Author: chiara
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Stranded cancer survivor desperately searches for medical supplies in wake of Helene
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Stephen Bracciale left his home Friday morning and walked the streets of his hurricane-ravaged Pass-a-Grille neighborhood in St. Pete Beach, Florida, in search of a place to charge his phone and iPad. Bracciale, a 71-year-old diabetic who has survived bladder cancer, left his wife of nearly 50 years, their cats and dogs,…
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Hurricane Helene leaves Georgia community in ruins as families brace for long power outages
VALDOSTA, Ga. — Fear lingers in this hard-hit city, where trees toppled onto houses and several downtown buildings were destroyed. Anxious families worry their community could be without power for weeks in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Valdosta residents seeking bottled water, ice, tarps and food passed through an ever-growing line of cars Saturday morning…
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Historic North Carolina village under water after devastating damage from Helene
ASHEVILLE, N.C. —A historic village in western North Carolina is under water after bearing the brunt of devastating flooding damage from Hurricane Helene. Tree branches, logs and a dumpster floated across Asheville’s Biltmore Village, renowned for being built and owned by a single individual. Water levels appeared to be several feet high and in some…
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A far right party with Nazi roots is on the brink of power in Austria
Politics in a central European country of just 10 million people might not seem consequential. But that’s not the case in Austria, where there’s a good chance its election Sunday will be won by a far-right, pro-Russia party that was founded by former Nazis. A win for the Freedom Party, or FPÖ, would not just…
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More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide here or abroad are living freely in the U.S., ICE says
More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide — either in the United States or abroad — are living freely in the U.S., outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, according to data ICE provided to Congress earlier this week. The immigrants are part of ICE’s “non-detained” docket, meaning the agency has some information on the immigrants…
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Sarah McBride’s run to become the first openly trans member Congress is decades in the making
Lisa Goodman, the founding president of Equality Delaware, a statewide LGBTQ organization, worked at the same law firm as McBride’s father. After McBride came out, Dave and Sally talked to Goodman in her office for three hours, Goodman remembered, and she said two things that stuck with them. “I said, ‘This changes everything,’” Goodman recalled,…
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There are no gun-related ballot measures initiated by voters in 2024
No ballot will have a gun-related initiative led by voters this fall. While seven states had tried to get 11 citizen-led firearm referendums on the ballot this year, all of them failed, according to Victoria Rose, who tracks the measures for the elections database Ballotpedia. Seven of the proposals supported expanding gun rights, including one…
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Chinese adoptees say they feel conflicted after China announces end to international adoptions
After China announced earlier this month that it is suspending international adoptions, Maze Felix, a 28-year-old Chinese adoptee, said they were struck with a heady mix of “anger, relief, grief, confusion — all of it.” Felix, who uses they/them pronouns, is among the more than 80,000 children who were adopted from China to the U.S.…
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TikTokers are touting vibration plates for health benefits, but do they work?
“Do you vibe?” It’s a question that’s been reverberating around TikTok as users flood the platform with videos of themselves balancing on shaking vibration plates, bodies quivering, often in an attempt to hawk the devices as the latest cure-all. Their efforts have certainly made waves. Online searches for vibration plates — which look like a hybrid…
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Who is Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader Israel says it killed in Beirut strike
Israel announced on Saturday that its forces have killed Hassan Nasrallah, the powerful leader of the Lebanese militant and political group, Hezbollah, in what would mark a major escalation amid mounting hostilities at its northern border with Lebanon. An Israeli official said Friday that Israeli forces had targeted Nasrallah, who has led the Iran-backed militant…