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MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Dorian is now a Category 2 hurricane and is expected to continue strengthening over the weekend as it advances toward Florida. The National Hurricane Center says in an 11 p.m. Thursday forecast that the storm has maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, meaning it is just short of being a Category 3 major storm. Forecasters expect Dorian to become a major hurricane Friday and make landfall on Florida's east coast on Monday night.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is cheering a report from the Justice Department inspector general that finds former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with the president. Comey gave one of the memos to a friend with instructions to share the contents with a reporter. The report says none of the information Comey shared was classified.
UNDATED (AP) — Government lawyers eying a potential settlement with Purdue Pharma L.P. and its owners, the Sackler family, for their alleged role in flooding communities with prescription painkillers are faced with a challenge: An AP investigation finds that the family has shielded its wealth in a labyrinth of companies and trusts, much of it overseas. How, asks one legal expert, do you make sure the Sacklers "are not siphoning off those assets and hiding them away?"
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The number of overdose deaths and quantify of pills distributed to local communities are among the factors that would determine how to divide money from any legal settlement related to the nation's opioid epidemic. State attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments are trying to hammer out a nationwide settlement with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. As details of the proposal emerge, some advocates for opioid addicts say the money being offered is not enough.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Satellite images appear to show the smoldering remains of a rocket at an Iranian space center that was to conduct a U.S.-criticized satellite launch. The pictures showed smoke, charring, and apparent water runoff at the Imam Khomeini Space Center. While Iranian state media did not acknowledge the incident, a top official wrote on Twitter that a satellite Tehran planned to launch was safe in a lab.
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