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Hurricane Idalia is bearing down on the Big Bend region of Florida this morning as a Category 4 storm, bringing a "catastrophic storm surge and destructive winds." Residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were told to evacuate, but not everyone has heeded the order. Idalia is projected to cross Florida's peninsula before drenching southern Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday.

A preview for Florida? Commuting in Havana early Tuesday morning.

(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

University of North Carolina graduate student Tailei Qi was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of his faculty adviser, Zijie Yan. Police are still trying to find a motive for the 34-year-old's alleged attack, which locked down the Chapel Hill campus for three hours, and for the gun they believe he used to kill the professor.

New economic data show that the labor market and consumer spending have been cooling off, signs that the Federal Reserve's rate hikes are gradually slowing the economy. Consumer confidence fell last month, while according to July jobs data, employers haven't posted as few new jobs since March 2021, nor have employees quit in such low numbers since that February — but there are still 1.5 jobs available for each worker.

Christmas in July for the Fed.

The first 10 drugs that Medicare will negotiate prices for include medications for diabetes, blood clots and arthritis, the Biden administration announced yesterday. The agency that runs Medicare will meet with drugmakers this fall and by February will make its first offer. Drugmakers are suing to stop the program, which would start lowering prices in 2026. 

He's not messing around.

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3M agreed to pay $6 billion to hundreds of thousands of current and former members of the military who suffered hearing loss because the company's earplugs allegedly grew loose and let in the clangor and clash of weapons, machines and other damagingly loud noises. The industrial giant did not admit liability in the settlement, which resolves one of the largest-ever collections of individual lawsuits. 

Making earplugs isn't exactly rocket science. Thankfully, 3M doesn't work in rocket sci— Oh, wait.

Early yesterday morning, a 127-year-old water main burst under Times Square, which sent water cascading into the city's busiest subway station and turned nearby streets into a shallow creek. Service was restored with delays by midday, but the rupture of the 20-inch pipe, installed in 1896, highlights the aged infrastructure that holds up the subway system, which millions of people rely on every day.

If you haven't visited lately: 40th & 7th is not normally a bubbling brook.

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An Australian woman whose symptoms baffled doctors for a year turned out to have a 3-inch-long worm living in her brain. Some of the 64-year-old's symptoms improved in the months afterward. We, however, will never recover from what the neurosurgeon told the Canberra Times. After plucking the worm from a hole drilled in the woman's head, "We all felt a bit sick," said Hari Priya Bandi. "It continued to move with vigor."

"Living rent-free in your head" has taken on a whole new meaning.

Why is it that if we want to wash our hair, we need to buy shampoo and conditioner in plastic bottles that our city may not even recycle? Isn't it weird that if we want to prevent food waste by taking something home we didn't finish at a restaurant, we're often given a box made of plastic that will be used once and take at least 500 years to break down in a landfill? Danny Seo, the editor-in-chief of Naturally Danny Seo, stopped by our be Well studios to share some ideas we can try to slow the tide of single-use plastics.

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HBO has canceled its Weeknd plans. Also: We don't think it's gonna be a long, long time till Elton John's back on his feet and fine. Watch the video report to find out who's on DWTS this season, while Denzel Washington returns in The Equalizer 3 and the Dave Matthews Band announces a fall tour.

We get a few supermoons each year, and a Blue moon every few years, but a blue supermoon, like the one you can see tonight — we won't get another one of those until 2037, by which time, we assume, climate change will have pushed the East Coast to around Ohio.

Enjoy the blue supermoon while you can, is what we're trying to say.

The Aug. 1 supermoon was not a blue moon. Appearing above a sign for Blue Moon beer at a Kansas City Royals game was shameless deception on the moon's part.

(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

With high prices, high interest rates and low inventory, it can be ugly out there for homebuyers — especially first-timers whose desired starter homes often get "swept up by people who are willing to pay all-cash," says Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather. Cheddar News toured a starter townhome in suburban New Jersey that received seven offers in its first five days on the market.

My friend just told me he was once at a wedding where the bloke who was doing the music for walking up the aisle was meant to play Purple Rain and he played it on YouTube and there was a Deliveroo ad in the middle of it

—@robinallender

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