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Hurricane Isaias has become the first Atlantic hurricane of the two thousand twenty six season, developing late Wednesday and tying a historical record for late-season formation. The storm is now threatening the Gulf Coast, and forecasters are watching its track closely as communities brace for potential impact.

Shifting to a health story with real implications for millions of people, new research suggests that vitamin D two supplements — one of the most popular forms on shelves — may actually lower the body's levels of vitamin D three, which is the form your skin produces naturally from sunlight and the one scientists believe offers stronger immune protection. The trade-off is worth knowing before you reach for that bottle.

And in Kosovo, lawmakers ended a more than nineteen-month legislative deadlock by electing Justina Pula as the country's new president in a late-night parliamentary session. The vote averted a snap election, and Pula becomes only the third woman to hold the largely ceremonial post since Kosovo's post-war independence from Serbia.

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