Hurricane Helene threatens ‘unsurvivable’ storm surge as it nears Florida – National

Tropical storm force winds began battering Florida on Thursday as Hurricane Helene prepared to make landfall, with forecasters warning that the enormous storm could create a “nightmare” surge along the coast and churn up damaging winds hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S. Helene strengthened to a major Category 4 storm ahead of its evening…

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Titan sub hearing: More haunting details, photos of deadly implosion revealed – National

Grim details continue to emerge as part of the U.S. Coast Guard’s ongoing hearing into the doomed Titan submersible, with an engineer with the National Transportation Safety board revealing Wednesday that the sub had imperfections on its carbon fibre hull, dating back to the manufacturing process. Engineer Don Kramer said there wrinkles, porosity and voids…

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Republican Mark Robinson denies making racist, sexual posts on porn site – National

Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee campaigning for governor of North Carolina, says he’s staying in the race despite a scathing report from CNN that he referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and wrote about “peeping” on girls in showers on a pornography website’s message board. Robinson denies making the graphic comments, calling them “tabloid…

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