- Charlotte Bobcats owner and Wilmington native Michael Jordan is donating $2 million to Hurricane Florence relief efforts in the state, the coastal city is still dealing with massive flooding.
- Donald Trump is expected to visit North Carolina as the death toll from Florence reaches 33 as flooding has large portions of Interstates 40 and 95 closed.
- China says it will retaliate against US tariffs beginning Monday with tariffs of its own on $60 billion of US goods ranging from natural gas to frozen vegetables.
- The Justice Department has now opened a criminal probe into Tesla founder Elon Musk's tweets last month to take the company private, a move regulators say could be securities fraud.
- A Russian surveillance plane in Syria was shot down by Assad regime air defenses, but Moscow is blaming Israel directly for the incident.
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