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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Kenzi Abou-Sabe |Alexandra Chaidez
Tennessee’s workplace safety agency has absolved a plastics plant of responsibility in the deaths of six workers who were swept away by floodwaters from Hurricane Helene in September. The Sept. 27 deaths gained national attention when community members and relatives of the mostly Latino plant employees questioned why they hadn’t been dismissed from work early enough to escape the record levels of rain that overcame the plastics factory in Erwin and take the only road out.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix |Kenzi Abou-Sabe |Alexandra Chaidez |Priya Sridhar
Krystena Murray realized something had gone awry in her in-vitro fertilization process immediately after giving birth: She is white, as was her chosen sperm donor, who had dirty blond hair and blue eyes. But her baby was dark-skinned. “He was beautiful and perfect, but it was also very clear that something was wrong,” she said. “I hoped that it was just a sperm mix up.”The IVF process had been grueling.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Alexandra Chaidez |Kenzi Abou-Sabe |Nigel Chiwaya |Guad Venegas |Adiel Kaplan | +1 more
A grid of photos and maps detailing the destruction of Hurricane Helene at a plastics plant in Tennessee. A worker walks through flood waters in the parking lot; mourners hold a photo of a deceased relative who worked at the plant; and a satellite image of the hurricane. (Chelsea Stahl / NBC News)ERWIN, Tenn. — As Hurricane Helene dumped record levels of rain on East Tennessee, the swollen Nolichucky River overtook a small plastics factory and the only road out.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Alexandra Chaidez |Kenzi Abou-Sabe |Nigel Chiwaya
Oct. 18, 2024, 10:54 PM UTCERWIN, Tenn. — As Hurricane Helene dumped record levels of rain on East Tennessee, the swollen Nolichucky River overtook a small plastics factory and the only road out. A panicked group of workers, who had climbed aboard a truck’s trailer in front of the plant,were swept away by the raging floodwater. In the days after the Sept. 27 flood, the bodies of five of the Impact Plastics Inc.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
msn.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Kathy Park |Debra Jones |Tavleen Tarrant |Alexandra Chaidez |Didi Martinez
Our thoughts & prayers are with all those affected by Hurricane Helene & its devastation to the region that has...
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Kathy Park |Debra Jones |Tavleen Tarrant |Alexandra Chaidez |Didi Martinez
Bertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant. Workers have said they were allowed to leave when water was already swamping its parking lot in Erwin on Friday. In a call to her husband, Elias Mendoza, Bertha, 56, said she loved him, her son Guillermo Mendoza told NBC News. She asked him to also tell her children she loved them.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Kathy Park |Debra Preitkis Jones |Alexandra Chaidez
Oct. 2, 2024, 12:45 AM UTCBertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant. Workers have said they were allowed to leave when water was already swamping its parking lot in Erwin on Friday. In a call to her husband, Elias Mendoza, Bertha, 56, said she loved him, her son Guillermo Mendoza told NBC News. She asked him to also tell her children she loved them.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Kimmy Yam |Alexandra Chaidez
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture. Some Ivy League schools, including Columbia and Brown universities, showed an increase in Asian Americans for the class of 2028, while others, like Yale and Princeton, showed a decrease.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Alexandra Chaidez |Kimmy Yam
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture. Some Ivy League schools, including Columbia and Brown universities, showed an increase in Asian Americans for the class of 2028, while others, like Yale and Princeton, showed a decrease.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jane Timm |Adam Edelman |David Rohde |Ben Kamisar |Courtney Kube |Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | +12 more
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their first debate Tuesday night, trading barbs on foreign policy, abortion and guns. Trump advanced a number of debunked conspiracy theories related to migration, crime and voting in the combative showdown, while Harris made misleading statements about manufacturing jobs and whether U.S. troops are in combat zones. Here's what Harris and Trump got right and wrong on the debate stage in Philadelphia.
