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Last September, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, becoming the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina in 2005. As heavy rains swept through the Appalachian Mountains, homes near Asheville, North Carolina, and beyond were demolished. “Seeing it on the news is one thing, but standing there amongst it is hard to get your head around,” Leicester resident John Saunby said about the debris from Helene.Despite the damage, Saunby realized some parts might be worth salvaging.He pulled his porch posts out of the wilderness, and found his kitchen floorboards inside an old cotton mill. “The woods are full of treasure,”…

Ad Policy Bari Weiss hosts Ted Cruz at a live event on January 18, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel via Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press) Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press, has often been profiled in the media, but usually in a superficial way that focuses on her personality and disputes with fellow journalists. She is currently on the cusp of great power, reportedly working on a deal to sell The Free Press and take a senior position at CBS. David Klion, Nation columnist and frequent guest on the podcast, has written…

Glendale, Arizona — State Farm Stadium in Glendale, home of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals, can hold more than 63,000 people. But police are anticipating more than 100,000 people coming to the stadium Sunday in an effort to attend the memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last week on a college campus in Utah. As a result, the organization Kirk co-founded, Turning Point USA, has also reserved the venue next door, the Desert Diamond Arena, for overflow. Desert Diamond, home to Arizona’s former NHL team, the Coyotes, seats about 18,000. President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other top…

An armed man was arrested Friday afternoon outside of a stadium in Arizona, where a memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk — who was shot and killed as he spoke at an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. — is scheduled to take place, law enforcement officials said. The U.S. Secret Service told CBS News in a statement that a man was “observed exhibiting suspicious behavior” at the NFL-sized  State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Secret Service agents approached the man, who told agents that he was a member of law enforcement and was armed. The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the…

Two swing states — Georgia and North Carolina — have Senate races that will be closely watched next year. What’s the message of some of the leading candidates? It’s all about President Trump. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Georgia and North Carolina are not quite red, not quite blue, but increasingly a rare purple when it comes to politics. Voters there have chosen both Democrats and Republicans in statewide elections in recent years. In 2026, they’ll each have a closely watched and very likely expensive U.S. Senate race. NPR’s Stephen Fowler has spent the summer reporting in those states. He joins us…

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sharply criticized the head of the Federal Communications Commission for urging ABC to crack down on the now-benched late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, calling the Trump appointee’s comments “dangerous as hell” and comparing his move to a mafia shakedown.ABC, owned by Disney, took “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air indefinitely on Wednesday, two days after Kimmel faced criticism for his comments on conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Just hours before the company’s decision, FCC Chair Brendan Carr had publicly urged ABC to “take action” in response to Kimmel’s remarks, saying in an interview: “We can…

The Trump administration is adding $100,000 to the existing fee for H-1B visa applications, taking aim at a program that is used to attract highly skilled workers to the U.S. President Trump signed a proclamation late Friday adding the new visa application fee and barring H-1B workers from entering the U.S. unless they had made the $100,000 payment. “We’re going to be able to keep people in our country that are going to be very productive people, and in many cases these companies are going to pay a lot of money for that, and they’re very happy about it,” Mr. Trump said.White…

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, right, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speak with members of the press on Capitol Hill on Sept. 11. The two New York Democrats are asking President Trump for a meeting before an impending government shutdown. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Top congressional Democrats are asking President Trump for a meeting before an impending government shutdown. “We write to demand a meeting in connection with your decision to shut down the federal government,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader…

President Trump said Friday the U.S. military has carried out another “lethal kinetic strike” on a boat accused of carrying drugs — at least the third strike in recent weeks.The president announced the move in a Truth Social post that included a video of a strike on a vessel. He said three “male narcoterrorists” were killed, and no Americans were harmed. Mr. Trump didn’t specify where the boat was located, but he said it was in international waters in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility, which includes the Caribbean Sea and South America.”Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit…

A conservative lawyer who has said she was falsely accused of being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been named to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to a copy of an email she sent to staff obtained by CBS News. The Virginia office was thrown into turmoil when its acting U.S. attorney was abruptly left on Friday.Mary “Maggie” Cleary said in an email to staff on Saturday that she had been named the new acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, according to her email.She replaces Erik Siebert,…