Hurricane Milton intensified into a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 175 miles per hour, just two days after forming in the Gulf of Mexico. As residents in Asheville, North Carolina, recover from Hurricane Helene, election officials face challenges facilitating November voting for over 1 million registered voters in affected areas. One year after Hamas terrorists attacked a music festival and kibbutzim in Israel, the country mourns the victims and grapples with the trauma, as 97 hostages remain missing.

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