Hours after making landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou Island, Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 storm late Monday as it moved west the Caribbean on a path forecast to bring it near Jamaica, officials said.

Some people who lost family members to opioids expressed shock and sadness, but also a resolve to keep fighting, after the Supreme Court on Thursday torpedoed a massive settlement for victims of the drug crisis.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, ending a yearslong legal battle and allowing him to return home a free man for the first time since 2012.

The first named storm of the hurricane season is threatening the Gulf Coast of Mexico and Texas with flooding and tropical-storm-force winds.

Residents in the New Mexico village of Ruidoso were told to immediately flee Monday due to a wildfire that had grown to more than 1,300 acres, officials said.