 U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack has declared a natural disaster in the state of North Carolina based on losses caused by drought that occurred July 9th. A judge has tentatively scheduled Harvey Weinstein's planned retrial on rape and sexual assault charges to begin on November 12th. The former Hollywood mogul's pretrial hearing was delayed over 90 minutes because of disruptions to court and corrections computer systems from a global technology outage. New York's highest court threw out Weinstein's 2020 conviction earlier this year.