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By JAY REEVES and BRENDAN FARRINGTON , Associated Press PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle with terrifying winds of 155 mph Wednesday, splintering homes and submerging neighborhoods. It was the most powerful hurricane to hit the continental U.S. in…

DELTA, British Columbia (AP) — Mat Beren and his friends used to drive by the vast greenhouses of southern British Columbia and joke about how much weed they could grow there. Years later, it's no joke. The tomato and pepper plants that once filled some of those greenhouses have been replaced with a new cash…

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 2:11 p.m. Stocks are extending their slump on Wall Street, led by drops in big technology companies, as rising bond yields draw investors out of stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 519 points in afternoon trading Wednesday.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Chris Wray said Wednesday that the FBI's background investigation of new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was limited in scope but that the "usual process" was followed. Wray's comments at a Senate committee hearing on national security threats were his first public statements about the bureau's investigation into Kavanaugh's past…

ALBANY, NY (AP) — The operator of a limousine company involved in a crash that killed 20 people was arrested Wednesday, state police said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the charges were related to the deadly wreck. Nauman Hussain was taken into custody following a traffic stop on a highway near Albany, the New York…