The National Hurricane Center on Sunday increased odds for a Gulf of Mexico system to become a tropical depression or storm while chances for two Atlantic systems increased as well.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico had increased showers and thunderstorms.

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CHICAGO — Betty Bogg remembered how excited Margaret Miller and her husband were when they landed a place to stay at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Miller, 64, and her husband had been living out of their truck when they first sought help from Connections for the Homeless, where Bogg is the CEO. They were eventually sheltered through ...Read more

It’s September! That means Christmas trees are twinkling at Big Box stores (despite the heat), Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie rule the holiday makeovers at Disney (and have since well before Labor Day), rejiggered vaccines are landing at pharmacies and officials are bracing for the fall/winter waves of COVID, flu and other respiratory ...Read more

In the wake of Rep. Carolina Amesty’s indictment last week, Florida Republicans have mostly kept silent, avoiding public comment on her fitness for office even though state law places the authority to judge her in the legislative majority’s hands.

It’s a stance that suggests tacit support for the Orlando-area GOP lawmaker just as her 2024...Read more

The mother of the Georgia teenager accused of killing four people at his high school says she warned school administrators before the shooting.

Marcee Gray told relatives she had notified a school counselor about 30 minutes before her 14-year-old son, Colt Gray, allegedly fatally shot two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School, the ...Read more

In a rare attack at an Israeli-controlled crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, a gunman killed three Israeli workers Sunday before being shot dead, the Israeli military said.

The Allenby Bridge crossing point, also known as the King Hussein crossing, is the only one with Jordan that leads into the Israeli-occupied West Bank, near the ...Read more

House Republicans will extend a two-year investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan beyond a report to be released on Monday and until “well after the election” in November, according to a lawmaker leading the probe.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said many questions remain as the panel looks into what ...Read more

Two months out, it is hard to know exactly how smooth the state's vote-counting will go in the presidential election, but feelings among some close observers run from guarded optimism to grave concern.

The preliminary phase has already started: Many counties already have processed thousands of applications for mail ballots so that when actual ...Read more

Terence Banks, one of two brothers of top officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration ensnared in a federal corruption investigation, is not a registered lobbyist, but keeps a roster of clients with business interests before Adams’ administration, according to a New York Daily News review of public records.

Banks, a former MTA employee-...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — In a few weeks, strawberry growers in southeast Virginia will plant their crop to be harvested in May. But many are concerned about a disease that could drastically reduce next year’s yield.

Neopestalotiopsis disease, which first appeared several years ago in Florida, can cause light to dark brown spots on plant leaves...Read more

The resistance against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro was dealt a major blow on Saturday, when the president’s main opposition fled to Spain.

Edmundo González’s departure comes one month after his party presented voting records to prove his win in the July 28 presidential election through an unprecedented, citizen-led oversight system. ...Read more

It is a common scene on many a Saturday morning in cities and towns across the United States to see seventh- and eighth-grade boys and girls, a few not Jewish at all, gather in synagogues and temples to watch a classmate’s bar mitzvah.

This coming-of-age ritual marks a 13-year-old man’s assumption of religious and legal ...Read more

[Editor’s note: This article is based on the reporting of more than 20 Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalists].

WINDER, Ga. — This time it happened on a campus here.

On Georgia soil.

On the 23rd day of the school year at Apalachee High.

On the southwest side of the city of Winder — 37.1 miles east-northeast across Stone Mountain from...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — In a few weeks, strawberry growers in southeast Virginia will plant their crop to be harvested in May. But many are concerned about a disease that could drastically reduce next year’s yield.

Neopestalotiopsis disease, which first appeared several years ago in Florida, can cause light to dark brown spots on plant leaves...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk’s elections czar is urging absentee voters to prioritize their mail-in ballots.

“You don’t want to wait until a week before the election and then decide to put it in the mail,” said Stephanie Iles, the city’s director of elections and general registrar. “There is a possibility that we might not get it in ...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas — Four days after residents of coastal Houston celebrated the Fourth of July with the traditional parades, backyard barbecues and fireworks, Beryl came calling.

The Category 1 hurricane, weakened from an earlier Category 5, slammed into Texas’ largest city on July 8 — an unusual midsummer arrival. Delivering one of the worst...Read more

As a wave of gene therapies with multimillion-dollar price tags hit the market, many employers are dropping coverage and leaving families in a bind.

For Amanda Reed, the blows came one after another, a gut-punch introduction to motherhood.

Newborn screening this spring revealed her twin boys had a rare inherited condition called spinal ...Read more