Editor's Note: Tropical Storm Melissa could become a hurricane. See the latest update for Friday, Oct. 24. Tropical Storm Melissa continues to spin in the Caribbean, with heavy rainfall and flooding ...

Hurricane Melissa has made 2 landfalls as of midday Wednesday, one in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm and one in eastern Cuba as a Category 3 storm. Another landfall is possible in the southern Bahamas ...

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation's neediest children out of preschool.