CBS News: A crisis unfolded in Asheville, North Carolina, as officials pledged to get more water, food and other supplies to flood-stricken areas that had no power or cell service Monday, days after Hurricane Helene ripped across the U.S. Southeast….

Faithwire, by Tré Goins-Phillips: Democratic politician John Kerry described the First Amendment as a “major block” to the federal government stopping what it deems to be “disinformation” and suggested he hopes — should progressives retain control of the White House…

AP News, by Tom Krisher and Tassanee Vejpongsa: Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes…

USA Today, by Tom Vanden Brook, Cybele Mayes-Osterman, Kim Hjelmgaard, and Joey Garrison: Iran fired waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday in what it called a revenge attack for Israel’s killing of several Hezbollah leaders including its top leader…

USA Today, by N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Will Hofmann, Jorge L. Ortiz, Susan Miller, Thao Nguyen: More than 2 million people remained without power late Sunday across the Southeast in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, including more than 430,000 in North Carolina,…

AP News, by Mark Thiessen: The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching…

Express, by Steph Spyro: Vladimir Putin has warned that the West letting Kyiv use longer-range weapons to strike Russian targets would mean NATO would be “at war” with Russia. Sir Keir Starmer is travelling to Washington to meet US President…

The Christian Post, by Anugrah Kumar: Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado allowed a “nonbinary” female to supervise boys’ showers and forced a female student to share a bed with a male, violating parental rights over children’s privacy and accommodation…

Faithwire, by Billy Hallowell: A persecution watchdog is warning about recent developments in Bangladesh that are reportedly already putting Christians and other minority religious adherents in grave danger. “About a month ago, after a few weeks of really bloody protests…

The Catholic World Report, by Christopher R. Altieri: There’s a meme—or a class of them—been making the rounds on the innerwebz a good while now, riffing on a prompt: “You know you’re too [X] when …” etc. Someone needs to…

CNN, by Mary Gilbert: Floodwater surged into homes, stranded vehicles and forced water rescues in coastal North Carolina on Monday after a tropical storm-like system dumped historic amounts of rain in a matter of hours. “It’s probably the worst flooding…

Daily Mail, by Maiya Focht: Vermont just became the second state to postpone public events in order to curb the spread of a deadly virus in the state.  The Green Mountain state joins neighboring Massachusetts in recommending their citizens stay home at…