The Associated Press

Rescuers are scouring the mountains of western North Carolina for anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage to the Southeast

Residents of western North Carolina are lining up for water and food, hunting for cell signals and slogging buckets from creeks to flush toilets days after Hurricane Helene's remnants deluged the region

President Joe Biden is planning to survey the devastation in the mountains of Western North Carolina on Wednesday, where exhausted emergency workers continue to work around-the-clock to clear roads, restore power and cellphone service, and reach people left stranded by Hurricane Helene

Dockworkers on East and Gulf coasts hit picket lines in strike that could bring higher prices and shortages of goods

Former President Donald Trump is spending the hours ahead of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate campaigning in Wisconsin

Former President Donald Trump is planning to spend the hours ahead of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate campaigning in Wisconsin

Former President Donald Trump planned to spend the hours ahead of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate campaigning in Wisconsin

Tim Walz and JD Vance are meeting for their first and possibly only vice presidential debate Tuesday

In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday went after each other’s running mates and sought to shore up their campaigns' vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane Helene

Tim Walz and JD Vance are criticizing each other’s running mates in a vice presidential debate that opened with a discussion of burgeoning domestic and international troubles — a hurricane that ravaged much of the southeast U.S. and growing fears of a regional Middle East war