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Field hospitals set up to treat North Carolina storm victims sit mostly empty
BOONE, N.C. — Health care companies and nonprofit organizations have erected fully equipped field hospitals in North Carolina, in a pre-emptive attempt to treat residents injured by Hurricane Helene. But few patients had shown up Friday at the hospital set up in a large, white tent by Samaritan’s Purse, an aid organization founded by Christian…
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As floodwaters engulfed a Tennessee hospital, panic set in for those stranded
Angel Mitchell was in knots Friday morning at the eastern Tennessee hospital where her 83-year-old mother had been admitted days earlier for pneumonia. While Mitchell and her brother visited their mother, who was undergoing tests at Unicoi County Hospital, she could hear urgent conversations among the nurses to evacuate the small facility in Erwin, nestled…
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Former defense minister set to lead Japan amid efforts to counter China’s growing power
TOKYO — Shigeru Ishiba is set to become Japan’s next prime minister after the governing Liberal Democratic Party elected him as its new leader on Friday. Ishiba, a former defense minister, will be named prime minister of the U.S. ally on Tuesday when Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his cabinet ministers resign and Ishiba is…
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Storm set to intensify and cause ‘catastrophic’ damage across Florida
Share Florida’s Big Bend braces for major hurricane impact Patrick SmithPatrick Smith is a London-based editor and reporter for NBC News Digital. The Big Bend Coast is set for “catastrophic” wind damage, flash flooding from heavy rain, tornadoes and lethal storm surges, the National Weather Service office in Tallahassee warned early today. Damaging winds would…
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Oklahoma man says he didn’t commit the crime he’s set to die for. Will the governor spare him?
Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, is set to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday — but nobody knows whether he’s truly guilty of the crime for which he was condemned. Littlejohn was convicted of murdering Kenneth Meers, 31, during a robbery at the Root-N-Scoot convenience store Meers owned in Oklahoma City in 1992. Meers was shot and…
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Undecided voters, set in their views of Trump, now weigh backing Kamala Harris
Kenneth Hauck wasn’t sure how he would vote when the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris was just a hypothetical scenario. Now it’s a reality, and Hauck still isn’t sure whom he will support — but he’s leaning toward Harris. “I need to do more research on her before anything,”…