Life-threatening storm surges are due to hit Florida’s Gulf Coast this week with the arrival of Hurricane Milton, which strengthened early Monday into a Category 3 major hurricane over the southern Gulf of Mexico. In an update at 7 a.m. ET Monday, the National Hurricane Center said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hurricane hunters found maximum sustained winds have increased to 120 mph, making it a Category 3 hurricane. The storm is forecast to make landfall on Wednesday evening in Florida, which along with the wider southeastern United States continues to recove ..read more

The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers with a come-from-behind 20-17 win early Monday morning ET, after the game was delayed nearly two hours due to a weather delay over lightning. With a fumble just short of the goal line in the last minute of the game, it looked like the Cowboys would give this game away to Mike Tomlin’s squad, but they were able to recover and eventually secure their third win of the season. Let’s take a closer look at all that went down on Sunday Night Football: There’s drama in Dallas Whether CeeDee Lamb told Dak Prescott that he threw a “subpar throw” after ..read more

The Big Apple is ready to take your compost. As of Sunday, New York City’s curbside composting program is available in all five boroughs following a rollout that started in Queens, and then Brooklyn. The expansion of the program now allows residents to toss their yard and food waste at the curb in the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, as well. The composting collection will be made every week on the same day as recycling pick-up. According to the city, compost bins must be 55 gallons or less and lined with a clear plastic, paper or compostable bag. Those bins can be full of leaf and yard was ..read more

Sabrina Ionescu rebounded from a rare off game to score 22 points, and nearly a year after the Aces ended the Liberty’s dream of a championship, New York returned the favor Sunday afternoon by defeating Las Vegas 76-62 to advance to the WNBA Finals. The top-seeded Liberty will have home-court advantage in the championship series and will face either the Connecticut Sun or Minnesota Lynx. This is the Liberty’s sixth trip to the finals, but the franchise is still seeking its first title. New York lost in four games to the shorthanded Aces on Oct. 18, 2023, and turned the painful defeat into a mi ..read more

Milton became a hurricane this Sunday. It is expected to arrive near Tampa on Wednesday as at least a Category 3, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). According to the 11:00 a.m. bulletin ET this Sunday, the system was located 310 miles west-northeast of Progreso, Mexico, and 835 miles west-southwest of Tampa, Florida. It had winds of 100 mph and was moving in an east-southeast direction at 6 mph. WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES • We will be under a flood watch for South Florida through Thursday morning.  • A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect from Celestun to Cancun, Mexico. • A Trop ..read more

In the dark days after the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel and the ensuing military assault on Gaza, some dared hope the carnage could, in some way, become a catalyst for peace. “Crises can create opportunities,” veteran Israeli peace negotiator Yossi Beilin told NBC News last year. The world had given up on the Israel-Palestinian question, he said, but the horror of Oct. 7 and its aftermath “changed everything,” provoking a worldwide cry that this should never happen again. “There’s definitely room for hope,” Omar Dajani, a former legal adviser to Palestinian negotiati ..read more

Maybe it’s the start of a Subway Series ride? For the first time in 24 years Saturday, the New York Mets and New York Yankees both won a playoff game on the same day. Brandon Nimmo and the Mets pulled off another late comeback, scoring five times in the eighth inning at Philadelphia to beat the rival Phillies 6-2 in the opener of their National League Division Series. About 2 1/2 hours later, the Yankees finished off a 6-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals in the Bronx behind a clutch hit and an acrobatic catch from slumping left fielder Alex Verdugo in Game 1 of their American League Divisi ..read more

Tropical storm Milton is strengthening Sunday over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and forecasters warned it is expected to become a hurricane and slam into the west coast of Florida later this week. According to the 8 a.m. bulletin of the National Hurricane Center, the center of Milton was located about 860 miles west-southwest of Tampa, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph while heading east at 5 mph. “Milton moving slowly but expected to strengthen rapidly,” the center said, noting a “risk of life-threatening impacts increasing for portions of the Florida west coast.” Florida Gov. R ..read more

An Israeli strike on a mosque in the Gaza Strip early Sunday killed at least 19 people, Palestinian officials said, as Israel intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Beirut in a widening war with Iran-allied militant groups across the region. Displaced people were sheltering at the mosque that was struck near the main hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah. A further four people were killed in a strike on a school sheltering displaced people near the town. The Israeli military said both strikes targeted militants, without providing evidence. An Associated Press journal ..read more

Episode two of the 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” saw a return of the star-studded election cast that premiered last week, with the cold open hilariously showing vice presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz “vibing” with each other in their debate. The sketch, which featured Jim Gaffigan as Walz and “SNL” cast member Bowen Yang as Vance, had Maya Rudolph return as Vice President Kamala Harris and Andy Samberg return as second gentleman Doug Emhoff as they watched the mock version of the debate from their residence. The show poked fun at at the two VP candidates’ cordialness as well a ..read more