Hurricane Milton makes landfall on Florida’s west coast

Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s west coast Wednesday night as a Category 3 hurricane, bringing with it life-threatening storm surge, powerful winds and flooding rains. Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, Wednesday night at about 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph.  It …

5 dead after small plane crashes on Catalina Island off coast of California

Per The Associated Press, officials confirmed Wednesday that five people were killed after a small plane crashed during takeoff from Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast on Tuesday. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday the twin-engine Beechcraft 95 crashed shortly after it departed from Catalina Airport in Avalon at around 8 p.m. on …

‘Dexter’ prequel series ‘Original Sin’ to premiere in December

Paramount+ with Showtime is detailing the new series Dexter: Original Sin. The prequel series will premiere on Sunday, Dec. 15, and follows Dexter during his teenage years. Original Sin is a prequel to Dexter, the 2006-2013 Showtime series starring Michael C. Hall as a vigilante serial killer. Hall returns in Original Sin to narrate the …

Taylor Swift donates $5M to hurricane relief efforts in southeast

Taylor Swift has donated $5 million to the organization Feeding America, which is providing aid to Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina as the hurricanes such as Helene and Milton continue to devastate those areas. Feeding America posted Wednesday on Instagram: “Thank you @taylorswift for standing with us in the movement to end hunger …

Florida orders mandatory evacuations as the state braces for Hurricane Milton to make landfall

Florida authorities are issuing dire warnings and advising residents in the path of Hurricane Milton that “time is running out” to evacuate before the potentially historic storm makes landfall on Wednesday evening.  Milton re-intensified to a Cat 5 storm on Tuesday evening, with forecasters estimating that the hurricane will reach Florida’s Gulf Coast between 10 …

Attorneys general from 14 states sue TikTok alleging its harm to mental health of children

Attorneys general from 14 states filed lawsuits Tuesday against TikTok, alleging that the social media platform is misleading the public about its safety. The lawsuits, filed individually by state, allege that TikTok (owned by the China-based company Byte Dance) is harming children’s mental health, with some kids getting injured or even dying because of TikTok’s …

Melissa McCarthy & Clive Owen to star in JonBenét Ramsey limited series for Paramount+

Variety reports that Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen are set to lead a limited series on the unsolved 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey at Paramount+. The story will follows the Ramsey family “before and after” the tragic murder of six-year-old JonBenét, who had participated in numerous child pageants growing up in Boulder, Colorado. The mysterious …

See Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth in trailer for Netflix’s ‘Lonely Planet’

Netflix shared a trailer for the new film Lonely Planet, featuring Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth. The official synopsis states that the film “follows a novelist named Katherine (Dern), who in search of inspiration, books a trip to a writer’s retreat in Morocco. There, she meets a young man (Hemsworth) whose acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, …

Hurricane Milton on course to hit Florida as it reaches Category 5 with sustained 180-mph winds

On Monday, Hurricane Milton reached Category 5 — the strongest of the classifications — with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. The National Hurricane Center (‘NHC’) said Milton has undergone “remarkable” rapid intensification after being upgraded from a tropical storm on Sunday, moving rapidly past a Category 4 strength hurricane in a matter of hours. …

Georgia Supreme Court reinstates 6-week abortion ban

On Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban while it reviews an appeal from a lower court ruling that had struck down the law. The law had went into effect ater the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, with Georgia prohibiting most abortions once cardiac activity is detected …