CNNSouth Florida NBC meteorologist John Morales explained his emotional reaction Monday to Hurricane Milton’s strength and projected path, telling CNN that it was out-of-character for him, but it was brought on by the increased severity of storms due to climate change.Morales told OutFront anchor Erin Burnett on Tuesday that, going back to his start in 1992, he had “always been known as the non-alarmist, just the facts meteorologist.”“So this is definitely a departure from the guy I’ve always been. But I have changed,” he explained. “The extreme weather events that are multiplying, the number of multi-billion dollar disasters that are impacting this country and countries all over the world—it has changed me. These symptoms of a changing climate have changed me from a cool cucumber to somebody that’s certainly more agitated and in a bit of dismay about what’s been going on.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Courtesy of New York Film FestivalUniversal Language opens with a spectacle of hilarious inappropriateness.In a classroom in a fantastical Winnipeg where residents speak both French and Arabic, teacher Iraj Bilodeau (Mani Soleymanlou) enters late to find his students misbehaving. With comical fury, he lambastes these “creatures” for their conduct and, once the lesson begins, continues his censure on an individual basis, be it directed at a boy dressed as Groucho Marx (“Your face is disgusting to others. Go stand in the closet”) or Omid (Sobhan Javadi), who has “below-average intelligence,” is “blind as a bat,” and whose excuse for not having his glasses is that they were stolen by a wild turkey.Hearing their ambitions for the future, Iraj proclaims that there’s no hope for human survival and that “all of you will fail” before having them read a sentence on the blackboard: “We are lost forever in this world.” Then, he expels them all until Omid recovers his spectacles, declaring, “No more education. Everyone go stand in the closet!”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Senior Airman Lauren Cobin/ReutersAs Hurricane Milton churns eastward in the Gulf of Mexico, so too do the stomachs of Tampa Bay’s three million residents. That’s because Milton, again a Category 5 storm as of Tuesday evening, is on a crash course with Florida’s seldom-struck west coast that stands to see Tampa Bay’s lone trauma center inundated and unable to accept patients, its famous white-sand beaches washed away, and hundreds of its bridges rendered impassable. At least, that’s what local officials in the region warned two decades ago in a worst-case-scenario simulation of a storm that’d cripple Tampa and nearby coastal communities—a hypothetical hurricane that bears chilling similarities to Milton, down to their final paths and month of arrival. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for RFK Human RightsEthel Kennedy, the 96-year-old widow of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized last week after suffering a stroke, her family said.Kennedy’s grandson, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA), announced the health update in a social media statement on Tuesday.“She is comfortable, she is getting the best care possible, and she is surrounded by family,” he said. “She is, as you may know, a strong woman who has led a remarkably fulfilling life. We are here looking after her.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Yuri Gripas/ReutersAn Afghan national was arrested and charged with acquiring weapons and planning an ISIS-inspired attack on election day, the Justice Department said.Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, a 27-year-old resident of Oklahoma City, was arrested by FBI agents alongside a juvenile co-conspirator and charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to acquire firearms for use in the attack.The co-conspirator was not named in the criminal complaint, but prosecutors identified him as Tawhedi’s brother-in-law. He was also born in Afghanistan and resided in Moore, Oklahoma.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Alex Wong/Getty ImagesJustices on the Supreme Court indicated they were likely to side with the Biden administration in their efforts to classify kits for users to build “ghost guns” at home as firearms—but not before staunch conservative Justice Samuel Alito sparked a strange debate about omelets and grocery lists.The high court heard oral arguments as the Justice Department defends their attempts to enforce regulations against so-called “ghost guns” after an alarming spike in their use in crimes.”In 2022, the Justice Department issued new rules that reclassified the at-home kits as firearms, making them subject to regulation by the Gun Control Act of 1968—including requiring them to have a serial number and conduct background checks on buyers.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesMelania Trump has been married to her husband for 19 years, during which time she had a front-row seat to the former president’s bedtime routine. She spilled on one detail of that regimen in a Tuesday appearance on Fox News Tuesday, suggesting that Donald Trump sleeps in something other than pajamas. She joined The Five to promote her new memoir, aptly titled Melania, which hit shelves earlier in the day.Read more at The Daily Beast.

John Lamparsk/GettyFox News Media seems to be aiming at a new demographic with the upcoming launch of a Spanish-language news show called “Fox Noticias.”The hour-long show, which will appear on the Spanish-language sports channel Fox Deportes, is intended to be a forum that “spotlights issues impacting the Hispanic community” and will be hosted by Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy, Axios reported.Its debut episode on Oct. 15 will feature the recently elected president of Panama, Raúl Mulino, along with sports highlights from the recent matches broadcast on Fox Deportes.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettySo, let me get this straight, according to Bob Woodward’s new book War, Donald Trump was sitting in Mar-a-Lago on a trove of stolen U.S. national secrets and while there, had Vladimir Putin on speed dial for regular private chats? After he tried to overthrow our government? And Putin is helping his campaign now by flooding our electorate with toxic disinformation? And there are people who would actually vote for this guy?What, wait, there’s more?Read more at The Daily Beast.

Bravo/GettyJenna Fischer revealed to fans Tuesday that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and has since beaten it.“Last December, I was diagnosed with Stage 1 Triple Positive Breast Cancer. After completing surgery, chemotherapy and radiation I am now cancer free,” she wrote on Instagram Tuesday.Along with a snap of her smiling, The Office star posted a lengthy statement chronicling her cancer journey.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesFormer Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA), the co-chair of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for refusing to take a recent call with the vice president, saying in a Tuesday morning interview that “people are going to die” because of him. “When the vice president or the president calls you to see what you need on the ground, to see what you need before the storm, during the storm and after the storm,” Richmond told CNN’s Jim Acosta. “It could cost lives to not answer that call,” he added. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyWelcome to October Surprise, the Daily Beast’s daily countdown to the biggest election of our lifetime. It’s only 28 days until Election Day and here’s what’s happening in the race to the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.THE DOWNLOADAs Donald Trump spreads misinformation about Democrats not helping people impacted by deadly Hurricane Helene, there’s a reason he may be antsy: those victims are mostly Republicans.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyEven though Kamala Harris has nothing but praise for Maya Rudolph’s spot-on impression of her on Saturday Night Live, Howard Stern is not a fan of the bit.“I hate it,” the radio host told Harris during her visit to The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday. “I don’t want you being made fun of,” Stern said, since “There’s too much at stake.” Harris stopped by Stern’s show this week as part of her media blitz in the election’s last stretch, which also included a stop on The View earlier in the day. During that interview, Harris was shown a clip of Rudolph's impression she hadn’t seen before and praised the comedian for having “the suit, the jewelry, everything—the mannerisms,” adding, “She’s so good.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Sirius XM Kamala Harris expressed outrage Tuesday over revelations that Donald Trump secretly mailed covid tests to the “murderous dictator” of Russia in 2020 even as he was telling Americans at home to inject “bleach in their blood.”“I believe Donald Trump has this desire to be a dictator,” Harris told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show.“He admires strong men, and he gets played by them because he thinks that they’re his friends,” she said. “And they are manipulating him full time and manipulating him by flattery.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Fox BusinessRepublican Rep. French Hill shut down Fox News host Maria Bartiromo’s false on-air claim that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is “out of money” to handle crises in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and with the looming threat of Hurricane Milton.During Hill’s Tuesday appearance on Fox Business, Bartiromo slammed President Joe Biden, saying that FEMA “running out of money” was “the biggest failure of this administration.”“How is it possible that FEMA is out of money?” Bartiromo asked the representative from Arkansas.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Warner Bros. PicturesJust five years ago, Lady Gaga and Glenn Close were in a tight race of Best Actress. Olivia Colman would spoil the face-off—but not before Gaga could win her own statue and capture headlines with a yearning performance of “Shallow”. Now, with Joker: Folie à Deux, one has to wonder whether Gaga will make it to the Oscars again.Folie à Deux landed with a thud. It cratered at the domestic box office, pulling in a meager ​​$37.8 million, $10-20 million behind expectations. Worse, it received a CinemaScore of a D, reflecting the general distaste for the surprisingly boring, hodge-podge film. Given the alt-right internet bro fervor of the last Joker, many cinemas were expecting a blowout. The Boston Common AMC had its costume policy planted in the middle of its entrance. But the fanboys didn’t show—the theater, half empty, was mostly older couples.The film’s failure is bad news for Gaga, who’s still nascent in her acting career. In just three films, she’s moved from prestige inductee to critically derided. Back in 2019, Gaga was a beacon of optimism for pop stars looking to make the jump; now, she’s stuck in a creative rut. Worse yet, other radio mainstays like Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande are placed squarely in the Oscars dialogue this year, while Gaga lags behind. It’s sent dozens of gay men into a tailspin, acting as would-be managers planning her next moves.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAs Donald Trump spreads misinformation about Democrats not helping people impacted by deadly Hurricane Helene, there’s a reason he may be antsy: those victims are mostly Republicans.The Sun Belt battleground states of North Carolina, Georgia and Florida are taking a pummeling from two megastorms less than a month before Election Day. And history shows: a hurricane a month before a major election depresses turnout. This year, many of the hardest-hit regions are Trump strongholds.In Western North Carolina, 25 counties were included in the “designated disaster area” ravaged by Helene. Voters in those areas are overwhelmingly independent and Republican, according to data. In 2020, they supported Trump by a wide margin, helping him win the state. If they don’t vote this time around, Kamala Harris supporters could easily tip the toss-up state into her column.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Mariano RegidorDeryck Whibley, the frontman for the Canadian rock group Sum 41, is speaking out against a former manager and alleging sexual and verbal abuse.Whibley, 44, makes the claims in his upcoming memoir, Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell. In it, the singer says Greig Nori began being inappropriate and grooming the singer when he was only 16. Nori, a fellow musician, was 34 at the time. “Greig had one requirement to be our manager—he wanted total control,” an excerpt of the memoir published in the Los Angeles Times reads. “We couldn’t talk to anyone but him, because the music business is ‘full of snakes and liars’ and he was the only person we could trust.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Florence Lo/ReutersFormer world No. 2 tennis player Paula Badosa has apologized after a photo was shared online that showed her pulling her eyes back with chopsticks while playing tournaments in China.After she lost in the semifinals of the China Open, the Spanish star’s coach, Pol Toledo, posted the picture, apparently taken in a restaurant. However, many commenters soon accused her of racism for making a gesture that is used to mock East Asian people. The 26-year-old, currently ranked No. 15, was quick to defend herself. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Joseph Sinclair/NetflixHeartstopper creator Alice Oseman has her fingerprint all over the beloved Netflix show that’s based on her graphic novels. Since its premiere in 2022, Heartstopper has garnered a passionate fandom which has only grown, season after season. With the arrival of Season 3 (which holds 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) comes a new era for the queer teen drama, one that matures with a sensitive handling of mental illness, transphobia, and sex.“I’m so, so relieved it's finally out in the world,” Oseman—the creator, writer, executive producer and, as of Season 3, director—tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. “I’m having a lot of fun reading everyone's reactions, it seems to be going down really well!”Oseman’s Heartstopper had humble beginnings as a Tumblr comic before being published as a graphic novel, and now adapted for Netflix with Oseman as the screenwriter. The sweet high school romance of Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) has captured the hearts of viewers who swoon over their giddy teenage infatuation and welcome the wholesome representation of LGBTQ+ youth, which extends on the show to trans teen Elle (Yasmin Finney), non-binary Darcy (Kizzy Edgell), and asexual Isaac (Tobie Donovan).Read more at The Daily Beast.

Macall Polay/Searchlight PicturesAnother trailer just dropped for Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, and it appears that the Call Me By Your Name star has completely transformed into the iconic singer-songwriter.James Mangold, known for bringing Johnny Cash’s life story to the big screen in 2005’s Walk the Line, directs the film.The trailer opens with Chalamet’s Dylan making his way to the Big Apple from Minnesota. “I wanted to catch a spark,” Chalamet says with a Midwestern twang.Read more at The Daily Beast.

MANDEL NGAN/Getty ImagesMelania Trump has revealed how Donald slipped away from his glamorous blonde date to ask for her number the first time they met at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998.Then 28, Melania refused to give the smooth-talking tycoon her number but agreed to take his business card after chatting to him about her family back in Slovenia.A few weeks later, she contacted Trump, then 52, and they went out on their first date. By 2005, the couple were wed and the Slovenian model was the third Mrs Trump.Read more at The Daily Beast.

ABC/screengrabKamala Harris pulled no punches on Tuesday when she went after Donald Trump for what The View co-host Ana Navarro characterized as blatant “lies” about the Biden administration’s efforts to help hurricane victims.“It’s profound and it is the height of irresponsibility and frankly callousness,” Harris said on the show in her first live interview since accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. “This is so consistent about Donald Trump,” she added, “He puts himself before the needs of other [people].”Trump has said repeatedly on the campaign trail that the Biden administration was redirecting relief aid from Florida to pay for migrants. “Kamala spent all of her FEMA money—billions of dollars—on housing for illegal migrants,” he said at a Michigan rally. “They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank so they could give it to their illegal immigrants who they want to have vote for them.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

HuluAfter six episodes of mounting insanity, “Valley of the Dolls” offers its characters a much-needed reprieve. There are no gunshots or death threats here; there’s just the trio hanging out in the doll-infested home of Charles’ sister Doreen (Melissa McCarthy). Granted, this is arguably even scarier.(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)Like a lot of McCarthy’s comedic characters, Doreen is unhinged. She veers wildly from one emotion to another, is quick to resort to violence, and her horniness for Oliver manages to nearly ruin (and then save?) his relationship with Loretta (Meryl Streep). She’s a fun character, and her final heart-to-heart with Charles provides some heartwrenching insight to both of their dysfunctional childhoods. Still, it’s hard to get too invested, because she feels like a filler character. We’ve got a big murder to solve, so why are we spending so much time on a character who’s clearly not a suspect?Read more at The Daily Beast.

Joe Raedle/GettyDonald Trump’s campaign issued a wild statement Tuesday attacking Watergate reporter Bob Woodward over his new book, which contains a series of potentially damaging revelations about the ex-president. The book, War, is due to be published next week and claims Trump secretly sent COVID testing equipment to Vladimir Putin when the devices weren’t widely available. It also cites an aide who says Trump and Putin may have spoken on the phone as many as seven times since Trump left office. “None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. “Woodward is an angry, little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously. President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

Brendan McDermid/ReutersConservative pundit Megyn Kelly raged over Vice President Kamala Harris’ controversial decision to appear on the women-oriented podcast Call Her Daddy this week, calling the press tour stop the “presidential equivalent of a visit to the Amsterdam red light district.”Kelly kicked off the unhinged rant Monday edition of her SiriusXM show with strong words for the Democratic nominee, who would be the first woman to sit in the White House if she wins in November.“I want to start today with the total abandonment of American women,” Kelly said, repeating in a howl: “Total abandonment.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Susan Walsh/Getty ImagesOne of Donald Trump’s closest confidantes has compared the former president’s Mar-a-Lago Florida estate to North Korea, according to an upcoming book by Watergate journalist Bob Woodward.Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly said: “Going to Mar-a-Lago is a little bit like going to North Korea. Everybody stands up and claps every time Trump comes in.”Graham is quoted as saying that Biden won the 2020 election “fair and square,” but “Trump doesn’t like to hear that.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

SOPA ImagesOne of Wall Street’s most aggressive short sellers has launched a shocking attack on gaming company Roblox, alleging management at the company have inflated performance numbers while cashing out tens of millions of dollars for themselves as their platform devolved into a “pedophile hellscape for kids.”“We totally reject the claims made in the report,” said Roblox, in a statement to the Daily Beast. “We firmly believe that Roblox is a safe and secure platform and in the financial metrics we report.”In its report released Tuesday, Hindenburg Research said executives and insiders at Roblox have sold $1.7 billion in stock since the company’s initial public offering in March 2021, $150 million of that in the last year. CEO David Baszucki, the firm said, has personally sold $115 million in the last twelve months.Read more at The Daily Beast.

JIM WATSON/Getty ImagesVladimir Putin urged Donald Trump not to tell anyone after the then-U.S. president secretly sent COVID-19 test machines for the Russian leader’s private use during the pandemic, according to a bombshell new book by Bob Woodward.Woodward also claims the two men continued their relationship after Trump left the White House with “maybe as many as seven” secret calls since 2021.The Watergate journalist writes that Trump sent a “bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines” to Putin in 2020.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Bryan Steffy/Getty ImagesThe only daughter of legendary singer Elvis Presley was so devastated by the loss of her own child that she kept her son’s body in her house for two whole months after he died.The explosive revelation was reported by Page Six ahead of the publication of Lisa Marie Presley’s forthcoming memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown–which she was writing at the time of her death at age 54 last year, and which has since been finished by her daughter, Riley Keough.Presley apparently writes in the book that she declined to bury her singer-songwriter son Benjamin Keough for so long after his tragic death by suicide in 2020 partly because she was so heartbroken, and partly because she couldn’t decide whether to inter him in Hawaii or alongside his grandfather at the famous Graceland estate in Memphis.Read more at The Daily Beast.