1. FDA Intensifies Crackdown

2. The Food and Drug Administration announced a set of major new enforcement actions Wednesday aimed at reducing the sales and marketing of electronic cigarettes to teenagers in the United States. Saying vaping among teenagers has reached "an epidemic proportion," the agency said it was taking a "series of critical and historic" measures to curb the alarming trends. The agency issued more than 1,300 warning letters and fines to convenience stores, gas stations and other stores over the summer for selling e-cigarettes to minors. The FDA says it's the agency's largest such action in history. The agency is also giving companies that make the most popular e-cigarettes among teenagers — JUUL, Vuse, Blu, MarkTen XL and Logic — 60 days to prove they can keep the devices away from minors. If they don't, the FDA said it may pull the devices containing flavors that appeal to children from the market. The announcement is the latest in a series of steps the FDA has been taking to try to curb vaping among young people. Critics have charged the agency has been working too slowly to regulate the devices. A report by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that was released in January said that while are likely to be less risky than regular cigarettes, e-cigarettes aren't free of health risks. As stressed in the report, "there is conclusive evidence that most products emit a variety of potentially toxic substances."

3. In Other News
Hurricane Florence is weakening as it creeps closer to North Carolina but the impact of the immense storm will still be catastrophic for millions of people. Florence, now a Category 2 hurricane, is forecast to hit in the Carolinas beginning Thursday. The storm is expected to slowly move inland, battering much of the US coast for days.
President Trump signed an executive order that intends to punish foreign entities for meddling in US elections. The order lets the director of national intelligence identify groups responsible for election interference and direct the Treasury Department to apply sanctions. But Democrats and Republicans criticized it as insufficient and want to see mandatory sanctions instead.
By the end of this century, cancer will be the No. 1 killer in the world. That depressing news comes in a new report from the World Health Organization. Almost 10 million people will die from cancer this year, and there will be 18 million new cases. About one in five men and one in six women will develop cancer in their lifetimes. And cancer is "rapidly growing," the report says, because the world population is growing, and more people means more cancer. Also, the global population is aging, and cancer risks grow as we age.
Six people are dead -- including the suspect -- after a man opened fire at multiple locations in Bakersfield, California, on Wednesday. Authorities say a husband and wife had a confrontation with a man at the business when the husband shot and killed him. The husband then fatally shot his wife. Another subject arrived on the scene and after a short foot chase the gunman shot and killed him. He proceeded to flee the area and went to a nearby residence where he shot and killed two more people. The gunman then hijacked a vehicle with a woman and child inside, but they were able to escape safely. He then headed to a nearby highway where he saw a deputy and pulled over. As the deputy confronted him, the gunman turned his gun on himself to take his own life. The motive and what the gunman's relationship was to the victims is unclear at this time.