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☆ Fact check: Trump repeats debunked lies about FEMA’s hurricane response during North Carolina visit
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Washington CNN —Former President Donald Trump used a Monday visit to North Carolina to repeat debunked lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene. They’ve spent it on illegal migrants,” Trump said. Second, it’s not true that FEMA disaster assistance money was improperly reallocated to migrants. But here’s the key: this $650 million pot is entirely distinct from FEMA’s much larger pot of disaster relief funds. As of last Tuesday, its Disaster Relief Fund had about $8.5 billion remaining, FEMA told CNN’s Ella Nilsen.

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☆ Rural North Carolinians are key for Trump's election chances in the swing state. Hurricane Helene upended their lives.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-19 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Hurricane Helene battered rural mountain towns in North Carolina, a key voting bloc for Trump. AdvertisementEarly voting began in North Carolina on October 17, and state election officials said in-person turnout topped a previous record set in 2020. He won North Carolina by less than 75,000 votes in the 2020 presidential race, with strong support in areas outside urban centers. Allison Joyce / AFPThe Democrats aim to flip historically red North Carolina, seeing a path in the rapidly growing suburban areas like Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, and Fayetteville. North Carolina election officials made emergency changes to expand voting access for residents recovering from the storm.

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Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congressman with Georgia, is now saying the federal government is literally controlling the weather — we're controlling the weather. It’s got to stop," Biden said during a virtual briefing at the White House as he received updates about Hurricane Milton. Greene said in an Oct. 3 post on X: "Yes they can control the weather. "The NOAA government website has a library catalog of 1,026 entries of weather modifications, but that’s not all of them." On Tuesday, she quoted an article from The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for spreading conspiracy theories, that said: "Marjorie Taylor Greene was right.

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It’s not unusual for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have to respond to rumors surrounding any given natural disaster. This week, President Joe Biden requested a memorandum from his team on the federal government’s digital response, including how officials were remediating misinformation, a senior administration official told CNN. “The contours of this misinformation are unlike anything we’ve seen before,” a senior administration official told CNN. CNN previously reported that there were 30 midair near-collisions involving noncommercial flights in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Saturday, September 28. FEMA personnel on the ground receive threatsThe snowballing of false information on the heels of Hurricane Helene has also directly affected those on the ground.

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☆ Republicans in Congress call out hurricane misinformation coming from within their own party
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Haley Talbot | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Washington CNN —Republicans are fighting a war against misinformation to keep their constituents safe as they brace for Hurricane Milton to make landfall in Florida, including being willing to point the finger at members of their own party — and their presidential nominee. Greene has stood by her comments, posting a meme and link to a Gateway Pundit article she says backs up her claims. “Former President Trump told us that the people in Springfield are eating dogs and cats, alright? He likewise said that FEMA money, our emergency money, instead of helping the people that are being hit by the hurricane is being used to help illegals,” he said at an event in Utah earlier this week. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who challenged Trump in this cycle’s Republican presidential primary, also warned residents in the path of a hurricane to ignore online misinformation.

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☆ Rep. Edwards on Hurricane Helene aftermath: Still in a recovery mode to those that are missing
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailRep. Edwards on Hurricane Helene aftermath: Still in a recovery mode to those that are missingRep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, FEMA's response to the disaster in North Carolina, how the public can help, and more.

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☆ House GOP chairman demands FEMA accountability for Hurricane Helene after flooding claims more than 200 lives
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Laura Strickler | Laura Strickler Is A Senior Investigative Producer | Reporter For Nbc News. She Is Based In Washington. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to detail what it did to prepare for Hurricane Helene after it became clear there would be catastrophic flooding. Helene made landfall in Big Bend, Florida, on Sept. 26, causing flooding that devastated North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern states and claimed more than 200 lives. D’Esposito, R-N.Y., cited a local official from Buncombe County, North Carolina, who claimed that water was requested before the storm started but was delayed, further exacerbating the water shortage in Asheville. Post-landfall, it “surged capacity to where it was needed the most.” She noted that western North Carolina has now been identified as the area that was hardest hit. More than 6,400 federal personnel, including FEMA staff, are deployed in the affected areas.

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☆ Chuck E. Cheese targets inflation-weary families with a bargain subscription program
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Chuck E. Cheese has a new subscription program that’s half the price of a Netflix plan, but one the animatronic rat likely hopes double the fun. Chuck E. Cheese hopes the new program attracts inflation-weary customers who have cut back on discretionary spending to save money and seek a better deal. Chang’s providing various versions of their own helping the businesses lock in loyalty and deliver a consistent stream of income. So, Chuck E. Cheese may find it difficult to persuade all but the most ardent of loyalists to fork out for this,” he told CNN. In 2020, Chuck E. Cheese filed for bankruptcy at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that forced business to temporarily shutter.

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☆ After Outcry, Chuck E. Cheese Says It Will Keep More Animatronic Bands
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Orlando Mayorquín | More About Orlando Mayorquín | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After Chuck E. Cheese’s plans to retire most of its animatronic bands sparked an outcry from wistful fans, the pizzeria-arcade chain said it would keep a few more of the bands. The company will increase to five the number of animatronic bands that will stay, a company spokeswoman said to The New York Times in a statement on Thursday. The move comes after The Times detailed the chain’s plan to phase out the iconic animatronic performers, known as Munch’s Make Believe Band, at all but two of the more than 400 Chuck E. Cheese locations in the United States by the end of the year. The company said it had wanted to update the Chuck E. Cheese experience for a new generation of digitally-inclined children. A few distraught fans even managed to get a hold of the chain’s chief executive, David McKillips, on his personal phone to appeal for the survival of at least a few more of the animatronic bands.

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☆ A year after a single mom stopped getting $500 a month through Chicago's basic income program, she's still holding down an apartment and making ends meet: 'It was every single thing that I prayed for.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Participants across the country have told BI they spent basic income money to pay rent, afford groceries, pay off debt, and support their children. In April, Chicago announced that it will restart it's basic income program. The renewed Chicago program will join a wave of over 100 basic-income pilots that have been launched since 2019. Fisher is still worried about costs, but Chicago basic income gave her 'a brand new start'When Fisher began receiving basic income, she felt immediate relief. With basic income payments, Fisher was able to afford daily expenses and buy the clothes and shoes she and her daughter needed.

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For decades, Munch’s Make Believe Band at Chuck E. Cheese has performed for countless birthdays, end-of-season Little League parties and other celebrations. There’s been Chuck E. Cheese and Helen Henny on vocals, Mr. The band of robot puppets has been a mainstay at the colorful pizzeria-arcade chain where children run amok and play games for prizes in between bites of pizza slices. By the end of 2024, the animatronic performances — endearing and nostalgia-inducing, if perhaps slightly creepy to their audiences — will be phased out at all but two of the chain’s more than 400 locations in the United States: one in Los Angeles and another in Nanuet, N.Y. The departure of the band comes as Chuck E. Cheese undergoes what its chief executive, David McKillips, recently described as its largest and “most aggressive transformation.”

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☆ Retailers jacked up prices and squeezed consumers. They might have just blinked
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Parija Bhatnagar | Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“There’s just less dollars for consumers to spend.”The challenge for retailers now is to shake consumers out of that frugal mindset. Retail spending has increased in seven of the past 10 months through March. “If you want to convince consumers to spend you have to give them a reason to do so. Lower prices are a clear opportunity to drive people into the store or online.”It’s a lever that Walmart, he said, has pulled forever. Clothing chain H&M told analysts during its most recent earnings call that it, too, would lower prices.

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We developed an allowance plan that teaches our two teenagers about budgeting and family finances. This is no different in our family of four, which includes two teenagers. This presents a particular challenge when we are also trying to tighten the budget to deal with rising prices. To fit the needs and wants of two teenagers into our family budget, we first came up with a new plan for their allowance in 2022 that encouraged good habits. AdvertisementHere are several ways that we budget around two teenagers and teach them about money at the same time.

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☆ Back From Ukraine, a House Republican Makes the Case for More Aid
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Catie Edmondson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Knowing a vote on another aid package for Ukraine loomed in his future, Representative Chuck Edwards, a freshman Republican, spent part of last week traveling across the country to see for himself how American dollars would be used in the nation’s fight to fend off Russian invaders. What he witnessed as he and a bipartisan group of lawmakers traveled across Ukraine over four days — a dozen air raids, an onslaught of drone attacks, and the sites of gruesome atrocities against civilians — left Mr. Edwards and his colleagues vowing to press Speaker Mike Johnson to push forward on a measure to provide more aid for the war effort. They told President Volodymyr Zelensky that their visit had given them a “new appreciation" of what his country was facing, Mr. Edwards said, and that they would lobby Mr. Johnson to make sure that American aid did not dry up.

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☆ When the Pandemic Hit Home
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020 — but we all have our own memories of when normal life stopped. ASIA EDWARDS, 39, BLOOMFIELD, N.J.Johnna Wallace While driving to work at the beginning of the pandemic, I couldn’t help but wonder: Was this how I was going to die? I am an emergency room nurse. Scott McGlasson My 55-year-old wife was dying from metastatic breast cancer when the pandemic hit. WENDY LAMPARELLI, 57, RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.Ellen Blossom Our home was hit by a tornado on March 3.

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☆ Chuck E. Cheese is retiring its robots and it's probably not because of a horror movie
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Chuck E. Cheese has officially retired Munch's Make Believe Band. The change was made as part of an update to all Chuck E. Cheese locations. AdvertisementIt's lights out for the unlively characters of Chuck E. Cheese's nostalgic animatronic band, and it probably has nothing to do with "Five Nights at Freddy's." So did Chuck E. Cheese remove the animatronics to avoid scaring the kids? Representatives for Chuck E. Cheese did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

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☆ 'Five Nights at Freddy's' rides PG-13 rating, video game fame to Halloween box office crown
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Mike Calia | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

If anything was going to topple Taylor Swift at the box office, it had to be a killer animatronic bear, right? Swift's "Eras Tour" concert film came second for the weekend, with an estimated $14.7 million, putting its domestic total at $149.3 million. "Five Nights" is also based on a popular horror-survival video game series that gave it a built-in younger audience. That helped it overcome generally awful reviews that left the film with a 26% "rotten" rating on movie-review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Data firm EntTelligence said the movie accounted for 65% of foot traffic to theaters during the weekend.

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Keep reading to see where to watch the Five Nights at Freddy's movie online. Five Nights at Freddy's is best described as the lifelike reimagination of your inner child's worst Chuck E. Cheese nightmare. Where to watch Five Nights at Freddy's onlineFive Nights at Freddy's is streaming through the Peacock app in the United States. How to watch Five Nights at Freddy's with a VPNSign up for a VPN if you don't have one. Watch Five Nights at Freddy's.

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☆ ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ review: Josh Hutcherson stars in another game-to-screen slice of horror
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” wants to do for animatronic arcade characters what “It” did for clowns. Fleshing that out, the movie begins by quickly indicating why Freddy’s might need a new employee, and why Mike desperately needs a new job. "Five Nights at Freddy's" turns the game into a horror movie. Even so, the net result is another slice of horror that at best feels a little half-baked. “Five Nights at Freddy’s” premieres October 27 in US theaters and on Peacock.

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ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state senator won't be suspended from office after he was one of 18 others indicted along with former President Donald Trump on charges that he sought to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state. A three-person panel didn't recommend that state Sen. Shawn Still be temporarily removed from office while the case is pending, Garrison Douglas, a spokesperson for Gov. Still, a Republican who lives in the north Atlanta suburb of Johns Creek, is a swimming pool contractor and former state Republican Party finance chairman. Political Cartoons View All 1163 ImagesAs is required by state law, Kemp appointed Attorney General Chris Carr, as well as Republican state Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch and Republican state House Majority Leader Chuck Efstration. “Efforts to subvert election outcomes and stifle the will of Georgia voters remain one of the biggest threats to our democracy.”

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☆ Opinion | Maui and the Age of the Urban Firestorm
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

It wasn’t even really a wildfire. In general, we’ve long believed the built environment offered formidable firebreaks, and worried over what might be lost when fires passed near homes as a form of tragic collateral damage. As of Tuesday, the official death toll in Maui was 99, but almost 1 percent of all residents remained unaccounted for, and many locals were suggesting the death toll could increase significantly in the days ahead. A climate lawsuit launched by the island against Big Oil in 2020 specifically cited additional wildfire risk. But still, when the fire broke out, almost no one seemed adequately prepared.

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☆ Biden mocks Republicans for accepting pandemic relief funds while opposing student loan forgiveness: 'My program is too expensive?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

President Joe Biden tore into Republicans for opposing his student loan forgiveness plan. The PPP loans were aimed at keeping business afloat during the pandemic by providing critical backstops to meet payroll and other limited needs. "College loan forgiveness benefits one person and undermines the basic principles of personal responsibility." The Sarasota Republican had over $2.7 million in forgiven PPP loans and interests for car dealerships connected to him. A spokesperson for the Oklahoman blasted Biden for suggesting there was something wrong with opposing student loan forgiveness in light of accepting PPP money.

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☆ Madison Cawthorn pleads guilty in case over bringing a loaded handgun through TSA checkpoint
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Rebekah Riess | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn pleaded guilty Friday to bringing a loaded handgun through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport last year, according to his attorney. Cawthorn’s weapon was “secured at the airport and he retrieved it after his flight,” the newspaper reported, citing the airport spokesperson. In July 2021, when the story was published, a Cawthorn spokesperson told the Citizen-Times that the congressman had brought the gun “by mistake.” He was not charged in the incident. Despite having Trump’s endorsement, he lost in the Republican primary to Chuck Edwards, who had the backing of several top North Carolina Republicans. Edwards easily went on to win the general election for the western North Carolina seat.

☆ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is cleaning up her image and cozying up with GOP leadership to gain power. It's working.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is cozying up with GOP leadership after two years of being an outsider. Two years later, under Republican leadership, she's angling herself into positions of power. It's clear she's learned valuable lessons from two of her GOP colleagues, Rep. Lauren Boebert and former Rep. Madison Cawthorn. In spite of this, Gingrich ultimately gained prominence among the GOP, becoming the Republican whip and later speaker of the House. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia takes a selfie with Kevin McCarthy after his election as speaker of the House.

☆ Madison Cawthorn never bothered to hand over constituent casework to the successor who beat him and it's now a gigantic mess
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Outgoing members of Congress are required to pass along ongoing constituent service information to their successors. His successor, Rep. Chuck Edwards, is now asking the public for help. This includes help obtaining government resources, casework, US Service Academy nominations, and more. And when a legislator departs Congress, they're expected to pass along any casework and ongoing constituent services information to their successor in order to maintain guidance and leadership for their constituents. Cawthorn, his successor said, failed to do that.

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