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Storms, server farms and a photo-finish Texas ballot
Hurricane Isaias has left the radar and stayed in the obituaries. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said six people had died in the state, including two previously…
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States Absorb a Week of Raids, Rate Fears, and Midterm Math
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare is not given to understatement, and Tuesday he did not start. After reviewing investigators’ video of Saturday’s…
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Storms, ambushes and ballot fine print: a coast-to-coast Monday
The Atlantic’s first hurricane of the year and a leftover Pacific cyclone bookended the country over the weekend, leaving emergency managers a messy Columbus Day.…
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Storms on both coasts, grief in Erie, and a fight over the machines
Hurricane Isaias, the Atlantic season's first named hurricane, came ashore Friday night near Destin as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph sustained winds and a 116 mph…
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Isaias, Erie, and a very long Saturday in the states
Hurricane Isaias came ashore near Destin, Florida, Friday night as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds—the Atlantic season's first hurricane—then promptly fell…
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From the Bronx to the Panhandle, a Friday of force, storms, and midterm heat
Hurricane Isaias spent Friday afternoon doing what Gulf storms do when they find warm water and a willing coastline: it became a major hurricane and pointed itself…
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A late first hurricane, dyed diesel, and ballots that travelled too far
The Atlantic’s first hurricane of 2026 arrived with the social grace of a guest who shows up after dessert. Hurricane Isaias reached hurricane strength just before…
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Gulf watches, a surviving execution, and states arguing over power
Tropical Storm Isaias spent Wednesday thickening into something the National Hurricane Center is no longer treating as a late-season curiosity. A Hurricane Watch…
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Tuesday across the states: outbreaks, grids, and unfinished business
A year after Chicago’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” Marimar Martinez, then 30 and a U.S. citizen, sued the federal government on Monday. She alleges a Customs and…
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Spy tradecraft at LAX, measles past 1,000, and a lethal injection that failed
The FBI’s idea of a Sunday send-off at LAX was not the one Wanying “Heather” Zhang had booked. Agents arrested the 34-year-old Irvine real-estate agent as she tried…
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From a Nantucket debris field to Colorado’s tax cap, states confront the bill
The U.S. Coast Guard spent Sunday still searching south of Nantucket after confirming a debris field from a Canadian air ambulance that vanished on a Bermuda-to-…
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A Lethal Injection That Failed, a Jet That Vanished, and States Betting Big
Tennessee tried twice to kill Christa Pike with pentobarbital and still ended the week with a living prisoner, a hospital ventilator, and a prisons chief packing…
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