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Oct 19, 2026
The gun used by a 16-year-old who shot and killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, last week was a birthday gift from the shooter's mom, sources told CBS News.
The Maverick 88 pump-action 12-gauge shotgun was purchased legally in August 2026 by Shauntai Nickerson, the mother of Griffin J. John II, and given to him for recreational use, the sources said.
In 2020, Nickerson told a local television station that her son, who was 10 years old at the time, had special needs and was struggling with remote learning during the pandemic. She told KTVZ, "It'll be great for my son to get back in there and get the help that he needs with the skilled teachers that he needs to get it from."
The shooter initially fired at a passing pickup truck, whose driver made the initial 911 call, before forcing his way into the school by shooting through the glass panes of a set of double doors, police said last week. He then went into the first classroom to the left of those doors, where he killed all four victims and wounded two others.
The children killed in the shooting were ages 5, 8 and 11, police said. The teacher who was killed was identified as 25-year-old Megan Lambert. The 5-year-old victim was identified by police and his family as Rhoam Summer. The families of the two other children have not made their names public, Bend police said.
Two wounded victims are a 7-year-old girl and a 54-year-old teacher.
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Oct 19, 2026
Golfers play past felled trees at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington D.C., US, on Sunday. - Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg/Getty Images
One of the tensest showdowns between the Trump administration and the federal bench in Washington, DC, came to a head on Monday in a marathon court hearing over the President Donald Trump's efforts to overhaul a golf course that has been the subject of months of litigation.
Trump early Monday doubled down on his plan to close and renovate a public Washington, DC, golf course, saying construction would begin "IMMEDIATELY" despite a judge's order to provide three days' notice ahead of any construction.
Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that the government does not "need an approval" to proceed with the construction.
"Work is scheduled to begin IMMEDIATELY! The finished product will be World Class, and bring income and great prestige back to D.C.," he wrote.
But his plan to renovate the East Potomac Golf Course is already the subject of a legal fight as preservationists and golfers seek to stop the president from changing the public park.
The case may seem relatively minor compared to some of the other sweeping legal battles of Trump's second term. But the litigation has demanded the attention of several top attorneys from the Justice Department, who have sought to defend the actions government officials who are overseeing the course and have trie
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Oct 19, 2026
The Mississippi Attorney General's Office said in a statement on Monday that the Senatobia Police Department was justified in its use of force during a police-involved shooting last June that led to the death of a 1-year-old.
Kohen Wiley was shot and killed outside of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, on June 14 after an officer fired into a vehicle when those in the vehicle were allegedly evading police.
The attorney general's office said in its statement on Monday, "In this incident, the Attorney General's Office found the use of force was justified."
WATN - PHOTO: Attorney Ben Crump, at podium, is joined by members of Kohen Wiley's family during a press event in Senatobia, Mississippi, June 22, 2026.In a statement released in September by Senatobia Interim Chief of Police Angelica Maze, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations handed its investigative findings into Wiley's death to the Mississippi Attorney General's office, as required by law.
The shooting occurred after law enforcement officers responded to a shoplifting call in Senatobia, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
Officers who responded to a shoplifting call encountered two adults allegedly fleeing from the store with a child and going into a vehicle, according to the bureau.
Attorneys for the Wiley family said that the adults were accused of stealing diapers.
WATN - PHOTO: Photos of Kohen Wiley are shown during a press event in Senatobia, Mississippi, June 22, 2026.Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, with one opening fire when the driver alle
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Oct 19, 2026
The spacecraft will head to Mars's larger moon, Phobos [JAXA]
A spacecraft has launched from Japan headed for Mars' moon Phobos, where it will attempt to grab some moondust and bring it back to Earth.
If it is successful, this will become the first time a sample has been returned from Mars or its moons to be analysed in laboratories here on Earth.
The spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at Phobos in August 2027.
It is hoped that the Mars Moons Exploration (MMX) mission, which is led by the Japanese Space Agency, will solve the mystery of how Mars's moons formed.
Prof Sara Russell, from the Natural History Museum, who is the MMX mission's deputy for sample analysis, said: "There hasn't yet been a successful mission to go to Phobos and bring a bit back to Earth.
"I think this is an incredibly ambitious and fun mission," she said.
[BBC]
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Oct 19, 2026
By Jason Lange
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish ?his Republican Party in the November 3 congressional elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that ?closed on Monday.
Some 31% of Americans approve of Trump's performance in office, down a percentage point from two weeks earlier ?and the lowest level in either of his presidential terms, the four-day poll showed.
Asked which party they would vote for if the congressional elections were held today in what is known as a "generic ballot" question, some 47% of registered voters in the nationwide poll picked Democrats and 35% chose Republicans. The 12-point Democratic ?advantage was the widest over the ?current election cycle and could bolster Democratic hopes of seizing control of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
For Republicans, losing control of either ?chamber could complicate Trump's agenda in the last two years of his term.
Generic ballot polls are national polls that provide an overall view of which party poll respondents want to see in charge in Congress. While ?these polls ?provide a view of national public sentiment, they ?do not capture all the nuances of ?the state-by-state and district-by-district contests that determine control of the Senate and House, contests in which Republicans hold some structural advantages.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll two weeks earlier showed Democrats leading Republicans by 7 points, 44% to 37%.
Much of the drop in support for Republican congressional candidates was due to a larger share of women saying they would pick Democrats. Some 50% of female voters said they would vote Democratic, ?compared to 32% eyeing Republican candidates. Men also favored ?Democrats, but by a smaller margin.
Trump's popularity has suffered since ?he ordered military strikes on
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Oct 19, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Monday and raised concerns about President Donald Trump's decision to waive key sanctions on Russia, as members of Congress push back against the president's moves to ease economic pressure on Moscow.
During the video call, Zelenskyy reported concerns over disruptions to U.S. intelligence sharing and the administration's decision to waive Russia sanctions. He also told lawmakers that critical Starlink services remained degraded, hindering Ukraine's ability to intercept drones from Moscow, according to a readout from Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
Blumenthal and Tillis led the meeting, which included members of both the House and the Senate.
"Funding Russia's war machine, disabling Ukraine's satellite communications, and crippling its air defense are all impediments to peace," the senators wrote in a joint statement. "Trying to appease a murderous thug like Vladimir Putin will only prolong this war and bring greater casualties."
According to the readout, Zelenskyy also raised concerns about delays in the delivery of critical air-defense interceptors. "As a result of these disruptions, civilians — children — are dying," Blumenthal and Tillis said.
In his own social media post, Zelenskyy reiterated what he told lawmakers and said he has received "no explanation" from America on intelligence sharing and Starlink degradation.
"Without America, things would be much harder for us," Zelenskyy told lawmakers in the video.
The call comes days after Trump signed an executive order on Friday waiving key sanctions on Russia that were outlined in the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning
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Oct 19, 2026
By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Elizabeth Pineau
PARIS, Oct 19 (Reuters) - French authorities set curfews in parts of several cities on Monday, including Paris, Lille and Nice, as they faced pressure over security failings after a weekend of riots and looting stemming from nationwide anti-government protests.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu had ruled out a blanket curfew in Paris but not a state of emergency, and had said ?it was more appropriate for now to apply partial and localised curfews.
"My determination to restore order is absolute," he told reporters.
Paris police said they had issued orders barring protests in certain areas of ?the French capital from 8 p.m. (1800 GMT) and had issued a curfew around the Place de la Republique and Les Halles from 11:00 p.m. Both would remain in effect until 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
"A police deployment is in place to ensure strict compliance with these measures," ?the police said in a statement.
A source in Lecornu's office said a curfew for minors had been set between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. for the next two days in Lille, Douai, Wattignies and Denain with the agreement of the local mayors.
In Nice, mayor Eric Ciotti said in a video posted online that he had signed an order installing a curfew for minors in central Nice overnight.
Marseille banned gatherings and demonstrations. French unions meanwhile called for a new round of strikes and rallies on November 5.
The weekend of looting and violence between some protesters and police followed weeks of student demonstrations, rocking France six months ahead of its next presidential election and highlighting pressures from a weak economy and surging debt.
MINISTER ?BLAMES FAR LEFT
Lecornu blamed far-left groups for some of France's worst unrest in ?years. "There is, after all, a far-left movement that wants to cause — we can't put it any more strongly — profound unrest in the co
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Oct 19, 2026
Homeland Security Investigations task force officers escort a suspect accused of illegally registering to vote during a federal operation Monday in Commerce. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)Federal authorities have charged 28 people from across California with illegally registering to vote or casting ballots in federal elections despite not being U.S. citizens — again escalating an election battle between the state and the Trump administration just weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms.
Authorities said 11 of the 28 were arrested as of Monday morning and that the 17 others "will be in custody in the near future." Some of the 28, all of whom are lawful permanent residents of the U.S., are charged with lying about registering or voting on their naturalization paperwork, officials said; 21 of them are suspected of casting votes, some in multiple elections. None are undocumented immigrants, a favorite target of President Trump and a group he has accused of infiltrating U.S. elections in the past.
Those charged represent a tiny fraction of the 20,000 "likely noncitizens" that the Justice Department alleged are on California rolls just last week, and an even tinier fraction of the more than 190,000 noncitizens the Trump administration alleged were on state rolls as recently as July.
State officials have previously warned — along with independent elections experts — that the Trump administration has badly overstated voter fraud claims in other states — including in Nevada, where officials recently found that all 185 people the Justice Department flagged as potential noncitizens were in fact citizens —
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Oct 19, 2026
The 2026 midterm elections are just two weeks away. So where do things stand — nationwide — in the race to control Congress? Which party has a better chance of, you know, winning? To get a sense of that, it helps to geek out over some cold, hard data.
The usual caveats apply, of course. Polls aren't predictions; they're momentary snapshots of public opinion. Big events can, and often do, change the course of elections.
Yet the stakes in November couldn't be higher, especially for President Trump, who has enjoyed complete Republican control of Congress for the first half of his second term. Flipping the House would give Democrats the power to block the president's agenda, investigate his administration and even impeach him (again); flipping the Senate would allow them to stymie his Supreme Court nominees too.
The state-by-state midterm landscape is finally taking shape — and a few clear polling trends are emerging. Here are the numbers to watch as Election Day nears.
The generic congressional ballot Every pollster asks a version of the same question: If an election for U.S. Congress were held today, which party's candidate would you vote for in your district? In fact, this particular polling prompt is so pervasive, it's known as the "generic ballot" (at least among politics nerds).
You obviously can't divine the outcome of an entire midterm election from a single question that flattens 435 House contests into a binary choice between "the Democrat" and "the Republican." But the generic ballot can suggest which direction voters are heading.
History is helpful here,
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Oct 19, 2026
Satellite images taken a decade ago captured a plane-like shape on a remote island, fueling theories that it could be the wreckage of the aircraft flown by pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in 1937 during her ambitious round-the-world flight.
The photographs led to a highly anticipated October expedition that Purdue University described as the best chance yet at locating the vanished aircraft. Enthusiasts around the globe watched with bated breath, hoping the nearly 90-year mystery would be solved.
But on Oct. 19, the expedition team announced that the object was not Earhart's Electra 10E plane, but rather likely a "collection of large trees."
"We accomplished our goal to determine what the Taraia Object was, and we're deeply grateful to the private donors who shared our vision and made this journey possible," lead archaeologist Rick Pettigrew said in a statement. "Our team remains in great spirits and proud of what was accomplished."
The latest expedition follows the same pattern as every other that came before it - great anticipation followed by dashed hopes and disappointment. Two years ago, an exploration company announced that what it thought was Earhart's plane on the ocean floor was just a rock formation.
But despite the many
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Oct 19, 2026
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that he warned the White House of "unintended consequences" that could stem from waiving sanctions on Russia.
President Trump signed an executive order last week waiving sanctions on Russia that were slated to take effect under a legislative package championed by former Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and passed by Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support. The move quickly sparked bipartisan backlash.
Asked whether he wants to waive the tariffs or forgo the move, Johnson told Fox News host Larry Kudlow, "Congress voted on this decisively just several weeks ago, and we understand that Putin cannot be trusted."
"He demonstrates that over and over and over," Johnson said. "So I did talk to several of my colleagues yesterday who had concerns about that. They're on committees of jurisdiction, like intelligence and foreign affairs, and I didn't talk to the president yesterday because he and I are both traveling nonstop and we're on different schedules. But I told the White House team that we need to talk about it, and I think carefully consider the unintended consequences that may ensue from that."
Johnson added that he knows the "president's evaluating this as he does everything else."
"Look, he has two major objectives, as you know, Larry. Every day he wants to keep America safe, and he wants to bring down the cost of living for every American. He thinks outside the box with creative ideas all the time, and he carefully evaluates those. So I think th
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Oct 19, 2026
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - The jagged limestone rocks of Old Standard Quarry have weathered many eras of history. The property was the site of a Civil War battle, then a quarry and is now a popular destination for bungee jumping, its dark green water fed by a natural spring.
Recently, the state proposed yet another use for the land: as storage for radioactive nuclear waste from around the country.
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"I thought it was a joke," said Pasha Majdi, president of the Jefferson County Commission. "It doesn't make any sense."
It wasn't a joke. Without consulting residents or local officials, Gov. Patrick Morrisey's energy office submitted a detailed pitch to the Trump administration offering the Jefferson County quarry and three other sites for a potential "Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus."
The Trump administration has said such campuses would need to agree to store spent nuclear fuel - one of the nation's most vexing environmental problems - in exchange for federal support for research, development and production facilities that aim to modernize and grow the country's nuclear power infrastructure.
The administration claims the campuses could create 25,000 jobs and generate tens of billions of dollars in private investment and tax revenue. Those economics are alluring to states eager for development.
Twenty-six expressed some manner of interest before the federal government chose Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Idaho and West Virginia as finalists.
"West Virginia is intentionally beginning with nuclear initiatives that are actionable and high-value, particularly those tied to the spent and p
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Oct 19, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a ban on distilling spirits in private homes more than 150 years ago.
Plaintiffs challenging the prohibition on home distilling claim the 1868 law is an antiquated relic of Reconstruction-era politics. They argue that Congress overstepped its taxation powers when it enacted the home distilling ban as part of a tax reform measure designed to curb fraud by commercial distillers.
Government attorneys counter that Congress properly restricted where spirits can be distilled to prevent producers from evading federal excise taxes. They warn that lifting the ban would violate Supreme Court precedent and erode congressional powers.
Federal law makes home distilling a crime punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Separate challenges to the law divided two federal circuit courts, which issued conflicting decisions in April, only 11 days apart.
A three-judge panel from the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the federal ban in a case brought by John Ream, a brewpub owner from Newark, Ohio, who wants to distill whisky at home for his personal consumption.
A Fifth Circuit panel ruled in favor of different plaintiffs — members of the Texas-based Hobby Distillers Association — and concluded that statutory prohibitions on in-home distilling are outside the scope of Congress' taxing power under the Constitution.
The Supreme Court agreed to review the Fifth Cir
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Oct 19, 2026
Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade shared a video on Monday showing an injured soldier evacuated by drone. (Ukraine's 92nd Assault Brigade)Ukraine has shared a video showing what it says is the world's first evacuation of an injured soldier from the frontlines by drone.
The "historic" mission comes just as Kyiv faces a dire turn in its relationship with Washington over the withdrawal of support in its fight against Russia.
Shared by the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade on Monday, the video shows the soldier strapping himself into a large drone and being flown at what appears to be relatively low altitude over blurred-out territory. The drone carefully lowers him down and the drone operator greets him with "Welcome back to the ground!" The video also showed blurred faces of drone operators who carried out the mission.
The post said the unidentified infantryman was wounded while at his position. "Due to intense enemy drone activity and the presence of landmines, evacuation using conventional unmanned ground vehicles was impossible," the brigade said.
"At that point, the specialists in our unit took i
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Oct 19, 2026
Kids will soon have a financial interest in the future of space.
"Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX (SPCX) shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many," SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said in an X post on Monday.
Musk didn't specify an age range for the proposed gift.
SpaceX stock rose 1% in premarket trading on Monday.
There are currently about 73 million children under the age of 18 living in America, according to the latest data from the Census Bureau. That number goes down to about 18.5 million for newborns up to 4 years old.
SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell has already pledged a personal donation of over $320 million in SpaceX stock to fund Trump Accounts for more than two million children.
Brian Sozzi is Yahoo Finance's Executive Editor, host of the
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Oct 19, 2026
A federal judge refused the Department of Justice's (DOJ) demand to step aside from a key hearing on Monday over the future of East Potomac Park, which President Trump wants to renovate into a championship-style golf course.
The Trump administration has accused U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of bias after she yelled at a government attorney last week to express disappointment that hundreds of trees were cut down at the park without additional notice.
The DOJ accused her of "violating the basic norms" that a judge be fair and impartial.
"It is easy to weaponize selective quotations to bring a baseless recusal motion. But it is much harder to meet the demanding legal standard against a full record," Reyes wrote in a 13-page opinion denying the effort late Sunday.
"By any objective measure, the Government fails to meet the standard for recusal," she continued.
Reyes, an appointee of former President Biden who serves on the federal bench in the nation's capital, oversees a lawsuit brought by a preservationist group and individual golfers.
They challenge Trump's desire for a massive renovation at East Potomac Park that would shift it into a championship-style golf course, saying the project is unlawful. The president
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Oct 19, 2026
A federal judge refused the Department of Justice's (DOJ) demand to step aside from a key hearing on Monday over the future of East Potomac Park, which President Trump wants to renovate into a championship-style golf course.
The Trump administration has accused U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of bias after she yelled at a government attorney last week to express disappointment that hundreds of trees were cut down at the park without additional notice.
The DOJ accused her of "violating the basic norms" that a judge be fair and impartial.
"It is easy to weaponize selective quotations to bring a baseless recusal motion. But it is much harder to meet the demanding legal standard against a full record," Reyes wrote in a 13-page opinion denying the effort late Sunday.
"By any objective measure, the Government fails to meet the standard for recusal," she continued.
Reyes, an appointee of former President Biden who serves on the federal bench in the nation's capital, oversees a lawsuit brought by a preservationist group and individual golfers.
They challenge Trump's desire for a massive renovation at East Potomac Park that would shift it into a championship-style golf course, saying the project is unlawful. The president
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Oct 19, 2026
A search is ongoing to find the 11 people missing after a boat carrying 27 people capsized early Friday in the Pacific Ocean.
Several of the 16 survivors pulled from the water were treated for injuries consistent with shark bites, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Aircraft and vessels are continuing the search for the missing passengers in waters about 140 miles west of Ensenada, Mexico, after the U.S. Coast Guard received a distress call at 1 a.m. Friday, reporting a vessel taking on water.
Helicopter crews arrived about an hour later and found passengers floating amid debris. It took around 90 minutes to pull 16 people from the water.
"People were holding onto each other, to debris, just treading and trying to stay above water before being rescued," Lt. Santiago Tamburini told CBC.
All 16 survivors are Mexican nationals, the Mexican consulate in San Diego told the Associated Press. The survivors were taken to a Coast Guard base in San Diego and then to local hospitals, where two are in critical condition, CBC reported.
"Several of the individuals rescued were suffering from severe injuries consistent with shark bites, and the Coast Guard provided life-saving first aid while en route (to) San Diego," the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement on Saturday.
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Oct 19, 2026
The balance of power in state governments is on the ballot in many states this November.
Both parties could win "trifectas" -- control of the governor's mansion and both chambers of the state legislature -- in some states, which would give them more power to advance their agendas.
Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images - PHOTO: The Arizona State Capitol complex in Phoenix, Feb. 2, 2026.Where Democrats are eyeing trifectas
"It's a great environment for Democrats this year and the opportunity in state legislatures is huge," Will Rusche, an official with the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, told ABC News.
One opportunity is in Pennsylvania, where Democrats control the state House (103 Democrats to 100 Republicans) but the GOP holds the state Senate (23 Democrats to 27 Republicans).
Democrats are hoping to net three seats to flip the Senate and hold onto the governorship if Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro wins reelection. Only half of Pennsylvania's state Senate seats are up for reelection.
Democrats have said they'll raise the minimum wage, codify abortion rights and work on transportation funding if they have a trifecta. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party, in partnership with Shapiro, is running the "Rise Up Pennsylvania Initiative" for getting out the vote for congressional, gubernatorial and statehouse elections.
"You've got the power to help us get more stuff done here in Pennsylvania," Shapiro
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Oct 19, 2026
The balance of power in state governments is on the ballot in many states this November.
Both parties could win "trifectas" -- control of the governor's mansion and both chambers of the state legislature -- in some states, which would give them more power to advance their agendas.
Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images - PHOTO: The Arizona State Capitol complex in Phoenix, Feb. 2, 2026.Where Democrats are eyeing trifectas
"It's a great environment for Democrats this year and the opportunity in state legislatures is huge," Will Rusche, an official with the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, told ABC News.
One opportunity is in Pennsylvania, where Democrats control the state House (103 Democrats to 100 Republicans) but the GOP holds the state Senate (23 Democrats to 27 Republicans).
Democrats are hoping to net three seats to flip the Senate and hold onto the governorship if Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro wins reelection. Only half of Pennsylvania's state Senate seats are up for reelection.
Democrats have said they'll raise the minimum wage, codify abortion rights and work on transportation funding if they have a trifecta. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party, in partnership with Shapiro, is running the "Rise Up Pennsylvania Initiative" for getting out the vote for congressional, gubernatorial and statehouse elections.
"You've got the power to help us get more stuff done here in Pennsylvania," Shapiro
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Oct 19, 2026
Protests such as this one in Lyon rocked France over the weekend (Jeff PACHOUD)Protesters blocked the entrance to the Louvre in Paris on Monday, as French authorities scrambled to stem public discontent fuelling mass cost-of-living demonstrations that over the weekend spilled over into some of the worst street violence in recent years.
President Emmanuel Macron ordered a security review as the country's interior minister admitted that the police "had lost control" during the weekend's unrest.
Undeterred, the Yellow Vests movement which organised the weekend's rallies called for a new round of protests Saturday.
Italy, Spain and Portugal, where anger over rising prices has also led to protests, were keeping a nervous eye on the developments after smaller clashes broke out in Milan over the weekend and protests about housing costs persisted in Spanish cities.
Some half a million people turned out across France to protest the surging cost of living, a culmination of four weeks of protests that began with high school students demanding better conditions at their schools.
What started as peaceful demonstrations morphed into violence in some places, as masked groups on the sidelines of the protests attacked law enforcement, broke into town halls and other public buildings, setting many of them ablaze, looted shops, and set fire to cars, bicycles and scooters on the streets.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered to resign on Monday after more than 2,500 people were arrested and nearly 1,000 members of the security forces injured. Protesters were also hurt, with one demonstrator's hand blown off by a police crowd-control grenade.
"On Saturday, in some major cities, you couldn't look shopkeepers in the eye after hundreds of shops had been looted and tell t
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Oct 19, 2026
Homebuyers are backing out of contracts at near-record rates, a potential sign of how higher mortgage rates are prompting buyers to rethink their plans.
Nationwide, 14.5% of homes fell out of contract in September, according to Redfin data, the highest share on record apart from the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more: Why the housing market is in for 'a challenging couple months'
Homes can fall out of contract for a number of reasons, such as inspection findings or financing pitfalls, or when a buyer just has a change of heart. But pending sales tend to fall through at higher rates when buyers have more options and more negotiating power, as they currently do in much of the country.
Indeed, metro areas that are notably buyer's markets, like Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla., and Las Vegas, all had contract cancellation rates approaching 20%, higher than anywhere else in the country. But they're relatively rare in strong seller's markets like San Francisco, where just 2.8% of deals fell apart.
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Oct 19, 2026
Senate Democrats are quietly floating the ouster of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after the Nov. 3 election as the political price for cooperation on key defense-related issues in the postelection lame-duck session, and they may have some GOP support to shake up the Pentagon's leadership, according to Senate sources.
The Defense Department has set recruiting records under Hegseth's leadership, and the Pentagon chief appears to have strong support from President Trump, who likes to brag that Hegseth looks like a military leader from "central casting."
But some Republican senators haven't been happy with Hegseth's leadership, especially his ouster of well-respected military leaders such as Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, Army chief of staff Randy George, Navy Secretary John Phelan and four-star Gen. Chris Donahue, the top U.S. military officer in Europe.
Democrats view Hegseth's leadership as a disaster and are looking for leverage to push him out after the midterm elections, according to Senate sources, just as they attempted to push former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem out of her job during the prolonged stalemate over funding for her department earlier this year.
Trump eventually fired Noem after key Republican senators, such as Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), turned against her publicly.
Now Democrats have significant leverage over Hegseth's future at the Pentagon as they're threatening to hold up emergency defense funding the White House requested in June as well as regular funding for the Defense Department, which expires on Dec. 11.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a member of the Senate A
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Oct 19, 2026
By Alasdair Pal
SYDNEY, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Australian lawmaker Helen Haines was in a critical condition on Monday after being deliberately struck by a car outside her office, with ?Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying a terrorism taskforce would be investigating the suspect arrested.
Albanese said ?it was too early to determine the motive for the attack but pointed to the changing face of social media ?having raised the temperature around politics in a country where such violence is extremely rare.
Victoria Police said a 43-year-old man had been arrested after the attack on independent MP Haines in Wangaratta, around three hours' drive northeast of Melbourne.
Haines, 65, was airlifted to hospital, Albanese said.
When asked by public broadcaster ABC whether the increased ?anger around politics had led to ?worries about attacks on politicians, the prime minister pointed to the anonymity of online content.
"The concern, if you look at anyone's social media feeds and look ?at the comments, people will say things that they would never say face to face. But the temperature has undoubtedly been increased. Not just here in Australia, of course. We've seen incidents internationally as well," he ?said.
"Here ?in Australia, it is a good thing that politicians ?are able to go about their community ?and engage with people. I don't want to see a political system in which you can't have conversations with people at the supermarket, in the street, at street meetings, public forums. That's an important part of our democracy."
NO THREAT TO PUBLIC
Victoria Police Acting Superintendent Ashley Mason told a press conference there was no further threat to the public from the incident.
"All of our thoughts are with Helen, ?her family, her friends, her team, and her community ?at this extremely difficult time. We are praying for her ?full recovery," Albanese earlier told a press ?confere
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Oct 19, 2026
Republicans are already starting to blame each other as the midterm election spirals further out of their control.
Everyone is bracing for President Donald Trump's ire if the party loses big in November. House Republicans are planning to accuse the Senate side. Trump political aides have taken to directly calling campaigns they feel aren't performing well enough. National GOP operatives are quietly furious at lackluster candidates who didn't do enough to prepare for a tough year despite early warnings. And some GOP candidates are pointing the finger back at their own party committees.
It's a vicious cycle, according to more than a dozen top GOP operatives and lawmakers who spoke to POLITICO, some of whom were granted anonymity to candidly discuss private conversations.
"If it happens, there will be plenty of blame to go around," said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), who is in his own tighter-than-comfortable race.
That Republicans have already spent significant time gaming out the aftermath and how to insulate themselves from the fallout of what they fear will be significant GOP losses illustrates how precarious the current landscape is for the party. That's even as top Republicans publicly insist they are bullish on keeping control of both chambers in Congress.
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), who is widely expected to be the next National Republican Senatorial Committee chair, told reporters Thursday that "if the Democrats do win the House and the Senate, it won't be because of their left-wing lunatic candidates, it'll be because people are pissed off about gas prices, and I get that."
House Republicans are annoyed with Senate Republicans for fumbling a once-safe GOP map as well as creating top-of-the-ticket drag for them with bad candidates in some key states — but senators privately put the onus on T
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Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/AxiosAI is producing reality-bending midterm ads about defaced Bibles, upscale dinners and a board game with a "Death to America" playing card.
Why it matters: The warnings about deepfakes are coming true. Election laws haven't kept pace with a world where campaigns can put words in opponents' mouths and create realistic-looking scenes that didn't happen.
The Wesleyan Media Project found $137 million had been spent on 220 AI-generated ads through Oct. 11, mostly from Republicans.Four states have laws prohibiting certain uses of AI-generated deepfakes in political ads, while 27 more require some form of disclosure about their use. No federal law specifically regulates AI-generated political ads.The big picture: An Axios analysis found numerous political ads partly or fully made by generative AI, sometimes undisclosed.
Georgia Senate: Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Republicans, has run a series of AI-generated
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Oct 19, 2026
First lady Melania Trump pressed her husband's administration to give women's health greater priority in medical research, USA TODAY has learned — a push expected to culminate Oct. 19 in an executive order creating a new division at the National Institutes of Health.
President Donald Trump is expected to establish the Women's Health Division and a White House Women's Health Task Force aimed at overhauling the federal government's approach to women's health, according to a White House document obtained by USA TODAY.
The initiative comes amid a flurry of meetings set up by the first lady herself inside the East Wing including working sessions with physicians and other experts in the public and private sectors. She met with officials from Health and Human Services. She wanted to understand gaps in care.
"I acted quickly and organized working sessions between the doctors who I originally consulted, East Wing policy makers, the President, Secretary Kennedy, and other key stakeholders to shape this Executive Order, establish the task force, and create a new department within the NIH, dedicated to women's health exclusively," the first lady said in a statement exclusively provided to USA TODAY by her senior advisor, Marc Beckman.
The first lady is set to lead the event in the Rose Garden, giving a speech highlighting the need for women's health research, using artificial intelligence to speed up health discoveries, ensuring care is accessible and affordable, and approaching to
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Oct 19, 2026
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee called on the Pentagon to publicly reveal the total cost of the war in Iran, demanding non-classified answers about the damage to U.S. bases and other military facilities in the Middle East.
Five Democratic senators wrote in a letter to Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, that the Trump administration's "ongoing efforts to hide the true cost of this war are outrageous and unacceptable."
The letter, first reported by USA TODAY, asks the Pentagon to reveal an estimated cost of the damage, a timeline for beginning repairs, and how much it has spent adapting new facilities to account for the damage done to military bases in the region.
The U.S. military estimated that the Iran war has cost $43.6 billion as of Sept. 3, according to an update provided by Central Command to the congressional national security committees. The cost update, however, does not account for damage to U.S. bases and other military facilities in the region that were damaged or destroyed by Iranian strikes.
"During a recent classified briefing, you provided information to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the estimated cost of the damage to U.S. bases and facilities," the senators wrote. "However, tha
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Oct 19, 2026
CYPRESS, Texas - There's something missing in this conservative Houston suburb on the eve of early voting next Monday: Visible support for Republicans, particularly the embattled Senate candidate.
In the sprawling Bridgeland subdivision, yard signs appear to favor Democratic state Rep. James Talarico over his rival, GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton. The signage gap matches recent polling, which shows Talarico, a four-term state representative, either tied or several points ahead of Paxton, who has never lost an election in 25 years.
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Nowhere is that more clear than on Bridgeland's Inspiration Drive, where voters on both sides of the political aisle say that Paxton, dogged by corruption scandals and accusations of infidelity, has lost support from a crucial segment of the electorate: suburban women. Interviews with these female voters, who tend to outvote men and therefore carry extra sway in growing communities, reveal a combination of apathy toward Paxton's candidacy and an active shift by some conservatives toward his Democratic opponent.
Republican Tess Eugenio, who works in human resources, said there is a split on her street between the vocal supporters for Talarico and those whom she suspects will vote for Paxton, even if they're not advertising it.
"People don't want to talk about whether they're going to vote for him, but they will," Eugenio, 57, said of Paxton. "The question is, will it be enough?"
Across the street, Maria Kostecka, a retired preschool teacher, said female friends and neighbors have approached her expressing enthusiasm for Talarico, especially after she posted his campaign yard sign.
"I start to fee
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Oct 19, 2026
The spacecraft will head to Mars's larger moon, Phobos [JAXA]
A space mission is set to launch on Monday that will attempt to grab a piece of Mars' moon Phobos and bring it back to Earth.
If it is successful, this will become the first time a sample has been returned from Mars or its moons to be analysed in laboratories here on Earth.
The spacecraft will blast off from Japan and arrive at Phobos in August 2027.
It is hoped that the Mars Moons Exploration (MMX) mission, which is led by the Japanese Space Agency, will solve the mystery of how Mars's moons formed.
Prof Sara Russell, from the Natural History Museum, who is the MMX mission's deputy for sample analysis, said: "There hasn't yet been a successful mission to go to Phobos and bring a bit back to Earth.
"I think this is an incredibly ambitious and fun mission," she said.
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Oct 19, 2026
Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force late Sunday identified Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson as the U.S. airman who died a day earlier after falling during a military demonstration ahead of a University of Texas at San Antonio football game.
Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada made the identification public in a statement, saying Patterson was a 15-year veteran from Fort Stewart, Ga.
"This tragedy is felt deeply across the 57th Wing," said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Scott Mills, 57th Wing commander.
"Tech. Sgt. Patterson and his service mattered immensely to our wing, and to the family, friends and teammates who had the privilege of knowing and serving alongside him. Our team is now focused on standing beside Ian's family, loved ones and fellow Airmen as we navigate this profound loss together."
The incident occurred Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio during UTSA's annual Salute to Armed Forces and Veterans game. Video of the incident shows Patterson rappelling rapidly from the stadium's ceiling and then crashing into the football field.
Patterson was transported to a hospital where he later died.
An investigation into the incident has been launched.
The football game was delayed 10 minutes because of the fall, and the American Conference issued a statement saying officials decided to continue with the game, in accordance with its bylaws and with both institutions' support, before Nellis Air Force Base had publicly confirmed Patterson's condition.
The base confirmed Patterson's death at 11:40 p.m. EDT, according to the American Conference, around the same time the game concluded.
UTSA said its M
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Oct 19, 2026
By Gram Slattery
SAMARKAND, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied on Monday that the United States had paused some ?intelligence sharing with Ukraine, contradicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who said ?Washington had briefly done just that.
Speaking to NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, Zelenskiy had said intelligence ?sharing had been interrupted, but later "de-blocked."
"We are very thankful for this," he said. "Now it works."
But Rubio, speaking to reporters during a visit to Uzbekistan on Monday morning, said intelligence was in fact never interrupted in the first place.
"I ?don't know where he's getting ?these things or why he's saying these things to the press. You should go back and ask him. There's ?been no pause," Rubio told reporters after touring Registan Square, a historic complex of madrassas in Samarkand.
"What he should be focused on, and what we want to ?be ?focused on, is bringing an end to ?this war. That's what he ?should be focused on," Rubio said of Zelenskiy.
It was the latest twist in a confusing several days during which Washington and Kyiv have contradicted each other on more than one occasion and relations between the countries have deteriorated sharply.
Zelenskiy has also said he believes the US government was behind recent ?limits on Ukraine's ability to use the ?Starshield system, designed by SpaceX, which is ?crucial to defending against Russian ?drones and missiles. US officials have denied those assertions as ?well.
Ukraine has relied on US intelligence ?to spot the fast-moving ?ballistic missiles that Russia has fired in waves at its cities.
President Donald Trump had said earlier this week that Washington was still ?sharing intelligence, although Ukrainian ?officials said some Russian strikes had occurred without warning, raising questions ?about whether the intelligence was in fact flowing as normal.
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Oct 19, 2026
Carney: 'Canada must now serve' service members killed in fire
Four members of the Canadian military have died and dozens were injured at a base in the province of Alberta after a fire broke out in a grassy training area and spread rapidly due to strong winds.
Addressing the nation on Sunday from Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney described it as "one of the worst tragedies for the forces on Canadian soil in peacetime".
The fire broke out at about 16:00 local time (22:00 GMT) on Saturday at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, one of the country's busiest military training bases, and is now contained.
"The nation is in mourning for those brave members of our armed forces who we have lost," said Carney.
The BBC has confirmed that Sgt Morgan Wong, Pte Shaun Farrell, Pte Aidan Goulding and Pte Hayden Lykkemark have died.
Of the 39 injured people being cared for in hospital, at least 19 are in a critical condition, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said at a press briefing on Sunday evening.
Fire and rescue teams are remaining at the scene to contain any potential flare-ups, Wainwright Mayor Bruce Pugh told the BBC.
Members of the infantry had been conducting "high-intensity combat training with live munitions" at a grenade range and attack range, where 10 soldiers practise attacking a simulated enemy, Maj-Gen Wade Rutland told reporters at the briefing.
"There was a multitude of ordnance moving through the Wainwright training area," he said, including a grenade launcher, grenades, small arms and ammunition.
A grass fire ignited about 1km (0.6 miles) away, with the cause currently under investigation, and moved toward the attack range.
"What I would say is there was multiple training activities happening throughout the training area at the time," he
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Oct 19, 2026
A Catholic priest was killed after a crucifix fell on him during a livestreamed mass in Ecuador, church officials said.
Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari died on Saturday at the Church of Perpetual Relief in Guayaquil, a coastal city about 265km southwest of the capital, Quito, the Archdiocese of Guayaquil said. He was the parish priest at the church.
Graphic footage of the mass, which circulated widely on social media before it was taken down, showed a heavy crucifix hanging on the wall behind the altar suddenly detaching and falling onto the back of the priest's head.
(Getty) The priest was facing the congregation and did not see it fall.
The video showed that he did not stand up again.
Parishioners were heard shrieking and crying, and some rushed to tend to him, while the livestream continued.
"Father, Father! Call an ambulance!" people could be heard shouting just before the broadcast cut out.
The video of the livestream was later taken down, NBC News reported.
Emergency services were immediately called to the scene, but first responders were unable to revive the priest.
The archdiocese said in a statement that he "has left to the House of the Father to enjoy his presence and glory".
Sánchez belonged to the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, a Roman Catholic religious order founded in 1732 with a presence in 80 countries, according to the Associated Press.
A Eucharist in his memory was scheduled for Sunday evening, the archdiocese said.
Local authorities were yet to comment on the incident, and it was not
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Oct 19, 2026
Witnesses of Saturday's deadly collision in which a pickup truck barreled through a youth soccer game in Kansas, killing two people and injuring nearly a dozen others, said they are haunted by what they saw and heard.
Cole Adrian, 6, and Nicholas Schafer, 35, were killed in the incident, which unfolded shortly before 3:30 p.m. at the city-owned Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, police said.
The deceased were both from McPherson, Kansas, but were not related to each other, a Wichita police spokesperson said. Ten other people, ages 5 to 68, were also hit and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, Police Capt. Aaron Moses said.
Police said a dark Chevrolet pickup drove onto a field during a youth soccer game and struck children and adults.
Erica Case said it was halftime during her 9-year-old son's soccer game on an adjacent field when she first heard an engine revving, followed by several "boom" sounds.
"I saw the truck hitting things. I saw debris flying in the air," she recalled. "I don't know if it was a cone, a chair or a person, but you could see matter flying as the truck was barreling through the soccer field at a decent rate of speed."
She said the sound will haunt her.
"The moment that I recognized that that wasn't gunshots, that that was bodies, I lost it," Case said. "I lost it because it wasn't just adults. It was also children."
Police were investigating what caused the pickup truck to barrel through a soccer field, killing a man and a child. (David Griekspoor)Case recalled the m
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Oct 19, 2026
Iranian Revolutionary Guards spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, on September 29. - Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
Iran has signaled that it is preparing for another round of war with the United States and has issued public threats against Washington and its allies in an apparent bid to deter President Donald Trump from restarting the current conflict.
Over the past month, Iranian military commanders have intensified a series of public messages claiming that Iran has built large stockpiles of new weapons ready to be unleashed on targets beyond the region should the US resume hostilities that began in February.
Iranian officials have threatened to broaden their targets if the conflict resumes, floating options that include cutting undersea internet cables, striking AI data centers, and attacking regional oil and gas facilities.
"The world will be amazed," Iran's Revolutionary Guards spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi said late last month. "We have new targets that have not yet been attacked," he added.
Nearly nine months after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, the conflict has stagnated into a stalemate that has left everyone uncertain about Trump's endgame and the world grappling with economic unrest. Both sides have claimed victory - Tehran pointing to its survival
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Oct 18, 2026
Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping ?to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine conflict that would ?favour Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the discussions.
The proposed summit ?comes amid warming ties between Trump and Putin especially after the US President announced a deal to buy Russian diesel and signed an order on Friday waiving key sanctions on Moscow.
Citing a former Russian intelligence officer briefed on the matter, the ?paper said that Putin's suggestion ?came in an October 9 telephone call with Trump that also yielded the diesel deal between the two countries.
The White House ?did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, while the Kremlin could not be immediately reached outside regular business hours. The Russian and Chinese embassies in ?Washington did ?not immediately reply to requests for comment.
The ?Kremlin has suggested holding the ?trilateral dialogue on the sidelines of the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the WSJ report said, citing people familiar with the discussions. That summit is set to take place on November 18 to 19 in Shenzhen.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to the Journal that discussions were taking place over a potential meeting.
"There is no clear ?understanding yet regarding the meeting itself or ?its potential agenda, although all three parties acknowledge ?the hypothetical possibility of such a ?meeting taking place," he told the Wall Street Journal.
A senior ?US official told the Journal that ?Trump had not agreed ?to such a summit, but he could be receptive to the idea.
Trump's diesel deal with Putin and the executive order waiving sanctions on Moscow ?have drawn criticism from ?Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has warned it wo
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Oct 18, 2026
A mysterious object discovered near a remote Pacific island is not the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's missing plane, researchers said after an expedition to the site, dealing another setback to efforts to solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries nearly 90 years after the pilot disappeared.
"Evidence gathered at the Taraia Peninsula on Nikumaroro confirmed that the visual anomaly first seen in satellite imagery in 2020 was likely a collection of large trees deposited along the peninsula's sandspit," the researchers said. "By the time the team arrived at the site, a good portion of the debris had fragmented and washed away, leaving only a single Y-shaped segment," which they said is what they had initially hoped was the plane.
The researchers said the reflective surface of the anomaly, which had led them to believe it could be metal, was the result of a carbonate veneer, noting other items found nearby were "similarly coated with a shiny concretized amalgam of coral sand."
On Oct. 14, a 17-member expedition team led by Purdue University's Steve Schultz and the Archaeological Legacy Institute's Richard Pettigrew launched an expedition to investigate a mysterious object that in aerial photos appeared to resemble possible wreckage of Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10-E plane.
Severe weather kept the research team aboard their ship for three of the five days allotted for the search, while limited fuel and supplies prevented them from extending the expedition. The search area was so remote, it took the team five days a
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Oct 18, 2026
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned against the U.S. renewing attacks, saying on Sunday that Tehran has "unfinished jobs" too.
"Last time you wanted to ‘finish the job', Iran emerged even stronger. Want to try your luck again? Be our guest. But be careful; we have unfinished jobs too," Araghchi wrote on social platform X.
"Netanyahu is driving America into another war to stay out of jail, whatever the consequences for Israel—let alone POTUS," he concluded.
Araghchi has previously criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to him in the past as a "degenerate gambler" who is "desperately seeking to save himself with more U.S. blood and treasure."
The Iran war - which is nearing its eight-month mark in around two weeks - has been broadly unpopular with the American public and contributed heavily to driving up energy costs in the U.S. as the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for oil exports from the Persian Gulf, has been closed amid the conflict.
The conflict started with U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran with Netanyahu
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Oct 18, 2026
US President Donald Trump (L) backed Republican candidate Ken Paxton (R) over sitting Texas senator John Cornyn (Mandel NGAN)After more than three decades of Republican dominance, Democrats in Texas see a rare chance to break through in November's midterm elections, as voter anger over immigration raids and the cost of living tests US President Donald Trump's support.
No Democrat has won statewide office in the conservative southern state since 1994, and Trump carried Texas by nearly 14 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election.
But with a US Senate seat and the governorship at stake on November 3, recent polls suggest Republicans face an unusually competitive challenge.
At the forefront is James Talarico, a 37-year-old former teacher and state lawmaker whose blend of Christian faith, economic populism and appeals for political unity has helped make the Senate race one of the country's most closely watched.
A University of Texas poll released this week put Talarico ahead of Republican Ken Paxton, the state's attorney general and a staunch Trump ally, by 50 percent to 47 percent -- a lead within the survey's margin of error.
A separate UMass Lowell poll found the two candidates tied.
A Presbyterian seminarian, Talarico has sought to attract independents and Republicans disillusioned with Trump, arguing that Texans have more in common than the country's increasingly bitter political divisions suggest.
"I'll always put Texas before any political party," he has said.
Trump, however, has campaigned aggressively for Paxton, warning at a recent rally in San Antonio that losing the seat could jeopardize the Republicans' narrow Senate majority.
"It's a killer in Congress because we have a very close majority. We can't let that happen," T
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Oct 18, 2026
With midterm elections just two weeks away, there are concerns that the federal government's pressure on election officials is breeding distrust in the system.
Federal agents have seized ballots, and voting machines have been examined. The Justice Department is locked in legal battles with states across the country over information about individual voters and this past week threatened to prosecute California election officials if they knowingly count mail-in ballots from 20,000 people the Trump administration says are "likely noncitizens."
It's a kind of interference Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican in a deeply red state, said she's never seen before.
"In the past two elections that I oversaw as lieutenant governor, the threats were all external: non-state actors, cyber security threats and other things," she said. "But now we also have threats coming from within our own government."
Federal government actions on elections In the U.S., elections are local. They're run by towns and counties and states. It's stated in Article I of the Constitution. Congress makes laws regulating elections, but the president doesn't have a role in running them.
Still, during his second term Mr. Trump has signed two executive orders around voting: one requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and another on mail-in ballots.
The administration's latest move came Thur
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Oct 18, 2026
Homeland security officers carry boxes from the Washington DC residence of Ilhan Omar, on 12 October.Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP
Former US president Barack Obama condemned comments by Donald Trump's "border czar" that the Republican presidential administration could "of course" strip Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar of her citizenship and deport her.
Obama wrote Sunday morning, on X, that "the full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president."
He urged all Americans to defend Omar, regardless of their political beliefs, adding: "if this becomes the new normal, there's no reason to believe it will stop with her - or that future presidents, in either party, won't do the same." Obama, too, has had his citizenship scrutinized by Trump, who more than a decade ago fueled false conspiracy theories that Obama was born in Kenya and therefore not eligible to be president.
Related: Ilhan Omar's attorneys say federal search of her home was ‘neither justified nor lawful'
Tom Homan, Trump's "border czar", was asked on Saturday by a Fox News host whether the investigation into Omar could involve "denaturalizing and then deporting her", Homan answered: "Of course".
"If you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to d
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Oct 18, 2026
Ukraine launched one of its biggest drone attacks this year on Russia overnight on Saturday, hitting a key oil terminal in defiance of US President Donald Trump's demand it stop hitting Russian energy infrastructure.
There have been growing tensions between Ukraine and the US in recent days, prompting fears in Kyiv it could lose essential support as it approaches another winter under relentless Russian attack. President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News' "Meet the Press" the US siding with Russia would be a "historic mistake."
Smoke rises above the city following an air attack on the oil terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on October 18, 2026 - AFP/Getty Images
Trump said in a Truth Social post on Sunday that he doesn't want to do anything that will drive Russia away from negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, adding that he believes "great progress is being made."
At the same time, he excoriated Zelensky, saying that he "doesn't want to end this war, and probably never did."
"I am in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and don't want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table," Trump wrote.
Despite this, the Ukrainian president said he spoke to US envoy, Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on Sunday as part of "nonstop communication" t
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Oct 18, 2026
Shawn Oliver, the running mate of Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue, suspended his campaign Sunday after he was arrested following a car crash. He is now facing one count of operating under the influence (OUI), among other charges.
"After careful reflection, I have made the decision to suspend my campaign for Lieutenant Governor," Oliver said in a statement posted to social media Sunday. "This election is too important to be overshadowed by personal matters. I want to sincerely thank everyone who has supported me throughout this journey and ask that my family's privacy be respected during this difficult time."
A New Bedford Police Department spokesperson told The Hill that Oliver flipped his car after he struck five parked vehicles — two of which sustained "extensive damage" — late Saturday night. Officers learned of the crash at around 11:40 p.m. After first responders arrived, Oliver was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford to be treated for injuries.
The city council member was alone at the time of the crash and did not appear to be hurt, according to a report from local news outlet The New Bedford Light.
Oliver faces charges of operating under the influence of liquor, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, a marked lanes violation and speeding, the Boston Globe reported.
He was released at around 9:30 a.m. Sunday, less than three hours after he was booked, according to
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Oct 18, 2026
Clipped From Video
What began as a soccer game on a sunny Saturday in Wichita, Kansas, for children whose loved ones watched on the sidelines ended in tragedy when a pickup truck sped onto the field, killing a 6-year-old boy and a man and injuring 10 others.
The truck had been parked in a space near the soccer fields at Stryker Sports Complex before it went onto one of the fields around 3:25 p.m. local time, police said.
The driver, a 34-year-old woman, was released "pending the results of toxicology testing and a mechanical examination of her vehicle" after investigators conducted interviews with witnesses and consulted with the district attorney's office, according to a news release from the Wichita Police Department.
Two of the woman's children were with her in the truck and another was playing soccer on a different field at the complex, according to police.
Officials are still working to determine more about what happened and why. Police said Saturday evening that the woman had been cooperative in the investigation. Charges have not been filed at this time, officials said.
The 10 people injured ranged in age from 5 to 68, including five children, police said. They had injuries ranging from bruises to extremely severe injuries, though none appeared to be life-threatening. The victims who died were identified as 6-year-old Cole Adrian and 35-year-old Nicholas Schafer, police said. Police originally misidentified the 6-year-old in a release, reversing his first and last name.
An 11th person was also taken to a local hospital after experiencing medical complications unrelated to traumatic injuries, police said.
"This is a tragedy," Aaron Moses with the Wichita Police Department told re
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Oct 18 (Reuters) - The United States has resumed providing Ukraine critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes, after a brief pause, Ukrainian President ?Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in comments published on Sunday.
Ukraine has relied on US intelligence ?to spot the fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia has fired in waves at its cities. US President Donald Trump ?had said earlier this week that Washington was still sharing intelligence, although Ukrainian officials said some Russian strikes had occurred without warning.
Speaking to NBC's Meet the Press, Zelenskiy said intelligence-sharing had been interrupted but later "de-blocked."
"We are very thankful for this," he said. "Now it works."
But Zelenskiy said other US actions, ?such as signing a deal ?to import Russian diesel and waiving sanctions on Russia that had been slated to take effect this week, will hurt Ukraine.
"If the United States ?will officially take the side of Russia, of course if these two countries will be together, of course we will not prevail and we will not be able to stand," he said.
Over ?the past ?week, a widening rift between Trump and Zelenskiy has sparked ?concerns that their tumultuous relationship could lead ?to even worse outcomes for Kyiv. Zelenskiy told NBC that he hopes Trump will remain an ally of Ukraine.
"We want to trust him, and I hope that he will change his decisions," Zelenskiy said. "Because I think that it's all mistakes and it will not help us. And it will not help United States."
In a Truth Social post on Sunday afternoon, Trump wrote ?that his decision-making was aimed at avoiding anything "that ?will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table."
Ukraine ?gets US help that Russia does not ?receive, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told NBC, citing intelligence-sharing and the ?provision of US munitions to other countries ?for resale to
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Oct 18, 2026
By Nandita Bose and Gram Slattery
Oct 17 (Reuters) - The day after waiving sanctions and tariffs related to Russian exports, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he has yet to announce a final decision on the matter, ?while Secretary of State Marco Rubio said officials want more time to evaluate the situation.
Rubio said on Saturday that ?the president will use up to 60 days to assess the economic impact of Russia-related sanctions and tariffs that he waived a day earlier.
"A lot of you don't ?know what my decision is yet, but we'll figure it out, and you'll figure it out," Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump wrote that his decision-making was aimed at avoiding anything "that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table."
Trump signed an executive order on Friday waiving key sanctions and tariffs under the law known as the Graham ?Act, which he signed last month at ?the urging of lawmakers who want to pressure Moscow over its war in Ukraine.
The measures, including tariffs on Russian goods and penalties on countries buying Russian oil and gas, were due to take effect next ?week. Friday's order did not specify how long the waiver would last, but Rubio said Trump opted for a 60-day review.
"I think the president wants to take the 60-day period of time to sort of analyze what imposing both sanctions and tariffs will mean to the global economy and ?even to ?the US economy," Rubio told reporters before boarding a plane for a trip ?to Uzbekistan.
Friday's executive order drew criticism from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, ?who warned it would embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin and prolong the war.
DIESEL SUPPLIES
Rubio on Saturday also defended a separate US agreement with Russia to increase diesel supplies to global markets, aimed at easing fuel prices that have
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Oct 18, 2026
The relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and US President Donald Trump, shown in April, 2025, has soured ahead of crucial elections. - Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/FILE
With just over a week to go until Israel's election day, President Donald Trump finally gave the full-throated endorsement that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had long sought.
The president called Netanyahu a "Great Warrior Prime Minister" in a post on social media, which he said serves as his "Complete and Total Endorsement of Bibi Netanyahu."
Trump also hinted at a possible resumption of hostilities in the unpopular war with Iran — a war the US launched alongside Israel eight months ago — saying that if the Iranians do not "change their ways, rapidly, we will soon finish the job."
Netanyahu was quick to respond, thanking Trump for the "tremendous support and the joint work."
Trump told Axios journalist and CNN Global Affairs analyst Barak Ravid in a brief phone interview that he had always intended to endorse Netanyahu. "I was always going to do that. I just didn't want to do it too soon," he said.
Trump added that they have a "good relationship" and would "continue to do well" together if Netanyahu is reelected, according to Ravid.
"It is important that Israel has a person they can count on," Trump said.
It was an endorsement that seemed uncertain until it finally arrived and cannot mask what has become at times a rocky relationship between the two.
For years, Israelis driving the country's highways
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Oct 18, 2026
A slow-moving coastal storm is expected to bring high winds, flooding and dangerous surf to parts of the East Coast this week, with forecasters also monitoring the system for possible subtropical development.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Sunday that a storm-force non-tropical low was expected to form off the Southeast coast on Sunday or Sunday night and move "slowly and erratically" through the middle of the week. The agency gave the system a near-zero chance of development within 48 hours and a 30 percent chance within seven days.
"Regardless of development, this system will cause high winds, coastal flooding, and dangerous surf along portions of the U.S. East Coast," the NHC said.
If it develops into a named subtropical or tropical storm, it would be called Josephine, according to the list of next named storms.
The possibility comes during an unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season. Through October 18, the basin had produced nine named storms but only one hurricane, Isaias, which is currently the year's only major Atlantic hurricane.
Forecasters say the storm does not need to become Josephine to produce significant coastal impacts.
"AccuWeather hurricane experts continue to monitor a medium risk for tropical or subtropical development off the East Coast between October 19th and October 23rd," Alexander Duffus, a meteorologist for forecasting operations with AccuWeather, told Newsweek in an email Sunday.
Duffus added: "Regardless of if this will eventually be designated as a subtropical or tropical storm by the National Hurricane Center in the coming days,
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Oct 18, 2026
Vice President JD Vance (Daniel Heuer-Pool/Getty Images)
Despite leading early polls of potential 2028 Republican presidential candidates, Vice President JD Vance says "there's a chance" he won't enter the race.
Speaking during a CBS News town hall Saturday in Flat Rock, Michigan, Vance acknowledged that family considerations could influence whether he seeks to succeed President Donald Trump.
"Of course there's a chance," Vance said when asked whether he might sit out the 2028 presidential election.
"We've got four little kids, my wife has never loved politics. She loves public service."
The vice president's comments came despite his substantial lead in early Republican presidential primary polls.
According to the RealClearPolling average, Vance leads the potential 2028 Republican presidential field with 39% support, 15 percentage points ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, ranks third with 11%.
Trump previously described Vance as his "most likely" successor, although the vice president says he has not decided whether to seek the nomination.
Vance told CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil that he tends to put off major personal decisions.
"The way that I think about life, big life decisions — my wife will tell you this: I'm a procrastinator. I hate thinking about it," Vance said.
He indicated that he and second lady Usha Vance would discuss their political future more seriously after the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
"Whenever
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Oct 18, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maine Democrat Troy Jackson says he does not regret telling Sen. Susan Collins that she should "shut up" after the Republican suggested a protester who interrupted their recent debate was one of his campaign's backers.
"She said that it was a Troy supporter. She accused me of setting that up. I had no idea who it was," said Jackson, a former president of the state Senate who is trying to deny Collins, the longest-serving Republican woman in Senate history, a sixth-term. He spoke in an interview with CNN's "State of the Union" that aired Sunday.
During their final debate Thursday night in the closely contested race, as the Nov. 3 election nears a protester opposing data centers began yelling as Collins spoke. While moderators asked for that person to be removed, the senator said the demonstrator was "obviously one of Troy's supporters."
Jackson responded: "Oh, shut up. I don't even know that kid."
The Sunrise Movement group posted on its Instagram page that the outburst came from one of its members. In a caption of an Instagram post, the group's page said: "We're proud of this Sunrise volunteer who took action yesterday."
The New York Times said the protester, Henry Elgie, a 19-year-old student at Bowdoin College in Maine, told the newspaper in an interview Saturday that he had "zero coordination" with Jackson's campaign. "I do not know Troy Jackson personally or at all," he was quoted as saying.
The Sunrise Movement is a left-wing political advocacy organization that champions the Green New Deal, aimed at transitioning the U.S. eco
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Oct 18, 2026
By Sybille de La Hamaide
PARIS, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Fresh clashes broke out in Paris on Sunday a day after France suffered one of its worst days of unrest in years, with protests over high prices leaving one demonstrator dead, thousands arrested and shops across the country looted or damaged.
Nationwide demonstrations ?erupted into riots on Saturday, with a town hall torched, shops ransacked, and buildings covered in graffiti as violent groups clashed with police in cities across the ?country.
One protester died after suffering a cardiac arrest during demonstrations in Paris. Police made more than 2,000 arrests across France, while more than 600 officers were injured, the interior minister said.
"It's like a war zone here," said ?Dutch entrepreneur Tije De Boer, who had come to Paris with his children to visit a friend and said the protests forced him to evacuate his hotel at Place de la Republique, a trouble hotspot on Saturday.
Police again clashed with protesters and fired tear gas at Place de la Republique on Sunday afternoon, and packs of bikes were set on fire. A Reuters witness estimated several hundred protesters were in the area.
In Marseille, France's second largest city, the local prefecture also reported some incidents in the afternoon, with attempts made by groups to break into shops.
More ?than half a million people joined marches in scores of ?cities on Saturday, marking the convergence of a month-long student movement with broader social discontent against rising living costs and declining public services.
President Emmanuel Macron will address the nation at 8 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) on Sunday, his office said.
Saturday's unrest laid bare the deep anger at ?Macron, who leaves office in 2027 after a decade in power that has increasingly become defined by social discontent, a weak economy and ballooning debt.
The government has blamed the violence o
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Oct 18, 2026
The investigation into an alleged "gang rape" at Cornell University in October 2024 has drawn nationwide attention after a former student identified as "Jane Doe" filed a civil lawsuit last month, accusing seven fraternity members of drugging and assaulting her for hours.
Last week, Cornell announced that it is suspending "all parties and social events" at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year while an independent review is underway.
"These measures will provide time for a thorough review of fraternity life at Cornell to determine whether and how it can safely continue," Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff wrote in a letter to the Cornell community.
Kotlikoff also announced that the university would enlist "experienced, trauma-informed criminal investigators" to investigate allegations of sexual assault on its Ithaca, N.Y., campus.
Earlier this month, Cornell's board of trustees announced it had retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, a partner at law firm King & Spalding, to lead an outsi
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Oct 18, 2026
ToplineEast Potomac Golf Links, a highly popular municipal golf course in Washington, D.C., and the target of one of President Donald Trump's contentious renovation projects, will close for 15 months starting in November, the president said on Sunday.
An aerial view of the East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C. taken in May 2026.
Getty ImagesKey FactsIn a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump shared a map of the redesigned course, which he said would be "open to the Public while, at the same time, designed to the Highest Level of Golf and able to hold World Class Tournaments."
The "current Course" will close when renovations begin on Nov. 15, Trump said, and will reopen in "approximately 15 months."
The announcement comes shortly after the National Park Service cut down hundreds of trees at the course, a move that prompted a federal judge to block further tree removal and chastise lawyers for the Trump administration.
Big Number430. That's how many healthy, non-invasive trees were removed from the East Potomac Golf Links in a few hours last week, the Trump administration acknowledged. "Breakneck speed to cl
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Oct 18, 2026
Two weeks from Election Day, Republicans face a bleak political landscape. President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to a new low, and support for Democrats in the race for control of Congress is rising as inflationary pressures contribute to an acrid mood among voters, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
Trump's approval among U.S. adults now stands at 33 percent, with 66 percent disapproving; 52 percent said they disapprove strongly. That approval rating is four percentage points lower than in July and eight points lower than at this point last year. It's lower than at any point in his first term. Among likely voters, Trump's approval is 38 percent, with 62 percent disapproving.
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The poll also finds that, for the first time in more than a decade, Democrats are seen as more trusted to deal with the economy.
In the competition for control of the House, Democrats hold an eight-point lead among registered and likely voters, an improvement for the party since The Post's July poll, when the Democratic lead was three points with registered voters.
Trump is central to Republicans' struggles. In a separate question, the poll asked voters whether they would rather have a Democratic-led Congress acting as a check on Trump or a Republican one to support his agenda. By 58 percent to 39 percent, registered voters said they prefer the Democrats. That margin is roughly double what it was a year ago.
The collective results of the new survey reveal an elec
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Oct 18, 2026
‘Whatever claims the labs are making, they are not warning us enough. We need to understand that nobody can stop the AI storm.'Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future - together with alarming reports of what it has gotten up to already - are being issued so quickly that even security experts have difficulty triaging what to worry about.
Yet a report this week from Anthropic's offensive research team grabbed attention by describing a new, practical threat, one devoid of human characteristics or apocalyptic musings. The red team, as such internal testers are called, said it created a malicious AI program that spread autonomously through internet-connected "smart" televisions and could do the same inside other ordinary devices. While machines running AI usually need a fair amount of computing power, the researchers said that their program split parts of itself among 15 televisions and was still able to function by using a bit of power from each.
Related: AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away' from self-replication on smart devices
In addition to evoking the horcruxes that kept pieces of Lord Voldemort's soul alive within objects in the Harry Potter series, the report alarmed some professionals because the generally weak security of smart televisions and many other "internet of things" devices would be very hard to correct, even with a concerted effort.
"It's something to worr
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Oct 18, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the U.S. formally siding with Russia's Vladimir Putin would be a "historic mistake," but said he still sees President Donald Trump as an ally despite a series of moves that have unsettled his country and its friends on Capitol Hill.
"We want to trust him," Zelenskyy told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, referring to Trump. "I hope that he will change his decisions, because I think that it's all mistakes, and it will not help us, and it will not help United States."
Trump on Friday waived sweeping new sanctions against Russia passed by Congress, saying in an executive order that the move "is in the national interests of the United States." Passed with bipartisan support and signed by Trump last month, the sanctions were intended to target Russia's revenue streams by punishing global buyers of Russian oil and gas.
The waiver came days after a deal with Putin to release hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian diesel fuel onto the global market as fuel prices soar.
At the same time, Zelenskyy said, U.S. intelligence sharing was briefly "blocked," blinding Ukraine to incoming ballistic missiles, while limits have been placed on Starlink technology critical
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Oct 18, 2026
One of El Niño's most dramatic effects is waiting in the wings and could soon cause chaos along the West Coast, especially in California, forecasters warned.
A historic El Niño is expected to up the intensity of atmospheric rivers - long corridors of water vapor in the atmosphere that can transport tremendous amounts of moisture and produce heavy rain or snow when they reach land.
"A stronger El Niño brings stronger atmospheric rivers," Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, told USA TODAY. "There aren't necessarily more of them, but atmospheric rivers are more intense during a strong El Niño like this one."
In addition, strong El Niños also increase the frequency of non-atmospheric river storms in California, he said.
"Amid an El Niño that will become the strongest, and also easternmost-centered, event on record (if it isn't already), this year's tilt in the odds toward wet and stormy conditions in California will be profoundly unsubtle," Swain wrote this week on his blog Weather West.
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What are atmospheric rivers?
Often in the winter, you'll hear that "atmospheric rivers" are causing big weather problems along the West Coast. But what are they?
Made visible by clouds, these ribbons of water vapor extend thousands of miles from the tropics to the western U.S. At 250 to 375 miles wide, they provide the fuel for massive rain and snowstorms that can cause flooding along the West Coast.
In general, atmospheric rivers pick up water vapor fr
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Oct 18, 2026
When White House officials wanted to know if President Donald Trump could send the U.S. military to help capture President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, a special unit in the Justice Department assured them it was legal.
When the administration was preparing to strike suspected drug traffickers' boats on the open sea without congressional approval, the same small unit declared the action permissible.
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When the White House asked if the Presidential Records Act was constitutional, the office ruled it was not, giving Trump the apparent green light to save fewer records from his second term.
As the Trump administration pushes the bounds of executive power, the Justice Department unit known as the Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC, has affirmed some of its most high-profile and controversial actions - even as many experts question their legitimacy and some are later struck down by the courts.
Tucked away on the Justice Department's fifth floor, the two dozen or so lawyers at the OLC are charged with assessing the legality of actions the executive branch wants to take, especially those that are novel or likely to be contentious. Much of its work, particularly on national security matters, remains shielded from public view, but some of the office's conclusions have emerged in often dense legal opinions.
The OLC during Trump's second term is not the first to be accused of adopting shaky reasoning to justify a president's policies. Under President Barack Obama, the OLC wrote a controversial rationale for launching a deadly drone attack on a U.S. citizen overseas. Under President George W. Bush, the office justified the used of "enhanced interrogation"
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Oct 18, 2026
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville joins officers at Cook County as they carry out an early morning raid
Warning: This story contains descriptions of drug-taking from the start and discusses suicide
The few grains of fentanyl sit in the silver foil as a straw, held between Mike's lips, hovers above, with a cigarette lighter below. The 48-year-old army veteran is crouched low in an alleyway in Columbus, Ohio's Linden neighbourhood.
"This drug will damn near make you do anything, unfortunately," he says.
The hit he's smoking cost three or four dollars.
"You can snort too much and you can't take it back. Kind of like a gunshot. Can't call the bullet back," he says.
He burns the foil and inhales. As the opioid takes hold, he grips the fence behind him. He sways as a low moan comes from deep in his throat - he could be humming a tune.
We've spent a few days with Mike - he's been our guide through the neighbourhood's back streets. Everyone seems to know him and he's regarded fondly. He helps out at a local pawn shop and gas station, and that's how he feeds his 20-year-old opioid addiction.
Synthetic opioids are more powerful and in plentiful supply, and they have transformed the drugs landscape.
Fentanyl, which is entirely man-made, is 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin, which is cultivated from poppies. It is now often cut with synthetic tranquillisers, which make reviving overdose victims more difficult. These are homemade threats, where cocktails of synthetics can be made in American basements and bathtubs.
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Oct 18, 2026
In an hour-long town hall hosted by CBS News, Vice President JD Vance argued the Trump administration's handling of the economy and Iran strategy will pay dividends in the future.
He was also pressed on the Trump administration's controversial immigration tactics, widespread discontent about the cost of living and his own political future during "Things That Matter: A Town Hall With Vice President JD Vance," which aired Saturday evening and was hosted by "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil.
Vance took questions from voters in Michigan, a swing state that helped propel Vance and President Trump to victory in 2024 — and is the host of a tight Senate race that could help determine which party wins control of the upper chamber in next month's midterm elections.
Vance says he hasn't decided if he'll run for presidentIf he decides to run for president in 2028, the vice president is widely viewed as an early frontrunner in the Republican primaries and a possible heir to Mr. Trump's political movement. Mr. Trump has called Vance his "most likely" GOP successor and has joked about a potential contest between Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Oct 17, 2026
Two people, including a 6-year-old boy, were killed and 11 others injured after a truck drove through a youth soccer game in Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday afternoon, police said, in what officials called a "heartbreaking" incident that authorities are still investigating.
First responders rushed to Stryker Soccer Complex after receiving multiple 911 calls around 3:25 p.m. CT, Capt. Aaron Moses of the Wichita Police Department told reporters at a press conference Saturday evening.
KAKE - PHOTO: In this image taken from a video, police respond to the scene at the Stryker Sports Complex.
Police said the driver, who they identified only as a 34-year-old woman of Garden City, Kansas, stayed with the truck after the incident.
"She has been cooperative to this point in the investigation," he said, adding later she was in police custody.
Moses told reporters he believed one of the driver's children was playing soccer at the complex on Saturday but was not on that field at the time of the incident.
KAKE - PHOTO: First responders are shown at the scene of an incident at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, Kansas, on Oct. 17, 2026.There were two juveniles who were also inside the truck at the time it went onto the field, police said.
The 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, both of McPherson, Kansas, were pronounced dead on the scene, police said.
Of the 11 people who were injured, five are children, ranging in age from 5 to 9.
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Oct 17, 2026
Two people, including a 6-year-old boy, were killed and 11 others injured after a truck drove through a youth soccer game in Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday afternoon, police said, in what officials called a "heartbreaking" incident that authorities are still investigating.
First responders rushed to Stryker Soccer Complex after receiving multiple 911 calls around 3:25 p.m. CT, Capt. Aaron Moses of the Wichita Police Department told reporters at a press conference Saturday evening.
KAKE - PHOTO: In this image taken from a video, police respond to the scene at the Stryker Sports Complex.
Police said the driver, who they identified only as a 34-year-old woman of Garden City, Kansas, stayed with the truck after the incident.
"She has been cooperative to this point in the investigation," he said, adding later she was in police custody.
Moses told reporters he believed one of the driver's children was playing soccer at the complex on Saturday but was not on that field at the time of the incident.
KAKE - PHOTO: First responders are shown at the scene of an incident at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, Kansas, on Oct. 17, 2026.There were two juveniles who were also inside the truck at the time it went onto the field, police said.
The 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, both of McPherson, Kansas, were pronounced dead on the scene, police said.
Of the 11 people who were injured, five are children, ranging in age from 5 to 9.
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Oct 17, 2026
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that four service members were killed and dozens more seriously injured in a fire at a military base in Alberta, describing it as one of the worst peacetime tragedies for Canada's military on domestic soil.
Fire crews scrambled late Saturday as fierce winds whipped flames beyond Canadian Forces Base Wainwright and into the surrounding rural area. The Canadian military said Sunday there were no indications that the incident was the result of terrorism, but the cause remained under investigation.
Speaking in a televised address, Carney said the families of those killed had been notified and that the situation was still evolving.
Flags would fly at half-staff on federal buildings across the country in honor of those affected by the tragedy, he said.
It was not immediately clear exactly how many people had been injured
Cathy Keane, a mayoral candidate in Ontario, said her eldest son was among the military personnel critically injured. "As a mother, right now I need to be with my son and family," she wrote on Facebook, saying she was traveling to Alberta.
A doctor at a hospital in the city of Edmonton, 180 kilometers (112 miles) northwest, told Canada's national broadcaster that patients were taken to hospitals across the city as healthcare facilities around the base became "completely overwhelmed" by the number of people needing care.
"This number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton," Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency department physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, told CBC News. "It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It's a disaster. It's a one in every 15- to 25-year disaster."
Hospitals declare emergency
Acute Care Alberta said several hospitals across the province
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Oct 17, 2026
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Four Canadian service members were killed and 39 people injured, including 19 critically, when a fast-moving fire swept through an outdoor military training exercise in Alberta, overtaking soldiers as they practiced combat attacks with live ammunition, officials said Sunday.
Maj. Gen. Wade Rutland said military officials knew about the fire for hours but believed it was contained before winds suddenly shifted, sending flames racing toward the soldiers.
"The fire was a kilometer away when the wind shifted. That is not normal for a fire to move a kilometer in 36 seconds," he said at a news conference in Edmonton.
Rutland said a commander at the scene told him soldiers went from seeing no fire to having flames upon them in less than a minute.
The fire broke out Saturday during high-intensity combat training involving Charlie Company of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. About 84 soldiers were in the company, which was split between a grenade range and an area where soldiers practiced attacks on simulated enemy positions. The fire swept into the area where the simulated attacks were taking place.
Rutland said the cause remained under investigation. He said the battalion was preparing for rapid deployment to global crises and a mission to reinforce Canadian troops in Latvia next spring.
The military identified those killed as Sgt. Morgan Wong of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and Privates Shaun Farrell, Aidan Goulding and Hayden Lykkemark of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. All four were serving with the battalion, based in Edmonton.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said 39 people were receiving medical care. Sayeh
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Oct 17, 2026
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Canada's defense minister said Saturday that people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire, while reports said that large numbers of injured people were being transported to hospitals.
Fire crews scrambled late into the night as fierce winds whipped flames beyond Canadian Forces Base Wainwright and into the surrounding rural area.
It was not immediately clear how many people were killed or injured, but a doctor at a hospital in the city of Edmonton, 180 km (120 miles) northwest, told Canada's national broadcaster that patients were being brought to hospitals across the city as health-care facilities around the base became "completely overwhelmed" by the number of people needing care.
"This number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton," Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency department physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, told CBC News. "It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It's a disaster. It's a one in every 15 to 25-year disaster."
The town of Wainwright, near the base, has about 7,000 residents.
Defense Minister David McGuinty said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were involved in investigating the incident and described the situation as "very, very active and delicate." He said authorities were still working to determine what happened and expected to provide further information.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said officers were called shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday following reports of a fire in a training area at the base.
Firefighters faced a volatile situation. Large areas of the province were hit during the day by a windstorm with gusts up to 100 kilometres an hour. The wind toppled some trees and sent signs flying and garbage cans rolling down streets.
By 11 p.m., the Munici
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Oct 17, 2026
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Canada's defense minister said Saturday that people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire, while reports said that large numbers of injured people were being transported to hospitals.
Fire crews scrambled late into the night as fierce winds whipped flames beyond Canadian Forces Base Wainwright and into the surrounding rural area.
It was not immediately clear how many people were killed or injured, but a doctor at a hospital in the city of Edmonton, 180 km (120 miles) northwest, told Canada's national broadcaster that patients were being brought to hospitals across the city as health-care facilities around the base became "completely overwhelmed" by the number of people needing care.
"This number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton," Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency department physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, told CBC News. "It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It's a disaster. It's a one in every 15- to 25-year disaster."
The town of Wainwright, near the base, has about 7,000 residents.
Defense Minister David McGuinty said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were involved in investigating the incident and described the situation as "very, very active and delicate." He said authorities were still working to determine what happened and expected to provide further information.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said officers were called shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday following reports of a fire in a training area at the base.
Firefighters faced a volatile situation. Large areas of the province were hit during the day by a windstorm with gusts up to 100 kilometres an hour. The wind toppled some trees and sent signs flying and garbage cans rolling down streets.
By 11 p.m., the Munic
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Oct 17, 2026
The No. 1 team in the country has lost in back-to-back weeks.
Just seven days after taking down No. 6 Alabama to move up to the top spot in the AP Top 25, Georgia QB Gunner Stockton turned the ball over three times and the Tigers got a field goal as time expired for a 27-24 win.
Alex McPherson's game-winning kick was set up by a Stockton fumble. After the Georgia defense gave the Bulldogs a chance to win, Stockton fumbled the ball while running into the back of center Drew Bobo with 58 seconds to go.
— wok (@wokdior) October 17, 2026
McPherson's 34-yard kick was also 15 yards shorter than it could have been thanks to Gabe Harris' roughing the passer penalty on Auburn QB Byrum Brown with 14 seconds to go. It was the third personal foul by a Georgia player.
The Bulldogs went up to No. 1 after Texas lost to an unranked rival in Oklahoma. On Saturday, it was Auburn's turn to play the role of top-spot spoiler. It was the Tigers' first win in the annual series since 2017 and that victory marks the first time since 1990 that the No. 1 team in the AP poll has lost to an unranked opponent in back-to-back weeks.
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Oct 17, 2026
A child and an adult were killed and multiple others injured after a vehicle drove through a soccer game in Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday afternoon, police said.
KAKE - PHOTO: In this image taken from a video, police respond to the scene at the Stryker Sports Complex.
First responders rushed to Stryker Soccer Complex after receiving multiple 911 calls around 3:25 p.m. CT, Capt. Aaron Moses of the Wichita Police Department told reporters at a briefing on Saturday afternoon.
KAKE - PHOTO: First responders are shown at the scene of an incident at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, Kansas, on Oct. 17, 2026.The unidentified victims were declared dead at the scene, Moses said. Others were injured and taken to the hospital, police said.
Wichita Police Department - PHOTO: In this screen grab from a video posted to social media, Captain Aaron Moses of the Wichita Police Department speaks to the media on Oct. 17, 2026, in Wichita, Kansas. "This is a tragedy," Moses said.
The driver was in custody and the investigation is ongoing, according to Moses. There were two juveniles in the vehicle, according to Moses.
The city of Wichita said in a Facebook post Saturday afternoon that all events at the sports complex have been canceled until further notice.
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Oct 17, 2026
Violence broke out across France on Saturday during the latest day of demonstrations against education standards and the cost of living.
At least 1,200 people were arrested during what the French government described as an "escalation in violence" alongside an estimated 550,000 taking to the streets.
In Paris, there were significant clashes into the evening with riot police, who used tear gas and water cannon on crowds.
Buildings were set alight in the capital and other areas, including in Limoges where a large fire in the town hall caused the roof to partly collapse.
Looting broke out in several cities, with widespread vandalism targeting city halls and businesses also reported.
La Barrique bar in Paris was set on fire [Getty Images]
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said 150 police officers were injured in the unrest.
In Paris, the main march appeared to be largely peaceful during the afternoon. A group of young people told the BBC they were "pacifists" who are "just trying to make things change, but nothing is moving".
However, as the day wore on some groups lit fires in the street and torched vehicles, including in iconic locations in the city centre like the Place de la République.
Shops were ransacked, at least one restaurant was gutted by fire, and the BBC saw fighting breaking out among some of the groups.
Riot police were seen charging at one crowd in central Paris and hitting several people with batons.
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Oct 17, 2026
Multiple survivors were treated for suspected shark bites after a boat, departing from Mexico, capsized off the coast of Baja California, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. 16 Mexican nationals had already been rescued on Friday, and authorities continue the search for 11 people believed to be missing.
"Several of the individuals rescued were suffering from severe injuries consistent with shark bites, and the Coast Guard provided life-saving first aid while en route (to) San Diego," said the agency in a statement on Saturday.
The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy are searching the waters using multiple aircraft and boats, along with assistance from the Mexican Navy. An additional helicopter will be deployed later today, according to the Coast Guard.
The boat capsized in an area frequented by smugglers and did not happen in U.S. waters, according to the Coast Guard. Survivors told officials there were 27 people on board.
"We were able to help, and that's why we launched our assets," said Petty Officer Charlie Valor on Saturday.
The region is popular with fishing and leisure boats, but fatal attempts to transport migrants from Mexico to the U.S. have occurred in the past.
The Mexican consulate in San Diego said all those rescued were Mexican nationals. The Coast Guard said Customs and Border Protection was investigating and interviewing the survivors, but the agency did not immediately respond to requests for updates.
If survivors were witnesses to a crime, they may be eligible for humanitarian parole and permitted to remain in the country for a limited period.
Rescuers were searching the area with helicopters, a fixed-wing plane, a cutter and a Navy combat ship on Saturday. The efforts remain ongoing.
Mayday call around 1 a.m.
A mayday call was transmitted
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Oct 17, 2026
Multiple survivors were treated for suspected shark bites after a boat, departing from Mexico, capsized off the coast of Baja California, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. 16 Mexican nationals had already been rescued on Friday, and authorities continue the search for 11 people believed to be missing.
"Several of the individuals rescued were suffering from severe injuries consistent with shark bites, and the Coast Guard provided life-saving first aid while en route (to) San Diego," said the agency in a statement on Saturday.
The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy are searching the waters using multiple aircraft and boats, along with assistance from the Mexican Navy. An additional helicopter will be deployed later today, according to the Coast Guard.
The boat capsized in an area frequented by smugglers and did not happen in U.S. waters, according to the Coast Guard. Survivors told officials there were 27 people on board.
"We were able to help, and that's why we launched our assets," said Petty Officer Charlie Valor on Saturday.
The region is popular with fishing and leisure boats, but fatal attempts to transport migrants from Mexico to the U.S. have occurred in the past.
The Mexican consulate in San Diego said all those rescued were Mexican nationals. The Coast Guard said Customs and Border Protection was investigating and interviewing the survivors, but the agency did not immediately respond to requests for updates.
If survivors were witnesses to a crime, they may be eligible for humanitarian parole and permitted to remain in the country for a limited period.
Rescuers were searching the area with helicopters, a fixed-wing plane, a cutter and a Navy combat ship on Saturday. The efforts remain ongoing.
Mayday call around 1 a.m.
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Oct 17, 2026
Burning embers swirl in balls of fire that have engulfed a multimillion-dollar home above Calle Miramar during the Norte fire on Friday in San Juan Capistrano. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)German travelers Luis Widmesser and Lukas Holzer, both 19, were heading to a campground in San Diego on the 5 Freeway on Friday afternoon when authorities blocked off the road and diverted traffic.
The pair, on an 8-month road trip from Canada to Argentina, ended up spending the night in their tent atop their Suzuki outside the San Juan Capistrano Boys and Girls Club, which served as an evacuation center for people forced to leave due to the Norte fires.
"We don't have such big wildfires in Germany," Widmesser marveled at the force of nature that upended their travel.
Amid unusual heat and unrelenting winds, hundreds of firefighters worked to contain several small, but destructive fires that ignited across Southern California. But as the weather cooled, high winds simmered down, and a Red Flag Warning from the National Weather Service expired by 6 p.m. Saturday, residents in Los Angeles and Orange counties began to return home as evacuation orders were lifted.
The Norte fire — the most devastating blaze — scorched more than 570 acres in residential neighborhoods in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, damaging or destroying at least six homes. Since the fire broke out Friday morning, it has hollowed out several stately homes on Via La Mirada and has continued spreading
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Oct 17, 2026
Masked settlers are accused of attacking the convoy [Reuters]
A delegation of European diplomats has been attacked by masked Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Belgium condemned the assault on its consul general and the other envoys and called for Israel to bring those responsible to justice.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also condemned what they called "the severe act of violence" and said they were investigating.
But the office of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast doubt on what happened and suggested it was part of a "coordinated campaign to smear Israel".
The attack came only a day after a number of Palestinians and Heidi Levine, a Washington Post photographer, were injured in a separate assault by settlers in another village in the West Bank.
The diplomats - from Belgium, France, Poland and the Catholic Church - had come to the largely Christian village of Taybeh near Ramallah.
They were there to assess the situation on the ground after almost near daily attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians trying to bring in their olive harvest.
Video footage from the scene showed masked settlers confronting the convoy. Reports suggest stones were thrown.
The Belgian authorities said a car from its consulate had a window smashed and a French mayor was assaulted. Video showed a man wearing a French tricolor sash slumped beside a vehicle.
Belgium's foreign minister Maxime Prevot condemned the attack and said Israel had a responsibility to bring those responsible to justice.
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Oct 17, 2026
A coastal storm is forecast to develop this weekend along the same cold front that brought the rain, wind and cooldown to the eastern U.S.
The storm is expected to develop along the Carolina coast later Sunday, bringing persistent, long-duration coastal flooding and beach erosion through mid-week.
In anticipation of this coastal storm, North Carolina's Dare County has issued a state of emergency for Hatteras Island and a mandatory evacuation for visitors on the island.
NC Emergency Management - PHOTO: In this screen grab from a video released by NC Emergency Management on Oct. 17, 2026, large waves are shown.This is the same area on the Outer Banks that has produced the striking visuals of homes falling into the sea during periods of rough surf and coastal flooding from other coastal storms and systems.
Evacuation orders issued as wildfire burns in Orange County, CaliforniaABC News - PHOTO: Mid-Atlantic coastal storm mapCoastal flood alerts are up from Morehead City, North Carolina, through the Outer Banks and for portions of coastal Virginia and Maryland.
This includes locations such as Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Ocean City, Maryland.
There is a possibility of minor to moderate flooding during high tide later on Saturday through at least Monday evening, possibly into the middle of the week.
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Oct 17, 2026
A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California quickly consumed hundreds of acres and burned multiple homes after sparking in Orange County Friday, county officials said.
The Norte Fire began around noon near a neighborhood in the San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano areas and by Friday evening had grown to 570 acres, the Orange County Fire Authority said. It's one of several fires that have broken out since Thursday amid fierce Santa Ana winds affecting Southern California.
"Our actions today will be to continue to attack the fire and work toward getting residents home as soon as it's safe to so do," Orange County Fire Authority Captain Greg Barta said Saturday morning in a video on X.
Topography and weather conditions allowed the fire to grow rapidly, Orange County Division 3 Fire Chief Mark Backoff said in a video posted to social media Friday afternoon.
Six homes have been destroyed or damaged by the fire, and two firefighters suffered "significant" injuries but are stable in area hospitals, fire officials said.
Evacuation orders were issued for multiple areas in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, encompassing roughly 4,600 homes and 16,000 people, Orange County Fire Authority Chief TJ McGovern said. Officials asked residents to be patient as they evaluate when it will be safe to return home.
Officials said progress had been made against the fire by the evening but warned conditions remained volatile.
"A majority of the fire has been knocked down. However, we still have some homes that have been impacted here, and as you can see, the wind is still blowing pretty strong up here," Orange County Fire Authority spokesperson Steve Concialdi said.
The fire is now 5% contained as of Saturday morning.
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Oct 17, 2026
President Trump's embattled new press secretary Katie Zacharia was forced out Friday after less than a week on the job.
Zacharia confirmed widespread reports that Trump had let her go in a post on X just after 9 p.m. ET Friday, alongside a photo of the two of them in the Oval Office. "President Trump is a kind, wonderful, gracious, thoughtful, enthusiastic, and hardworking man," she wrote. "I wish more Americans appreciated him. No one will ever make America great the way he has and continues to. It was an honor to work for him."
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told CNN in a statement that Zacharia "will continue to support the President as she transitions to a new role."
Zacharia is the shortest-tenured White House press secretary in U.S. history.
Her five days on the job fell well short of Anthony Scaramucci's 11 days as Trump's communications director in 2017. Trump is unlikely to name a new press secretary anytime soon, two sources familiar with his thinking told NBC News.
Earlier Friday, Trump signaled that Zacharia was on her way out, telling reporters that he had asked Zacharia to "reconsider" whether she "need[s] this."
"I told her, 'I think you're better off being happy and I don't think you could ever be happy in this job,'" Trump said.
Asked if he was
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Oct 17, 2026
A teacher and one of the three children who were killed in Thursday's mass shooting at a Bend, Ore., elementary school were identified on Friday during a press conference in which authorities provided additional details about the incident. The 16-year-old suspect, who was killed by a community member within minutes of opening fire at the school, was also identified.
Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said Friday that Rhoam Summer, a 5-year-old student, and Megan Lambert, a 25-year-old teacher, were among the four victims in a special education classroom at Silver Rail Elementary School.
In a statement, Lambert's family described her as a native central Oregonian who grew up in Bend and had a passion for playing sports, especially volleyball.
"Her goal was to be an educator and teach in the school district she loved growing up in," the statement continued. "Silver Rail was her first job as a teacher. … She loved Silver Rail. This was her dream job. Megan was compassionate and had a huge heart. She always fought for the underdog and those with special needs. She was an incredible sister, daughter, niece and granddaughter. … She was funny and opinionated and she lit up the room."
Megan Lambert, 25, a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., was killed in Thursday's shooting.Bend Police Department
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Oct 17, 2026
By STAMOS PROUSALIS
PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Clashes broke out between police and protesters in cities across France on Saturday as tens of thousands of people angered by rising costs and declining public services took to the streets in some of the country's most violent protests in years.
The Interior Ministry said ?272 people had been arrested by mid-afternoon after violent incidents involving hooded individuals, including in Paris, Marseille in the south, Toulouse in the southwest, Angers ?in the west and Lyon in east-central France.
The protesters said most people were protesting peacefully and put much of the violence down to troublemakers who had set out to cause damage and clash with the police.
The ?ministry said, however, that violence was increasing, and that there had been "confrontations with law enforcement, looting or attempted looting of shops, attacks on and damage to public buildings." It blamed the unrest on what it described as the "ultra-left".
In some parts of Paris, police occasionally fired tear gas rounds as they retreated in the face of mostly young protesters, many of whom were dressed in black and wore hoodies, masks and goggles to protect against tear gas.
Some tourists at a fashionable department store near the Paris opera were seen spluttering when they were caught in ?clouds of tear gas, and shops nearby were hastily shuttered. ?Windows of many shops and restaurants in the capital were smashed, and cars and trash cans were set on fire.
In Lyon, protesters torched the tourist office.
In Marseille, the mayor said the town hall had been vandalised and that additional police were being sent to the city ?following talks with the government.
In protests partly inspired by those in France, several hundred mostly young people also protested in Brussels on Saturday, and some clashed with police. Belgian student groups have said they are protesting ag
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Oct 17, 2026
Ukraine is still unable to use its interceptor systems against Russian drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, because of speed restrictions imposed on Starshield, an upgraded military version of Elon Musk's Starlink, amid an ongoing row with President Trump.
"Unfortunately, we can't use Starlink or Starshield technology on our territory today to shoot down jet-powered Shaheds," Zelenskyy said in an online group chat with reporters at the EU Summit. "They fly, and we can stop them with aircraft and other air defense, but we don't use Starlink for that, unfortunately. God willing, this will be restored."
Zelenskyy said Kyiv was discussing the issue with U.S. officials, and he was told the restrictions were linked to technical issues. The Ukrainian president added, however, that Starlink appears to be operating at higher speeds on European Union territory.
"Yes, we are in dialogue at the level of the military, the Ministry of Defense and diplomats, in touch with everyone including SpaceX. Nobody there is answering our military or the Ministry of Defense now," Zelenskyy said. "At various levels they say these are technical problems."
"Here (in Ukraine) Starlink works up to a speed of 161 km/h, then shuts off," he continued. "In the EU it works at 180-plus and works constantly. Here it shuts off in the second minute after 161 km/h and stops working. We lose both drones and connectivity."
Mr. Trump told reporters on Friday he had not limited Ukraine's access to Starlink, adding he didn't believe Musk, SpaceX's CEO, was responsible either.
"Well, I don't know if it was anybody because it wasn't me, and I don't think it was Elon," Mr. Trump said while leaving the Whi
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Oct 17, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to waive sanctions on Russia days before they were to take effect drew outrage Saturday from members of Congress, which had overwhelmingly passed the legislation in a bipartisan display of American support for Ukraine in the war with Russia.
Lawmakers from both parties blasted the executive order late Friday, the latest in a series of steps that the Republican president has taken drawing the United States closer to Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump recently announced a diesel deal with Putin to import Russian energy in a long-shot effort to curb high gas prices in the U.S. that are roiling the midterm elections on Nov. 3.
"Beyond irresponsible," said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on social media, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed hope that the sanctions that were supposed to take effect Sunday targeting Russian's e
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Oct 17, 2026
A New York judge on Friday rejected a request to impose a gag order in the civil case brought by a former Cornell University student who alleged she was sexually assaulted at a fraternity house in 2024, calling the request a "'side show' meant to muddy the waters and distract from the merits of the claims and defenses involved in this case."
Judge Phaedra Perry-Bond said the public statements made by Jane Doe's attorney that one of the men named in the civil lawsuit used to justify the request "express nothing more than [his] opinions."
Cornell president defends response to Jane Doe allegations in heated faculty meeting"Expressing opinions on the case or reporting on how the litigation has impacted clients cannot alone serve as a factual basis for limiting an individual's First Amendment rights," Judge Perry-Bond wrote. "While the Court agrees that [he] should not make statements that certain parties spoliated evidence, especially where, as here, no discovery has yet to take place, those isolated statements, without more, are insufficient to show the serious risk of prejudice required by precedent and the United States Constitution."
The judge encouraged the attorneys in the case to work together to prevent their clients from facing threats, harassment, and doxing.
"The Court believes that given the notoriety of doxing related to this case, it would serve all parties' interests to work together to ensure their clients and others may be safeguarded, to the extent possible, from being inundated with threats or harassment from malicious outside actors," she wrote.
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Oct 17, 2026
Donald Trump is barnstorming the country to boost Republicans in the final weeks of the midterms. But many candidates want to keep that support quiet.
The president is nowhere to be found in GOP ads, even in red states where Republicans were happy to tout his endorsement two years ago. And some candidates are hesitant to appear with Trump on the campaign trail — even as they hope he will help juice turnout among the MAGA base in November.
Democratic House and Senate candidates and outside groups have spent $145 million on general election ads mentioning Trump, while Republicans have spent just $8 million, according to a POLITICO analysis of data from AdImpact, which tracks political advertising. That's in sharp contrast to 2024, when GOP candidates spent $62 million on ads mentioning Trump.
"Trump is at historic lows right now, so if he comes to your district or state, it's about getting the Republican base vote out there and that can certainly help," said Ron Bonjean, a longtime GOP strategist. "But it's really important for the candidates not to be talking about Trump 24/7 on the campaign trail."
The unfavorable national political environment leaves few incentives for GOP candidates to tie themselves to Trump, and more and more Republicans in competitive races have broken with the president on issues such as the Iran war and tariffs.
When Republicans do mention Trump in ads, they often aren't touting his support. In Alaska, GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan has run an ad citing how he
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Oct 17, 2026
Pope Leo XIV was released from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung.
The pope exited via the hospital's main entrance. A large crowd waiting outside the hospital cheered for him.
He shook hands with several people, then stopped to talk with a young woman who appeared to be wearing a bandage on her right arm and was holding a doll in the image of Pope Leo.
The Pope was smiling. Once in the car, he waved to the crowd. His motorcade returned to Vatican City at 3:43 p.m. local time.
The 71-year-old pope had a portion of his right lung removed and received a diagnosis of lung cancer earlier this week. No information about his prognosis has been publicly shared.
Leo was initially expected to remain hospitalized until Oct. 20 but on Thursday he resumed some work activity, and doctors said Friday that tests confirmed "steady improvement in his recovery." On Saturday morning, the Vatican announced he would leave later in the afternoon.
His personal physician and surgeon said in a separate statem
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Oct 17, 2026
Several GOP lawmakers criticized President Trump's move to exempt Russia from the sanctions bill he signed law last month, with Sen. Thom Tillis (R- N.C.) calling the move "beyond irresponsible."
Trump signed an executive order Friday evening to waive sanctions against Russia in a legislative package that was meant to put pressure on the Kremlin to end its military operations against Ukraine.
"What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand? It's unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians every single day," Tillis wrote on the social platform X.
The legislation, signed by Trump in September, would impose tariffs on the top five purchasers of Russian energy, or on countries helping Russia evade sanctions.
The sanctions bill was drafted by and named after late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The late senator had announced a breakthrough on the legislation shortly before his death in July, saying lawmakers reached a deal with the White House to move it forward.
Sen.
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Oct 17, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before running for Congress, Marty O'Donnell was an award-winning music composer for the popular "Halo" video game franchise.
His work drew legions of fans to an online forum, which the Nevada Republican has tried to turn into a galvanizing force as he tries to unseat a Democrat in a Las Vegas area district that could help decide House control. O'Donnell has served as the group's de facto leader, referring to himself as its "benevolent dictator" while tapping its members for campaign cash and harnessing their enthusiasm in his bid. The campaign held a two-day event for forum members this month at a casino that included a video game tournament, panel discussions and speeches.
There is another side, however, to what is known as "The Marty Army."
An Associated Press review of thousands of posts made on the forum between 2022 and 2026 found racial slurs, minimizations of Nazi Germany and defenses of white nationalist conspiracy theories.
"It wasn't a couple of crazies. The popular sentiment was, ‘Yes, slavery should be legal,'" said Deacon Dameron, a former group member who said O'Donnell banned him for calling another user a "dork."
Many views espoused in the forum, which is controlled by O'Donnell and his handpicked moderators, are at odds with some of the values articulated by the candidate and his campaign. For example, O'Donnell has staunchly defended Israel and condemned bigotry.
In a statement, campaign spokesman Keith Schipper said O'Donnell "has zero tolerance for hate" in his forum. Since
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Oct 17, 2026
The bystander who stepped in to stop a gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, has come forward and identified himself as Kaylub Giamanco, a lifelong Bend resident who has two daughters at the school. At a news conference Friday, police also praised a teacher who threw a cellphone at the gunman, tackled him and fought to take his weapon.
Police said Giamanco pursued and fatally shot the 16-year-old attacker, ending a rampage that took the lives of three children and a teacher and wounded two others.
A statement released by Giamanco's family on Friday said, "He is not seeking recognition, but instead wishes to express his gratitude to the first responders, school personnel, and community for the outpouring of love and support."
"The tragedy at Silver Rail Elementary has devastated the Bend community," they wrote.
Giamanco and his family asked for privacy and said they will not be giving interviews.
Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz credited him and a teacher at the school for actions that saved other lives.
"In addition to the 36-year-old man who bravely stepped in to stop the suspect, I want to highlight another person whose heroic action we need to recognize: a teacher in the classroom threw her cellphone at the suspect and then tackled him and fought to take the firearm from him. She was not injured in that incident, but she almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed," he said.
President Trump on Friday called the Giamanco a "great hero" who "took care of business."
"Thank God we had him; otherwise, it would have been much worse," Mr. Trump said, adding: "It's a terrible thing, but thank goodness for a man that had a gun and knew how to use it."
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek also p
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Oct 17, 2026
The bystander who stepped in to stop a gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, has come forward and identified himself as Kaylub Giamanco, a lifelong Bend resident who has two daughters at the school. At a news conference Friday, police also praised a teacher who threw a cellphone at the gunman, tackled him and fought to take his weapon.
Police said Giamanco pursued and fatally shot the 16-year-old attacker, ending a rampage that took the lives of three children and a teacher and wounded two others.
A statement released by Giamanco's family on Friday said, "He is not seeking recognition, but instead wishes to express his gratitude to the first responders, school personnel, and community for the outpouring of love and support."
"The tragedy at Silver Rail Elementary has devastated the Bend community," they wrote.
Giamanco and his family asked for privacy and said they will not be giving interviews.
Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz credited him and a teacher at the school for actions that saved other lives.
"In addition to the 36-year-old man who bravely stepped in to stop the suspect, I want to highlight another person whose heroic action we need to recognize: a teacher in the classroom threw her cellphone at the suspect and then tackled him and fought to take the firearm from him. She was not injured in that incident, but she almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed," he said.
President Trump on Friday called the Giamanco a "great hero" who "took care of business."
"Thank God we had him; otherwise, it would have been much worse," Mr. Trump said, adding: "It's a terrible thing, but thank goodness for a man that had a gun and knew how to use it."
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek also p
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Oct 17, 2026
The beleaguered U.S. film and TV industry, which has seen significant dollars leave for foreign countries, local production plummet and thousands of jobs vanish, may have some relief on the way.
It comes in the form of proposed legislation that has the rare support of lawmakers across the political spectrum. Indeed, President Donald Trump and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have been equally vocal in throwing their weight behind the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act, which aims to create a significant tax incentive to bring Hollywood back home.
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The bill was introduced in Congress in late September and is now with the House Ways and Means Committee. Given the bipartisan support, it is likely to have a relative glide path on Capitol Hill.
"Both parties represent people who work on sets, run catering companies and own hotels," said Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), who co-wrote the bill. "Co-sponsors come from California, Georgia, New York, Ohio and Tennessee, and every one of us has heard the same thing at home: The work is going overseas."
For film and TV creatives and craftspeople, the bill can't land on the White House's Resolute Desk a moment too soon.
"Whatever you think about the current administration, at least Trump, if he puts his weight behind this, could actually make this really move quickly, which is what we need," said Carolina Groppa, an Emmy-nominated producer who also hosts a podcast, "Angle on Producers," about the industry. "The patient's been on the gurney for a long time, collectively across the United States."
Film and TV production has indeed been fleeing Los Angeles for years
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Oct 17, 2026
What to know about the Iran war today:The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) monitoring agency said at least ten vessels have been attacked in or near the Strait of Hormuz since last Sunday, a weekly high since war broke out in February, and 23 attacks were recorded since the start of the month, almost double the average.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian denied Friday that Tehran sought nuclear weapons, expressed readiness for dialogue and condemned U.S. sanctions during talks with Georgia's prime minister.The Strait of Hormuz will reopen if the U.S. leaves the Middle East, a spokesman for Iran's army said Friday. "If it does not leave, we will expel it," Mohammad Akraminia wrote on X.
Oil tanker reportedly hits mine in Strait of Hormuz
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps on Saturday said an oil tanker was on fire in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting a mine in the waterway at the heart of the Middle East war.
"A supertanker in violation of regulations, carrying more than two million barrels of crude oil and attempting to pass illegally through the Strait of Hormuz, struck a mine, triggering an explosion and a fierce fire," the Iranian military said.
The statement did not specify the exact location of the incident.
"The tanker attempted to cross the strait with U.S. support... by deactivating all its tracking systems," the Guards added, also posting a video of a vessel in flames during the night.
Ship attacked by RPG fired from small boat, British maritime agency said
The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) monitoring agency reported on Saturday a second attack on a ship off the coast of Saudi Arabia,
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Oct 17, 2026
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged supporters Saturday to speak out in defense of new U.S. sanctions against Russia, hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing a sweeping package of restrictions targeting the Russian economy.
The White House decision has further raised fears that Ukraine could be left exposed to Moscow's escalating assaults with winter approaching.
Russian attacks overnight killed at least four people, including an ambulance driver, and wounded dozens, officials said. Ukrainian drones killed a woman in a Russian border region and disrupted flights at Moscow's airports, according to Russian authorities.
In a statement on social media, Zelenskyy described Trump's move to put sanctions on hold as unfortunate, but did not directly criticize the U.S. leader despite deepening tensions between Ukraine and Washington in recent days.
"A decision was unfortunately made in America to completely disregard the Lindsey Graham Act, which was supposed to impose truly effective pressure on Russia to bring this war to an end," Zelenskyy wrote.
Later, in audio clips answering journalists' questions, Zelenskyy thanked Democrats and Republicans who backed the legislation and praised its bipartisan support. He said blocking it would encourage Russia to continue kill
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Oct 17, 2026
The disruptions this week in U.S. support for Ukraine have forced Kyiv to face a grim question: Can it stay in the fight against Russia without any of President Trump's already diminished support?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has escalated a diplomatic assault, earlier this week accusing the Trump administration of throttling its access to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite services and failing to offer standard intelligence on incoming Russian strikes. So far, U.S. weapons seem to still be flowing to Europe despite Trump's turns in the war.
Uncertainty continues to swirl around who chose to limit SpaceX's Starshield function, which has since been restored, but Reuters reported Thursday that the order to limit the satellite system came from inside the White House. Leaders at the Defense Department reportedly were told that the service needed to be slowed.
Then on Friday, Trump said that neither he nor Musk caused the Starlink outage, telling reporters: "I didn't do that. No, we didn't do that at all."
The episode highlights a growing rift between the U.S. and Ukraine, a dispute that puts Kyiv in danger and all but makes sure its war with Russia will stretch on for the foreseeable future, according to Branislav Slantchev, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.
"This hurts Ukraine in more ways than just limiting its ability to operate on the frontlines," Slantchev said.
He placed the blame squarely on the Pentagon for disrupting Ukraine's
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Oct 17, 2026
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is being released from the hospital on Saturday, four days after lung cancer surgery, and will deliver the traditional noon blessing Sunday from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced.
The 71-year-old Leo had the lower lobe of his right lung removed after doctors identified a suspected cancerous nodule. The surgery confirmed he had adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer.
His personal physician and surgeon said in a separate statement that Leo was "deemed fit for discharge from the hospital" based on blood test results and a chest X-ray performed Saturday morning, along with an assessment of his clinical condition.
He is set to leave the hospital in the early afternoon and return to the Vatican, the Vatican said in a brief statement.
With notable transparency, Leo announced last Sunday to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square that doctors had identified a nodule on his lung, and that it would be removed.
Since the surgery on Tuesday that confirmed the cancer diagnosis, Leo has given strong indications that he was recovering well, including by holding a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting with top aides and celebrating Mass in a makeshift hospital chapel.
Medical bulletins from his personal physician and surgeon likewise indicated a good post-operative recovery that had allowed him to carry on "normal daily activities completely on his own."
The Vatican on Friday released the first images of Leo since his surgery, showing him standing up at an altar in a hospital chapel in green vestments, as doctors said that tests
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Oct 17, 2026
The White House task force that President Donald Trump charged with uncovering evidence of election fraud hasn't produced any. Instead, it has shifted to releasing records that his administration is using to help build a public case against officials who investigated him.
The president initially promoted the task force, led by pro-Trump journalist John Solomon, as part of a push to uncover election fraud.
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But more recently, the task force has been releasing law enforcement records from past investigations into Trump, including special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents after the end of his first term in early 2021.
Trump allies and some of his political appointees view those materials as useful evidence in the ongoing Florida-based grand conspiracy case - the Justice Department's most complex and ambitious effort to indict past administration officials who investigated Trump.
Even with the fanfare around the release of the files, legal experts and former law enforcement officials said the records show investigators following normal, court-authorized procedures.
Still, Trump and his most ardent allies, view the task force as a win. For years, they have complained that the intelligence community has worked to undermine Trump's presidency and concealed materials related to investigations involving him. The Solomon task force was intended to address these complaints, bypassing the usual bureaucracy by giving the conservative journalist a direct channel to Trump, who has the authority to decl
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Oct 17, 2026
As a rape investigation at Cornell University spiraled into a national firestorm, some people went online to seek the identity of the alleged victim.
Social media posts on X that attempted to reveal the name of the woman at the center of the case, identified in court filings only as Jane Doe, were viewed more than 87 million times over two weeks, according to data reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Facebook, Instagram and TikTok attempted to limit the spread of content purporting to identify Jane Doe. All three platforms blocked searches for an alleged name for Jane Doe, although they appeared to allow some posts containing that name to stay online.
Things were different on X, the platform owned by Elon Musk. The service allowed searches for the alleged name for Jane Doe and the company's chatbot, Grok, also posted it in replies to users at least 300 times, according to data compiled by researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Harm.
X posts claiming to name or identify Jane Doe received 87 million views in a two-week period after local prosecutors said on Sept. 28 that they would reopen the investigation, according to the researchers.
"A responsible organization would start thinking … does this break our rules? If not, something's wrong with our rules and we need to fix them," said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the nonprofit, which was previously known as the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
"The problem is that we have
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Oct 17, 2026
ICE detainees are asking a federal judge to intervene at the agency's largest detention camp, citing sworn accounts alleging that guards beat people who resisted removal to Mexico and that masked personnel allegedly beat others and ordered them to cross the southern border.
The motion for a preliminary injunction, filed Thursday in federal court in El Paso, Texas, concerns Camp East Montana, a sprawling immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss. The request is backed by declarations from 43 people, including current or former detainees and relatives or friends of those who died, 29 medical records, four government oversight reports and two expert declarations. Plaintiffs argue the conditions amount to unconstitutional punishment under the Fifth Amendment.
One Cuban detainee claimed that guards slammed his head against a wall repeatedly and crushed his testicles after he refused removal to Mexico. Another detainee alleged they were taken toward the southern border, told to "jump over into Mexico," and that masked personnel beat some who refused.
A sign marks the entrance at the Camp East Montana immigrant detention center at a U.S. Army base, El Paso, Texas, February 13, 2026.The allegations have not been established by a court. The preliminary-injunction motion presents the plaintiffs' evidence and arg
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Oct 17, 2026
Community members grieve at the site of a makeshift memorial in front of Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 16. - Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images
On a sunny Oregon fall morning, parents dressed their children up and sent them to Silver Rail Elementary School for picture day. It's the kind of picture parents return to years later, marveling at how small their children once were and how their smiles looked before their faces changed.
But for some families, snapshots in their minds from that morning will carry a devastating, final memory of a child who never came home.
Just hours after Steven and Angela Nuchols sent their 8-year-old daughter to school, they raced back to Silver Rail, desperate to know whether she was alive, they told local news outlet, The Bend Source.
"It was crawling with police officers from all over the county," Angela Nuchols told The Bend Source. "You've got guys in tactical gear, rifles. You're just scared to death wondering, is your child OK?"
For the Nuchols family, the next few hours before they were reunited with their daughter at a church were "the worst three hours of our lives," Angela said.
American schools have repeatedly seen the illusion of safety shattered within the walls of their classrooms. An elementary school in Bend, Oregon, was the
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Oct 16, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest.
Trump personally signed the legislation just last month and his move came just two days before a deadline set in the law itself for its implementation. Named after late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, it had sought to clamp down more quickly on the flow of financial resources fueling the war against Ukraine.
Trump's unexpected decision comes a week after he stunningly said the U.S. had agreed to purchase diesel from Russia to try to bring down global energy prices, despite that potentially hurting Ukraine in its war with Russia.
An AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll published Oct. 1 found that Americans disapprove of the president's handling of the Iran war and blame him for higher prices. Trump's approval ratings have sunk to near-historic lows and pressure is mounting as Republicans try to hold control of both chambers of Congress after midterm elections on Nov. 3.
Sanctions were seen as part of Graham's legacy
Graham, a close ally and friend of the president, had
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Oct 16, 2026
Several lawmakers said Friday their offices across the country had received suspicious mailings following reports earlier this week of letters containing unknown substances at U.S. election offices.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and over 15 House lawmakers said their district or state offices received these packages.
Klobuchar said in a Friday social media statement that officials intercepted the letter before it reached her Minnesota office.
"Thanks to the postal workers and investigators who identified and intercepted it, no one in our office was in immediate danger," the Democratic senator wrote. "We're grateful to everyone involved for their quick response and we will continue working closely with law enforcement as the investigation continues."
Rounds shared an image of a letter sent to his Sioux Falls, S.D., office, and said the regional team contacted local authorities, who investigated and evacuated the office.
"This situation is deeply concerning and follows a trend of intimidating tactics that impact our team members," he wrote on
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Oct 16, 2026
The Trump administration plans to reduce state and local dependency on federal disaster aid and could move Federal Emergency Management Agency workers out of Washington, D.C., according to an internal FEMA memo obtained by POLITICO.
FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton wrote in an Oct. 15 memo — confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it — that the agency will "strengthen state and local emergency management capacity" in an effort to lower reliance on the federal government.
"Reducing federal dependency requires partners to build, maintain, and exercise the capabilities needed to manage incidents effectively," the seven-page memo to agency employees says.
In a separate section, the memo says, "FEMA must reduce unnecessary centralization in Washington, D.C.," and that "regional and field teams are often closest to disaster survivors, state and local officials, emergency managers, and community partners."
The memo is the clearest indication that the administration will follow through on President Donald Trump's long-stated desire to shift disaster management to states and reduce the federal role in preparation and recovery.
It's also the first indication of Hamilton's priorities since he became the first permanent FEMA administrator in Trump's second term in August. A series of acting leaders had run FEMA since January 2025, and their temporary status precluded the agency from making structural changes.
Although Trump has called for weakening FEMA since his first week in office, no new policies emerged, creating uncertainty about the future of federal disaster aid.
Trump has indirectly discouraged reliance on federal disaster aid by taking far longer than his predecessors — including Trump in his fi
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