Hurricane Helene is the most devastating storm yet to hit Florida and Southeastern Coastal states like Georgia and the Carolinas, especially in terms of flood damage and deaths—now at least 250 people and climbing. And, they haven’t even found all the bodies yet, many of which are found only by following the smell of death. I watched NBC News last night trying to debunk all the criticism of FEMA by Donald Trump and others, and it was an obvious whitewash of very real problems. NBC claimed it was false that VP Harris said that FEMA was only offering $750/person in aid. That’s true in the sense that there are other forms of aid available, but the fact remains that without power those hit hardest are having trouble accessing any aid at all. During the first week of Helene, when aid was really needed, thousands of social media posts by victims of these storms saying FEMA is “nowhere to be found,” tells the real story. Currently, a week after the storm, aid shipments of food and water are finally arriving, and so is the National Guard, but most people still aren’t seeing any tangible aid or the return of electrical power. Meanwhile Hurricane Milton is striking Florida, bringing with it deadly tornados and more flooding. To receive a free one-time sample of the brief, along with options on subscribing, click on Request a sample on the left.
"The joint drills focused on sea and air combat readiness, blockading key Taiwanese ports and areas, and assaults on maritime and ground targets," described the eastern theatre command’s spokesperson, senior captain Li Xi.
2. The Times claims that "none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer." This is preposterous. Harris not only copied multiple paragraphs of other people's work verbatim, but she often lifted those ideas directly and at face value. In one case, she came to the wrong conclusion because she copied Wikipedia—i.e., she stole a bad idea, copied the language verbatim, and got the point wrong. This is the Full Monty of plagiarism. The Times's claim doesn't hold up at all; it's just a way of downplaying the transgression of Kamala Harris, as they tried to do initially with Harvard president Claudine Gay. Their claim is not supported by the evidence:
The city hired a ratio of seven Democratic to every one Republican inspector, according to the complaint.
Following Hurricane Helene, many private helicopter pilots launched their own search and rescue missions. One would think government officials would welcome the help of these volunteers, but instead they harassed them and even threatened to arrest them! For example, one private helicopter pilot rescued an individual stranded by Helene. Unfortunately, he was threatened with arrest if he flew his helicopter back into the impacted area to save someone left behind on the earlier flight.
“When this goes public, it is going to have all of the conspiracy theorists in the globe – in the world – coming back to re-litigate the past three elections, at least in Arizona,” Hobbs said in the call. “And it’s going to validate all of their theories about illegal voting in our elections, even though we all know that’s not true.” The trio mentioned that the total number of registered illegal alien voters in Arizona is around 148,000, though they all agreed to trim that number to around 98,000 to make the problem seem less serious than it is.
But according to the FEMA website, the agency now places higher priority on instituting Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity guidelines than on easing the suffering of Americans displaced by disaster.
Do you want to live in a society where you are required to have your face scanned wherever you go? If not, you may want to speak up now while you still can. As you will see below, the U.S. government is aggressively expanding the use of facial recognition technology for identification verification purposes. For now, the use of facial recognition technology will be optional. But as we have seen before, once a voluntary option is adopted by enough people our leaders have a way of making it mandatory. Of course it isn’t just our government that is pushing facial recognition technology. It is popping up throughout our society, and given enough time it would literally be everywhere.
"They keep trying to advance but the gains are incremental, somewhere they manage to take a street in the village," he continued. "But it goes both ways – we also counterattack and push them back." While it's unclear how many troops Ukraine has committed to holding the region, international reports have estimated Russia has sent some 40,000 of its own forces to take it back. Russia has used both conscripts and reservists, but has not appeared to divert large numbers from front line Ukraine positions in Donetsk.
A high-ranking Iranian military officer who was considered a "key figure" that oversaw Tehran's support to the 'resistance axis' abroad was slain in the Israeli airstrike which killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah on September 27 in south Beirut. Iran had soon after the Israeli attack confirmed the death the IRGC's #2, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan. But his body had not been found even long after Nasrallah's remains were recovered. Iran's government had vowed that his killing "will not go unanswered."
Raids hit the Ras al Nabaa area in central Beirut. Israeli jets have for almost two weeks pounded Hezbollah strongholds in south Beirut, which is also densely-packed with civilian families. But much more rare have been airstrikes targeting the center of the capital.
Three quarters of Spaniards now associate immigration with negative concepts such as insecurity, crime, and overburdened public services
The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will affect more than 72.5 million Americans, providing an average increase of about $50 per month for Social Security retirement beneficiaries starting in January, the agency said in a statement.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September came out today hotter than expected up 0.3% for the month for a ‘year-over-year’ (YoY) of 3.3% general increase in consumer prices according to the ‘official’ report. John Williams of ShadowStats has a different take on the matter. His work on the economic numbers shows that ‘real’ inflation (the way the CPI was calculated prior to 1980) was consistently higher-about 9% higher than the way CPI numbers are calculated in 2024. So what Mr. Williams calls the ‘alternative’ rate of inflation (that we all actually live in) is actually -much higher.
"The northern eyewall of Hurricane Milton is beginning to move onshore of the Florida Gulf Coast near Tampa and St. Petersburg, where an Extreme Wind Warning is now in effect. Please shelter in place as these extremely dangerous hurricane-force winds overspread the region," NHC warned.
replacing her word-salad answer from a pre-interview teaser with a completely different answer in the version that aired.
...replacing her word-salad answer from a pre-interview teaser with a completely different answer in the version that aired.
Trump hasn’t been in office since 2020, yet somehow a woeful federal government response to a hurricane that occurred in 2024 is his fault because he said some mean words.
The charge was specifically made by Seoul's defense minister Kim Yong-hyun on Tuesday. He described that he has reason to believe that six North Korean officers were killed in Donetsk when a Ukrainian missile hit their location on October 3rd. He called reports which first surfaced in Ukrainian media "highly likely".
Data shows Democrats are losing their advantage over Republicans when it comes to requests for mail-in voting as the election looms, Breitbart News reported September 21.
Milton is forecasted to produce higher storm surges across the Tampa area than Hurricane Helene just weeks ago.
The Daily Signal reached out to Psaki, Rampell, and Luscombe with questions about whether they still consider Emhoff a good example of masculinity and a sex symbol after the latest accusations and the confirmation that he cheated on his wife with the nanny. They did not respond to requests for comment. The National Women’s Law Center did not respond to questions about the accusations. Its Action Fund is spending millions to support Harris in battleground states.
FEMA’s 2023 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program sought to disburse multimillion-dollar grants designed to bolster disaster preparedness “equity” for what it called “underserved communities,” a label later defined in grant documents as “populations sharing a particular characteristic, as well as geographic communities, who have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic, social and civic life.” Examples of these groups cited in the FEMA documents include African Americans, Hispanics, Middle Easterners, LGBTQ+ people, and people living in rural areas, among others.
Widely circulating social media videos have confirmed a series of direct ground strikes. BBC has said in a Monday update that at least five rockets have been recently launched, inuring eight people and causing damage in Haifa. Dozens more have been sent. Israel's military has admitted that its much-touted air defenses have been failing in the north, and says it is investigating as a result.
A combined city-state-federal raid on a San Antonio apartment complex said to be under the "control" of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang yielded 20 arrests and detentions on Saturday, including "confirmed" members of the Venezuelan gang, police said.
The settlement is located close to Pokrovsk, which Russian forces have been steadily progressing toward as an ultimate prize which would bring them into easy control over the whole of Donetsk.
“At this time, it is 6:11, 12 weeks to the minute, that he shooting began, I would like to ask everyone to join me in a moment of silence,” Trump said to tolling bells and Ave Maria. Trump went on:
In March 2021, Governor Greg Abbott announced Operation Lone Star would commence in response to an increase in migrant crossings, human smuggling, and narcotics trafficking. The operation began with deploying more than 1,000 state police and National Guardsmen to the immediate border area.
“Immediately after taking it, I felt regret,” she said of the abortion pill, “and I had a feeling that that was a very bad decision.” Greene said she googled her options and found Chelsea Mynyk, a nurse-midwife and owner of life-affirming clinic Castle Rock Women’s Health. Mynyk prescribes abortion pill reversal medication to women who regret starting a chemical abortion. Greene took progesterone to counteract the effects of the first chemical abortion pill. About a month ago, she gave birth to her daughter.
The Biden-Harris Justice Department is suing Alabama for removing more than 3,000 noncitizens from voter rolls just weeks after a coalition of left-leaning groups—including the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center—filed a similar lawsuit.
“They are systematically moving power away from local election clerks—who are not partisan but are hard workers—and up to the state,” state Sen. Ruth Johnson, a Republican and former Michigan secretary of state, told The Daily Signal.