Finishing off the week with 5 trending stories you’ll be talking about today.
The death toll has surpassed 200 as Hurricane Helene relief efforts continue in the Southeast United States. Helene has now become the deadliest storm to make landfall on the US mainland since Hurricane Katrina in 2005
This is good news if you’re looking to sell a home and bad news if you’re looking to buy a home. WSU experts say the housing market is expected to return to pre-2008 financial crisis levels, with a 6% rise in home values. This keeps it a seller’s market, but interest rates are still high, and inventory is low.
As WNBA star Caitlin Clark continues to extend her influence in and out of basketball, it comes as no surprise that she won the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year award.
Scientists are announcing they’ve mapped the entire brain — of a fruit fly. The milestone in neuro-biological research could provide insights into brains across the entire animal kingdom. Meanwhile, the map in my GPS is still sending me down dead-end dirt roads.
A surgeon in England is trending because, during a medical emergency, he operated on a patient with a small pen knife, claiming he couldn’t find a scalpel. He had the knife in his pocket because he typically used it to cut fruit for his lunch. Let’s just be thankful it wasn’t a spork.
and THAT’S TRENDING.
