People arrive at Walt Disney World as Hurricane Milton approaches, in Orlando, Florida. Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez

WHY, people ... why?

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A photo that will go down in history: Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida.

First light is revealing just how extensive the damage is to the Tampa Bay Times office. Sections of the crane stretch across 1st Ave S. The top quarter of the building is shattered. #milton

A huge sinkhole has opened up in a Riverview community in Hillsborough Co. An HCSO deputy told me this is the only way into the community so folks either have no way out or have to go thru the backyards of neighbors to get out. There’s a big water drainage system behind cam

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Hurricane Milton knocked out power for more than 2.5 million customers across Florida. But in this marina community designed to be net-zero and hurricane-proof, solar and battery storage kept the lights on. I talked to residents and the homes’ developer. cnn.com/2024/10/12/cli…

Two weeks ago, our team was held captive by a militia in Darfur. As a journalist, one never wants to become the story. But I wanted to write this because in some ways our experience tells a bigger story of the complexities of the situation in Darfur and the challenges of getting

This year I went to Louisiana to tell the story of a young immigrant worker filling a job we need done, building a ship NOAA says will help his hurricane-battered region But when he died on that ship, his family got nothing My first for ProPublica propublica.org/article/immigr…

CNN colleagues Clarissa Ward and team were held captive in Darfur, Sudan, while reporting on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Here's what happened. cnn.com/2024/10/23/afr…

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11 months ago the Los Angeles area got a year's worth of rain and faced life-threatening flooding and mudslides now it's on fire after its driest start to a water year on record. These are the increasing extremes of a warming world.