
Live Updates: Ian, now a tropical storm, barreling across Florida
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Tropical Storm Ian continued moving east across Florida early Thursday and could still cause "catastrophic flooding," forecasters warned.
Ian hit land in southwestern Florida as a major Category 4 hurricane, just shy of a Category 5, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the U.S.
It left people trapped in homes and wide swaths of the state without power. Some 2.5 million homes and businesses were in the dark as of 5 a.m. EDT, according to poweroutage.us.

A closely watched election for a state supreme court judgeship in Wisconsin gave Democrats a boost Tuesday night, while two special elections in Florida delivered two seats to House Speaker Mike Johnson's perilously thin GOP majority. Though off-year and special elections attract a much smaller share of voters than presidential elections, the outcomes in both states held insights for Democrats and Republicans for the months ahead. Here are some of the takeaways: