The Day Hurricane Milton Became a Monster

She says Trump summoned her to watch the raid in which a dog emerged the hero for killing the ISIS terror leader.

Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip awoke on Monday to air raid sirens, as they did one year ago on Oct. 7, 2023, during surprise attacks by Hamas fighters.

Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued as the region faced the grim anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, which triggered the war in Gaza.

It's been a year of intolerable, engulfing fear, loathing and anxiety for Israel's Oct. 7 hostage families. The Bergers are one of these.

The Israeli military said five projectiles fell in central Israel on the anniversary of the militant group’s attacks that sparked a multifront war in the Middle East.

Of the 251 hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 97 remain in Gaza after a year in captivity, including Americans Edan Alexander, Itay Chen, Sagui Dekel Chen, Gad Haggai, Judi Weinstein Haggai, Omer Neutra and Keith Samuel Sigel.

Hamas shocked the world — and forever changed the Middle East — when hundreds of its fighters flooded into Israel on Oct. 7, massacring border communes, murdering revelers at a music festival, and taking scores of people hostage. The attack quickly turned Gaza into a warzone, as Israel destroyed much of the strip in...

Vice President Harris is facing growing signs that Arab American and Muslim voters are souring on her in the key battlegrounds of Michigan and Georgia as anger rises over the expanding conflict in the Middle East. A new poll from the Arab American Institute showed former President Trump leading Harris with those voters by 4 points nationally,...

Hamas launched the largest-ever attack on Israeli soil a year ago. It's been a year of intolerable fear and anxiety for Israel's Oct. 7 hostage families.

Minnesota has repealed and re-written its abortion laws, making it one of the most loosely regulated states in the union, with no requirement for abortion specialists to render life-saving aid to children who survive botched abortions.

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A Harris presidency could add $3.5 trillion to the federal debt over 10 years, while for Trump, the figure could be as much as $15.2 trillion, according to a nonpartisan watchdog group.

Former first lady Melania Trump said in an interview broadcast over the weekend that her husband, former President Trump, knew her stance on abortion rights “since the day we met.” In her forthcoming memoir, Melania Trump describes being a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body, a stark difference from the...

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Milton is forecast to make landfall Wednesday night as a Category 3 hurricane.

Storm Milton strengthened from a major tropical disturbance into a Category 3 hurricane early on Monday morning, increasing the threat to Florida’s west coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a special alert.

Israelis are holding somber ceremonies to mark a year since the deadliest attack in the country’s history.

Differences in how quickly each state’s counties can report this year’s election results may lead to another “blue shift” or “red mirage” on the presidential electoral map.

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A year after October 7, Gaza may be turning into Israel’s “forever war.”

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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge by social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to court rulings that forced the platform to turn over data on former President Trump’s account to special counsel Jack Smith. Early last year, Smith obtained a secret warrant for Trump’s account on X, then...

The Supreme Court won’t revive a lawsuit from parents in Michigan and Virginia who sued Attorney General Merrick Garland after he directed federal authorities to address threats against school board members and educators at public schools nationwide. The lawsuit, filed in October 2021 by the conservative American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) on behalf of Loudoun...

Hurricane Milton is forecast to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday night.

Storm Milton strengthened from a major tropical disturbance into a Category 3 hurricane early on Monday morning, increasing the threat to Florida’s west coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in a special alert.

President Biden will offer remarks Monday morning to recognize the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel that left 1,200 people dead. The ensuing war in Gaza has killed more than 40,000 other people, and Biden will speak against the backdrop of Israel operations in southern Lebanon that is adding to fears about a...

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A bipartisan group of House lawmakers have unveiled a resolution condemning the Palestinian militant group Hamas on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The resolution condemns Hamas for the surprise attack last year on Israel that killed 1,200 people and took more than 200 hostages. In the year since the attack,...

A settlement has been reached against members of the Bay Boys and the city of Palos Verdes Estates, but nonlocal surfers say the surf gang is still active.

October 7 saw so many aspects of the Israeli state and society — its uncompromising reliance on military force, its dehumanization of Palestinians, and its demand for unquestioning loyalty to ethnicity and nation — kick into overdrive.

Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations.

Vice President Harris’s slim national lead over former President Trump narrowed after the vice presidential debate last week, a new survey on Monday found. Harris is leading Trump by two percentage points, ahead 48 percent compared to the former president’s 46 percent in a Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted after the debate between Minnesota Gov. Tim...

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Former President Trump said his youngest son, Barron, was playing tennis when he learned in July that his father had been shot at the Butler, Pa. rally. Trump recounted the experience in a sit-down interview with Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” this weekend, when he returned to the site of the assassination attempt this summer....

Patriots safety Jabrill Peppers was arrested on assault and drug charges in Massachusetts on Saturday, police announced Monday morning.

With the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Milton is forecast to continue to rapidly intensify, reaching Category 4 strength by Tuesday before slightly weakening ahead of landfall in Florida on Wednesday.

Two Democratic lawmakers have sent a letter to some of the country’s biggest food and beverage companies arguing they are “profiteering” through “shrinkflation,” the practice of reducing product size while keeping prices the same or increasing them, and "dodging taxes." Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Madeline Dean (D-Pa.) wrote a letter to the CEOs...

The 'Day of Jihad' That Never Came

With the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Milton is forecast to continue to rapidly intensify, reaching Category 4 strength by Tuesday before slightly weakening ahead of landfall in Florida on Wednesday.

The “Abandon Harris” group pushing for voters to protest Vice President Harris over the conflict in Gaza is endorsing the Green Party’s Jill Stein in the presidential race. The group, formerly known as “Abandon Biden,” is calling on Muslim Americans and others frustrated with the the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war to cast...

Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations.

The storm is headed toward population centers including Tampa and Orlando with the state still reeling from Helene.

President Biden on Monday signed a disaster declaration for Florida as Hurricane Milton approaches its coast, the second major storm to hit the state in recent weeks. Biden’s emergency declaration, which is effective as of Oct. 5, authorized the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to free up additional resources to...

The White House is scheduled to hold its daily press briefing at 1:45 p.m. Monday. The briefing is likely to be dominated by questions about Hurricane Milton, which on Monday was upgraded to Category 5 status as it heads toward Florida, and the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. President...

Milton rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane, threatening a dangerous storm surge in Tampa Bay and setting the stage for potential mass evacuations.

{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Monday, Oct. 7, and the election is less than a month away. 😬 Coming up in today’s newsletter: Today is the one-year mark of the Israel-Hamas war. Colleges are bracing for demonstrations on the anniversary of the war in Gaza. Harris is hitting several nontraditional media stops in the campaign’s...

Hurricane Milton is forecast to make landfall in Florida late Wednesday night.

The storm is headed toward population centers including Tampa and Orlando with the state still reeling from Helene.

Hurricane Helene ripped through multiple southeastern states, hitting especially hard in Republican regional strongholds within the swing states of Georgia and North Carolina, which could affect the outcome of the election.

The Israeli military said five projectiles fell in central Israel on the anniversary of the militant group’s attacks that sparked a multifront war in the Middle East.

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Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said he feared he would never “return to normal” after he contracted West Nile virus. Fauci, who served as the face of the Trump and Biden administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for...

Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Monday will mark the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel. The two will plant a memorial tree at the vice president’s residence and then Harris will deliver remarks. President Biden earlier on Monday marked the day at the White House where...

Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued as the region faced the grim anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, which triggered the war in Gaza.

Milton was tracking across the Gulf of Mexico bound for what could be a devastating crash along Florida's already storm-battered western coast.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) raked in $21 million in the third fundraising quarter of 2024, he announced Monday. Cruz’s team said in a statement that the total includes money raised by his reelection campaign, political action committee and joint fundraising committee. The second-term senator has roughly $16.2 million in cash on hand. He is facing...

Deloitte has come under fire from close allies of former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) after one of its employees shared private conversations with Vance from 2020 in which the vice presidential candidate criticized Trump. Donald Trump Jr., who identified the individual as Deloitte employee Kevin Gallagher, suggested that Republicans reevaluate the government’s nearly...

Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm on Monday, but will it stay that way?

With the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Milton is forecast to continue to rapidly intensify, reaching Category 4 strength by Tuesday before slightly weakening ahead of landfall in Florida on Wednesday.

Yahya Sinwar, a Hamas leader and the individual behind the planning and execution of the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, has reemerged from his radio silence after being previously assumed to be dead.

With the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Milton is forecast to continue to rapidly intensify, reaching Category 4 strength by Tuesday before slightly weakening ahead of landfall in Florida on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to hear a case that could have clarified whether state abortion bans conflict with a federal emergency care law.

Tunisian President Kais Saied won reelection Sunday, with low turnout. But the country’s years-long democratic experiment may be coming to an end.

A new analysis of tax proposals put forward by former President Trump has found they would amount to tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and tax increases for the majority of households. The wealthiest 1 percent would see an average tax decrease of more than $36,000 while the bulk of lower quintiles of the population...

Oklahoma’s charter school board says it has asked the Supreme Court to reverse a decision ruling the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school unconstitutional.  The board’s petition asking the high court to take up the case could tee up a major dispute regarding the separation of church and state.  “Both questions presented raise immensely...

Move over, gas and hot dogs. Costco shoppers are snatching up the store's 1-ounce gold bars despite the market's lofty price for the precious metal.

The Utah State Aggies women’s volleyball team became the fourth squad to forfeit in a scheduled match against San Jose State University (SJSU), due to one of the team's volleyball players being a biological male student who identifies as a transgender woman.

On Monday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris observed the anniversary of the horrific October 7th Hamas attacks against Israel, which resulted in at least 1,200 deaths and hundreds kidnapped.

Fewer than 10 percent of the agency’s disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities.

Arizona is now among a handful of battlegrounds that will determine whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Trump wins the White House in November.

Follow live coverage of protests and memorials in NYC and around the world as Monday marks one year since Hamas began its attack on Israel.

A campaign group known as “Abandon Harris” has called for Muslim voters to support the Green Party’s presidential candidate, Jill Stein, abstaining from supporting the Democrats for Kamala Harris’s role in “overseeing” the Israel-Hamas war.

The Israeli military said five projectiles fell in central Israel on the anniversary of the militant group’s attacks that sparked a multifront war in the Middle East.

Former President Trump will hold a rare California rally on Saturday, speaking in a deep blue state less than four weeks before Election Day. Trump will hold a rally in Coachella, a city located in Riverside County in Southern California. The former president is expected to highlight rising costs in Vice President Harris's home state....

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk plans to make more appearances in Pennsylvania to boost former President Trump’s campaign in the final four weeks before the election.  Musk’s appearances in the crucial battleground state will be backed by America PAC, the pro-Trump super PAC the billionaire helped found, a source familiar with the PAC’s efforts confirmed...

Click for the latest from The Hill {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Hurricane Milton threatens Florida: What to know Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm Monday as Floridians brace for yet another major storm to make landfall this week. It comes less than two weeks after...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Monday he “was not aware” of post-Hurricane Helene calls from Vice President Harris after multiple reports that he dodged them. “I didn't know she called me … I was not aware of that,” the Florida governor said at a Hurricane Milton-focused press conference. According to NBC News, who reported...

CBS News leadership has reprimanded a top anchor after an interview conducted on the network's flagship morning program the executives said did not meet its editorial standards. In an editorial call on Monday, audio of which was obtained and published by The Free Press, CBS News executives Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark said the interview,...

Millions are facing the prospect of evacuation as Milton heads toward the Tampa Bay area, where it'll likely make landfall on Wednesday.

Intelligence community officials said they have given three times the number of defensive briefings this year to those who may be the target of foreign influence efforts as in past election cycles. The details come as officials warn that China, Russia and Cuba are making a concerted effort to target congressional races in the U.S.,...

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on the popular female-driven podcast “Call Her Daddy,” hosted by Alexandra Cooper, where she addressed a number of criticisms from GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who have both made comments on the fact that Kamala is childless.

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Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah did not abate as the region faced the grim anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, which triggered the war in Gaza.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed her concern of losing “total control” of social media platforms, and called for further regulations on a recent CNN interview.

Al Pacino reveals he nearly died of Covid-19 and gives his thoughts on the afterlife

An oil spill is highly likely, said local authorities, after the New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui sank near Samoa.

"60 Minutes" offered a lengthy on-air explanation to viewers on Monday for why former President Trump declined to participate in the program's traditional interviews it has with presidential candidates ahead of the election. The news program addressed the cancellation ahead of an interview with Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz...

Israeli forces have divided up the enclave as they pursue Hamas, leaving reconstruction an urgent but distant dream.

The former president pulled out of the sit-down over an apparent dispute about the show’s fact-checking policies.

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Vice President Harris was pressed on her changing policy positions and her expensive economic plan on “60 Minutes,” in what proved to be her toughest media interview since becoming the Democratic nominee. CBS News’s Bill Whitaker questioned Harris on a variety of issues, including Harris’s evolving stances on fracking, immigration and Medicare. At one point,...

Former President Trump on Monday marked the anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel with a pair of appearances to express solidarity with the Jewish people. Trump began the day with a meeting with Orthodox Jews in New York City to attend a memorial event. He traveled to one of his properties near Miami...

Milton was tracking across the Gulf of Mexico bound for what could be a devastating crash along Florida's already storm-battered western coast.

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Milton grew into a powerful Category 5 hurricane and its path is forecast to bring it ashore along Florida's west coast this week.

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