Comment on $600 million more will go to North Carolina’s Helene relief fund

The spending measure approved unanimously by North Carolina’s lawmakers will take $604 million more from the state’s savings reserve. North Carolina state lawmakers signed off on a measure Thursday to provide over $600 million more toward Hurricane Helene recovery and relief and also directed some storm-affected counties to open more ballot sites to address crowds and congestion during the early voting period.

Five Boeing suppliers said continuation of the strike would cause them to furlough workers or consider halting production. Striking workers’ rejection of planemaker Boeing’s latest contract offer has created a fresh threat to operations at aerospace suppliers such as family-run Independent Forge.

Pressure to end the strike is growing on new CEO Kelly Ortberg. Since going on strike last month, Boeing factory workers have repeated one theme from their picket lines: They want their pensions back. Boeing froze its traditional pension plan as part of concessions that union members narrowly voted to make a decade ago in exchange for keeping production of the company’s airline planes in the Seattle area.

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(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is one of the most enthusiastic champions of the Biden Administration’s climate agenda. Since the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) just over two years ago, she has hopped around the country and around the world touting U.

A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials said Friday. Twenty-two people have been hospitalized, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Two people developed a dangerous kidney disease complication, and one person died. No source of the outbreak has been identified, officials with the U.