans Want to Make Her D.A.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( J. David Goodman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They immediately ran into a problem finding a candidate to oppose the incumbent. There were only 16 practicing lawyers in the three counties that make up the deep-red district, including the present Democratic office-holder, Randy Reynolds, who some said was not an effective prosecutor. Desperate for a challenger, they turned to Sarah Stogner, an oil-and-gas lawyer who, on paper, would seem to be an unlikely candidate to boost the Republican Party in what ought to have been one of its strongholds. She has never tried a criminal case. And she’s made her mark in Texas oil law mainly for suing Chevron over environmental damage from abandoned oil wells.

Persons: Randy Reynolds, Sarah Stogner, she’s Organizations: Republican Party, Chevron, Texas Railroad Commission Locations: Texas, El Paso

☆ These Pennsylvania voters illustrate Harris’ suburban challenge
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( John King | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“A ‘Never Trump’ Republican,” Carty said. “When Biden was on the ticket, I was going to vote for Trump,” Carty said. “Definitely I have more friends saying they’re leaning toward Harris,” Carty said. “My street was rock-ribbed Republican,” Sabatini said in an interview at her home in Media, Pennsylvania. And I don’t plan to vote for him in 2024.”The question is, will she vote for Harris or cast another write-in ballot?

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Condo owners unable to pay an assessment can be foreclosed on by their condo association. After that, she plans to move back into her Florida condo, but in the meantime, she’s been living with her adult son. But that’s what happens when prior boards don’t do their job.”But the decision ended up pitting the building’s owners against each other, with some owners saying the work was unnecessary. “These guys ruined my early retirement plan.”Lopez, who helped craft the legislation, said she is looking for ways to provide relief to condo owners once Florida’s Legislature reconvenes next year. Stone would like to see the state Legislature give buildings and condo owners more time to comply with the regulations so they would be able to spread out the costs.

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☆ Lack of worker heat protections despite rising temperatures leave patchwork of guidelines, put workers in danger
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Robert Ilich | Nic F. Anderson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Esteban Wood still remembers the time a 74-year-old Mexican farmer in Homestead, Florida, collapsed on the job from extreme heat. Such outdoor workers include lifeguards, transportation employees, ironworkers, agricultural workers and letter carriers. States like California, Colorado, Minnesota and Washington, have some heat protections for workers but they are not uniform or sweeping. For example, Minnesota’s protections only apply to indoor workers while California’s heat protections include both indoor and outdoor workers. The government must implement wage protections alongside heat protections, said Dr. Kristina Dahl, a principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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☆ 'It’s mayhem and craziness': Californians react to Gavin Newsom’s order to remove homeless encampments
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Elleiana Green | Elleiana Green Is A Digital Politics Intern With Nbc News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Gavin Newsom’s recent executive order requiring state agencies to remove homeless encampments on public property, leaving the homeless community caught in the middle and uncertain where they will go. Now it’s time for locals to do their job.”But members of the homeless community say they have nowhere to go. “It’s absolute mayhem and craziness,” said Jeni Shurley, a member of the homeless community in Los Angeles. San Francisco has about 8,000 homeless people — the second most in the state behind Los Angeles, with about 75,000. Barger added that the city was working to maintain the trust of the homeless community while working to dismantle the camps.

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☆ Debby's floodwaters trigger emergency and disaster declarations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Patrick-Smith-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Patrick Smith | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Debby's influence remained strong on Friday, when the National Weather Service warned that rainfall could reach 15 to 25 inches in the Northeast and New England. Major flooding hit Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and neighboring Steuben County, New York. Binghamton, New York, measured 1.94 inches of rain and Avoca, Pennsylvania, saw 1.43 inches, according to the service. More than 362,000 utility customers in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Vermont were without power early Friday evening, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us. Authorities in Berkeley County, South Carolina, said early Friday that 2 to 3 feet of fast-moving water was rushing through streets of Moncks Corner, north of Charleston, prompting multiple rescues.

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A pair of Secret Service counter snipers, dubbed Hercules 1 and Hercules 2, surveilled the crowd from directly above and behind the stage. He radioed the local command post controlled by Butler County law enforcement and notified them of the kid with the rangefinder. “I can’t believe that the Secret Service hasn’t talked to any of our people,” he said prior to Friday’s reach out. In a different location, the Secret Service and state police set up another command post. New video reveals frustrationNicols, Woods, Young and other Beaver County officers weren’t the only ones to express concerns about the Secret Service planning.

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A dozen school districts in Oklahoma said they will not check students’ immigration status if asked by the state’s education department, in the latest sign of growing resistance to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters. “The focus has changed from public school students to self-centered political aspirations,” said Susan Wray, an elementary school principal in Edmond and a former state education department official. School districts also cannot ask students about their immigration status if it may be used to deny them access to a free public education, according to U.S. Department of Education guidance. The Deer Creek, Pryor, Millwood, Owasso and Jenks school districts told NBC News that they do not currently, nor do they plan to, ask students about their status. He threatened to take over Tulsa Public Schools after the district leadership told a board member she could not lead prayers on the microphone at a graduation ceremony.

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☆ 'There's a reckoning happening': An underrated risk will crater property values in high-risk markets by up to 60%
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That's made Burt even more confident about his long-held thesis, which many property owners are ignoring. For example, flood insurance costs in coastal cities could rise from $5,000 per year to $15,000 under the updated national flood insurance pricing set by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Burt said. And that's assuming flood risk doesn't continue to rise over time, which Burt believes is unlikely. That would be disastrous for all property owners in those markets, even those not trying to sell. Homeowners in cities most vulnerable to the effects of climate change should be sweating, if they aren't already.

Persons: David Burt, Michael Lewis, Burt, That's, I'm, it's Organizations: Service, Business, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA Locations: Lee County , Florida, Fort Myers, Paris, that's

☆ 14 people got Valley fever after a California music festival, highlighting the fungus' growing threat
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Aria-Bendix-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Aria Bendix | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The Summary Cases of Valley fever, a fungal infection, have been climbing in California in recent years. An outbreak of Valley fever among attendees and workers at an outdoor music festival in California’s Central Valley highlights the fungal infection’s mounting threat. As climate change creates more opportunities for it to proliferate, Valley fever cases have been climbing in California. He said he suspected Valley fever, since he had heard reports that some festivalgoers had gotten infected in past years, but he was initially diagnosed with pneumonia. “We live in a high endemic area for Valley fever, so anybody who’s visiting, who lives in these areas, is at risk,” she said.

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The Shore Acres neighborhood begins to flood from high tide in the Tampa Bay while Tropical Storm Debby approaches the gulf coast, in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S., on August 4. Octavio Jones/ReutersHigh-water rescues were underway Sunday night in Pinellas County, Florida, as incoming Hurricane Debby whipped up heavy rains, storm surge and dangerous flooding, emergency officials said. Emergency crews in the county, which includes the cities of Clearwater and St. Petersburg, were fielding very high volumes of 911 calls Sunday night. Between 5 to 10 inches of rain have fallen in the area and as many as four more inches are possible. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge — a key transportation artery in Lower Tampa Bay — has been closed “due to high winds and inclement weather,” the Florida Highway Patrol announced.

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