A pair of classified C.I.A. intelligence reports issued in the days ahead of a major Hamas attack on Israel warned about a potential escalation in violence but did not predict the complex, multipronged attack that Hamas gunmen launched against Israel days later, according to U.S. officials. The first of the intelligence reports, dated Sept. 28,…
A typical weather system, which was producing stormy weather off the coast of Florida early Friday, could reach tropical storm strength, earning the name Ophelia before striking the Carolinas and moving through the Mid-Atlantic States this weekend. Nearly seven million people in the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic region were under tropical storm warnings as of…
As Hurricane Idalia strengthened into a Category 4 storm early Wednesday, it posed the most immediate threat to the Gulf Coast of Florida, but forecasters also issued a hurricane warning for coastal communities in Georgia and South Carolina. Idalia continued moving toward the Big Bend area of Florida on Wednesday morning and was expected to…