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About 2% of residences in the hardest-hit counties were covered. In North Carolina, that number was 0.7%.

As Helene bears down, insurance woes add to Florida homeowners' anxiety

Phoenix set a new record this year for the total number of days at or above 110 degrees, with 61 so far.

Compare Biden’s approval rating with that of Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton. Updated regularly.

NBC News' "Road to 270" interactive tool shows the different ways the presidential candidates could win the 2024 race (or end up in a chaotic tie).

This tracker will be an ongoing effort to identify and contextualize shootings in all types of schools from kindergarten to college, across the U.S. The tracker focuses on the segment of school shootings where an active shooter, with intent to harm, injures or kills at least one student or faculty member during school or at a school event. Read the full NBC News criteria for school shootings, including the FBI’s definition of an active shooter, below. Every time a major school shooting occurs in…

From Reno, Nevada, to the Midwest to the suburbs of Atlanta, unemployment rates have crept up and housing costs are rising, creating divides among voters.

Plus, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s impending exit from the 2024 race could provide Trump with a boost.

Sunday’s political drama paid off for Vice President Kamala Harris in the form of one of the biggest fundraising windfalls in history. Harris’ presidential campaign, which she took over Sunday as President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, announced that it brought in $81 million in the first 24 hours — an eye-popping sum that easily dwarfed anything the Biden-Harris campaign had raised in a single day this election cycle. Much of the giving was driven by online donors contributing via ActBlue,…

Democratic congressional candidates stockpiled serious campaign cash over the last three months, new fundraising reports show, as the party contends with an increasingly well-funded GOP and looming questions about President Joe Biden’s strength at the top of the ticket. The financial landscape is positive for Democrats broadly — all but one of their leading candidates in the 10 most competitive Senate races outraised their likely Republican opponents, as did virtually every leading Democratic H…

Fertility rates around the world are dropping quicker than expected, putting the world on track to see a population decline before the end of the century, according to a report from the United Nations. More than 60 countries and territories have already peaked in population, including Italy, Japan, Russia and, in 2021, China, according to the report published Thursday. That means 1 in 4 people in the world live in a country with a population that has already peaked in size. Changes in population…

The gap between income and home prices is locking out buyers in counties across the country. But how would today’s high prices affect you? The affordability gap for homebuyers is near a 10-year high, a new NBC News analysis found, as high prices, interest rates and low supply have eaten into people’s purchasing power. A common rule of thumb is that a home is affordable if monthly home payments on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage don’t exceed 30% of your pretax income. But affordability isn’t the…

When “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed while interrupting a car-part theft Saturday in Los Angeles, he became the highest-profile victim of a crime that has plagued the country for the last four years. And while thefts of catalytic converters are on the wane, the combination of the car Wactor drove and the state the shooting took place in were unfortunate factors surrounding the crime that led to his death. More than half of the catalytic converter thefts in the U.S. las…

The weight of the pandemic can be measured in the count of hospital beds filled with Covid-positive patients.

All hail Liam, all hail Olivia. Again. Liam and Olivia were the top baby names in 2023, according to the Social Security Administration, which released its annual list of the most popular names for newborns Friday. Both names have been at the top for years. Liam’s reign among baby boy names is now in its seventh year, with 20,802 of the 1.7 million boys born in 2023 sharing the name. Olivia has been the top name for girls since 2019. The top five names for boys and girls didn’t change from 2022…

Measles cases have spiked in the last three months, driven in part by outbreaks centered in a migrant shelter in Chicago, an elementary school in southeast Florida and a children’s hospital and day care in Philadelphia. The United States had recorded 64 cases across 17 states as of Thursday, already surpassing last year’s total of 59, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most cases reported this year were linked to international travel, and the majority were among childr…

President Joe Biden faces one of the most consequential speeches of his presidency Thursday night: his final State of the Union address before the presidential election. Advisers have said the president will attempt to show Americans the realities of the choices they have to make in November’s general election, while also addressing taxes and Biden’s legislative achievements, among other topics. NBC News will track the topics Biden brings up in Thursday’s address. The graphic below will show wha…

The deadly wildfires in Texas, the largest in the state’s history and which are now spreading into Oklahoma, cover an area nearly the size of Delaware’s land. The most massive of the blazes, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, is larger than Rhode Island. But how big is that really? To get a sense of the scale of the Smokehouse Creek Fire’s million-plus acres, use the map below to compare the blaze to any of the most-populous cities or towns in the U.S. Follow the latest on the Texas wildfires news

New data from the parties’ online fundraising platforms show how former President Donald Trump once again turned his legal woes into campaign cash, while Republican rival Nikki Haley used the GOP debates Trump skipped to fuel her rise. The fundraising reports from the Republican platform, WinRed, and the Democratic platform, ActBlue, filed on Wednesday shed new light on the top candidates’ online fundraising, and provided a look at when Trump and Haley, as well as President Joe Biden, were able…

Former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attacks on the judicial system are frequently tied to developments in his court cases, an NBC News analysis of his social media platform shows, and at times they’ve outnumbered his posts about his re-election bid. NBC News analyzed more than 14,000 Trump posts and reposts on Truth Social from April 2022 to Jan. 6, 2024, and found he often uses the platform as a megaphone to attack people and agencies involved in his numerous legal cases. For most of…