News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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BREAKING: Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida as powerful Category 4 storm. https://t.co/Bsb9BGO03O
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 28, 2022
Waffle House has closed 21 of its locations in Florida that are in mandatory evacuation zones. The roadside breakfast mecca has become an unofficial barometer of a storm's intensity. Read live updates here. https://t.co/s6mUYIFBUV
— CNN (@CNN) September 28, 2022
Hurricane Ian is so powerful that it sucked ocean water away from beaches and shorelines — exposing an eerie seabed.https://t.co/89xCTcYJYM
— NPR (@NPR) September 28, 2022
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow urging Americans to leave Russia immediately as Putin escalates the war in Ukraine.
— POLITICO (@politico) September 28, 2022
The embassy also warned that Russia may refuse to acknowledge U.S. citizenship for dual nationals or even enlist them for military service. https://t.co/f8fjr6yl2c
US officials believe that the likelihood Russian President Vladimir Putin will use a tactical nuclear weapon in his struggling war in Ukraine is perhaps the highest it has been since Russia invaded in February — but is still not probable. https://t.co/8q2ntqECQq
— CNN (@CNN) September 28, 2022
The UK economy is in chaos – and it could get worse before it gets better. https://t.co/nPYq8aGe4v
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 28, 2022
Last month, an effort led by a rural county in Nevada handed election deniers a major victory: In November, several jurisdictions in the state will be hand-counting votes. https://t.co/ST8pmQOB8h
— ABC News (@ABC) September 28, 2022
A woman who said she was left to give birth to her baby alone on the dirty, concrete floor of her jail cell in Maryland filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday alleging that jail nurses ignored her screams and pleas for help for six hours. https://t.co/jNiWTCEht6
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 28, 2022
NAACP asks the EPA to investigate Mississippi's alleged pattern of steering money to white communities with less need while depriving Jackson, the majority-Black capital city, of funds needed to upgrade its infrastructure. https://t.co/y9gcvL7B5v
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 28, 2022
It’s the second ballistic missile launch in a week after North Korea test-fired one surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile from the western inland town of Taechon on Sunday. https://t.co/ETvDzYfpVw
— ABC News (@ABC) September 28, 2022
With a little over a month to go before the Israeli elections, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc is inching closer to getting the support it needs to win a majority on Nov. 1.https://t.co/8bRwSvFxDI
— Axios (@axios) September 28, 2022
President Biden mistakenly called out for Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in a car crash in August, at a White House event on fighting hunger. https://t.co/C0zFQJYxkA
— NPR (@NPR) September 28, 2022
