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Benjamin McDowell   30  pleaded guilty Monday to being a felon in possession of a weapon  according to reports by multiple news outlets.  He  also could be fined $250 000 when  he âs sentenced at a later date.
Authorities first began investigating  McDowell  in December 2016 when  he  threatened a Myrtle Beach synagogue on Facebook. Local officials were already keeping tabs on  him  because  he  made friends with white supremacists groups and got tattoos associated with racist groups while in prison on a felony burglary charge  according to the FBI.
 McDowell  then said  he  wanted a gun and told an undercover FBI agent who offered to get  him  one that  he  planned to attack somewhere in the name of white power and write on the building âin the spirit of Dylann Roof â according to court records. Roof was sentenced to death last year for a racist shooting that killed nine black worshippers at a Charleston  South Carolina  church.
âI seen what Dylann Roof did and in my heart I reckon I got a little bit of hatred â the undercover agent recalled  McDowell  saying.
 McDowell   who couldnât legally own a gun because of the burglary conviction  was arrested after the purchase. Agents said  McDowell  bought the gun â which had the firing pin shaved down so that it would not work â and ammunition for $109  which  he  had borrowed from  his  grandfather.
Benjamin McDowell

Regional leader Carles Puigdemont  is due to address the regional parliament on Tuesday afternoon and Madrid is worried  it  will vote for a unilateral declaration of independence.
Catalan President Carles Puigdemont at the Palau de la Generalitat  the regional government headquarters in Barcelona  Spain  October 6  2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman
 Puigdemont  said on Sunday  he  had not been in contact with the Madrid government for some time because  it  refused to discuss independence.
“What is happening in Catalonia is real  whether they like it or not. Millions of people have voted  who want to decide. We have to talk about this ”  he  said.
Carles Puigdemont

Climate change was not the cause of  Hurricane Harvey   but there's reason to think a warmer planet can make such storms more devastating.
" Harvey  was almost certainly more intense than it would have been in the absence of human-caused warming " said one scientist.
Climate change didn't cause  Hurricane Harvey . But scientists can say it likely made the storm worse  according to Michael Mann  a distinguished professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State.
"If you look at the ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico  they're at near-record warm levels  about 87 Fahrenheit underneath  Harvey  right now  that's about 2 degrees Fahrenheit above average for this time of year. That's a lot of extra heat energy available to evaporate water vapor into the air " Jeff Masters  a meteorologist at The Weather Company who cofounded the weather-data website Weather Underground  told Business Insider on Thursday.
As  Harvey  picked up more moisture  it rapidly strengthened from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane before making landfall  after which it stalled as a tropical storm  dumping so much rain that the National Weather Service had to add more colors to its map.
 Harvey  has been described as a once-in-500-years-event  though some spots could hit the once-in-a-million-years benchmark. But such events seem to be becoming more common  as evidenced by major recent storms like Allison in 2001  Rita in 2005  and Ike in 2008. By some definitions  the Houston area faced 500-year floods in both 2015 and 2016.

Hurricane Harvey