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…