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Hurricane Michael arrives in the height of campaign season in Florida, and Gov. Rick Scott, who is running for the Senate, already is in heavy public service mode. So are other Florida politicians.
In a turnabout no one expected, New York’s most prominent stages are rich with drama, most of it new and most of it American.
An attack at a Queens maternity center shined a light on “birth tourism,” private, unregulated nurseries that cater to both Chinese tourists and New Yorkers.
Amazon and other tech giants have made devices connected to the internet increasingly prevalent. Now is the time to be freaking out about the dangers.
The Treasury Department is rolling out a pilot program that will allow the United States to block a broad array of foreign transactions on national security grounds.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 2018, covering October 10, 2018.
Lil Wayne
Logic
Cher
Kevin Gates
Drake
2018Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.[†]
Hurricane Michael was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that became the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States since Andrew in 1992. It was the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States in terms of pressure, behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Michael was the first Category 5 hurricane on record to impact the Florida Panhandle, the fourth-strongest landfalling hurricane in the contiguous United States in terms of wind speed, and the most intense hurricane on record to strike the United States in the month of October.
2018The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.[†]
National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) (NRFA), is an agency under the Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) which oversees the China Fire and Rescue, China's firefighter force.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]