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FILE - Residents wade through a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa in Petit-Goave, Haiti, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa’s destructive winds and rain, analysis finds

By Isabella O'Malley - Associated Press

A woman carrying a mattress in the rain evacuates before the arrival of Hurricane Melissa in Cañizo, a community in Santiago de Cuba, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramón Espinosa)

Hurricane Melissa weakens as it churns across Cuba as a Category 2 storm

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A couple jokes around on the coast in Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa approaches, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa brings flooding and catastrophic winds to Jamaica

By John Myers and Danica Coto - Associated Press

Waves splash in Kingston, Jamaica, as Hurricane Melissa approaches, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Jamaica braces for catastrophic winds and flooding as Hurricane Melissa approaches

By John Myers Jr. and Danica Coto - Associated Press

Workers board up shop windows ahead of Hurricane Melissa's forecast arrival in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Melissa strengthens to a Category 5 hurricane as it nears Jamaica

By Danica Coto and John Myers Jr. - Associated Press

Fuel pumps are covered in plastic at a gas station ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Melissa in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Hurricane Melissa threatens catastrophic flooding in Jamaica, Haiti

By Mauricio Savarese and John Myers and Jr. - Associated Press

People wade through a street flooded by rains caused by Tropical Storm Melissa in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)

Tropical Storm Melissa nears hurricane strength and dumps torrential rain on Caribbean

Associated Press

People place plastic tarps over their tents ahead of expected rain at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Tropical Storm Melissa stationary in the Caribbean as forecasters warn it will quickly intensify

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

This NOAA satellite image taken at 11:40 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, shows Tropical Storm Melissa in the Central Caribbean Sea. (NOAA via AP)

Tropical Storm Melissa lumbers through the Caribbean as islands take cover from rain

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Kansas’ first sextuplets prepare to graduate and leave home

By DENISE NEIL - Associated Press

Fallen soldier honored by family, friends 15 years later

By PAUL HAYES - Associated Press

In this Oct. 13, 2017 photo, Nick Kirby poses for a portrait in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Kirby, a Skyline High School sophomore, was the lone survivor in a two-vehicle crash in May. He spent a month in EIRMC with a brain injury and on a ventilator, two and a half weeks of which he was in a medically induced coma. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP)

Idaho high school student running with a purpose

By MARLOWE HEREFORD - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 14, 2014 file photo, TV personality Joan Rivers attends A Celebration of Barbara Walters in New York. Rivers died Thursday, Sept. 4, at 81. The New York state health department is investigating the circumstances surrounding Joan Rivers' cardiac arrest during an outpatient procedure. Rivers was hospitalized Aug. 28, after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor's office. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Comedian Joan Rivers dead at 81

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Family reunited decades after Oklahoma car crash

By LINDSEY ALLEN - Associated Press

** FILE ** Romanian witch Mihaela Minca holds cards during an interview with the Associated Press in January 2011 in Mogosoaia, Romania. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Romanian self-styled witches accused of extortion

By Alina Wolfe Murray - Associated Press