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☆ Black bear killed while trying to get to pancakes along Tennessee highway
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | Rebecca Cohen Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A black bear was hit by a car and killed on a Tennessee highway after it found a delicious snack on the side of the road while it was bulking up for winter, officials with the Appalachian Bear Rescue said on Facebook. The rescue group, or ABR, said it received a report of an adult black bear that had been struck and killed on Highway 321 coming into Townsend, Tennessee, on Tuesday. While inspecting the bear's remains, they then saw what drew the bear to the busy highway in the first place — a platter of pancakes. "With fall hyperphagia in full swing, the male bear probably saw the pancakes as an easy, high caloric meal." The agency reminded residents to live responsibly in the area, where black bears are common.

Persons: ABR Organizations: Appalachian Bear, Facebook Locations: Tennessee, Townsend , Tennessee

“There isn’t anything that we don’t need right now,” said Tim Love, a volunteer at the center. The destruction of major roads, combined with the natural terrain of the southern Appalachians, have made the rapid distribution of aid an ongoing challenge. The devastation in North Carolina and Tennessee has left two major interstates, Interstate 40 and Interstate 26, largely closed down and inaccessible. According to data from the North Carolina Department of Transportation, the entire western border of the state has limited access. Hundreds of road incidents across the region have made numerous roadways blocked and inaccessible due to the damage.

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☆ Hair and makeup artist accuses Garth Brooks of sexual assault and battery in lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Samantha Kubota | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

A new lawsuit filed in California state court alleges country star Garth Brooks sexually assaulted and battered a hair and makeup artist working for him. In the 27-page lawsuit, Roe makes several allegations against the country singer. The lawsuit notes Roe first worked for Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood, starting in 1999 and only started working for Brooks in 2017. Roe’s lawsuit is seeking damages and a jury trial. “We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks,” Roe’s legal team wrote in a statement.

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☆ Haiti gang attack kills 70 people including infants
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Mitchell Mccluskey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —At least 70 people, including three infants, were killed in a gang attack in the central Haiti town of Pont Sondé, the United Nations Human Rights Office said in a statement on Friday. Members of the “Gran Grif” gang used automatic rifles to kill at least 70 people on Thursday, including 10 women and three infants, according to the UN. The attack occurred in Haiti’s Artibonite department, a crucial agricultural center about 50 miles north of Port-au-Prince, where gang violence has continued to spread, according to the UN. At least 16 people were seriously injured in the attack, including two gang members hit during an exchange of fire with Haitian police, the UN said. “Despite an extremely difficult security context, the victims of this attack are being cared for by local institutions,” the ministry said.

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☆ I spent a total of 10 weeks quiet vacationing all over the world without my boss finding out. Here's how I did it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

He says that quiet vacationing made him more productive at work because he was so happy. Over the course of 15 months, I spent a total of 10 weeks quiet vacationing from my fully remote job. I think quiet vacationing may be good for productivity; I was genuinely so happy while traveling the world, and it translated into my productivity at work. On some quiet vacationing days, I had to work a little later to get things across the line, but I became very efficient. A quiet vacation day in Europe might look something like this: Wake up around 8 or 9 a.m. and eat breakfast at the hotel.

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☆ A self-employed couple lost their home and livelihoods in Hurricane Helene. Their home insurance doesn't come close to enabling them to rebuild their lives.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A couple in North Carolina were caught in a landslide caused by heavy rain from Hurricane Helene. But they didn't know that several days of heavy rain from Hurricane Helene had weakened the soil on the mountain, triggering a landslide that was headed straight down toward their home. AdvertisementMarsh and Thomas' house before it was destroyed by Hurricane Helene. On Monday, Moodys estimated the hurricane caused between $20 billion and $34 billion worth of damage, with between $15 billion to $26 billion affecting properties alone. Andrew MarshAs a veteran, Marsh has access to a medical benefits package, but Thomas is without active health insurance.

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☆ Week 6’s top 10 college football games: Time to find out if Mizzou is a paper tiger?
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Justin Williams | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

Arizona similarly responded to a blowout loss to Kansas State with a road win at Cam Rising-less Utah. UCF (3-1) at Florida (2-2), 7:45 p.m., SEC NetworkFlorida head coach Billy Napier survived a road win at Mississippi State and subsequent bye week, now the hot-seat watch resumes in Gainesville. Rutgers, however, has an easy schedule by Big Ten standards, avoiding Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Michigan and Indiana. It’s also a potential trap game for Ohio State, with a road trip to Oregon next week and games against Nebraska and at Penn State on the horizon. Line: Ohio State -19.52.

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☆ ‘It was too late’: Tennessee workers blame company for flooding fatalities
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Victoria Fleischer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ When a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ants began farming fungi
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Kate Golembiewski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. To trace the evolution of this relationship between ants and fungi, Schultz and his colleagues built complex family trees. Using the DNA from 475 species of fungi, including 288 species known to be cultivated by ants, the researchers pieced together how all these organisms are related. The study team did the same thing for 276 species of ants, including 208 species of fungus farmers. Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago after an asteroid hit Earth, according to a new study.

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☆ Helene’s survivors shoulder catastrophic loss and destruction after storm leaves at least 213 dead
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Community volunteers carry gas at a relief area and community coordination center in Bills Creek, North Carolina, on Thursday. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesMen remove items from a fine arts business in Marshall, North Carolina, on Thursday. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesA volunteer helps clean out a flooded crawlspace under a home impacted by Hurricane Helene in Cruso, North Carolina, on Thursday. In North Carolina, guard members have been dropping in supplies from the air and airlifting people and pets to safety. President Joe Biden visits an area affected by Hurricane Helene in Keaton Beach, Florida, on Thursday.

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North Carolina has racked up the highest death toll thus far with 106 fatalities reported. Kim AshbyKim Ashby, a North Carolina teacher of 20 years, is described as “the glue that holds everyone together,” her daughter, Jessica Meidinger, told CNN. A neighbor took a photo of the Ashby home in Elk Park, North Carolina, as it floated in the river on Friday. Omar Khan, 44, disappeared after Helene flooded Asheville, North Carolina. Julie Le Roux has been missing since a mudslide destroyed the Marion, North Carolina, home she had taken shelter in from the raging storm.

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☆ With misinformation swirling in Hurricane Helene’s wake, officials urge residents to ‘stop this conspiracy theory junk’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Michael Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Presenting no evidence, Trump claimed earlier this week that the Biden administration, along with North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Those rumors prompted many state and local officials – including other Republicans – to push back. North Carolina Lt. Gov. The few that aren’t are owned by states other than North Carolina.” That statement is directly contradicted by an earlier tweet from the North Carolina National Guard, which reported it had conducted 57 air missions and rescued more than 400 people. “I think what makes it particularly frustrating is clearly, in these times, social media could be an invaluable source of reliable information.”

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☆ Sesame Workshop's top marketer is leaving during a critical period of transition
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sesame Workshop's chief marketer, Samantha Maltin, is leaving the company. Maltin's exit follows Sesame Workshop's CEO change and upcoming "Sesame Street" revamp. Sesame Workshop is in the midst of negotiations with distributors for the show. With beloved IP that appeals to multiple generations, "Sesame Street" could be attractive to other streamers eager for tried-and-true content. AdvertisementShe also helped create a "Sesame Street" brand image celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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☆ Impact Plastics: Tennessee factory says workers had time to flee Helene’s floodwaters. Their families disagree
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Alisha Ebrahimji | Caroll Alvarado | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The 56-year-old grandmother was one of 11 Tennessee plastics plant workers swept away by Hurricane Helene’s deadly floodwaters after they tried to leave the facility. Impact Plastics has forcefully denied those claims, saying late Thursday the allegations are false, and no employee was stopped from leaving. Supervisors “did not prohibit its employees from leaving” and “did not threaten anyone with discharge from employment,” Impact Plastics said. The agency, who is working with TBI to investigate, hadn’t yet received a fatality report from Impact Plastics as of Wednesday evening. Now Jarvis just has one question for Impact Plastics: “Why’d you make us work that day?

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Then this happened.”Herbert said that as he watched the reports of devastation emerging from western North Carolina, he knew he had to act. Shortly after landing in Concord, Herbert was dispatched on his first Operation Airdrop mission to another hard-hit area, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. "Then I started seeing some of the pictures of the devastation in western North Carolina," he said. Holt said volunteer pilots are not allowed to fly missions at night for safety reasons. "Today what was needed was medical supplies, and we had to scramble when we realized we were short," said Lee, 47, of Cornelius, North Carolina.

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☆ Jack Smith court filing against Trump and Israel strikes central Beirut: Morning Rundown
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Elizabeth Robinson | Elizabeth Robinson Is A Newsletter Editor For Nbc News | Based In Los Angeles. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

A new court filing from special counsel Jack Smith argues Donald Trump acted as a private citizen when he sought to overturn the 2020 election. It includes new details about Trump’s actions after the 2020 election and leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, including testimony detailing Trump’s conversations with former Vice President Mike Pence. Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung blasted the “falsehood-ridden” filing and declared the case a “partisan, Unconstitutional Witch Hunt.”Read the full story here. Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman and daughter of a former Republican vice president, will campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris today in the Wisconsin city considered the birthplace of the Republican Party. 2025 ambitions: Republicans in Congress are already looking ahead at what they could accomplish if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.

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Only about 2% of residences in the 100 counties hit hardest by Hurricane Helene-related power outages were protected by flood insurance, according to an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data, PowerOutage.us data and National Flood Insurance Program policy data that the insurance company Neptune Flood collected. While many coastal counties have larger shares of residences with flood insurance, coverage in inland counties is rare. Less than 1% of the North Carolina counties hardest hit by Helene were covered — and in South Carolina, it was even less, 0.3%. The NFIP, managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is the country’s leading provider of flood insurance, accounting for more than 95% of the flood insurance policies nationwide. 2 is confusion, that they believe that their homeowners insurance covers the risk of flooding when it does not.

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☆ The search for missing people continues after Hurricane Helene
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Sharif Paget | Michelle Krupa | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But even if a storm like that made it to Matthew’s parents’ neighborhood, their house rests on a mound. And it certainly couldn’t happen with Helene, Matthew figured, even as the one-time Category 4 monster showed little sign of cooling its rage. Still, Keli headed out to her job managing a beauty supply store about 20 miles east in Johnson City. The family took to social media, pleading for any information about their missing husband and dad – and his dog. “I think right now we are the only people who know what each of us is going through,” he said.

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For the whole U.S., the median rent is $1,406 and the median mortgage payment is $1,904. Cost of living comparison: Renting vs. buying by stateIn the U.S., the median rent is $1,406 and the median monthly mortgage payment is $1,904. In New York City, for example, median rent is $1,748, making it more expensive than most states, even though New York state's median rent is only $1,561. Median rent costs as a percentage of incomeIt's important to keep in mind that income also varies from state to state. Methodology: How we determined rent and mortgage costsOur median rent, household income, and mortgage payment data comes from the Census Bureau's 2023 American Community Survey 1-year estimates.

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☆ Helene recovery could cost $34 billion. Here's who might pay for it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

An aerial picture taken on September 28, 2024, shows storm damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Valdosta, Georgia. The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene across the southeastern United States could cost upwards of $34 billion, according to early estimates from Moody's Analytics. The Moody's report, released as Helene was making landfall last week, estimated that property damage could cost between $15 billion to $26 billion. And the resulting economic slowdown could cost $5 billion to $8 billion in productivity losses. Only about 6% of U.S. homeowners have flood insurance through either a private company or the congressionally funded National Flood Insurance Program, despite 90% of natural disasters involving flooding, he said.

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☆ A trifecta of global crises could snarl supply chains and increase prices
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The dockworkers' strike threatens supply chains, while Hurricane Helene caused costly damage. Devastation from Hurricane Helene, a dockworkers' strike, and escalating conflict in the Middle East all threaten to scramble supply chains and inflate prices. How much the strike impacts prices depends on how much of a cushion companies have built to deal with any bottlenecks. Bottlenecks also encourage carriers to raise their prices, increasing retail and consumer goods prices, Kent said. The hurricane has also disrupted some supply chains, including healthcare supplies and high-purity quartz needed for semiconductor manufacturing.

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☆ NFL Week 5 preview: Five things to watch out for
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Andy Scholes | Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

CNN —It’s hard to believe it’s already Week 5 of the NFL season! “So absolutely, positively, did he learn a ton and was this walkthrough today or was the team orchestrated stuff today absolutely better than last week? Ken Blaze/USA Today Sports/Reuters Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. breaks a tackle from Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker K.J. David Banks/USA Today Sports/Reuters Rhamondre Stevenson of the New England Patriots runs the ball against Cincinnati Bengals defenders in Cincinnati on September 8. Conversely, there are only good vibes around the Vikings as they enter Week 5 as one of two undefeated teams left in the NFL.

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☆ Helene aftermath: Here's how to avoid being a victim of post-storm scams
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A van flows in floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28 in Asheville, North Carolina. States affected by Hurricane Helene are warning residents to watch for the risks of scams in the aftermath of the storm, including price gouging. Price gouging happens when there is an excessive increase in prices charged for goods and services, and it often happens during emergencies or disasters. Normal price fluctuations are not price gouging, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said in a recent announcement. The terms of established price gouging protections vary from state to state.

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☆ A three-headed economic monster lurches into the presidential campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —With barely a month to go before the US presidential election, a trifecta of economic shocks is threatening to sap Vice President Kamala Harris’ momentum on voters’ No. 1 issue: a port strike, a hurricane and an escalation of fighting in the Middle East. Price pain could crop up elsewhere if the East Coast port strike, which began Tuesday, drags on longer than a week. “If the Boeing strike and the port strike … last through the second week of October, job growth for October could be negative,” researchers at Oxford Economics wrote Wednesday. A negative jobs report hasn’t been seen in this country since December 2020, the last full month of the Trump administration.

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☆ Anonymous celebrity lawsuit asks court to declare sexual assault accuser’s allegations untrue — before she’s even sued
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The plaintiff’s lawsuit, which was filed in mid-September, prompted his accuser to fire back this week, opposing the celebrity’s efforts to stay anonymous. “Our civil court system is designed to resolve disputes and provide injured parties a means of redress,” Roe’s filing states. Doe said that Roe has attempted to extort him for millions of dollars through “untrue, lewd allegations” and “outrageous conduct.”“Defendant’s allegations are not true,” Doe’s lawsuit states. Doe’s suit asks the court to declare Roe’s sexual misconduct allegations untrue, pay compensatory and punitive damages and be prevented from further publicizing the claims. According to Roe’s filing, the celebrity filed his lawsuit after he learned that his accuser was planning to publicly file her own lawsuit, which came after she attempted to settle privately.

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