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MIAMI — Survivors of Hurricane Andrew — a Category 5 storm that decimated cities south of Miami — talk of pre-Andrew and post-Andrew as a kind of biblical milestone. But out of the ruin of the 1992 storm came changes that helped remake the way South Florida, the state and the rest of the country confront hurricanes. “Andrew kicked our butts and we learned from it — basically in South Florida, people were running around like crazy, mostly in circles,” said Richard Olson, the director of the international hurricane

• Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, hit the eastern Caribbean on Wednesday with winds of up to 185 miles an hour. • The Category 5 storm leveled Cuba. The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands will also be at risk on Thursday. • The French interior minister, Gerard Collomb, said at least eight people had been killed in French Caribbean territory, and at least three deaths were reported elsewhere.

Hurricane Irma is already historic. Its winds, which have held at 185 miles an hour for 24 hours, are the strongest ever recorded in the open Atlantic Ocean. Irma might not grow any stronger, but its claim to history surely will as it moves west, toward an increasingly likely landfall in the United States. Already, Irma has dealt a major blow to the islands of the northwest Caribbean. The best source for information on Irma is the official forecast from the National Hurricane Center. But for better or worse, there’s a lot more information on the internet.

First came Hurricane Harvey, which barreled into Texas on Aug. 25. Now Irma, one of the most powerful hurricanes on record, is battering the Caribbean and has Florida in its sights. Jose, currently a tropical storm, trails behind in the mid-Atlantic.

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Facebook revealed Wednesday that fake accounts linked to a Russian company bought more than $100,000 worth of political ads during the election interference. Facebook indicated that nearly 500 fake accounts purchased roughly 3,000 political ads between June 2015 and May 2017, according to Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer. Most of the ads did not mention a specific presidential candidate or the election, b

President Donald Trump's eldest son is will meet with the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Donald Trump Jr.

The Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program -- which protects unauthorized immigrants who arrived in the U.S.

The White House announced the recipients of President National Park Service and U.S. Department of Education.