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Here’s the latest for Wednesday, August 30th: Hurricane Idalia unleashes fury on Florida and Georgia; White House says Putin and Kim Jong Un traded letters for munitions; Soldiers in Gabon seized power, detain president; Catch Wednesday’s blue supermoo…

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Patrick Murphy, of Denver, was charged with a hate crime and “criminal mischief” for breaking transgender Pride flags, police said. He pleaded not guilty.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida Wednesday morning. Stay up to date with power outages across the state.

A hurricane warning has been issued for hundreds of miles of Florida’s coastline as Idalia, with max winds of 130 mph.

Idalia was driving an intense storm surge and flooding for hundreds of miles after its Florida landfall as it roared across Georgia.

Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a dangerous Category 3 storm Wednesday morning as it steams toward Florida’s Big Bend region and threatens to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall. (Aug. 30)

Russia has accused Ukraine of targeting six of its regions in what appeared to be the biggest drone attack on Russian soil since the start of the fighting. (Aug.30)

An Air Seychelles plane carrying Israelis has returned to Tel Aviv after making an emergency stop in Saudi Arabia due to an electrical malfunction.

Residents are preparing for Hurricane Idalia’s landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday as authorities urge vulnerable communities to leave.