Dengue fever, a potentially fatal virus spread by mosquitoes, is sweeping across the Americas, breaking records with a skyrocketing rate of infections. Cases have spiked in large part due to increasing global temperatures wrought by greenhouse gas emissions, new research shows. Nearly a fifth of dengue infections in the Americas and Southeast Asia were propelled…
Less than three weeks before Election Day, the White House plans to sidestep the jumble of legal challenges it’s facing over its student loan forgiveness agenda to tout billions of dollars in new relief. President Joe Biden lauded the latest tranche of debt cancellation – $4.7 billion for more than 60,000 student loan borrowers, according…
For many Americans overwhelmed by student loan debt, the first week of October was bad. On Monday of that week, a yearlong grace period ended for student loan borrowers struggling to make payments since the pandemic pause lifted a year ago. Two days later, a separate program, meant to help borrowers in default get back…
TAMPA, Fla. − Hurricane Milton howled across the Florida Panhandle on Thursday, tearing a path of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic as it flooded neighborhoods, destroyed homes, tore the roof off a major sports venue and toppled a massive crane into an office building. In downtown Tampa early Thursday, fierce winds…
BURNSVILLE, North Carolina ‒ The ongoing loss of cell phone service in Hurricane Helene-impacted areas raises questions for survivors about safety, missed emergency warnings and the inability to reassure far-flung friends and family. Helene knocked out power to wide swaths of the South with both high winds and flooding. The destruction also destroyed cell phone…
When Helene inundated and isolated communities across the Southeast, it knocked out cell phone service in Canton, North Carolina at the moment residents needed it most, according to the town’s mayor, Zeb Smathers. The loss of service “crippled” the town’s ability to communicate during and after a devastating storm, leaving residents few options to get…