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• The White House statements are a departure from comments Trump made earlier this week. Trump also approved Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s decision not to attend the kingdom’s financial summit.
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• VA says 115 vets with other-than-honorable discharges received mental health care last year under a new program. Veterans advocates say it’s a tiny fraction of such vets who need help.
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• Ninety-nine percent of applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness have been denied. A former student loan watchdog saw it coming.
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• Florida has some of the nation’s toughest building codes. But the rules are looser in the Panhandle, allowing construction that couldn’t stand up to the storm’s 155 mph winds.
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• As rescues continue after Hurricane Michael, officials expressed frustration at people who didn’t evacuate. But experts say people’s decisions to stay are almost always carefully considered.
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• The National Institute of Drug Abuse found 115 people die from opioid abuse every day in the United States.
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• According to the U.S. Census Bureau about 16 percent of Floridians are currently uninsured.
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• Acute flaccid myelitis causes weakness in arms or legs. The cause isn’t clear but may be related to viruses, environmental toxins or genetic disorders. Since 2014, 386 total cases have been confirmed.
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• In 2003, Paul Allen created an institute to figure out how the human brain works. That institute has already made contributions that may turn out to be part of his greatest legacy.
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• More details are emerging about the disappearance of a Saudi Arabian journalist and Washington Post contributor who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, eight days ago.
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