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Former First Lady Melania Trump—the wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump—laid out her supportive position on abortion rights in a new interview on FOX’s Sunday Morning Futures, which aired on Oct. 6. Reporter Maria Bartiromo introduced the topic by reading out a portion of Melania’s upcoming memoir, Melania, including a section where she writes she is pro-choice, and a passage that states it “is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from intervention or pressure from the government.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] When asked whether she spoke with her husband about her articulation of abortion rights before publishing them in her memoir, Melania backed up her comments. “Yes, he knew my position and my beliefs since the day we met, and I believe in individual freedom,” she said.

Milton has developed beyond a tropical storm and has now strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane. An advisory posted by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. EST stated: “Air Force hurricane hunters find Milton rapidly intensifying into a hurricane.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Swells generated by the system have been impacting the coast of the southwestern Gulf of Mexico throughout the day.

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BEIJING — Coco Gauff won her second title this season with a lopsided 6-1, 6-3 victory over Karolina Muchova in the final of the China Open on Sunday. Aged 20, the sixth-ranked U. S. player became the youngest China Open champion in 14 years. She is also the second American champion in Beijing, following Serena Williams’ title runs in 2004 and 2013. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] It was Gauff’s eighth career title.

Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk cast the upcoming presidential election in dire terms during an appearance with Donald Trump, calling the Republican presidential nominee the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America.” The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla who also purchased X, Musk joined Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday at the site where the former president survived an assassination attempt in July.

Hurricane Milton formed Sunday and is expected to rapidly intensify into a major hurricane that will hit Florida’s Gulf Coast late Tuesday or Wednesday, bringing potentially “life-threatening” storm surge, destructive winds and flooding rainfall to a large portion of the state. An expanded state of emergency now includes 51 Florida counties, including Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties.