A man who was helping his family clear debris from Hurricane Michael died Thursday when a tree fell on him, the Gulf County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office reported. Brad Price, 49, is the 35th person reported dead from last week’s Category 4 storm and its aftereffects. Florida has confirmed 25 storm-related deaths, many from falling trees in the heavily forested Panhandle region. Michael also killed 10 people in Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, where most were caught in flash flooding.

A U.S. student detained after arriving in Israel has won her appeal to study in the country, according to the student’s lawyers. The Supreme Court of Israel ruled Thursday that Lara Alqasem can proceed with her studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem despite her alleged support for a pro-Palestine boycott campaign against Israel. Alqasem, whose grandparents are Palestinian, arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on Oct. 2 with a valid student visa.

WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told President Donald Trump on Thursday that the United States should await the results of a Saudi investigation before responding to the disappearance and alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The president has hesitated to condemn Saudi Arabia outright, but Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Thursday he would not attend an upcoming global economic summit in the country. Many business executives and diplomats have pulled out of the meeting over concerns about Khashoggi’s disappearance from the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct.

Police arrested former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny on Wednesday, adding another name to the list of accomplices to Dr. Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of hundreds of young gymnasts. Nassar is serving a sentence of at least 40 years in prison for molesting girls in Michigan under the guise of medical treatment. Penny, who resigned in 2017, was indicted in Walker County, Texas, on allegations of working to thwart a criminal investigation into abuse by Nassar at the world famous Karolyi Ranch in Huntsville. The ranch served as the training center for the U.S.

Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died. He was 65. Two weeks ago, Allen announced that the non-Hodgkin lymphoma he was treated for in 2009 had returned. “Personal computing would not have existed without him,” Gates said in a statement, adding that Allen’s “second act” as a philanthropist was “focused on improving people’s lives and strengthening communities in Seattle and around the world.” Allen gave more than $2 billion to conservation causes, homeless charities, and other organizations over the course of two decades.

Once America’s retail giant, Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday after 132 years in business. The company plans to close 142 of its 700-plus remaining stores and lay off thousands of workers. Founded as a watch store, Sears blossomed into the Amazon of the early 1900s as a mail-order business. “What Sears did was make big-city merchandise available to people in small towns,” economist and author Marc Levinson said. The retailer at one time sold everything from build-your-own-house kits to grave markers.

Pastor and best-selling author Eugene Peterson is entering hospice care at the age of 85, his son Eric said in a widely circulated message to friends and family on Friday. Peterson’s contemporary English paraphrase of the Bible, The Message, became a bookshelf staple in Christian households in the 1990s. He translated The Message from the Bible’s original languages and said he wanted it to re-energize believers’ interest in the Scripture. After retiring from church work, Peterson served as a professor at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.