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By Rhea Rose Abraham and Rajveer Pardesi Oct 10 (Reuters) - Isaias weakened to a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday, having rapidly lost wind speed after hitting the Florida coast as a Category 2 hurricane, the first of the 2026 Atlantic season, the US National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. The post-tropical cyclone, crossing over southern Alabama after making landfall earlier nearDestin, Florida is about 55 miles (89 km) south-southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, with maximum sustai

Communities on the U.S. Gulf Coast are bracing as Hurricane Isaias, now a strong Category 2 hurricane, made landfall Friday night. The storm, with winds up to 105 mph, made landfall near Destin, Florida, in the Florida Panhandle at 8:30 p.m. CT. A hurricane warning is currently in effect from just east of Biloxi, Mississippi, through Mobile and Pensacola to Panama City and Mexico Beach, Florida. Many low-lying and coastal areas, particularly on the Florida Panhandle, are under evacuation orders,

Hurricane Isaias weakened slightly to a Category 2 storm as it neared landfall Friday evening along Florida's Panhandle. Rain reached the Florida Panhandle early Friday and is expected to spread across the central Gulf Coast as tropical-storm-force winds are expected to pick up, followed by hurricane-force winds in the afternoon. ABC News - PHOTO: The latest track on Hurricane Isaias Landfall is expected within 40 miles east or west of Pensacola, possibly between Pensacola and Destin, with the m

An off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was arrested for allegedly attacking a woman and her father after he was found sleeping on their California lawn, according to police. The father shot the agent during the altercation, wounding him, police said. The incident occurred early Friday in Fresno, police said. The woman arrived home to find the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn, according to the Fresno Police Department, which identified the federal agent as 32-year-old David Gon

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck near Panama 's southern tip on Friday morning, shaking buildings more than 100 miles away in the capital and prompting evacuations, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A second powerful 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country later in the day following a series of aftershocks. The initial quake was centered about 7 miles southwest of the remote community of Pitaloza Arriba and struck at a depth of about 7 miles, the USGS said. The 6.6 magnitude

Police said Anthropic's AI model was running a test when it filed false information about an unsolved murder in Philadelphia (ANDREJ IVANOV) An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia police, authorities said Friday, criticizing the company for taking two months to report the incident. The Philadelphia Police Department said the false submission was made in July through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a public website

Katie Zacharia attends the Nashville premiere of David in Franklin, Tennessee, on December 14, 2025. - Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for 2521 Entertainment and Angel Studios/File President Donald Trump has selected Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who worked briefly at the Department of Homeland Security, as his new press secretary, multiple White House officials told CNN. Trump in recent days called a number of his close allies and advisers, including former White House press secretary Kar

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. Trump said on social media on Friday that he struck the deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call in which he was expected to discuss a suspected case of plague in Russia. Instead, Trump announced that Russia will immedi

HEBRON, Ky. (AP) Vance expresses doubts about Pentagon plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter execution (Corrects name of fort). This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/vance-expresses-doubts-pentagon-plan-173307506.html

The bill will follow Americans beyond the fighting itself, an opinion piece in the Port St. Joe Star, a tiny Florida weekly newspaper, warned of the Iran war last month. The article ran under the byline Ervin Hoskins, which has also appeared on articles critical of the war in larger publications including Daily Kos and Middle East Monitor, which together have more than 3 million followers on Facebook. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The W

The projected path of Hurricane Isaias. National Weather Service/NOAA Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to strengthen as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Friday, bringing damaging winds, drenching rain and the possibility of life-threatening storm surge, prompting mandatory evacuation orders in Alabama and Florida. According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias, now a Category 2 storm, is forecast to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday

By Julia Harte and Kristina Cooke NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child present in the vehicle in the Bronx borough of New York City, according to the mayor, city police and eyewitness accounts. Early reports indicate agents surrounded (the man) and a 5-year-old-child in his car before firing multiple rounds, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement. The mayor said the child was believed to ha

WASHINGTON (AP) The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being public. The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009. Hegse

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returns to the San Diego Bay after deployment Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in San Diego. | Jae C. Hong Home is the sailor, home from sea. Robert Louis Stevenson penned that line almost 150 years ago but on Thursday, those words read sweet and new to thousands of sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. After an almost 11-month deployment to the Middle East, the sea-weary aircraft carrier arrived at its homeport at San Diegos Naval Air Station North

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores both were hit with an additional US criminal charge on Thursday stemming from accusations they tortured political opponents and American citizensto retain their grip on power in the South American country. Maduro and Flores were charged with an additional count of conspiracy to commit torture in addition to the drug trafficking charges they previously faced, accordingto a superseding ind

Police said the buses were hit with a glide bomb (Handout) Ukraine on Thursday accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians after 30 people were killed when two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, in one of the deadliest single attacks for weeks. Photos posted by local authorities showed the burnt-out metal shell of the vehicles, with the blurred-out images of bodies and debris strewn across the road. Police said the buses were hit with a glide bomb. The strikes come j

Christa Pike is up and walking in the hospital after surviving last week's failed attempt to execute her in Tennessee, a member of her legal team said Thursday. Lawyer Stephen Ferrell told the BBC that he had learned she was moving around her hospital room, although he had not spoken to her. What's been described to me is that physically there's quite a bit going on, that her arms are very injured and she's not able to use them very much, he said. She is up and walking for the first time today,

Michael Dell, philanthropist and founder of Dell Technologies ( DELL ), pushed back against critics who argue that allowing wealthy investors to donate individual company stocks to Trump Accounts could have a nefarious impact. Under new rules that took effect last week, charities can put individual stocks into kids' accounts as a donation. Trump Accounts are tax-advantaged investment vehicles that can be used for education expenses, starting a business, or saving for retirement . They were autho

WASHINGTON In November, does the blue wave become a tsunami? Watch these spaces. Five keys are shaping monster midterms that are poised to revive Democrats' political power in Washington and reinforce it across the country. But the advantage of Republican money and the weakness of the Democratic Party brand could also mean an Election Night with more modest gains, a GOP catastrophe averted. In a wave election, Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives. In a tsunami, they take the

As the weather turns colder, it also means respiratory virus season is upon the United States. In its annual outlook report , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it expects the 2026-27 respiratory virus season to have a similar number of peak hospitalizations from influenza, COVID-19 and RSV compared to last season. Public health specialists told ABC News the best way for people to protect themselves against these viruses is to get vaccinated. Expert tips for parents to pre

The U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico , a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and Ken Paxton , the pugnacious Republican state attorney general who speaks about a refusal to compromise. They share an enemy, though. They dislike social media's effects on children's mental health. Talarico, who did not respond to a request for comment, has endorsed a social media ban for kids under 16, w

Roger Clemens is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame but he will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Clemens introduced Trump at a rally in San Antonio on Wednesday, with Trump dropping the announcement as the former pitcher stood nearby . During the announcement, Trump said he had played golf with Clemens earlier this year, which prompted him to call MLB commissioner Rob Manfred about his Hall of Fame case: We had a great time, he's an am

Hurricane Isaias strengthened from a tropical storm late Wednesday night and is expected to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast this weekend, threatening parts of Mississippi, Alabama and the western part of the Florida Panhandle. It is the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season . Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for more than two dozen counties in his state, which directed resources to prepare for potential severe impacts from the storm, while Alabama Gov. Kay Iv