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Biden calls for more aid into Gaza.

On Tuesday morning, few meteorologists were talking about Tropical Storm Otis.So what happened?One of the more remarkable things about Otis was that “this rapid intensification was completely unexpected,” Tomer Burg, an atmospheric scientist, posted on X Tuesday evening as it was starting to become clear how quickly the storm was strengthening.The storm began to organize itself on Sunday morning, first as a tropical depression. At that time, forecast computer models didn’t show much to be concerned about. Forecasters with the U.S. National Hurricane Center said that morning that “some slight strengthening” was possible over the following days. By Sunday evening,…

Otis was about to make landfall as a Category 5 hurricane near the resort city of Acapulco on the southern Pacific Coast of Mexico, where it threatened catastrophic damage, forecasters said Tuesday night.Hurricane Otis’s maximum sustained winds grew to 165 miles per hour with stronger gusts at about 12 a.m. local time, when it was located 15 miles south-southeast Acapulco, the National Hurricane Center said.The storm was forecast to remain a Category 5 hurricane through landfall near Acapulco within the next hour, threatening what forecasters said would be the strongest storm ever to hit this part of Mexico.The storm threatens…

It has been more than two weeks since Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that controls Gaza, launched a terrorist attack that killed 1,400 Israelis. Since then, the Hamas-run health ministry has said that more than 5,000 people have died in retaliatory strikes by Israel. It has not been possible to independently verify the death toll in Gaza.Here is what we know about some of the most pressing issues raised by the war and the complex negotiations taking place to resolve them, including efforts to get more aid into Gaza, bring trapped foreigners out, free hostages taken in the surprise attack…