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Two adults in central North Carolina have died after contracting West Nile virus, state health officials confirmed this week, putting the mosquito-borne illness back in the national spotlight as the West Nile virus North Carolina deaths become the latest grim marker in a busy 2026 transmission season. The deaths, announced by the North Carolina Department … Read more
The PJM power grid emergency declared on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, places more than 65 million Americans across the Mid-Atlantic and parts of the Midwest under a rare federal reliability order, as the U.S. Department of Energy moved to head off potential blackouts during a four-day stretch of strained electricity supplies. Issued under Section 202(c) … Read more
President Donald Trump warned the Houthis on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, that the Iran-backed militant group is “behaving very badly” after its deadly missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, and floated the possibility of asking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help strike back at the Yemeni militants. The Trump warns Houthis moment — … Read more
The Katie Zacharia press briefing that Washington had been waiting for lasted all of 14 minutes. On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. ET, the newly named White House press secretary stepped to the podium in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room for her formal debut, delivered roughly eight minutes of opening remarks, … Read more
On Tuesday morning, October 13, 2026, one of the Trump administration’s most high-profile diplomatic appointments came to an abrupt end. White House press secretary Katie Zacharia announced at a briefing that the administration had asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, to step down — and that Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns effective immediately, ending a … Read more
The Trump plan to deport Ukrainians moved from speculation to alarming possibility on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, as explosive new reporting revealed the White House is weighing the revocation of legal protections for Ukrainians who sought sanctuary in the United States after Russia’s full-scale invasion. Citing senior administration officials, Reuters reported that the administration is … Read more
The RJ Mitte death tributes began pouring in late Monday evening, just hours after news broke that the Breaking Bad star had died at age 34. Bryan Cranston, who played Mitte’s on-screen father Walter White, led the outpouring of grief with an emotional social media post, writing that he was “in deep despair” over the … Read more
The Keisha Lance Bottoms debate Monday night looked like no Georgia governor’s debate in a generation: one candidate, one empty lectern, and a television audience watching history get made for the wrong reasons. Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms took the stage alone at the Atlanta Press Club’s Loudermilk-Young Debates, held at the Georgia Public Broadcasting studio, … Read more
The Ken Paxton Dubai fugitives story has become the latest — and potentially most damaging — controversy to hit the Texas attorney general’s U.S. Senate campaign. According to explosive new reporting from The Wall Street Journal published Monday evening, October 12, 2026, Paxton rang in 2025 with a luxury New Year’s Eve celebration in Dubai … Read more
The Six Flags Goliath accident has shocked the amusement park world. A man died and four other guests were injured on Monday, October 12, 2026, after a rider was thrown from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, the 200-foot-tall hypercoaster just outside Atlanta. Witnesses described a horrifying scene as the man came … Read more