Claire Moses

The fast-growing Tampa Bay region, home to about three million people, hasn’t had a direct hit from a hurricane since 1921. More than 5.5 million Florida residents were urged to evacuate.

As the storm moved offshore into the Atlantic, Gulf Coast residents were beginning to assess damage from heavy winds, rain and storm surges. More than 3.3 million customers were without power.

He was killed in a stabbing near Los Angeles, and his 19-year-old son was arrested, the authorities said. Mr. Lowe earned acclaim for documenting the siege of Sarajevo and other conflicts.

Jilly Cooper, 87, has written raunchy novels for decades. Adapting her 1988 novel “Rivals” for the streaming age meant tweaking some details.

Hours after news broke that Payne had fallen from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, his fans and collaborators shared their shock and grief.

She got her start in an erotic film as a teenager and went on to star in dozens of other movies. She died in Paris from lung disease, her daughter said.

A sense of uncertainty prevailed in Iran after an Israeli retaliatory strike. Explosions kept some awake, while others hoped life would go back to normal.

The Northern Ireland resident sought explicit images from thousands of girls he had groomed and blackmailed, leading to the death of a 12-year-old girl in the United States.

Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, appeared to strike a measured tone. He said Israel’s attack should not be “magnified or downplayed,” state media reported.

The scariest thing this Halloween? In one city, it was the power of a phony online event listing.