Politico: “Hurricane Helene hit especially hard in heavily Republican areas of Georgia and North Carolina — a fact that could work to Donald Trump’s disadvantage in the two swing states. Research has shown that major disasters can influence both voter turnout and voter preference. And Helene has pushed this contest into novel territory: It’s the…

Politico: “The Korean community built here in Duluth is unlike anywhere else in the U.S. — even New York City or Los Angeles. It is a place created solely by Koreans for Koreans, an empire of small businesses, where Korean comes before English on any menu you’ll receive. Although it’s only been around for about…

NY Times: “Three former Memphis police officers were found guilty on Thursday of federal witness tampering charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. But all three defendants were acquitted of the more serious charge of violating his civil rights by causing his death. One officer, Demetrius Haley, was convicted on…

NY Times: “In reality, Rogers had disappointed two men: Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, billionaires who have made their fortunes in the oil industry. Over the past decade, the pair have built the most powerful political machine in Texas — a network of think-tanks, media organizations, political-action committees and nonprofits that work in lock step…

the Assembly: “North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state’s mammoth medical debt problem when Gov. Roy Cooper stepped before cameras in July to announce the initiative. But as Cooper stood by the stairs of the executive mansion and called for “freeing people from medical debt,”…

TX Observer: “Governor Greg Abbott is, once again, using the border to test the bounds of his authority. Last month, Abbott designated Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal organization with roots in a Venezuelan prison, as a foreign terrorist organization.  Normally, the U.S. State Department designates all Foreign Terrorist Organizations, using criteria established under the federal Immigration…

Action News 5: “Bill Lucy, the prolific labor and civil rights leader, has died at age 90. Lucy popularized the phrase “I Am a Man,” which became the slogan of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. He said of the historic, effective four-word phrase, “While it means different things, I’m sure, to different people, it…

WaPo: “More than 40 Lexington residents sat at tables and listened to Todd Gee, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, present the findings. Many of those in attendance were the first to blow the whistle on the police department’s alleged abuses. They clapped modestly after he finished presenting, aware the process…

NY Times: “You are a child of the Jim Crow South who grew up on a farm at a time when Black sharecroppers were hardly more than slaves. But even raised in that world, you understood the injustice of it. “The time for racial discrimination is over,” you said at your gubernatorial inauguration in 1971. Your audience…

Fight Back! News: “In a surprising but significant turn of events, on September 24, Georgia prosecutors have dropped all 15 counts of money laundering against three prominent activists involved in the “Stop Cop City” movement. These activists – Marlon Kautz, Adele MacLean and Savannah Patterson – are leaders of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund (ASF), a…