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Hurricane Florence, heralded by weather experts as the worst storm to hit the Carolinas in 30 years, approached the East Coast as a Category 4 storm and downgraded to a Category 1 storm when it made landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on Friday morning, with winds at 90 to 75 miles per hour.

Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, early Friday morning as a Category 1 storm with winds at 75 miles per hour.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Galveston, Texas, issued a temporary injunction last week, preventing the 2015 WOTUS rule from being applied in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, at least until the current litigation efforts have been resolved.

After a decades-long debate on allowing hormones in beef, the European Union (EU) has announced in early September it was ready to begin formal talks on giving U.S. beef a bigger “steak” in the quota of non-EU-produced beef allowed into European markets.

Total beef exports were up 16.8 percent year over year in July contributing to a year-to-date increase of 15 percent for the first seven months of the year. Japan, the largest beef export market, had a monthly increase of 12.9 percent and is up 7.5 percent for the year to date.

Missouri became the first state ever to pass regulations regarding “fake meat” labeling in May when then Gov. Eric Greitens signed it into law on June 1, his last day in office.