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Most of Florida spent Monday night in sweltering darkness after a diminished but still deadly Irma downed power lines and flooded the last dry corner of the state before wreaking havoc across Georgia and South Carolina. By Tuesday morning, more than 13 million people, or two-thirds of Florida’s population, were without power, according to the State Emergency Response Team, after rains and storm surge flooded Jacksonville, in the state’s northeastern corner. After leaving Florida as a tropical storm, Irma killed three people in Georgia and one in South Carolina, before being downgraded to a tro

Florida emerged from Hurricane Irma on Monday as a landscape of blacked-out cities, shuttered gas stations, shattered trees and flooded streets, while the now-weakened storm kept sweeping northward. Major streets remained underwater in cities from Miami to Jacksonville, with even more roads snarled by debris.

After largely staying out of the spotlight for almost a year, Hillary Clinton is back to talk about the 2016 presidential election and how she dealt with a loss that she said left her “gobsmacked.” “It still is very painful,” she said.

President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, did not hold back from criticizing the Republican establishment in his first television interview. Bannon, who has returned to his website, Breitbart News, was viewed as an outsider who helped shape Trump's populist agenda, and he famously feuded with the more moderate members of the administration as well as the Republican leadership in Congress. He took aim at Senate Majority Leader Paul Ryan. "The

After two back-to-back major hurricanes battered the coasts of Texas, Louisiana and Florida within the space of two weeks, the White House refused to answer questions Monday about whether climate change may have been a factor in the ferocious storms. When at the White House press briefing on Monday a reporter asked whether the two destructive hurricanes have changed the administration's position regarding climate change, ABC News' Alexander Mallin contributed t

The Trump Organization is "still assessing" whether any of its properties incurred serious damage as Hurricane Irma tore through South Florida over the weekend. President Donald Trump owns four properties in Florida that made preparations prior to Irma's landfall. Separately, the president owns a vacation home on the island of St. Martin, which faced a devastating direct hit from Irma late last week. "Our teams in both Florida and St. Martin were very well prepared and we are proud of their efforts on the ground," a Trump Organization spokesperson told ABC News Monday.

terrorist attacks. "For the families with us on this anniversary, we know that not a single day goes by when you don't think about the loved ones stolen from your life," Trump said at the ceremony. "Today, our entire nation grieves with you and with every family of those 2,977 innocent souls who were murdered by terrorists 16 years ago." "On that day not only did the world change, but we all changed," Trump said.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — Does a 70-year-old former presidential nominee really want to be the junior senator from Utah? To take office as one of the oldest first-time United States senators in history? Give up a life of water-skiing, ice cream, and grandkids for one of subcommittee hearings, roll-call votes, and partisan bickering? Well, yes.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Does a 70-year-old former presidential nominee really want to be a junior senator from Utah?   If Corker retires, it would probably put a seat that analysts expect to stay in GOP hands into a more uncertain state.  Warren said nominee Mark Esper’s work as chief lobbyist at Waltham-based Raytheon raises questions about his fitness to lead the Army.

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