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Forecasters say Hurricane Ida has strengthened to a Category 2 storm, and a hurricane watch was extended to the Florida Panhandle as Ida made its way across the Gulf of Mexico.
It is the British empire of the dead.
Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.
Police described a suspect in the shooting death of a Seattle policeman as a "lone domestic terrorist" and said he was also suspected of firebombing four police vehicles.
Authorities in Wisconsin say an inmate somehow armed himself with a knife and threatened a sheriff's deputy before the officer shot and wounded him.
A 36-year-old woman has died after she was struck several times while retrieving boxes on a Sacramento freeway.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's family says he confided in them that he felt harassed as a Muslim in the U.S. military - and wasn't treated as an American and soldier should be.