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Hurricane Isaias hit near Destin, Florida, on Oct. 9 as a Category 2 with 105 mph winds, killing at least four people and cutting power to about 900,000 homes.

A cattle truck fell from I-70 onto I-35 in downtown Kansas City early Sunday, killing 45 to 60 cows. Dozens escaped; police say all survivors are accounted for.

Over 20 million people in Original Medicare are getting a one-time $90 payment in October to offset Part B premiums. Medicare Advantage members don't qualify.

The Norte Fire burned about 570 acres in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano and damaged or destroyed seven homes. Evacuations are lifted; it is 50% contained.

A slow nor'easter is bringing coastal flooding, 50 mph gusts and up to 14-foot surf from North Carolina to New Jersey into midweek. Hatteras visitors must go.

Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber and Kaia Gerber spoke out for the first time Sunday about Presley Gerber, who died at 27 last month. His cause of death is pending.

Richard Riehle, the character actor who played Tom Smykowski in Office Space, died of natural causes in Los Angeles at 78, TMZ reported, citing friends.

The CDC has confirmed 4,410 US measles cases in 2026 as of Oct. 15, up 330 in a week and about 93% more than all of 2025. 451 people have been hospitalized.

Six people, including a 13-year-old, died when a Piper PA-46 crashed near Reedsburg, Wisconsin, on Oct. 13 after the pilot reported icing. NTSB is probing it.

Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson, a 15-year Air Force veteran from Fort Stewart, Ga., died after falling from the Alamodome rafters. His commander paid tribute Monday.

An unusually strong El Niño, arriving on top of a marine heat wave, has sent warm-water species up the California coast: the first sea turtle nests ever recorded on the US West Coast, a fish never before seen in the state, a venomous sea snake, whale sharks and hammerheads. Anglers are thrilled. Scientists are more cautious, because the animals that cannot swim away are the ones that lose.

UPDATED SUNDAY MORNING. Trudy peaked overnight at 105 mph, Category 2, while its center stayed offshore. It is now about 115 miles southwest of Cabo Corrientes and will start moving away from mainland Mexico this afternoon. Mexico has dropped all hurricane warnings; a tropical storm warning covers Playa Pérula to San Blas and Las Islas Marías. Another 2 to 6 inches of rain, locally 12 in total, could still cause life-threatening flooding in Jalisco. Rapid weakening begins tonight. Live map, radar and forecast cone inside.

UPDATED SUNDAY AFTERNOON. Police have named the dead as Adrian Cole, 6, and Nicholas Schafer, 35, both of McPherson, and released the 34-year-old driver without charges pending toxicology tests and a mechanical inspection of her pickup, after consulting the Sedgwick County DA. The cause is still undetermined. Earlier Sunday: Still no charges or motive; police say the driver has been cooperative, had a valid license and no warrants, and they are asking for video. McPherson is mourning the two killed. Police say the dead are a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man from McPherson, who were not related, and 11 people ages 5 to 68 were hospitalized, none believed to have life-threatening injuries. The driver, a 34-year-old Garden City woman, is in custody; two children were in her truck. Police have not said why it happened or what charges she may face. Earlier: A pickup truck drove onto the fields at the Stryker Sports Complex in northeast Wichita during a youth soccer game on Saturday afternoon, killing a child and an adult and injuring several others, police said. The driver was taken into custody and two juveniles were also in the vehicle. Police have not said whether it was deliberate, and there is no ongoing threat.

UPDATED FRIDAY. Police have named two of the dead: first-year teacher Megan Lambert, 25, and Rhoam Summer, 5. The families of the 8- and 11-year-old boys asked that their names be withheld. The shooter, a 16-year-old former Silver Rail student, opened fire in a mixed-age special needs classroom. A teacher threw her phone at him and tackled him, and Kaylub Giamanco, 36, a father of two Silver Rail girls, followed him inside and shot him. Thursday night: Police Chief Mike Krantz has confirmed the toll: three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher. Another child and another teacher are in hospital. Authorities say the 16-year-old shooter was killed by a community member who pursued him into the school, and officials say he got in by shooting through locked doors. Earlier: a shooter opened fire inside Silver Rail Elementary School in southeast Bend shortly before 1 p.m. on Thursday. Law enforcement sources say three children and one adult were killed. The suspected shooter, reported by sources to be 16, was shot dead inside the school before officers reached him. Police have not said who fired that shot. No official death toll has been released, and the counts circulating do not yet agree.

UPDATED OCTOBER 15. His representative has confirmed the cause of death was suicide, and Bryan Cranston has written a tribute calling him 'my sweet son.' The memorial on Friday is being held at The Mitte: Arts and Cultural Center in Brownsville — the district his grandparents' foundation seeded in 1998 and which he ran as its president. The national obituaries had the second act wrong: he did not simply die 'in Texas.'

UPDATED, WITH A CORRECTION. She was arraigned Monday night on two counts of second-degree assault and released on $20,000 cash bail; prosecutors say the top count carries two to seven years. But those felonies concern the police officer and the nurse, after she was off the aircraft. What happened to the two injured flight attendants sits in a different court in a different borough, as a federal petty violation. In court her lawyers disclosed a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and Parkinsonism, said she had missed several doses of medication, and said she fell and hit her head during the flight.

Trump has approved death by Army firing squad for the Fort Hood shooter, and the coverage is calling it the first US military execution in 60 years. It is longer than that: the Army has not shot a condemned man since Eddie Slovik in 1945, 81 years ago. Two things nobody is saying — the Army's own regulation specifies lethal injection, not a firing squad; and 'judgement day has finally come' is premature, because federal habeas review has not begun.

UPDATED OCTOBER 17 with the NTSB preliminary report: in the last 29 seconds the helicopter's sound changed and warning horns consistent with high and low main-rotor RPM alerts sounded, after it slowed almost to a hover 800 feet up and then descended rapidly in a right turn. The three dead were reporter Eliana Moreno, 38, pilot George Marciniw, 70, and Edy Gutierrez Mejia, 29, who was on the ground. No cause has been determined. Earlier: The helicopter has been confirmed as NewsChopper4, flying for NBC4 and Telemundo 52 — but operated by a contractor, Angel City Air. Two people were aboard, a reporter and a pilot. The third person killed was on the ground and had nothing to do with any of it. A trade journalist who has reviewed the live on-board transmission says cockpit warning alerts sounded before the aircraft went down, and a witness says it came straight down. The NTSB will decide what that means, not us.

Every obituary will call him the Sultan of Sequins and list Cher, Carol Burnett and Tina Turner, and every one of them will be right. But Mackie's real subject was never glamour. It was illusion — the gap between what a garment is and what it appears to be. At about 22 he sketched Marilyn Monroe's Happy Birthday dress and got no credit for it. Fourteen years later he put Carol Burnett in a pair of curtains with the rod still attached.

He died peacefully at home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. No cause has been given. Every obituary will say he voiced Optimus Prime for forty-two years — but the sentence his family chose to end their statement with was not written by Hasbro or by a screenwriter. It was said to him in a car in 1984 by his brother Larry, a Marine captain who came home from Vietnam with a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.

He died peacefully at home in Toluca Lake on Tuesday. No cause has been given. Everyone will lead with Frank-N-Furter, Pennywise and Wadsworth, and they should. But a stroke took his body in 2012 and left him the one instrument he had always been best with — and he worked with it for fourteen more years.

Her publicist says she died at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center after 'bravely facing a brief battle with cancer,' surrounded by loved ones. Brief is the word that stings: four days earlier she gave an interview saying she'd been ill because 'I just didn't pay attention' to herself while nursing Carl — and that she still had 'so many things I want to achieve.'

UPDATED OCTOBER 18. The Greenville County Coroner ruled on September 22 that Hayden Panettiere died accidentally from the toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, alprazolam, methocarbamol and quetiapine. The autopsy found no trauma or foul play. Police and, per sources, the DEA are still investigating where the drugs came from; no one has been charged. Since the ruling, her 911 call has been released and Wladimir Klitschko has gone to court over her estate and their daughter.

Andy Burnham urged against 'rushing to judgement.' Simon Baron-Cohen, who runs Cambridge's Autism Research Centre, told the BBC he spoke to Arday on the morning of his death and that he was 'vulnerable' and needed safeguarding. Flowers are on the railings at Senate House, vigils are planned, and police are preparing a file for a coroner. Cambridge has ordered a review of how it hires.

Colombia's official count stands at 294 dead, 3,935 injured and 320 unaccounted for. More than two-thirds of the deaths are in Cali and Pereira — cities a hundred kilometres from the epicentre. The search for survivors has ended. And the assessment of collapsed buildings has been cut from more than 170 to 66, while damaged homes climbed past 80,000.

Lionel Messi's father has died at 68 at a clinic in Rosario. He worked in a steel factory, and when his 10-year-old son was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency the family could not afford to treat, he went looking for a club that would pay for the medicine. Barcelona stalled. He said he was taking the boy back to Argentina. That afternoon a director signed a contract on a table napkin.

An avalanche swept a ten-person team off Broad Peak around midday Thursday. Nirmal Purja's company says he and nine others were killed. Four bodies have been found, three recovered in weather that grounded helicopters. The team ranged from a woman who had summited Everest and K2 to a 39-year-old who closed her Pilates studio this year to start climbing.

Chad Williams, 24, opened fire in and around the In-N-Out on Blue Lakes Boulevard on Saturday afternoon, killing three and wounding seven before killing himself. Police say an armed customer in the drive-thru line and an off-duty Idaho State Police trooper both returned fire, diverting him. A motive has still not been established.

Under subpoena from Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci declined to answer anything. Republicans argue Biden's preemptive pardon removed his prosecution risk and therefore his right to silence. His lawyers note the pardon is retroactive — it wouldn't cover a false statement made at Wednesday's hearing. A contempt vote is set for August 5.

A magnitude 6.8 quake struck Kyushu on Tuesday afternoon. Japan's building codes largely held: the shaking itself did not flatten Kumamoto City. Most of the dead were killed by what came after — a gas explosion that tore through the Aeon Mall an hour later, and a factory chimney that came down. The toll has passed 28 and rescuers are working in summer heat.

A red Chevrolet Silverado left the Cicero Avenue bridge at about 2:16 a.m. and landed in a rail yard in Bedford Park. Vanessa Morales was 14 and had freshman orientation that morning. CPD said it terminated its pursuit — and a radio-traffic reconstruction shows that was true of a chase that ended 90 minutes earlier. A second pursuit, which CPD was leading, was still behind the truck when it went over.

Catherine Palaia was driving south through Milford on July 12 when a wheel separated from a northbound Ford F-250, struck several vehicles, cleared the concrete median and hit her SUV. Connecticut State Police still have not determined what caused the separation, and no charges have been announced. Wheel-off crashes are rare, preventable and almost always traceable to maintenance.

Police say two groups exchanged gunfire at Seattle Center, striking seven people and killing three — one of them a participant, not a bystander. A 15-year-old has now been charged with assault, not homicide, and preliminary ballistics indicate his gun did not fire the fatal rounds. A third shooter is unidentified. And on Thursday the police chief resigned.

A preliminary hearing in Los Angeles is deciding whether the singer, David Anthony Burke, stands trial for the murder of the 14-year-old. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. This week detectives described phone records, DNA evidence and a 2024 welfare check.

Roughly 70 million people are under heat advisories, with temperatures above 100 degrees from Dallas to North Dakota. The number that actually predicts harm isn't the afternoon high — it's how little the temperature falls overnight.

An online campaign accusing FIFA of favoring Argentina and Lionel Messi closed with more than 23 million signatures, one of the most-signed petitions ever recorded. It carries no legal or sporting weight — and the officiating in the final Argentina lost to Spain cut mostly the other way.

She taught literacy in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, marched against the Vietnam War and spent 35 years in Boston public school classrooms. She was also Ben and Casey Affleck's mother. Her family announced her death this week — she died on June 2.

The imprisoned music mogul was moved to segregated housing at a New Jersey federal prison after an altercation with a fellow inmate, according to multiple accounts. The Bureau of Prisons declined to confirm the incident, and it remains unclear whether the confinement is a short-term measure or something longer.

A Disneyland employee threw his keys and walkie-talkie into the water, removed his shirt and jumped into the Rivers of America in front of guests on a 90-degree afternoon. Disney says he was not hurt and that it is investigating.

The House has passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. The trade-off is later winter sunsets — but also much later winter sunrises. Our map estimates the latest morning each state would face, from before 8 a.m. in the Deep South to well after 9 a.m. across the northern tier.

When a transmission line faulted in Northern Virginia's Data Center Alley, more than 3 GW of data-center demand dropped off PJM at once — roughly 3% of the grid's load — sending a voltage and frequency disturbance rippling from Washington to Chicago. No one lost power, but it doubled a warning grid operators got just two years ago.

Federal authorities say Lorenzo Thompson, a Jamaican citizen, overstayed a 2021 visa by nearly five years. His union and supporters say he has a pending asylum case and valid work authorization. Under U.S. immigration law, both descriptions can be true at once.

Bertha is done. After coming ashore first in southeastern Louisiana and again near the Texas line, the season's second named storm weakened into a trough of low pressure northwest of Houston. The National Hurricane Center issued its final advisory Thursday night, and impacts across the Gulf Coast were mostly minor.

A preliminary NTSB report lays out how a Delta flight and an American flight ended up on a collision course on June 20 — an erroneous cockpit warning that paused a takeoff, dark runway warning lights, and a controller who lost track of who he had cleared.

Michigan has reported the first two US deaths in the cyclospora outbreak, both in people with significant underlying conditions. The state has logged 11,234 cases and 193 hospitalizations on its own. The federal tally everyone quotes hasn't been updated since July 16 and still lists no deaths. Here's what's confirmed, what's lagging, and what to do.

The five died in the Scioto River near Columbus after one swimmer began to struggle and the others tried to help. A passing pastor, who sensed the spot was dangerous, believes he captured the group in what may be 'the last picture' of them alive.