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Major Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida's Gulf Coast and expected to make landfall on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm's arrival.

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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Austen Flannery, a meteorologist at National Weather Service's Tampa Bay Office, about Hurricane Milton's current path toward Florida.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with D.C. AG Brian Schwalb about the new lawsuit against TikTok alleging that the social media platform causes harm to kids and operates in an illegal virtual economy.

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Communities along Florida's west coast are bracing for a life-threatening storm. Many residents are taking Milton very ...