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Hurricane Isaias is expected to get stronger on its way to Florida, Alabama and Mississippi coasts

Isaias surged toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on Thursday as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, prompting mandatory evacuations, school closures and local government shutdowns in parts of Florida. Isaias was forecast to intensify rapidly and bring strong winds and a life-threatening storm surge to the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi when it makes landfall on the northern Gulf Coast late Friday or early Saturday. Heavy rain with the risk of flooding was possible into the weekend as far inland as the Tennessee Valley. The hurricane had maximum sustained ...

Hemingway, 1956

AP Photo U.S. novelist Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Mary Welsh, attend a bullfight in Madrid, Spain, Oct. 9, 1956. They were given a friendly reception by fans.

Today in History

On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Also on this date: In 1910, a coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado killed 56 miners. In 1962, Uganda won independence from British rule. In 1963, a mega-tsunami triggered by a huge landslide at Vajont Dam in northern Italy destroyed villages and caused approximately 2,000 deaths. In 1967, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was ...

Homeland Security targets Democratic campaign after ICE arrest in PA

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security publicized the arrest of a Nigerian man for indecent exposure this week, it included a political attack that’s drawing complaints from Democrats and a nonpartisan government watchdog. The department’s press release alleges that the man worked for a Democratic congressional candidate in a Pennsylvania battleground district, an unusual reference to a high-profile midterm contest. “It’s unbelievable that Janelle Stelson would employ an illegal alien to work on a congressional campaign, let alone a pervert who ...

Rubio says US pressure on NATO allies to boost defense spending is ‘not hostile’

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — U.S. pressure on NATO allies to increase their defense spending “is not a hostile thing,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday, but reiterated that the Trump administration wants the military alliance to be a stronger deterrent against threats. Rubio told reporters during a visit to European NATO ally Portugal that “the stronger the members of NATO are, the stronger NATO is, the stronger the alliances and the stronger the deterrence is.” U.S. President Donald Trump has long railed against NATO allies for spending too small a fraction of ...