Good morning. We're covering the aftermath of Hurricane Milton and Israeli strikes in Beirut. Plus: The Nobel Prize in Literature.
Florida picks up after another hurricaneHurricane Milton cut an uneven path of destruction as it tore across Florida, largely sparing the densely populated cities around Tampa Bay but spawning deadly tornadoes far from its center. At least 12 people were killed, most in the eastern part of the state. Over three million people were still without power as of late Thursday night. Here's the latest. The storm whipped barrier islands that were still recovering from Hurricane Helene two weeks ago and swamped inland communities with surges from rivers and copious rainfall. But Milton largely spared the Tampa Bay region from the high storm surge that local officials had feared, Patricia Mazzei, who was reporting from the area, told us. "In many places, the storm surge was actually worse during Hurricane Helene," she said, adding: "Some people along the Gulf Coast are pretty relieved. But the ones facing a second or third flood inside their homes are exhausted." Efforts to get people to follow evacuation orders and warnings appear to have worked. "This is going to be a long haul for total rebuilding," President Biden said. "It's going to take several billion dollars. It's not just going to be a little bit." Scenes from the ground: Our photographers captured the devastation left in Milton's wake.
Airstrikes in Beirut killed at least 22 peopleIsraeli airstrikes in a densely populated area of central Beirut killed at least 22 people and wounded at least 117 others, Lebanese officials said. It appeared to be the deadliest attack in the Lebanese capital in more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The strikes hit an area where displaced residents had been sheltering after weeks of intense Israeli bombardments near the city. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strikes, but it has been systematically targeting Hezbollah leaders and the group's infrastructure. The strikes came hours after U.N. officials said that Israeli forces had fired on U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, wounding two and touching off international criticism of the Israeli military's offensive against Hezbollah.
Obama stumped for Harris in PennsylvaniaWith the race for the White House now in its final month, Vice President Kamala Harris unleashed her party's most popular surrogate: Barack Obama. The former president held a rally in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania, hoping to lift the woman he has cast as the inheritor of the political movement he began in 2008. Before the rally, Obama sternly urged Black men to back Harris. Earlier in the day, Donald Trump proposed making the interest on car loans tax-deductible in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club. He also attacked Harris with debunked claims about cheating in the 2020 election.
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Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in LiteratureHan Kang, best known for her surreal, subversive novel "The Vegetarian," received the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday. She's the first writer from South Korea to receive the award. The novel centers on a depressed housewife who shocks her family when she stops eating meat. Later, she stops eating altogether and yearns to turn into a tree that can live off sunlight alone. A representative for the Swedish Academy, which organizes the prize, said she received the honor "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Our reviewer wrote of "The Vegetarian" that "there is no end to the horrors that rattle in and out of this ferocious, magnificently death-affirming novel." Read the full review. We hope you've enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
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