Weather

 New Republic - Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene pushed a preposterous conspiracy theory Thursday that someone at the very top created Hurricane Helene.  While many Republicans, like Donald Trump, have been quick to criticize the federal response to Hurricane Helene, Greene has started pointing fingers as to who could possibly be behind the weather event, which most normal people would understand to be caused by hot air and cold air. “Yes they can control the weather,” Greene wrote in a post on X. “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

NY Daily News -  The official death toll from Hurricane Helene has risen to at least 200, making the storm the deadliest to strike the mainland U.S. since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The hardest hit areas included western North Carolina, South Carolina and northern Georgia, where 1.1 million people still didn’t have power on Thursday, one week after Helene made landfall as a Category 4 storm on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Entire mountain towns were cut off in the western Carolinas, where people were going door-to-door to check on neighbors due to the lack of electricity and cellphone reception. More.