southeastern united states

TL/DR - Tropical Storm Ophelia has made landfall on the East Coast, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and coastal flooding. The storm has resulted in power outages to over 70,000 homes and businesses across North Carolina and the mid-Atlantic, a storm surge flooding of over 3 feet in costal North Carolina, states of emergencies declared in…

TL/DR - A racially motivated shooting in a Jacksonville, Florida Dollar General store resulted in the deaths of three black people. The shooter, a white man in his early twenties, had initially been turned away from a nearby historically black university before proceeding to the store, armed with an AR-15 style rifle and a handgun. The FBI has…