Category: news
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After Helene, the Great Smoky Mountains are desperate for tourists
October was supposed to be Gianna Carson’s busiest month of the year. Instead, she estimates she’s lost upward of $15,000 since Hurricane Helene hit her Bryson City, North Carolina, bakery and vacation rental a week ago. Now, in addition to the number of bakeshop transactions plummeting from 300 a day to around 50, she said…
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Mickey Guyton talks new album ‘House on Fire’ and the state of country music
The nation is finally beginning to see that “country music is for everyone,” and Mickey Guyton loves it. Guyton, 41, has been a trailblazer in country music for years: In 2021, she became the first Black woman to co-host the Academy of Country Music Awards and the first Black woman solo artist to be nominated…
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San Jose Japanese American farm from early 1900s to be demolished for urban housing
In San Jose, a center of California’s housing crisis, one of the oldest and last remaining Japanese-owned farms in the state will be demolished to pave the way for urban housing. San Jose is home to one of only three existing Japantowns in the country and the only one built on agricultural roots. But preservationists…
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Haitian gang slaughters at least 70 people as thousands flee
Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti’s main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,000 to flee, causing widespread shock even in a country grown accustomed to outbreaks of violence. More people were severely injured in the attack in the early hours of Thursday at Pont-Sonde, in the…
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The next president is poised to inherit the fewest judicial vacancies in generations
WASHINGTON — The next president is on track to enter office with the fewest number of vacant federal judgeships to fill in more than three decades, the culmination of both parties diverging sharply on what types of judges they want to appoint and putting a high priority on confirming their preferred judges while in charge.…
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The NFL punter who doesn’t punt
Jayden Daniels first took his jersey number. Then he took his job. Washington Commanders punter Tress Way, who gave up his No. 5 uniform to the first-round pick last May, is one of the best in the NFL at his position. But thanks to a historically good offense, he’s barely had to run onto the…
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Everest gets taller and the harsh realities of Fat Bear Week: The weekly quiz
Everest gets taller and the harsh realities of Fat Bear Week: The weekly quiz
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Trump pitches watches, crypto and his wife’s book in the campaign’s final weeks
A new cryptocurrency platform. An upcoming memoir authored by his wife. A set of NFT trading cards. Watches that cost as much as $100,000. With just weeks left before the November election, former President Donald Trump has taken to promoting items and businesses that are not at all connected to his presidential campaign. “You’re going…
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After the storm, North Carolina faces daunting task of housing survivors left homeless
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The deluge came furiously — and shockingly fast. Speaking from a makeshift shelter at a local technical college here, James Yulon Ferguson recalled this week how he escaped with a friend on Sept. 27 shortly before the rising floodwaters reached the roof of his trailer along the Swannanoa River. After the storm,…
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As Trump returns to assassination attempt site, Secret Service is “at a breaking point,” officials say
As Donald Trump visits Butler, Pa., today for the first time since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt there, current and former Secret Service agents fear another security lapse. A dozen current and former US Secret Service agents told NBC News that an increased workload and a lack of sufficient staffing have brought the agency to “a…