Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica Tuesday as the strongest storm in the island's history. The Category 5 hurricane tore a path of destruction across the island, causing major flooding and power cuts. Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared the country a "disaster area." The massive storm swept through Cuba early Wednesday morning as a Category 2 hurricane. Over 750,000 residents were evacuated ahead of the storm. Melissa is now carving a path towards the Bahamas. The intense winds have diminished in Jamaica, but the National Hurricane Center warns that heavy rains and flooding might continue...

This is the day we’ve been nervously awaiting. President Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea for their first face-to-face meetup in six years. 12:30 Report World braces for Trump-Xi meeting; US sends emergency crews to Caribbean by Cate Martel - 10/29/25 12:54 PM ET Unmute Captions Fullscreen Share Pause 12:30 Report is The Hill’s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. It’s Wednesday. Well, the kids won. “6-7” has been declared the word of 2025. If you don’t know what this means, neither does anyone who is old enough to vote. In today’s issue: World braces for today’s Trump-Xi meeting Hurricane Melissa batters Cuba US sends emergency crews to Jamaica Interest rate cut predicted for today Vance, Erika Kirk to speak ? IN SOUTH KOREA World braces for Trump-Xi meeting: Chinese President Xi Jingping and President Trump (Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press; and AKP via Associated Press) This is the day we’ve…

Senate Democrats are taking a close look at a Republican proposal to pay all federal employees — including essential and furloughed workers — as they’re under new pressure from the nation’s largest federal workers union to pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government. They also plan to introduce legislation to pay for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and extend funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which provides essential nutrition assistance for lower income mothers...

White House health leaders Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz are expected to announce a plan to lower drug prices Wednesday. In May, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs by implementing a “most favored nation” policy that caps the prices Americans pay based on those charged in other countries...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly flirted with the idea of seeking a third term in office. But he acknowledged to reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that the Constitution is “pretty clear” that he is not allowed to run again. "If you read it, it’s pretty clear. I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad,” Trump said. “But we have a lot of great people.” Those comments came after he rejected one way that has been floated by some as a possible gateway for him to continue leading the country after his second term ends in 2029, saying he would not run for vice president in 2028...

The Kremlin‘s special envoy, tasked with smoothing economic quarrels with the White House, has maintained that peace is on the horizon in Ukraine despite a disastrous tour of the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s special presidential representative for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, was asked at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia whether there would be peace in Ukraine within a year...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., isn’t backing down from sparring with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the Trump administration’s decision to provide Argentina a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina’s central bank. Warren, along with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., led a coalition of lawmakers in sending a letter to Bessent Monday accusing the secretary of prioritizing foreign governments over U.S. farmers as President Donald Trump considers offering farmers financial relief and China scales back soybean purchases amid ongoing tariff negotiations...

Nearly 20 people were shot — three of them fatally — in Chicago over the weekend, police told WBBM-TV. The station said the shooting victims' ages range from 18 to 70. Police reported only one shooting on Friday. It took place just before 6:30 p.m. in the 5500 block of South Lafayette Avenue where police said an unknown person shot a 43-year-old woman on the street multiple times, WBBM noted. The woman was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, the station said...

A truck hauling monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans flipped on a Mississippi highway, freeing several large, "aggressive" monkeys. After the wreck, which happened north of Heidelberg, multiple rhesus monkeys escaped into the community, according to the Jasper County Sheriff's Office. "The monkeys are approximately 40lbs, they are aggressive to humans, and they require PPE [personal protective equipment] to handle," the sheriff's office wrote in a Facebook post...

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