Heavy rains lashed the east coast of Florida on Sunday as the tropical storm’s sustained winds fell just below Category 1 hurricane levels. Isaias weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm on Saturday afternoon after passing over the Bahamas. It is expected to make landfall in the Carolinas on Monday night then sweep up the East Coast, bringing heavy rain and flooding.

Despite doctors saying five days ago he would likely recover, businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has died from the coronavirus, his website announced on Thursday. He was 74.

A 4.2-magnitude earthquake near NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California didn’t stop the next NASA Mars rover from lifting off in Florida on Thursday morning. The car-sized Perseverance craft and its collection of cameras, microphones, drills, and lasers launched into space on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral. The rover, which was spearheaded by the NASA lab in Pasadena, should arrive on Mars in February 2021 at the end of a 300-million-mile journey.

While acknowledging the economy had rebounded since March and April, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday expressed concern that the coronavirus pandemic “will weigh heavily on economic activity, employment, and inflation.” The agency announced it will continue to buy $120 billion in Treasury and mortgage bonds each month, but what happens next will depend significantly on the course of the virus.

Oregon State Police will have a “robust presence” in downtown Portland as part of a plan negotiated with Democratic Gov. Kate Brown over the last 24 hours, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf said. Brown on Wednesday said federal agents will begin a “phased withdrawal” from the city on Thursday.

Individuals in several states report they have received packages of seeds from foreign countries they did not order. Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles said many of the shipments appear to have originated in China.

Worshippers, many without masks, filled Grace Community Church’s 3,500-person-capacity sanctuary in Sun Valley, Calif., on Sunday. Pastor John MacArthur on Friday wrote that his church would not comply with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s renewed coronavirus restrictions, arguing that the government overstepped its authority by regulating worship.