1+ hour ago (349+ words) Luxe Soulfood & Cocktails in Greensboro opened its doors to provide free meals, music and fellowship to anyone in need, emphasizing community and compassion. There was only one rule for the annual community Thanksgiving meal at Luxe Soulfood & Cocktails in Greensboro, and that was simply to show up. The whole goal was to ensure everyone who walked through the door was able to receive a warm home-cooked meal with no questions asked, no requirements and no barriers. For almost a decade, the community gathering has fed over 200 people each year, providing a sense of belonging in downtown Greensboro. "It's a continuation of meeting the needs of the people right where they are," said Monica Stimpson, CEO of CareLink Solutions, Inc., a partner for the event. Between the hours of 4 and 6 p.m. Monday evening, anyone could come in, enjoy a free meal, good…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (466+ words) More than 100 homes were damaged Monday afternoon after a tornado ripped through Harris County, Texas, Constable Mark Herman said in a Facebook post. No serious injuries or deaths have been reported after the storm, said Brian Murray, spokesperson for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Earlier, authorities were combing through the debris searching for residents who may have been trapped or injured after the storm passed. The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado struck the county, but has yet to rate the storm's intensity. Severe storms developed in the Houston area on Monday afternoon, where warm temperatures were in place ahead of a cold front. An unstable atmosphere combined with wind shear produced supercell thunderstorms, which resulted in several tornado reports. The constable called the storm a "severe weather event" that caused "widespread and significant…...

1+ hour, 50+ min ago (420+ words) A copy of the first Superman issue, unearthed by three brothers cleaning out their late mother's attic, netted $9.12 million this month at a Texas auction house, which says it is the most expensive comic book ever sold. The brothers discovered the comic book in a cardboard box beneath layers of brittle newspapers, dust, and cobwebs in their deceased mother's San Francisco home last year, alongside a handful of other rare comics that she and her sibling had collected on the cusp of World War II. "It was just in an attic, sitting in a box, could have easily been thrown away, could've easily been destroyed in a thousand different ways," Allen said. "A lot of people got excited because it's just every factor in collecting that you could possibly want all rolled into one." The "Superman No. 1" comic, released in 1939 by…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago (401+ words) Los Angeles police have blocked the county coroner's office from releasing details about the death of a teen girl whose body was found in the trunk of a car registered to the singer d4vd, the medical examiner's office said Monday. Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead on Sept. 8 in an impounded Tesla in Los Angeles just after her 15th birthday. Several news outlets reported the car belonged to d4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, 20. The order came several days after multiple Los Angeles TV stations reported police consider the Houston-born alt-pop singer a suspect, citing anonymous sources. The LA Police Department has not confirmed that and d4vd's lawyer Blair Berk did not respond to request for comment on Monday. LAPD Capt. Mike Bland said the security hold was not sought to undermine transparency, but to maintain the integrity of the police…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago (841+ words) President Donald Trump said Monday that he has accepted an invitation from Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit Beijing in April and that he reciprocated by inviting Xi for a state visit to the U.S. later next year. Trump made the announcement after he spoke with Xi by phone nearly a month after the two leaders met in person in South Korea, saying they discussed issues including Ukraine, fentanyl and purchases of American soybeans. "Our relationship with China is extremely strong!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. Beijing, which announced the phone call first, said nothing about the state visits but noted that the two leaders discussed trade, Taiwan and Ukraine. Xi told Trump that Taiwan's return to mainland China is "an integral part of the postwar international order," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said " a crucial issue to Beijing that…...

3+ hour, 26+ min ago (577+ words) A Burlington family is grieving the loss of a devoted father and grandfather, as the woman charged in his death appeared before a judge. It was tense in the courtroom as an Alamance County judge reviewed the facts of a head-on car crash that happened in September. Prosecutors say around 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 27, Burlington police officers responded to a call of a car crash on Webb Avenue near Flanders Street. When they got there, they found the defendant, 19-year-old Paige Moore, and the victim, 66-year-old Richard Smith, seriously injured. Both were rushed to get medical care, but Smith ultimately died from his injuries. "He was placed on life support, your honor," said a state attorney. "Ultimately, the family did have to remove him from life support when it was determined that there were no other efforts that could be made to…...

3+ hour, 31+ min ago (431+ words) The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a "sacred" memorial site by 2030, the new owner announced. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center disclosed late Sunday that it had purchased the barn located in a rural area outside the city of Drew, aided by a $1.5 million donation from television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes. "We think that where the worst harms have happened, the most healing is possible," ETIC Executive Director Patrick Weems said. The center plans to open the barn as a memorial ahead of the 75th anniversary of Till's lynching in 1955. Two white men publicly confessed to the killing after being acquitted by an all-white jury in Mississippi later that year, but a Justice Department report released in 2021 said at least one more, unnamed person was involved in Till's abduction....

4+ hour, 9+ min ago (315+ words) The review is likely to sow confusion and fear among the nearly 200,000 people who fled war and persecution to come to the United States during that period. The memo, dated Nov. 21, said that during the Biden years, "expediency" and "quantity" were prioritized over "detailed screening and vetting" and that warranted the comprehensive review and "re-interview of all refugees admitted from January 20, 2021, to February 20, 2025." Advocates of the refugee program say that refugees are generally some of the most vetted of all people coming to the United States and that they often wait years to be able to come to America. The memo, signed by the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, also immediately suspended green card approvals for refugees who came to the U.S. during the stated time period. People admitted to the U.S. as refugees are required to apply for…...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago (367+ words) The FAA says it's ready for what's expected to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel period in 15 years, one week after lifting flight restrictions put in place during the government shutdown. The Federal Aviation Administration is bracing for what's expected to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel period in 15 years, as airports rebound from unprecedented flight restrictions put in place during the government shutdown. The rush is already underway, but the FAA is anticipating peak travel on Tuesday, with more than 52,000 flights forecasted. It comes roughly one week after the Trump administration allowed airlines to resume normal operations after lifting flight reduction orders put in place to relieve pressure on air traffic controllers. Controllers missed paychecks during the federal funding lapse, and many called out of work. The Trump administration is still working to address a longstanding shortage of controllers, but officials…...

4+ hour, 43+ min ago (449+ words) H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff's deputy. He was 82. Brown " who later in life changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin " died Sunday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, his widow, Karima Al-Amin, said Monday. Like other more militant Black leaders and organizers during the racial upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brown decried heavy-handed policing in Black communities. He once stated that violence was "as American as cherry pie." Brown was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a powerful civil rights group, and in 1968 was named minister of justice for the Black Panther Party. Three years later, he was arrested for a robbery that ended in a shootout with New…...