FEMA hurricane response in NC is ‘absolutely unacceptable’: Former director

( NewsNation ) — NewsNation's Brian Entin in North Carolina has talked to many people who feel that they've already been forgotten as they struggle to recover from Hurricane Helene. Former FEMA Director Michael Brown tells "Dan Abrams Live" that the government response he's seen is "absolutely unacceptable."

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Police said that they responded to a call involving white nationalist Nick Fuentes and a woman who appeared to show up at his Illinois home Sunday unannounced.

DIXON, Mo. — A teacher for the Dixon School District was arrested by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 12 on 19 charges, including statutory rape and sexual contact with a juvenile, according to the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department (PCSD). Online court documents state that Carissa Smith is charged with the following: Online court records say [...]

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A loaded gun was intercepted at the security checkpoint at Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Tuesday, the TSA said Wednesday. The gun, a 9mm loaded with 11 bullets including one in the chamber, was among a Williamsville man's carry-on items. The man was questioned and later released due to him having [...]

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On the last day of January, a woman took her son to see paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova at Polyclinic No. 140 in northwest Moscow. The case hinged on a denunciation - part of a rising trend of Russians informing on fellow citizens for their views on the war in Ukraine and other alleged political crimes. Critics say the wave of denunciations is helping President Vladimir Putin's government crack down on dissent.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Six bills were signed into law by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday, regarding real estate fraud, tax credits, housing, retirement, and education. HB 5598 and HB 5599: These two bills in combination strengthen criminal penalties for retail fraud in the state, outlining two new felonies and redrawing penalties for others, [...]

When Daniel Penny wrapped his arm around the neck of a homeless man on a Manhattan subway last year, the 25-year-old veteran appeared to be deploying a non-lethal chokehold long drilled into U.S. Marines. Done right, the maneuver should knock a person out without killing them, according to Joseph Caballer, a combat instructor in the Marine Corps who trained Penny in several types of holds. Prosecutors allege that Penny "went way too far" in his attempt to restrain Neely, showing an "indifference" toward his life even after he had lost consciousness and stopped fighting back.

Parents of the University of Idaho victims are speaking out on the two-year mark of the gruesome quadruple homicide as they await the trial for their children's suspected killer. For victim Kaylee Goncalves' parents, one of the devastating milestones this year is Kaylee's younger sister, Autumn, turning 21 - the age Kaylee was when she was killed. "Early on, [Autumn] just said, 'What am I going to do when I'm older than Kaylee?'" Kristi Goncalves recalled.

(WBTW) — A tentative settlement has been reached in a young woman's federal lawsuit against the city of North Myrtle Beach and two of its police officers, according to court records. La'Nisha Hemingway filed the lawsuit in June in U.S. District Court in Florence after she was pulled over on Highway [...]

Iran hanged a 26-year-old man for a second time Wednesday months after a previous execution was halted half a minute in, an NGO said."Ahmad Alizadeh, a talented student, was hanged for the second time on charges of murder, which he denied and claimed he confessed to under torture," said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, denouncing the "execution machine of the Iranian regime".

MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. (WTVO) — Two Mount Carroll Sheriff's Department employees who allegedly discovered the body of 18-year-old Jackson Kradle along a roadside have resigned as investigators probe the circumstances surrounding the teen's death. According to authorities, Carroll County Sheriff's employees found Kradle's body around 3:30 a.m. on July 28th, on Illinois Route 78 and [...]

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted what have been lengthy sentences served by six criminal offenders in state prisons — five of whom were convicted of murder — and granted pardons to two others. One such pardon was issued to Mark Crotts, who was once convicted of murdering an elderly Alamance County couple in 1990.

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Additional human remains from a 1985 police bombing on the headquarters of a Black liberation group in Philadelphia have been found at the University of Pennsylvania. The remains are believed to be those of 12-year-old Delisha Africa, one of five children and six adults killed when police bombed the MOVE organization's headquarters, causing a fire that spread to dozens of row homes. The remains were discovered during a comprehensive inventory that the Penn Museum conducted to prepare thousands of artifacts, some dating back more than a century, to be moved into upgraded storage facilities.