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People from the Florida Panhandle down to the Tampa area braced Thursday for Hurricane Hermine, as it lashes the area with strong winds and potentially dangerous storm surge. The National Hurricane Center said the storm's winds ratched up from 75 mph in the afteoon to 80 mph by evening as the former tropical storm gained new fury. Hermine was set to make landfall late Thursday or early Friday, forecasters said. A hurricane waing was in effect for Florida's Big Bend from the Suwaee River to Mexico Beach. And on the East Coast, a tropical storm waing was issued for an area that extended from Marineland, Florida, northward to the South Santee River in South Carolina. [embedded content...

President Obama has extended the U.S. military’s combat mission in Libya for another month at the request of senior military leaders, two defense officials with knowledge of the order told Fox News. The decision keeps two U.S. Navy warships off the coast of Libya to continue striking ISIS and assist Libyan ground forces fighting the terror group in the coastal city of Sirte. One of the U.S. warships had been scheduled to go to the Persian Gulf in September to begin airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria and keep an eye on Iran, a week after four provocations between Iranian gunboats and U.S. Navy ships -- one of which resulted in waing shots being fired by a U.S. warship. The oth...

Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Tuesday survived a tough primary challenge -- defeating a persistent, first-time challenger and the controversy that ended her leadership of the Democratic National Committee. The Associated Press projected the win for Wasserman Schultz shortly after polls closed. In the state’s closely-watched Senate primaries, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy won their respective Florida Senate primaries -- setting up a high-profile November contest that will help determine whether Democrats can retake control of the Senate. Wasserman Schultz is expected to win a sixth term in November in the state’s Democratic-leanin...

This undated photo shows Ryan Coles, who is accused of killing his parents Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. (Salem County Correctional Facility) A suburban Philadelphia couple were beaten to death by their own son in their New Jersey home, authorities said Saturday. Edward Coles Jr., 58, and wife Rosemarie Coles, 55, of West Deptford, were found dead by another family member Friday moing. The couple's son, 28-year-old Ryan Coles, was arrested on murder and weapons charges. His bail was set at $1 million. The Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said that the couple died from "blunt head trauma" and alleged that Ryan Coles had bludgeoned his parents "with his hands and an unknown object." Neighbor...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted Saturday about the fatal shooting of NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin, in another apparent attempt to persuade black voters to back him in November. "Dwyane Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago," Trump tweeted. "Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” Nykea Aldridge, 32 was shot and killed Friday afteoon while pushing a baby in a stroller on Chicago's South Side. Chicago Police said Aldridge was shot in the head and arm by two men outside an elementary school. The shooters appeared to be targeting a third man, police also said. The baby in the stroller wasn't hurt, and authoritie...

The coffin of Giulia, 9 years old, is carried outside the gymnasium at the end of the state funeral service in Ascoli Piceno, Italy,. (AP) ASCOLI PIECENO, Italy – In the chaos of Italy's devastating earthquake, an older sister's embrace allowed a four-year-old girl to survive. The heartbreaking story of Giulia Rinaldo, 9, and her 4-year-old sister Giorgia was recounted Saturday by the bishop who celebrated a funeral Mass for 35 of the 290 people killed by the quake that ravaged central Italy before dawn Wednesday. Bishop Giovai D'Ercole recalled that around 6 or 6:30 p.m. Wednesday — 15 hours after the quake — he retued to a church in his diocese in the town of Pescara Del Tronto to reco...

Rescue crews aided by sniffer dogs dug through crumbled homes in Italy Thursday looking for earthquake survivorsas the death toll topped 241 and officials anguished over how to secure their ancient towns and mode cities from the country's highly seismic terrain. Hundreds of people were injured in the quake that struck at 3:36 a.m. Wednesday, investigators said. At least 470 aftershocks have since rattled the area, triggering more damage to centuries-old buildings in Amatrice. One aftershock had a magnitude of 5.1. After a night of uninterrupted, flood-lit search efforts, firefighters and rescue crews worked in teams around the hard-hit area in central Italy, pulling chunks of cement,...

Joshua Robertson, left, and Brittany Humphrey. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department) Authorities in Southe Califoia searched Tuesday for a man and a woman suspected of killing a woman, kidnapping her three small children and leaving the state. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that warrants have been issued for Joshua Robertson, 27, and Brittany Humphrey, 22. Robertson and Humphrey are suspected of killing Kimberly Harvill, whose body was discovered Sunday in brush along a remote road in northe Los Angeles County in the unincorporated Lebec area near Interstate 5. Authorities believe the pair also kidnapped Harvill’s three children, 2-year-old Josly Watk...

Fireworks explode during the closing ceremony for the Summer Olympics at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) Shaking to samba and sharing reflections in uniquely Brazilian ways, Olympians and fans said goodbye to the Rio Games with one last big bash that was both revelatory and a sigh of relief. The Rio Games, the first in South America, were a 16-day spectacle that combined numerous highlight reel moments with ugly and even bizarre episodes that sometimes overshadowed the competitions. And Rio residents, known as Cariocas, were not about to let sporadic rains and strong wind gusts get in the way of a final hurrah. "These were marve...

Zachary Anderson, 26, has been arrested in the disappearance of Alayna Jeae Ertl, 5, who was found dead Aug. 20, 2016. (Meeker County Sheriff’s Office via AP) The body of a 5-year-old Miesota girl was discovered Saturday just hours after authorities had issued an Amber Alert saying she had been abducted by a family friend. The body of Alayna Jeae Ertl was found in Cass County, about 200 miles north of Mieapolis. The suspect in her disappearance, family friend Zachary Anderson, 26, has been arrested and his vehicle confiscated, police say. “This is not a stranger-type situation,” said Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze told WCCO-TV. “The suspect is a co-worker, family friend of the child’s...

YouTube user "Mama Natural" uses activated charcoal to whiten her teeth. (Mama Natural) Medical professionals are waing against using a DIY whitening trend that involves smearing a charcoal-derived black mixture on teeth. The method, which dentists say may lead to enamel deterioration and tooth erosion, became an online sensation this month after YouTube user Mama Natural posted a video that details its execution began striking fire online. As of Monday moing, it had amassed more than 1.5 million views. In the video the host Genevieve brushes her teeth with the supplement for three to five minutes before rinsing and proclaiming she then had seemingly whiter teeth. She said the product ca...

Aug, 13, 2016: United States' Michael Phelps leaves the pool deck after his team won gold in the men's 4 x 100-meter medley relay final during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Michael Phelps and the United States swim team closed out their Rio Olympics in the only way imaginable. Gold. Phelps put the United States ahead to stay on the butterfly leg of the men's 4x100 medley relay before Nathan Adrian finished the race off, giving the most decorated athlete in Olympic history his 23rd career gold medal. If that was the end, and Phelps insists it is, what a way to go out. He would finish his career with 28 medals overal...

Aug, 13, 2016: United States' Michael Phelps leaves the pool deck after his team won gold in the men's 4 x 100-meter medley relay final during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Michael Phelps and the United States swim team closed out their Rio Olympics in the only way imaginable. Gold. Phelps put the United States ahead to stay on the butterfly leg of the men's 4x100 medley relay before Nathan Adrian finished the race off, giving the most decorated athlete in Olympic history his 23rd career gold medal. If that was the end, and Phelps insists it is, what a way to go out. He would finish his career with 28 medals overal...

A U.S. immigration official accused in a federal report of hindering law enforcement agents seeking a suspect in the San Beardino terror attack and then lying about it has been nominated for a prestigious award – for telling her employees to stay calm and fetching one who was eating lunch in his car. ...

Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing an alert issued to Chicago officers, reported Monday that the meeting to...

Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing an alert issued to Chicago officers, reported Monday that the meeting to...

Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing an alert issued to Chicago officers, reported Monday that the meeting to...

Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing an alert issued to Chicago officers, reported Monday that the meeting to...

May 7, 2016: Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson wears a body camera in Chicago. (Reuters) Leaders from three Chicago gangs reportedly met last week to discuss plans to kill police officers in response to the officer-involved shooting death of Paul O’Neal. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing a...

The 10-year-old son of a Kansas state lawmaker died in an "apparent accident" Sunday on a water slide billed as the world's largest at a water park in Kansas City, Kansas, according to officials and the boy's family. Kansas City Chief of Police Terry Ziegler said on Twitter that his officers were working "an apparent accident death investigation." Authorities did not immediately identify the child who died at Schlitterbahn Waterpark, but state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife released a statement saying it was their son Caleb Thomas Schwab. "Since the day he was bo, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with," said the statement, which asked for privacy a...