Tuesday's Headlines: More than 1.5 million people evacuated as Hurricane Florence aims at Carolinas
Hurricane Florence may approach Category 5 ; Hollywood's new hobby: Boosting House candidates to put a check on Trump; A would-be city in the Malaysian jungle is caught in a...
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States and counties from Maryland to Georgia are bracing for the impact of what forecasters warned could be a "life-threatening storm surge" along the coast, and "freshwater flooding from a prolonged and exceptionally heavy rainfall" in areas much further inland.
By Kirk Ross, Jason Samenow and Abigail Hauslohner • Read more »
The National Hurricane Center called the storm "extremely dangerous" and issued storm surge and hurricane watches for the East Coast from Edisto Beach, S.C., northward to the North Carolina-Virginia border.
When they're not pitching pilots to studios, screenwriters are piling into Mercedes-brand buses to knock on voters' doors for House races in California, Nevada and Arizona. The fervor for this year's midterm elections rivals that of recent presidential campaigns, according to Democratic donors and strategists.
Malaysia, seeking to stem China's fast-moving economic expansionism in the region, announced that no foreigners would be allowed to live in Forest City, the $100 billion project being built by a Chinese developer. The project is tantamount to "building a huge Chinese city in Malaysia," said Malaysia's finance minister.
Every morning, the 52-year-old former fisherman scours the beaches for remains. After a medical report, he washes the bodies and takes them to the Cemetery for Unknown, where he has dug the graves with a spade and pickax. "They didn't have any families to care for them," he said. "So I decided to become their family."
National security adviser John Bolton launched a scathing attack on the International Criminal Court, pouring scorn on it for seeking to exercise "supranational" powers over the United States while mocking it as a toothless instrument of justice.
Sen. Kamala Harris misleadingly trimmed crucial words uttered by the Supreme Court nominee in a discussion of a case concerning access to contraceptives.
Officer Amber Guyger told authorities she believed she had found a burglar inside her unlit apartment and fired her gun after her "verbal commands" were ignored.
By Deanna Paul and Kristine Phillips • Read more »
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