Hurricane Milton, headed for Tampa, becomes the second-fastest storm to reach Category 5 status. / Vox John Morales: The proportion of tropical cyclones that reach very intense levels is projected to increase. / The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tells her followers that the government controls the
Brief profiles of the 97 hostages who remain unaccounted for after last year's Hamas-led attacks. / BBC News An eloquent essay from a former Gaza resident. "In the past year, I have lost many of the tangible parts of my memories." / The New Yorker Computer analysis
"Bolivia, too, is undergoing a kind of disillusionment with democracy." How the rest of the world views this year's US election. / The Dial See also: How British vernacular invaded America, or why everyone's saying "gutted" now. / The Guardian More solar activity could
Highlights from the newly unsealed election interference case against Donald Trump. / Politico Some 56 percent of divorced men support Trump—more than single men, married men, and women of any relationship status. / The Cut Jessica Grose: The misogyny of young Gen Z men has been overstated. / The New York Times
In light of Israel's incursion into southern Lebanon, a look back at its 1982 invasion that became an 18-year occupation. / Politico Magazine Viewers say last night's vice presidential debate was an even match, and an overwhelming majority felt the tone was positive. / CBS News Interviews
The White House sides with Israel's ground assault of Lebanon while much of the world calls for a ceasefire. / Al Jazeera Iran is said to be preparing to launch a ballistic-missile attack. / The Wall Street Journal [+] A long profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose new book criticizes
The death toll from Hurricane Helene has now reached 91 as Asheville, isolated by floods, struggles to get supplies airlifted to emergency workers. / Associated Press Every time a climate disaster like Helene happens, insurance companies gouge customers, who complain to politicians, who claim climate disasters rarely happen. / How Things Work
Nearly four million homes and businesses in the South are without power as Helene makes landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Florida. / Associated Press Conservative purists may hope a Trump defeat will end Trumpism, but the GOP is likely to remain ruled "by, and for reactionary business interests
More than four million people have been affected by floods across six countries in western and central Africa. / CBC Heavy rainfall caused parts of the Saraha Desert to turn green. / NASA Earth Observatory New analysis suggests that one in seven scientific papers is at least partly fake. / Retraction Watch A
Hezbollah launches its first long-range missile at Tel Aviv. / CNN Was Israel's detonation of the pagers an act of terrorism? "To kill civilians in a mass operation that entails their deaths is neither a tragedy nor an accident." / Zeteo American religious conservatives are working with
