Weekend Links

“The more intelligent a person is, the more he discovers kindness in others. For nothing enriches the world more than kindness. It makes mysterious things clear, difficult things easy, and dull things cheerful.” — Leo Tolstoy

HEADLINES: 

• Hurricane Helene satellite images show major devastation in North Carolina as death toll continues to rise (CBS)

• Yellow jackets swarm after North Carolina floods, prompting need for Benadryl and EpiPens (NBC)

• Mayorkas warns FEMA doesn’t have enough funding to last through hurricane season (AP)

• Biden’s Surprise Press Briefing (PBS)

• Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It. If elected again, he would become the oldest president by the end of his term. Yet he is refusing to disclose even basic health information. (NYT)

• Trump’s Jan. 6 role back in focus as he readies new stolen election claims (WP)

• Latest CNN ‘Road to 270’ map sees small but consequential move in Harris’ direction (CNN)

• Harris and Trump neck-and-neck in polls with early voting under way (Guardian)

• Swing State Polling Finds Deadlocked Presidential Contest, ‘Blue Wall’ Senate Races Tighten (Cook Political Report)

• October 2024 National Poll: Harris 50%, Trump 48% (Emerson)

• Many of the tactics Jack Smith accused Trump of using to overturn the 2020 election are still in play for 2024 (CNN)

• Blowout September jobs data points to solid economy and slower Fed rate cuts, analysts say (USA Today)

• The Latest Employment Numbers And The Presidential Election (Forbes)

• America's one-two punch of good economic news (Axios)

• False claims about FEMA disaster funds and migrants pushed by Trump (NBC)

• As Trump makes false claims about hurricane relief, White House calls it ‘poison’ (WP)

• Satellite images show dozens of Iranian missiles struck near Israeli air base (NPR)

• Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle for the ‘Soul of the Internet’ (Rolling Stone)

• Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals (Nature)

• Kris Kristofferson, singer, songwriter and actor, 1936-2024 (Financial Times)

• AI to Have Human-Level Abilities in a Few Years, SoftBank CEO Son Says (WSJ)

• Meta unveils advanced video-creation AI (Axios)

• Scientists Let Defrosted Neanderthal Run Around Shrieking Before Refreezing Him (The Onion)