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Hurricane Melissa was making its way across Cuba on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, a day after making landfall in Jamaica as one of the regi…

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U.S. President Donald Trump is continuing his trip throughout Asia, meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Gyeongju, a historic city that is hosting this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Trump secured $490 billion in investment commitments during his visit to Japan, but a trade deal with Korea appears more elusive. Although both sides said progress has been made, no agreement has been signed yet. According to Lee’s chief of staff for policy, the framework includes gradual investments, cooperation on shipbuilding and the lowering of Trump’s tariffs on South Korea’s automobile exports.

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The old, short-lived town of Purissima, located in the now-unincorporated part of the county, has the markings of a place that would attract g…

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Wall Street was pointing toward gains in premarket trading as markets focus on the latest corporate earnings ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision this afternoon. Futures for the S&P 500 were up 0.3% before the opening bell on Wednesday, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2%. Nasdaq futures climbed 0.5%. Markets in Asia closed higher, lifted in part by U.S. President Donald Trump’s upbeat comments on relations with China and Japan as he continues his Asian tour. Nvidia climbed another 3.8% overnight to make it the first company to eclipse $5 trillion in market value.

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Israel’s military says the ceasefire is back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory. Local health officials in Gaza said on Wednesday that the strikes killed 104 people, including 46 children. They were the deadliest since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10 and marked the most serious challenge to the tenuous truce to date. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the strikes and accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire when the militant group this week handed over body parts that Israel said were partial remains of a hostage recovered earlier in the war.

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Hurricane Melissa is grinding across eastern Cuba as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. Authorities in Cuba have evacuated more than 700,000 people to shelters. Forecasters say the Category 3 storm could unleash catastrophic damage in Santiago de Cuba and nearby areas on Wednesday. The storm is expected to generate a storm surge of up to 12 feet and drop up to 20 inches of rain in some places. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Melissa is forecast to move into the Bahamas later Wednesday. Jamaica is busy assessing the damage there.

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A Pennsylvania man whose murder conviction was overturned after he served 43 years in prison hoped to walk free this month, but instead found himself in immigration custody. Subramanyam Vedam was an infant when his family moved to the U.S. so his father could teach at Penn State University. The Trump Administration plans to act on a 1999 deportation order despite his murder conviction being overturned because Vedam also has a drug conviction from the 1980s. His lawyers say the years he wrongly spent in prison should outweigh that. They have asked the Board of Immigration Appeals to reopen the case.