The storm’s death toll in the United States has climbed to more than two dozen. Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina said Tuesday that the state had recorded 14 fatalities. At least six people died in Florida, and the authorities in Georgia and South Carolina reported three deaths in each state. More than 650,000 customers remain without electricity, according to local utilities, with about half of those in North Carolina and Virginia.

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According to multiple reports, House Speaker, Paul Ryan told his colleagues that with regard to Trump, they should do whatever they believe will work best for them, be that an endorsement or a repudiation of the GOP nominee. For his part, Ryan said that he would neither defend Trump nor campaign for him for the remainder of the election.

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The gloves came off in the second US presidential debate as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in ugly exchanges over the leaked tape showing the Republican bragging about sexually assaulting women.

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Officials urged residents along Florida’s east coast to rush emergency preparations to completion late on Wednesday as deadly Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms in recent history, bore down on the state from the Caribbean and threatened a direct hit. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuating from vulnerable coastal areas ranging from Fort Lauderdale north to Cape Canaveral as the category 3 storm, which claimed at least 16 lives as it passed across Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, drew closer.

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Tim Kaine and Mike Pence have faced off in the only vice presidential debate in the run-up to the US election, clashing over national security, immigration and other issues. Hurricane Matthew, a Category Four storm, has led to a number of deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Southern Haiti has effectively been cut off after the bridge linking it to the capital, Port-au-Prince, collapsed.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he is willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria. Starting in the last years of the Cold War, Russia and the United States signed a series of accords to reduce the size of their nuclear arsenals, agreements that have so far survived intact despite a souring of U.S.-Russian relations under Putin.

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Haiti and Jamaica urged residents in vulnerable coastal areas to evacuate and Cuba suspended flights on Sunday as bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew, the strongest storm to menace Caribbean nations since 2007, drenched the Jamaican capital. Matthew's slow-moving center was expected to come near southwestern Haiti and Jamaica on Monday as a major storm bringing winds of 145 miles per hour (230 kph) and life-threatening rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

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A New Jersey commuter train crashed into a busy railroad terminal Thursday morning, killing one person, the latest in a series of fatal passenger train accidents around the country. Four people died in 2013 when the engineer of another New York City-area commuter train fell asleep at the controls and sped through a tight curve, derailing the train. Eight people died in Philadelphia last year when an Amtrak train derailed after speeding through a sharp turn. Both crashes could have been prevented by automatic braking systems that were planned but not yet deployed.

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US Congress, first the Senate and then the House, humiliated the president when it voted on Wednesday to override Obama for the first time in his eight-year tenure, as the House rejected a veto of legislation allowing families of terrorist victims to sue Saudi Arabia. The House easily cleared the two-thirds threshold with a 348-77 vote to push back against the veto. The Senate voted 97-1 in favor of the override earlier in the day, with only Democratic Leader Harry Reid voting to sustain the president’s veto.

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