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Nate makes 2nd landfall outside Biloxi, Mississippi
A sanitation employee, right, talks to a homeless person under the Pontchartrain Expressway, during a homeless sweep in New Orleans, in advance of approaching Hurricane Nate, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) LAGH119
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Nate brought flooding and power outages to the Gulf Coast as it sloshed ashore outside Biloxi early Sunday, the first hurricane to make landfall in Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The storm hit the...
Lightning wing J.T. Brown raises a fist during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality before the start of the game against the Panthers at the BB&T Center in Sunrise on Saturday. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS)
Lightning's J.T. Brown raises fist in protest during anthem before Panthers game (w/ video)
In this April 18, 2015 file photo, rapper Nelly preforms on stage during a Corner Block Party concert at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. Police have arrested rapper Nelly after a woman said he raped her in a town outside Seattle, an accusation the Grammy winner's attorney staunchly denies. Auburn police spokesman Commander Steve Stocker said officers arrested Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., early Saturday, Oct. 17, 2017 in his tour bus at a Walmart. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File) NY113
Rapper Nelly, who was slated to visit Tampa next week, arrested on rape accusation
Flood waters from Hurricane Irma inundate a park on the St. Johns River on Sept. 11, 2017 in Jacksonville, Florida. Officials there knew the city was flood-prone and have stalled on implementing plans that could fix the problem. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
A weak hurricane could drown Jacksonville. Will its leaders protect it in time?

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Leonard Pitts Jr.: When ignorance is impervious to fact

You could call it a moment of truth, except that what actually came out of that moment was a realization of how little truth now matters.

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