By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump hurled insults at his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, and other women Wednesday — saying he had no interest in stopping his attacks even if they turn off female ...
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JASON DEAREN Associated Press As Hurricane Milton pummeled Florida's west coast with powerful winds and flooding rain, environmentalists worry it could scatter the polluted leftovers of the state's phosphate fertilizer mining industry and other hazardous waste across ...
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene "spared" the Tampa Bay region a direct hit and yet storm surge still caused catastrophic damage, flooding homes, drowning people who decided to stay near the coast and leaving massive piles of ...
By JEFF MARTIN and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane Monday on a path toward Florida population centers including Tampa and Orlando, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for ...
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's top disaster relief official said Sunday that false claims and conspiracy theories about the federal response to Hurricane Helene — spread most prominently by Donald Trump — are "demoralizing" aid workers and ...
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The death toll from Hurricane Helene inched up to 227 on Saturday as the grim task of recovering bodies continued more than a week after the monster storm ravaged the Southeast and killed people in six states. Helene came ashore ...
By SALLY HO Associated Press A week after Hurricane Helene overwhelmed the Southeastern U.S., homeowners hit the hardest are grappling with how they could possibly pay for the flood damage from one of the deadliest storms to hit the mainland in recent history. The Category 4 storm that ...
By DEVNA BOSE AP Health Writer While hospitals and health care organizations in the Southeast largely stayed open and functioning during Hurricane Helene to provide essential care for their communities, they were not unscathed. The massive system battered the region's health centers, ...
By JEFF AMY, ERIK VERDUZCO and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Many residents of the Carolinas who still lacked running water, cellphone service and electricity Wednesday made do for the moment and questioned how long their patience would last nearly a week after ...
BRENDAN FARRINGTON and DAVID FISCHER Associated Press Falling trees and raging floods from Hurricane Helene killed more than 150 people when it struck Florida late last week and then plowed through the Southeast as one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. People died in six states: ...
