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Towns throughout western North Carolina, including Swannanoa, were transformed overnight by the massive storm. Muddy floodwaters lifted homes from their foundations. Landslides and overflowing rivers severed the only way in and out of small mountain communities. Rescuers said they were struggling to respond to the high number of emergency calls. Anxious relatives took to Facebook to search for loved ones they hadn’t heard from.“This is looking to be Buncombe County’s own Hurricane Katrina,” said Avril Pinder, the manager of the county, which includes Asheville.The death toll grew throughout the Southeast as the scope of Helene’s devastation came into clearer view. At least 49 people had been killed in five states — Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. By early counts, South Carolina suffered the greatest loss of life, registering at least 19 deaths. Georgia has reported 11 deaths; Florida, 11; North Carolina, 7; and Virginia, 1.The toll from the storm is likely to rise. Taylor Jones, Buncombe County’s director of emergency management, said there had been multiple fatalities there, though he declined to provide exact figures. He said officials were resorting to their “mass fatality plan” and trying to notify relatives, a process complicated by service outages.Officials asked anyone looking for friends or family members to fill out a form that county leaders will use to try and locate the missing. In Asheville, authorities said there were 60 people unaccounted for.
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Israel probably employed U.S.-made 2,000-pound munitions in its strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah, according to a review of visuals released by the Israel Defense Forces. Analysts who examined videos of the strike and its aftermath at The Washington Post’s request said the damage was consistent with the use of multiple 2,000-pound bombs.Three analysts who reviewed a video shared by the Israeli air force on Saturday said it showed fighter jets carrying multiple 2,000-pound-class bombs, at least some of which were U.S.-made BLU-109s and JDAM guidance kits.In the video, eight F-15 planes carrying at least 16 2,000-pound bombs take off. “Air force planes eliminating Hasan Nasrallah and the Hezbollah headquarters in Lebanon,” reads the descriptive text accompanying the video. Photos released by the IDF showed individual planes fitted with at least three and as many as six BLU-109s each.
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President Joe Biden paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter as he approaches his 100th birthday, celebrating his decades of public service and humanitarian efforts. Biden praised Carter's hopeful vision for the country and his tireless commitment to making the world a better place. Carter, the…
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CBS News, hosting vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz for the general election campaign’s third debate next week, says it will be up to the politicians — not the moderators — to check the facts of their opponents.On Friday, CBS said the onus will be on Vance and Walz to point out misstatements by the other, and that “the moderators will facilitate those opportunities” during rebuttal time. The network said its own misinformation unit, CBS News Confirmed, will provide real-time fact-checking during the debate on its live blog and on social media, and on the air during post-debate analysis.During ABC’s debate between presidential contenders Kamala Harris and Donald Trump earlier this month, network moderators on four occasions pointed out inaccurate statements by Trump, and none by Harris. That infuriated the former president and his supporters, who complained it was unfair.
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Former President Donald Trump is set to visit Fayetteville, North Carolina, next week for a town hall event as part of his ongoing campaign efforts. This will be his third visit to the state in the past two weeks, highlighting the importance of North Carolina in the upcoming election. Recent polls show…
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Israel said it killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a massive airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs Friday, flattening part of a neighborhood to eliminate the cleric who led the group for three decades and built it into a fearsome foe.The strike was Israel’s most aggressive move yet in two weeks of elaborate intelligence operations, targeted killings and heavy bombardments aimed at stopping the U.S.-designated terrorist group from attacking across the Lebanese border into Israel.Nasrallah’s death is an enormous blow not only to the group he leads but also to its main backer, Iran, and the wider network of aligned militias that Tehran has built across the Middle East to confront Israel. It is also the strongest signal yet that Hezbollah has been thoroughly penetrated by Israeli intelligence.
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