Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
A hurricane nears landfallHurricane Isaias, a Category 3 storm with winds of up to 115 miles per hour, is approaching the Florida Panhandle. It is expected to hit somewhere between Gulf Shores, Ala., and Destin, Fla., in the coming hours. Track its progress here. A huge storm surge is expected, forecasters said. People have filled sandbags, bought gasoline and boarded up buildings in preparation. The communities most at risk include Fort Walton Beach, Navarre, Destin and Pensacola. A tornado watch was issued this afternoon for most of the panhandle, as well as parts of Alabama and Georgia. Isaias is the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season. The storm officially became one on Wednesday night after strengthening in the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico. It could maintain its strength through landfall, forecasters warn.
A human rights lawyer wins the Nobel Peace PrizeNavi Pillay, a lawyer and international judge, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She led a United Nations commission last year that concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. The Nobel committee’s chairman told reporters that her work on the U.N. commission was “an important part of the reasoning why she received the prize.” Born in South Africa to a family of Indian Tamil origin, she fought apartheid as a lawyer, was a judge on a tribunal investigating genocide in Rwanda and became the U.N.’s top human rights official. The prize was seen as a rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, whose office denounced the Nobel committee today, as well as of President Trump, who has questioned the value of international law. Hours after the announcement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new sanctions on the International Criminal Court, on which Pillay served.
Conflict follows an ICE shooting in ManhattanNear the northern tip of Manhattan yesterday, an ICE agent shot Oscar Belgal, a 28-year-old from the Dominican Republic. He was in his car with his 5-year-old son, who was uninjured. At a news conference today, federal immigration officials characterized Belgal as a “thug,” referencing his guilty plea to grand larceny in 2023. New York politicians called for ICE to leave the city, while the homeland security secretary defended the agents’ actions and sought to blame the city’s policies and leaders for the shooting. The Police Department released body camera footage that captured the aftermath of the shooting. Read more about the case here.
A pilot intended to crash into Israel’s largest airport, Emiratis sayThe co-pilot of a FlyDubai flight, who attacked its captain last week, had intended to carry out a Sept. 11-inspired suicide crash into Israel’s biggest airport, the attorney general of the United Arab Emirates said. The attacker had developed extremist Islamist views over several years. More than 170 passengers, mostly Israelis, were on the flight. The report deepened questions about how signs of the attacker’s radicalization were missed before he was allowed to fly such a sensitive route. Learn more here. More top newsPOLITICS
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An artist reflectsMarina Abramović is the most influential performance artist of our time. On the cusp of 80, she spoke to us about her legacy — and her unfiltered career. Her partner once aimed an arrow at her as a microphone amplified her heartbeat. In another piece, “The Artist Is Present,” she sat with audiences for 736 hours and 30 minutes. (Though when our reporter asked for a two-hour interview, she said, “I never talk two hours. Let’s talk one hour with intensity.”) Where does the intensity come from? Art was the only thing her abusive mother encouraged in her. In her latest production, an autobiographical work that opens in New York in December, she comes to terms with it.
Return to ‘Eden’John Steinbeck’s epic novel “East of Eden” was an instant hit in 1952. Soon after, James Dean starred in an adaptation directed by Elia Kazan. Now, his granddaughter — Zoe Kazan — has adapted the book for Netflix. We asked her and eight other notable readers — including Lois Smith, who was in the 1955 film but didn’t read the novel until this summer — for their thoughts. Also in literature: The small publishing house New Directions has published 14 winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, including the last two. What’s its secret? Dinner table topics
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