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Oct 13, 2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, resigned on Tuesday amid allegations of improper conduct while denying the claims and vowing to "vigorously defend" herself.
In a lengthy post on her personal X account on Tuesday morning, Guilfoyle thanked President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for "entrusting me with the extraordinary privilege of representing the greatest country in the history of the world."
Guilfoyle also denied the "recent allegations" against her. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Guilfoyle asked a Trump donor to pay off a $100,000 American Express credit card bill ahead of her confirmation as ambassador in exchange for access to administration officials.
"These allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity," Guilfoyle wrote. "I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice, standing up for what is right, and defending the values that make America exceptional. I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service."
Earlier Tuesday, Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, announced during her first briefing that the administration had asked Guilfoyle to resign.
"We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign," Zacharia said when asked about the
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Oct 13, 2026
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (AP)
The Justice Department, in an apparent escalation of a long-running investigation involving the immigration history of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has issued subpoenas to members of her family, The New York Times reported Tuesday, as the congresswoman accuses the Trump administration of political retribution for her outspoken criticism of the president.
The subpoenas mark a new development in a probe that has drawn scrutiny after federal agents searched Omar's Washington-area home Monday, an action she condemned as an attempt to intimidate political opponents and weaponize federal law enforcement.
"For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns," Omar wrote on social media Monday. "This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced."
Federal authorities have not publicly laid out the full scope of the investigation or disclosed what evidence investigators are seeking through the subpoenas.
The search Monday was conducted by agents with Homeland Security Investigations under a court-authorized warrant, the Justice Department confirmed, but officials offered few details about the criminal investigation.
The inquiry follows months of public comments by Trump administration officials about allegations involving Omar's immigration history.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said last month that an ongoing investigation was examining, in part, whether Omar had lied on immigration forms, adding that "something's going to happen," according to The Associated Press.
Omar, who was born in Somalia and became a naturalized U.S. citizen, has repeatedly rejected allegations concerning her immigration
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Oct 13, 2026
Trump administration officials are leaning against livestreaming the execution of the ex-Army major convicted of the killing of 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, sources familiar with the discussions said. Last week, the Pentagon had said that the public would be able to view the execution live.
President Trump had not yet made a final decision on Tuesday, two of the sources told CBS News.
White House and Pentagon spokespeople didn't immediately comment.
There has been pressure from Congress and elsewhere not to livestream Nidal Hasan's execution by firing squad, which is scheduled to take place on Dec. 3.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last Thursday in an interview with Real America's Voice that the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.
"He's going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be," Hegseth said. "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public — because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."
CNN reported earlier Tuesday that Mr. Trump and his advisers were debating whether to air the firing squad execution live, and that Mr. Trump had remarked privately that he didn't initially know Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down.
Several top Republicans in recent days expressed opposition to livestreaming Hasan's execution, and Vice President JD Vance said that if it were broadcast live, "I'm not going to be watching it."
As the president departed for a campaign rally in Alaska on Tuesday, a reporter asked him whether he's decided to allow
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Oct 13, 2026
Louis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV's older brother who lives in Florida, has multiple myeloma, his wife told CBS News on Tuesday. The news comes amid the Vatican's earlier announcement that the pope has been diagnosed with lung cancer after undergoing surgery to remove a nodular lesion from his right lung.
Deborah Prevost did not share what stage Louis' cancer is in but said he's currently in a clinical trial at a local hospital where he's being treated.
Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that affects plasma cells, according to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.
Deborah Prevost said Louis was first diagnosed in 2017 but was able to maintain it at a "very low level" after undergoing treatment in 2019 that included stem cell treatment and a clinical trial. He "fell out of remission" three months ago, she said.
She could not comment on the specifics of Pope Leo's condition but said her husband and his brother spoke last week before Louis went in for his clinical trial.
"He called to let us know what would be happening," Deborah said. "We keep praying, keeping spirits up for both of them."
Pope Leo underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed he has lung cancer, the Vatican said earlier in the day. The 71-year-old pontiff was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma.
The Vatican didn't disclose what stage the cancer was in or whether the cancer may have spread. It also did not detail what further procedures or treatment the pope may have to undergo.
Deborah Prevost told CBS News the family was "going through a lot," but she was hopefu
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Oct 13, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology.
The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a week after the ChatGPT maker discovered an audio recording device hidden in the conference room, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco.
The complaint did not identify the company, but the company confirmed in a separate statement that it had discovered a "sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices," reported the finding to the FBI and fired the employee.
"We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we're grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI's investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work," an OpenAI spokesperson said.
"At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated," the statement said.
The complaint does not detail what Alfozan might have wanted to do with any captured communications.
Alfozan made his first court appearance Tuesday on a charge of using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept ora
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Oct 13, 2026
Regulators fined Bank of America (BAC) more than $1.2 billion on Tuesday over widespread failures in the banking giant's safeguards against money laundering and other illicit financial activity.
The Treasury Department said the nation's second-largest bank failed to properly monitor trillions of dollars in transactions and to report more than $5 billion in suspicious activity, including transactions potentially tied to Chinese money-laundering networks, narcotics trafficking, and fraud.
The enforcement actions include a $1.2 billion penalty from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the third-largest fine in the Treasury Department's history after it fined crypto exchange Binance $3.4 billion in 2023 and TD Bank for $1.3 billion in 2024. The fine also includes a $750 million penalty from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the largest ever imposed by that regulator.
The OCC penalty will be credited against FinCEN's assessment rather than added to it. Separately, a $11.6 million sanctions settlement brings the total penalties to more than $1.21 billion.
"Even the biggest financial institutions are not above the law," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
Bank of America's stock fell more than 2% after markets closed on Tuesday. It reports third quarter earnings Wednesday morning.
The bank said it
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Oct 13, 2026
Georgia police have identified the man who died Monday after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in an incident that also injured several others.
The Cobb County Police Department identified the 42-year-old Atlanta man as Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem. "Preliminary information gathered through witness and employee interview indicates Kariem was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling beneath the attraction," according to a Tuesday statement from the Cobb County Police Department's Major Crimes Unit.
Eyewitnesses shared what they saw as Monday's accident unfolded. "He fell and hit the car three different times," a witness told WXIA Atlanta, adding that their souvenir photo from the ride captured Kariem falling.
Another witness told NBC News that he was on the ride with his partner when he saw Kariem ejected from his seat. "The man started levitating in the air sideways," he said. "We made direct eye contact with him."
A woman waiting in line to ride Goliath again told Fox
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Oct 13, 2026
By Jack Queen and Steve Gorman
LAS VEGAS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A former gang leader was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison on Tuesday for orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas, capping the prosecution of a long-unsolved ?murder that shaped the golden age of rap music.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, found guilty of first-degree murder in August, received the sentence during a hearing ?in a Las Vegas courtroom.
In tearful testimony before Judge Carli Kierny, Shakur's younger sister Sekyiwa Shakur said their mother had raised him to be a human rights activist and treated him as if he ?had the potential to change the world.
"He believed her," said Sekyiwa Shakur, wearing a black shirt. "He went out in the world to do that. And I believe he would have done it."
Until Davis' 2023 arrest, the killing of Shakur, shot dead in the passenger seat of an SUV driven by his record executive, Marion "Suge" Knight, had stood for nearly three decades as one of America's most notorious cold cases.
The murder, which silenced one of rap's most commercially successful and influential artists, heightened the image of violence permeating 1990s hip-hop culture ?while stoking the infamous East Coast-West Coast "gangsta" rap feud ?of the era.
Despite Davis' conviction, the question of who pulled the trigger in the fatal shooting of the 25-year-old rap legend has never been conclusively decided.
Davis was tried and convicted for masterminding the murder to avenge the beating of his nephew by Shakur and ?members of the rapper's entourage inside the MGM Grand casino on the Las Vegas Strip on September 7, 1996.
Davis has said he would appeal his conviction.
'THE WORLD NEVER FORGOT'
Authorities said they long believed Davis was involved in Shakur's killing but lacked sufficient evidence to charge him.
That changed when he went
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Oct 13, 2026
Katie Zacharia responded after criticism of her first White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling Newsweek via email that "I am grateful to serve President Trump as Press Secretary, and I will diligently and effectively amplify his successful agenda."
During her debut at the podium, Zacharia announced that the White House had asked U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign.
Yet much of the reaction to Zacharia's debut centered on its brevity. She spent just 14 minutes at the podium and took questions from only three outlets before ending the briefing as President Donald Trump prepared to depart the White House for a campaign trip to Alaska.
Zacharia, a conservative commentator who most recently worked for Trump's social media company, was named press secretary on Friday, succeeding Karoline Leavitt, who left the administration in August to spend more time with her family.
Her first appearance offered an early glimpse of how Zacharia intends to approach the job. She told reporters that her goal was to "amplify, multiply and expand upon President Trump's incredible agenda for the American people" while describing Trump as "his own best spokesperson."
Speaking to reporters before his trip to Alaska, Trump responded to a question about Zacharia's briefing, saying only, "I thought she was very good."
But the brevity of the appearance, along with Zacharia's delivery and handling of questions, quickly generated criticism from former White House communications officials, journalists and commentators.
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Oct 13, 2026
President Trump has begun to downplay his new deal with Russia after a plan to allow imports of Russian diesel into the US came under withering criticism, even from members of his own party.
"It's a deal for the world ... It's not a deal with me," Trump told reporters on Tuesday morning, repeating that it was "not a USA deal."
"They're releasing it to the entire world," Trump added, after making similar comments on Monday that the deal would help US farmers, but said, "It's not really a deal with me, it's a deal for the rest of the world."
President Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House on Oct. 13 to travel to Alaska for a rally. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Oct 13, 2026
Control of both chambers of Congress is up for grabs in November's election. But as important as the House of Representatives is, all signs point to the true drama of the midterms being in the battle for the Senate.
There are 35 Senate seats on the ballot this year. Most of those races won't be competitive. The balance of power in the Senate will be decided by the dozen or so states where the outcome truly is uncertain. Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority, which means they can lose three seats and still maintain control of the chamber — thanks to Vice President JD Vance's constitutionally granted power to break ties in an evenly split Senate.
Forecasters widely expect Democrats to flip the House, but view the Senate as a "true toss-up."
The key Senate battlegrounds include traditional swing states, idiosyncratic areas of the Northeast and historically Republican states where Democrats have rarely been competitive in recent elections.
The outcome will have enormous implications for the final two years of President Trump's tenure in the White House. Democrats only need to gain control of one chamber to have the power to block or reshape Trump's legislative agenda. But a Senate majority would empower them to do
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Oct 13, 2026
Leo XIV is having a pulmonary nodule removed in his first hospitalisation since he became head of the Catholic Church last year. (Filippo MONTEFORTE)Pope Leo XIV's underwent an operation at a Rome hospital Tuesday to remove a nodule from his lung that was "successfully completed", the Vatican said.
Pope Leo XIV entered the hospital smiling and waving on Tuesday morning hours before the surgery to remove the growth that looks like a coin on the lung.
"The procedure was successfully completed, within the expected time and in the planned manner," the Vatican said in a brief statement.
"The Holy Father has returned to his room," it said, adding that more details would be given later.
The surgery marks the 71-year-old Leo's first hospitalisation since he became head of the Catholic Church on May 8, 2025. Vatican officials who saw the pope on Monday said he appeared relaxed about the hospital stay.
In a surprise announcement following Angelus prayers on Sunday, Leo told crowds in St Peter's Square that doctors had discovered the nodule "at a very early stage" during medical checks.
"The doctors believe it would be right to intervene," he said.
The Vatican has historically been very secretive about the health of popes, but began to be more transparent during the illness of Leo's predecessor Francis, an Argentine who freely discussed his ailments.
People outside the hospital expressed concern over the pope's condition.
Giorgia Fei, a 57-year-old Italian, said she had been worried by the news.
"However, the Holy Father is in very good hands here at the hospital because we have some outstanding doctors," she said.
"I will pray a lot for him."
Giuseppe Purpura, 72, said he was also concerned.
"He's still quite young and
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Oct 13, 2026
NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish the city's horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction.
Since 2010, mayors and local legislative leaders have tried to outlaw horse-drawn carriages from operating in Central Park, citing concerns about the safety of the animals as several have died in accidents and from exhaustion. But despite broad popular support, the efforts have failed, in large part due to political pressure from New York's powerful transport union, which advocates for hundreds of carriage drivers who make a living shuttling tourists on buggies around the park.
Now, that stalemate appears closer than ever to being broken.
In an announcement shared exclusively with POLITICO on Tuesday, a Menin spokesperson said Mamdani's administration has agreed to back a bill that would make it illegal to operate a horse-drawn carriage in the city, starting in June 2028.
With Mamdani onboard, Menin — who first announced her support for the bill in July — said she's scheduling a full Council vote on the measure for Oct. 22. The legislation has already secured formal support from more than half of the Council's 51 members, meaning it's on a glidepath to becoming law now that Mamdani is committed to supporting it.
"Horse-drawn carriages have long been part of New York City's history, but in an increasingly busy Central Park, this tradition has become a growing public safety liability," Menin said in a statement. "Next week, the Council will take decisive action by voting on [this bill] to protect New Yorkers, visitors, and the horses themselves."
Mamdani spokesperson Sneha Choudhary confirmed the mayor and the speaker have reached a deal on the legislation. She also said Mamdani is committed to working on helping
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Oct 13, 2026
Cornell University is suspending parties and other social events at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year and will give the New York State Police a role in investigating sex crimes on campus, university officials announced Tuesday, amid mounting outrage over its handling of allegations that a female student was sexually assaulted at a fraternity house in 2024.
The measures announced by Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff include a suspension of all parties and social events at Interfraternity Council houses through the end of the 2026-27 academic year and a new "zero tolerance" policy for violations that would result in the immediate emergency suspension of a chapter.
"These measures will provide time for a thorough review of fraternity life at Cornell to determine whether and how it can safely continue," Kotlikoff wrote in a letter to the campus community.
Cornell has more than 20 active fraternities affiliated with its Interfraternity Council. The council did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.
The university president said the school would begin conversations with students and faculty experts about "the development of safe social alternatives" to Greek life party culture and invest money to get those initiatives off the ground.
He also committed to adding a case manager to the school's Office of Civil Rights to help those who report sexual misconduct on the Cornell campus navigate the process, and to working with the New York State Police to allow its criminal investigators — who are independent of Cornell — to investigate allegations.
Crimes reported on Cornell's
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Oct 13, 2026
For millions of families in the US, wealth has inched up modestly in the last few years, but for older Americans, it's surged.
People 75 and older are now the richest group in the US, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. The survey, published every three years, found that the median family net worth in the US, adjusted for inflation, rose 2% to $215,900 between 2022 and 2025.
But among the 75 and older cohort, their median net worth rose 37% to $505,000, compared with $367,000 in 2022.
Families younger than 35, meanwhile, saw their median net worth dive 23% to $33,000.
As Mark Zandi, Moody's chief economist, told Yahoo Finance: "The baby boomers have arrived!"
"The oldest of the large boomer generation has aged into the 75 and older age group, and the surging stock market has benefited older Americans more because they have more of their wealth in retirement accounts," he said.
Wealth inequality on displayThis isn't startling news given long-held patterns of wealth inequality in America.
"On balance, wealth inequality appears little changed since 2022," according to the Fed research. "These changes in wealth largely reinforced existing patterns of wealth inequality by family characteristics."
Groups that typically have less wealth — young people, renters, and those without a high school diploma — saw their wealth slip in the years following the pandemic.
Families that already had more wealth, whether thanks to age or higher income, saw some of the largest gains.
One reason: Higher-income families tend to save more, which in tu
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Oct 13, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Tuesday ordered a halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac Golf Course until Oct. 26, putting a further pause on work at the historic D.C. course that has been part of President Donald Trump's plans to remake the city.
Reyes issued the order one day after a tense three-hour hearing in which she harshly criticized the government for having deceived her with its actions over the holiday weekend.
At the Monday hearing, Reyes ordered a 24-hour pause that could be extended to 14 days if necessary. It was limited to one day while the government tried to find a key Trump administration official to discuss why a massive tree-cutting at the park needed to occur over the holiday weekend, with little notification to plaintiffs in a lawsuit trying to halt renovation plans or the judge.
The judge also ordered during that period the government "must provide the court and plaintiffs three business days' written advance notice prior to making any irreparable modification to any permanent form or feature of the East Potomac Golf Course."
The DC Preservation League and two individuals are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
The Monday hearing and Tuesday order were prompted by the National Park Service ordering the cutting of hundreds of trees at the golf course after filing the court notification only minutes before the close of business on Oct. 9 on a holiday weekend, giving the plaintiffs little time to respond. At least 400 trees were cutdown over the weekend with plans for several hundred more.
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Oct 13, 2026
The battle for control of Congress is getting the lion's share of the attention in the lead-up to the midterms, but there are a lot of other consequential measures that'll appear on ballots this November that could have a direct impact on voters' lives.
Ballot measures often don't receive much national attention, but every two years, voters across the country decide whether to adopt policies that have major implications for their states. This year is no different.
There are more than 140 total measures collectively across 40 states this year. Many touch on some of the biggest issues in U.S. politics, including abortion, transgender rights, voting and the democratic process itself.
Ballot measures can give the people a way to directly alter the laws in their states instead of relying solely on their elected representatives to create policy on their behalf. In some cases, they provide an opportunity for voters to endorse or reject something their state legislature wants to do. In other cases, regular citizens can get their preferred policy on the ballot directly through a signature-gathering campaign.
Here's a rundown of some of the major measures on statewide ballots this year.
AbortionThe Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn the nationwide abortion protections established by Roe v. Wade instantly turned abortion access into a state-by-state issue. It also led to a flurry of ballot measures across the country in which vote
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Oct 13, 2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, resigned on Tuesday amid allegations of improper conduct while denying the claims and vowing to "vigorously defend" herself.
In a lengthy post on her personal X account on Tuesday morning, Guilfoyle thanked President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for "entrusting me with the extraordinary privilege of representing the greatest country in the history of the world."
Guilfoyle also denied the "recent allegations" against her. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Guilfoyle asked a Trump donor to pay off a $100,000 American Express credit card bill ahead of her confirmation as ambassador in exchange for access to administration officials.
"These allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity," Guilfoyle wrote. "I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice, standing up for what is right, and defending the values that make America exceptional. I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service."
Earlier Tuesday, Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, announced during her first briefing that the administration had asked Guilfoyle to resign.
"We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign," Zacharia said when asked about the
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Oct 13, 2026
London — Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have dramatically upped the stakes in the complex Middle East war, killing at least 20 people — including an American — and wounding hundreds more with strikes on Saudi Arabia's airports over the last week.
The question is whether President Trump will order U.S. military action in support of Saudi Arabia, which has been at war with the rebels in Yemen for more than a decade.
Mr. Trump campaigned on ending wars, and he is likely aware, less than a month before the U.S. midterm elections, that opening a new U.S. front in the wider conflict sparked by the Feb. 28 joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran could be politically perilous.
If he did, he could argue that it is both to protect the Saudis, as a key U.S. ally, and to stop the Iranian proxy group from threatening global shipping in the vital trade routes of the Red Sea.
Mr. Trump rejected a request last month by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to join in the kingdom's strikes on the Houthis, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. He came close to ordering airstrikes against the group a week later, but again declined.
Asked Sunday if the U.S. would join Saudi strikes, however, the president replied: "We may. We're gonna look at it … We'll make a decision. We move very quickly."
So, what has changed, and will it be enough to force Mr. Trump's hand?
An American deathLittle information has come out about the U.S. citizen killed in th
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Oct 13, 2026
A 42-year-old man died after being ejected from a roller coaster at a Six Flags amusement park in Georgia, police said.
The man -- Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, of Atlanta -- was found dead beneath the ride at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, according to the Cobb County Police Department.
"Preliminary information gathered through witness and employee interviews indicates Kariem was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling beneath the attraction," the Cobb County Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday. "Investigators continue to examine the circumstances surrounding the incident."
WSB - PHOTO: The Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Cobb County, Georgia, is seen on Oct. 12, 2026.The state's Office of the Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire, which is responsible for the safety of amusement park rides in Georgia, also said it is "actively investigating" the incident.
"Our investigative team is conducting an in-depth and comprehensive review to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident and to ensure full compliance with all applicable policies and procedures," Garrison Bennett, the agency's press secretary, said in a statement on Tuesday.
State officials investigating after woman injured on alpine coaster in ColoradoSeveral people were also injured in the incident, which occurred shortly before 4 p.m. Monday at the Atlanta-area amusement park, according to police.
Distraught witnesses described the horrific incident to a local station, saying
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Oct 13, 2026
After House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) ascended to one of the most powerful offices in Washington three years ago, his wife, a faith-based counselor, turned her focus to the nation's capital.
Kelly Johnson reoriented a religious nonprofit she was running back home in the Shreveport area into a ministry focused on female congressional staffers. Its new purpose, according to an IRS filing, was to help "the hundreds of unreached young women" working around Capitol Hill "find purpose, belonging, and Christian community."
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Through the organization, a part-time endeavor run solely by Johnson, she provides counseling, delivers speeches and conducts "spiritual heritage tours" of the U.S. Capitol that highlight the nation's Christian history. In 2024, financial disclosures show Johnson was paid $50,000 for 10 hours of work per week.
The nonprofit, Onward Christian Education Services, has become part of the rising presence in official Washington of evangelical Christianity as its devotees, a key bloc of support for President Donald Trump, seek to inject a biblical worldview into American politics and government.
The centerpiece of Johnson's organization is the faith-based counseling that she said she provides free to staff and the spouses of House members.
"I'm a missionary here," Johnson said in an interview.
"It's kind of a calling in this life for me," she added. "This is what I love to do. This is my heart."
The full extent of Kelly Johnson's work in Washington is unclear, however. Some mysteries remain about her organization, including who is funding it.
Onward Christian Education Service
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Oct 13, 2026
Elon Musk elevated a false conspiracy theory about Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico over the weekend, lifting a fringe claim concerning the Texan's mental health to the forefront of users' X feeds, where it garnered hundreds of thousands of impressions.
"The Talarico campaign is hiding something big that voters ought to know about," Musk wrote Sunday afternoon, replying to a post alleging that Talarico had been checked into the Lindner Center of Hope, a mental health facility in suburban Cincinnati. Musk's reply amassed over 870,000 views, more than double the impression count of the post to which he was responding.
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The theory had been circulating online for days, fueled by Talarico's absence from the campaign trail, which his team has consistently said was due to the flu. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton promoted a "Tala-Freak-Out Tip Line" on Friday, which was still active as of Monday night. President Donald Trump weighed in, arguing the Democrat's convalescence was too long to be the "flu bug."
Musk's engagement with the theory gave it a much wider audience - and the flurry of attention ultimately prompted the treatment center in Mason, Ohio, to publicly refute the allegations.
"Rep. James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope," the facility wrote in a statement posted to X, five hours after Musk's initial posts on the subject. Talarico replied to the post Monday, saying he had "never even been to Ohio," with a laughing emoji.
A day earlier, he described the conspiracy theory as "the craziest thing I've ever heard" in an interview with MS NOW. Talarico's spokesperson, JT Ennis, said the claims w
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Oct 13, 2026
After months of rumors, Apple is officially (and finally) making its biggest effort yet to grab a piece of the smart home pie. The iPhone maker announced the $299 HomeView on Tuesday, its first smart hub designed to put Siri front-and-center in people's homes. HomeView comes as a countertop device, or a slab you can mount to the wall, both with touchscreens, cameras and the ability to hear and execute Siri voice commands.
This is Apple's first dedicated smart home hub ever, and it supports the numerous reports suggesting the company wants to make inroads in the home space. HomeView is designed to be stationary, and it not only connects all of your compatible devices together — things like smart lights, door locks and sensors (including the new Apple Home Collection) — but also lets you control them using either the on-screen interface or Siri voice commands.
But Apple may have a hard time convincing people to add yet another iPad-like screen to their homes, particularly one that emphasizes Siri. The new Siri, known as
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Oct 13, 2026
After months of rumors, Apple is officially (and finally) making its biggest effort yet to grab a piece of the smart home pie. The iPhone maker announced the $299 HomeView on Tuesday, its first smart hub designed to put Siri front-and-center in people's homes. HomeView comes as a countertop device, or a slab you can mount to the wall, both with touchscreens, cameras and the ability to hear and execute Siri voice commands.
This is Apple's first dedicated smart home hub ever, and it supports the numerous reports suggesting the company wants to make inroads in the home space. HomeView is designed to be stationary, and it not only connects all of your compatible devices together — things like smart lights, door locks and sensors (including the new Apple Home Collection) — but also lets you control them using either the on-screen interface or Siri voice commands.
But Apple may have a hard time convincing people to add yet another iPad-like screen to their homes, particularly one that emphasizes Siri. The new Siri, known as
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Oct 13, 2026
Apple (AAPL) is reinventing its smart home strategy with its new HomeView hub, the HomePod Mini 2, and Apple TV 4K.
Sporting a seven-inch Liquid Retina Display, the HomeView is designed to sit on a counter in its built-in speaker mount or be mounted to a wall. The $299 HomeView is designed to serve as the home base for your smart home and goes on sale Nov. 13.
According to Apple, HomeView can recognize up to six household users via facial recognition and serve up their specific apps, notifications, and more. It can also play music and podcasts, make FaceTime calls, or look up quick video recipes in the kitchen.
Users can control smart home devices ranging from lights and locks to thermostats and more, check their calendars, and interact with Siri AI to do things like find their keys via AirTags.
Apple has dipped its toes into the smart home space over the years, including with the original HomePod, HomePod mini, and Apple TV, as well as software like its Home app, but has never offered a full-fledged hub like the HomeView before.
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Oct 13, 2026
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine received no early warning from its partners about five Russian ballistic missiles that hit civilian infrastructure in the capital of Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as tensions rise between the Ukrainian leader and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Zelenskyy did not specify which partners he was talking about. He characterized the barrage as "particularly vile" and emphasized that receiving intelligence from partners about such attacks "helps save lives" and is "one of the most critical issues."
"This is precisely what helps prevent people from being killed — when there is an early warning about ballistic missiles," he wrote in a post on X.
Trump said the U.S. has not stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
"We are helping them, and we are sharing intel," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We want the war to end, so we're working with them and with Russia on getting the war to end."
Zelenskyy's remarks come days after Trump unleashed biting criticism of him, including comments that it was time for a new president in Ukraine and that Zelenskyy has not done enough to end the war. The criticism marks perhaps the lowest point in their relationship since their disastrous Oval Office meeting in February 2025.
Kyiv continues to rely heavily on Washington for military assistanc
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Oct 13, 2026
Officials are reviewing the off-base code of conduct for U.S. troops in Japan following the killing of an Okinawan woman, allegedly by a U.S. Marine, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Tuesday.
Crimes including rapes, assaults, hit-and-runs and drunk driving by U.S. military personnel have long triggered protests on the southern Japanese island, which has for years urged other regions of the country to share the burden of hosting U.S. troops.
"We plan to hold discussions including whether the existing rules are effectively functioning," Motegi said, adding that "matters such as patrols and curfew management" would be under review in talks with the United States.
The high-level bilateral consultations will examine off-duty conduct and the "liberty" policy governing off-base private activities of U.S. military personnel, he said.
The existing policy, updated in 2024 following a string of sexual assaults by U.S. military personnel in Okinawa, includes a ban on them drinking in public off-base between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. or going to bars during those hours.
Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine stationed on Okinawa early this month on suspicion of killing a 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha, the capital of Okinawa Orefecture. Word of the arrest drew outrage.
The U.S. military
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Oct 13, 2026
After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible.
"It was like I was underwater, like it took the most to do anything," he said.
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Meetze stopped taking the drug, but he endured fatigue and anxiety for months afterward, and his eyes and muscles twitched, he said.
He had taken BPC-157, a peptide drug popularized by podcasts about wellness, longevity and what's called "body optimization." Peptide is a general term for substances that are smaller than proteins but composed of the same building blocks. Dozens of peptide drugs, including insulin and GLP-1 weight loss medicines, have garnered approval by the Food and Drug Administration. But BPC-157 and many others have not because they haven't undergone clinical trials.
This fact hasn't stopped online influencers from promoting them as remedies for muscle injuries, gut issues, covid and more. Use of BPC-157 is growing in the United States, particularly among White males, according to a new analysis of millions of de-identified electronic health records. Since 2020, the analysis, which hasn't yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, found that more than 1,000 people told doctors they had used the drug.
Meetze said he decided to take BPC-157 after listening to Andrew Huberman, a Stanford neuroscientist with more than 16 million followers on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, who talks up peptides frequently on his podcasts. Studies in mice suggest that BPC-157 helps muscles hea
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Oct 13, 2026
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Six Flags said it has temporarily closed nine rides across the country after a man died and several others were injured Monday in a roller coaster incident at an amusement park in Georgia.
Police did not say how the man died or how many people were injured, but witnesses say a man fell from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, around 10 miles west of downtown Atlanta.
"He fell and hit the car three different times" before falling onto the roof of a haunted house attraction below, a witness told CNN affiliate WXIA.
The 210-second ride reaches a top speed of 70 mph and an elevation of 200 feet, according to the Six Flags website.
The park, one of the largest in Georgia and a popular attraction for families and kids, operates on weekends in October but was open Monday for the Columbus Day holiday - a time when many schools in the Atlanta area celebrate fall break.
Nine roller coasters across six other Six Flags have been temporarily closed "out of an abundance of caution," a Six Flags spokesperson said Monday evening.
Detectives from the Cobb County Police's Major Crimes Unit are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, police said in a statement.
"We are deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today," Six Flags Over Georgia said in a statement. "Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are with the guest's family, friends, and loved ones."
Monday's incident comes nearly two weeks after S
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Oct 13, 2026
Republicans have had to defer many of their legislative dreams, hoping the post-election release of political pressure could set up a productive "lame duck" session before a new Congress is seated.
Fat chance, many GOP lawmakers now say.
Beyond the uncertainties surrounding the midterms and a potential transition of power on Capitol Hill, members will return to Washington facing a considerable list of must-pass bipartisan bills but also potentially messy internal leadership fights, a foul national mood and a mere 24 legislative days to get anything done.
One thing on Republicans' minds is whether some of their members even come back to vote.
"The question becomes: Who shows up for work after the elections?" Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said in an interview. "Attendance is an issue right now."
There are some items, Scott added, that "ultimately … have to get done." Those include an extension of government funding past Dec. 11 and the annual Pentagon policy bill. Major pieces of legislation to reauthorize farm, transportation and surveillance programs are also on deck. All are loaded with potential partisan flash points, however, and won't be legislative chip shots.
Then there are pending bipartisan bills overhauling energy permitting and the college sports industry that many members are itching to get done this year. But many lawmakers fear those could easily get left behind — especially if Democrats can win control of either chamber and seek greater influence on the final products.
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Oct 13, 2026
[BBC]Americans head to the polls on 3 November to decide how the rest of Donald Trump's presidency will play out.
Thousands of races are taking place across the US, at different levels of government. But the main event for voters will be electing members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the two chambers that make up Congress.
Both of them are currently controlled by the Republicans, the president's party. The success or failure of Trump's final two years in office could rest on the outcome.
Here's our visual guide to where the battle for power will be won and lost - from approval ratings, to key races and issues and the huge amount of money being spent.
Midterms come at bad time for TrumpOne of the reasons the opposition Democrats have a chance to take back Congress is the president's low approval rating, which is a good indicator for how well his party could perform.
He began his second term as president with an approval rating of just over 50%, according to polling resource website Silver Bulletin, but it quickly fell into the 40s.
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Oct 13, 2026
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said.
Tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery. It said the diagnosis had been suspected by preoperative tests and was confirmed during surgery.
The statement made no mention of treatment going forward, and the Vatican said doctors were not currently speaking of chemotherapy or other therapies pending the results of other tests. The Vatican press office noted the medical statement spoke of the "radical" removal of the lobe as an indication that doctors removed all suspect tissue in hopes of removing any lingering traces of the cancer.
Leo's lymph nodes also would have been removed and tested, to determine if the cancer had spread, and there was no word yet on those test results.
"Adenocarcinoma is the most common (type of lung cancer), also with the most favorable prognosis," said Dr. Stephen Liu, a lung cancer expert at Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. "While we know the diagnosis we now need to know the stage."
"We now need to know how big it is, how many spots in the lung are involved. Is it just one nodule, or more than one, and the lymph nodes, are they cancerous?" Liu said.
If the cancer has spread, more tests will be needed to determine what kind of therapy to pursue, he said. Options include chemotherapy, a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy or targeted therapy, which involves oral pills for specific cancers.
The Vatican says the surgery was successful
The 71-year-old was in the o
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Oct 12, 2026
By Joyce Lee and Kyu-seok Shim
SEOUL, Oct 13 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a defence industry museum displaying an intercontinental ballistic missile capable ?of reaching the United States, state media KCNA showed on Tuesday.
The report came a ?day after US President Donald Trump said he might meet Kim during a planned trip to Asia. Trump is ?expected to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in China in mid-November.
Kim, accompanied by his daughter known as Ju Ae and wife Ri Sol Ju, attended the opening of the newly opened Defence Revolution Museum on Sunday, KCNA said.
The museum displayed weaponry developed under Kim's leadership ranging from ?drones to the Hwasong-20 intercontinental ?ballistic missile (ICBM), KCNA photographs showed.
A display in front of the Hwasong-20 launcher appeared to show a multiple warhead design and a world map depicting ?ranges extending beyond the US mainland to the Middle East, Australia and South America, said Shin Jong-woo, Secretary General of the Korea Defence and Security Forum.
"The exhibition appears intended to highlight the achievements ?of Kim's ?defence science development programme," Shin said. "It gave the ?impression of propaganda aimed at gaining ?a strategic advantage ahead of potential a North Korea-US summit."
Analysts said the museum also reflected a broader effort by Kim to elevate North Korea's weapons displays into lasting symbols of the regime's military accomplishments.
"By turning what were once temporary weapons exhibitions into a permanent museum, Kim is institutionalising his military achievements and portraying North Korea's nuclear and missile buildup as a completed ?and enduring legacy," said Lim Eul-chul, a professor at ?Kyungnam University's Institute for Far Eastern Studies.
Separately, North Korea ?said it test-fired a tactical ballistic missile ?on Monday to confirm the
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Oct 12, 2026
President Donald Trump went after Rep. Ilhan Omar hours after federal agents searched her home in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura / AFP via Getty Images)Chants of "deport" rang out Monday night as President Donald Trump criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, at a rally for Republican candidates in Youngstown, Ohio.
"I don't know what they're doing with it, but I can tell you this: She's a disaster," Trump said of Omar, whose home in Washington, D.C., was searched hours earlier by federal agents, two people familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement that Homeland Security Investigations "executed a judicially authorized search warrant" as "part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation." The statement did not specify that the investigation was related to Omar, nor did it provide more information about the search.
"She comes in from a country without laws, without police, without military, where all they do is shoot each other, and she comes into our country and she says, ‘I have a constitutional right,'" Trump said. "She's telling us about the Constitution, and she comes from one of the worst countries anywhe
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Oct 12, 2026
President Donald Trump answered he's "looking at" firing Kimberly Guilfoyle when asked about the embattled U.S. ambassador to Greece on Monday.
Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a campaign rally that his administration is "looking at it" and added that it's "not happy" over reports alleging that she used her official position and links to the Trump family to get money from a donor.
A Trump donor told ABC News last week that Guilfoyle offered access to top Trump officials in exchange for cash.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images - PHOTO: Kimberly Guilfoyle, President Trump's nominee to be the US ambassador to Greece, speaks alongside President Donald Trump, during a Greek Independence Day celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 24, 2025. Eric Deters, a former lawyer, conservative media personality and Trump donor, alleged that Guilfoyle asked him to pay her $100,000 credit card bill in July 2025 -- days before her Senate confirmation hearing.
Trump donor accuses Kimberly Guilfoyle of asking him to pay her $100K credit card bill: 'It was all quid pro quo'"It was all quid pro quo," Deters claimed about the request from Guilfoyle, who is the former wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom and ex-fiance of Donald Trump Jr.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on Deters' accusations.
Deters provided messages to ABC News he says he exchanged with Guilfoyle on the subject. In one message from that period
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Oct 12, 2026
Lawyers for one of the men named in a civil lawsuit brought by a former Cornell University student who alleged she was sexually assaulted at a school fraternity in 2024 is asking a New York judge to impose a gag order in the case, arguing the publicity surrounding the case risks tainting potential jurors.
Attorneys for Diego Sarabia on Monday asked for "narrowly tailored restrictions" that would prevent lawyers and parties in the civil case from commenting on the allegations outside of court.
"Since this action began, Plaintiff's counsel has repeatedly addressed the merits through widely disseminated media statements," the motion said. "These statements present disputed allegations and interpretations of evidence to the public before discovery and trial."
Attorney says Jane Doe facing threats, calls out alleged 'failures' of Cornell, law enforcementA then-undergraduate student identified only as Jane Doe made a complaint to campus police in November 2024, three weeks after the incident occurred, that she had been raped by a group of men at the Chi Phi fraternity house. She has filed a civil suit against the men and the university alleging that she had been drugged and raped.
No criminal charges have been filed, but an investigation by the New York attorney general is ongoing.
The case has rocked the university and started conversations about
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Oct 12, 2026
By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday defended a diesel oil deal he made with Russia as lawmakers from both parties complained the agreement appears to violate US law barring imports of Russian energy until Moscow ?ends its aggression against Ukraine.
Trump has said the deal to lift sanctions on Russian oil exports would help bring down high fuel ?prices. However some analysts doubted the amount of diesel Trump has said Russia would provide over the next three months would do much to bring down prices, since it ?is equal to about 12 hours of global consumption of the fuel.
On Friday, Trump said Russia had agreed to supply diesel to global markets, and his administration temporarily lifted US sanctions on Russian fuel designed to deprive Moscow of revenue for its war on Ukraine. On Monday, Trump said the deal would help American farmers and ranchers.
The price of diesel has surged more than 60% since Trump launched a war against Iran seven months ago, and high prices ?have jeopardized Republican chances to maintain thin majorities ?in the US Congress in the November 3 midterm elections.
On Sunday a group of Republican and Democratic US senators called on Trump to "reverse course" on the diesel supply deal with Russia. They said his deal may violate a ?2022 law designed to support Ukraine in its bid to repel Russian invaders.
"We should be tightening sanctions further, not undercutting them by allowing the import of Russian diesel and risking erasing our leverage, damaging our credibility with allies, and emboldening our adversaries," said Republican Senator Jerry Moran in a social media post.
Trump has ?blamed ?Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries as a leading factor for higher
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Oct 12, 2026
Washington — President Trump said he and his administration are "looking at" firing Kimberly Guilfoyle from her position as U.S. ambassador to Greece, after an associate of Guilfoyle's alleged she asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing.
"Well, we're looking at it," the president told reporters on his way to Ohio when asked if he's considering firing Guilfoyle. "We're not happy."
Guilfoyle is aware that Mr. Trump is debating firing her, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. She has been talking to her lawyer and asking Trump administration aides for advice, the sources said.
Businessman Eric Deters told CBS News last week he has "no doubt it was pay-to-play" when Guilfoyle asked for funds. Deters also provided CBS News with screenshots of his texts with Guilfoyle, including one message in which she appeared to ask him to wire money. Deters said he never gave her the money.
"Unfortunately for Kimberly Guilfoyle, at that time, at that moment in time, I didn't have $100,000 to spare to give to Kimberly Guilfoyle, or I actually would have been a dumbass enough to do it."
White House officials were told that the text messages between Guilfoyle and Deters were authentic, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News last week. Some Trump aides expressed displeasure about Guilfoyle's actions, they said.
Guilfoyle's lawyer disputed the authenticity of the texts to The Wall Street Journal, which was first to report on them.
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Oct 12, 2026
The Cobb County Police Department said in an email that one person died and several were injured. The incident happened at about 3:58 p.m. local time, the department said.
Atlanta television stations WSB and 11 Alive reported that the man died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at the park. WSB reported that four others were injured.
The man was ejected from his car, fell and hit the ride three times, 11 Alive reported, citing witnesses.
In a statement to USA TODAY, Six Flags said it was "deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today" and that it was cooperating with local authorities' investigation.
"Out of respect for the family's privacy, we will not be sharing additional details at this time," the statement said.
Goliath reaches speeds of up to 70-miles-per-hour and is 200 feet tall, according to the park's website.
Latest death at Six Flags Over Georgia
According to findings published by The Doan Law Firm injury attorneys, there have been at least eight deaths tied to Six Flags Over Georgia customers or employees.
The park opened in 1967, and the first death at the park came in 1989 when an 11-year-old boy became unresponsive after riding the park's Z-Force rollercoaster. The cause of death was undetermined.
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Oct 12, 2026
This screen grab taken from CCTV footage released by the Saudi media ministry shows the moment King Khalid International Airport was hit by a strike (-)A Houthi official on Monday warned the US it would receive a "painful response" if it entered the war in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia has reportedly requested Washington's help in dealing with the group as it weathers repeated attacks.
Yemen's civil war -- in which a Saudi-led military coalition supports the government against the Iran-backed Houthis -- reignited in July, months into the wider regional conflict that has roiled energy markets and plunged the Middle East into risis.
The Houthis quickly began targeting Saudi oil facilities, tankers and transport hubs, including a string of lethal strikes on Riyadh's airport, rocking the world's top oil exporter.
Blasts resounded over the capital again on Monday night, with the Saudi coalition saying it had intercepted a Houthi missile and the group saying it had again targeted the airport.
Later, the coalition announced that it had intercepted two ballistic missiles in the south of the kingdom, near the border with Yemen.
In a statement posted on X, the coalition said it had "intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the terrorist Houthi militia towards Khamis Mushait", a city where a Saudi military base has previously come under attacks.
Following an attack at the Riyadh airport on Saturday that killed 13 people, US President Donald Trump said he was considering joining Saudi strikes against the group, after having reportedly rebuffed previous requests for help from the kingdom.
"The Houthis are misbehaving very badly. They're misbehaving very badly. No good," Trump said on Monday.
"If the US becomes involved in the aggression agai
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Oct 12, 2026
This screen grab taken from CCTV footage released by the Saudi media ministry shows the moment King Khalid International Airport was hit by a strike (-)A Houthi official on Monday warned the US it would receive a "painful response" if it entered the war in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia has reportedly requested Washington's help in dealing with the group as it weathers repeated attacks.
Yemen's civil war -- in which a Saudi-led military coalition supports the government against the Iran-backed Houthis -- reignited in July, months into the wider regional conflict that has roiled energy markets and plunged the Middle East into risis.
The Houthis quickly began targeting Saudi oil facilities, tankers and transport hubs, including a string of lethal strikes on Riyadh's airport, rocking the world's top oil exporter.
Blasts resounded over the capital again on Monday night, with the Saudi coalition saying it had intercepted a Houthi missile and the group saying it had again targeted the airport.
Later, the coalition announced that it had intercepted two ballistic missiles in the south of the kingdom, near the border with Yemen.
In a statement posted on X, the coalition said it had "intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the terrorist Houthi militia towards Khamis Mushait", a city where a Saudi military base has previously come under attacks.
Following an attack at the Riyadh airport on Saturday that killed 13 people, US President Donald Trump said he was considering joining Saudi strikes against the group, after having reportedly rebuffed previous requests for help from the kingdom.
"The Houthis are misbehaving very badly. They're misbehaving very badly. No good," Trump said on Monday.
"If the US becomes involved in the aggression agai
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Oct 12, 2026
Emergency services responded to a Russian drone strike on a residential building in Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine on Monday [EPA]
Russia struck six Ukrainian energy facilities hours after US President Donald Trump announced the two countries had agreed to an energy ceasefire, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Despite Trump stating on Sunday the truce would be "effective immediately", the Ukrainian president said Russia had hit "our gas stations, energy infrastructure, and other facilities".
There were blackouts in the city of Izyum after a Russian strike destroyed power grids, Ukraine's state news agency Ukrinform said, while energy and railway infrastructure in western Ukraine was also targeted overnight.
On Monday, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine does not deserve the "respite" a ceasefire would bring.
What's behind Trump's energy ceasefire claim?Zelensky backs Trump's 'energy ceasefire' but says Russia continues to hit power plants
Zelensky said 33 people had been injured in the strikes on energy facilities across the country.
He told Fox News: "We did not attack, while Russia attacked our gas stations, energy infrastructure, and other facilities."
"I think it was Putin's answer to President Trump," he added.
Global conflicts have pushed fuel prices higher ahead
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Oct 12, 2026
Rep. Ilhan Omar takes questions during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on January 13, 2026. - J. Scott Applewhite/AP/File
Federal officers executed a search warrant early Monday at the Washington, DC-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat who has been the persistent target of ire from President Donald Trump's administration, according to a Justice Department spokesperson and a source familiar with the matter.
The congresswoman is running for reelection and the search warrant was executed only weeks before the midterms.
It is unusual for the Justice Department to take such an aggressive investigative step toward a candidate so close to an election. Voting is well underway in Minnesota, with more than 127,000 people having already voted, according to data from the secretary of state.
The Department of Justice said in a statement Monday that investigators from Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security that handles criminal investigations, "executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice."
"This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation," a DOJ spokesperson said.
The statement did not indicate what the investigation entailed.
Omar called the search "the latest escalation" in Trump's "campaign of political intimidation."
"I'm ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weapo
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Oct 12, 2026
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Emergency help for Christa Pike was delayed by confusion among first responders and Tennessee prison officials following her failed execution last month, according to 911 dispatch recordings.
The recordings, obtained Monday by The Associated Press through a public records request, show that precious minutes elapsed as officials and responders tried to figure out whether a request for emergency help in the execution chamber was legitimate.
The initial 911 call came in at 8:40 p.m. on Sept. 30, just over an hour after the attempted lethal injection got underway. But the caller was unable to provide a code that would help verify the legitimacy of the request.
"Per supervisors here at the DEC (Department of Emergency Communications) we have been informed it is a false call," a dispatcher says at 9:03 p.m. "There is no medical assistance needed at Riverbend Prison."
It wasn't until about half an hour after the initial call — close to 9:11 p.m. — that prison officials affirmed it was real and began letting responders through the gates.
Neither the Tennessee Department of Correction nor Pike's legal team immediately responded to requests for comment.
The prisoner becomes a patient
Pike, 50, was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. She was 18 when she t
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Oct 12, 2026
President Trump has been appearing around the US in the run-up to the midterm elections, announcing economic development projects — from a possible pipeline in Alaska to a steel plant in Iowa to an aluminum smelter in Oklahoma — that he says will transform the country.
"In the real economy, we are blowing it away," he said at a weekend stop in Tennessee.
Trump's message of confidence comes as the ultimate shape of these projects remains far from certain and often directly echoes his pitch at this stage in the 2018 midterm elections, a Yahoo Finance review found.
That election eight years ago was the last time Trump faced midterm voters and also saw him tout projects — most notably a Foxconn electronics manufacturing plant planned for Wisconsin — that turned out to be less than advertised.
President Trump shakes hands with then-Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at a groundbreaking for a Foxconn plant on June 28, 2018, in Mount Pleasant, Wisc. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)Chicago Tribune via Getty Ima
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Oct 12, 2026
Ads promoting Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) appeared to target the wrong city of Portland in a Republican super PAC mix-up, running the advertisements in Oregon instead of Maine.
"During a recent independent expenditure, our media vendor mistakenly placed approximately $25,000 in digital advertising in the Portland, Oregon media market instead of Portland, Maine," a spokesperson for Republican Main Street Partnership (RMSP), the nonprofit affiliated with GOP super PAC Defending Main Street, told The Hill.
"The error was identified, the ads were immediately stopped and corrected, and the vendor is refunding Defending Main Street the full amount of the misplaced spend," the spokesperson said. "No donor funds will be lost as a result of the vendor's error."
The mix-up was first reported by NBC News, which identified a Portland, Ore., resident writing on social media Sunday that she received "5 anti-Troy Jackson ads in the last 24 hours."
According to Google Ads Transparency Center, the advertisements ran for four days and targeted various zip codes around the Portland, Ore., area. Before the ad was taken down, it was shown more than 1 million times to people across all demographics in Oregon.
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Oct 12, 2026
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, on Monday said he does not approve of the Trump administration's decision to livestream the military execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, warning that it could "imitate the terrorists."
Broglio said in a statement released by the Archdiocese for the Military Services that he sends his sympathy to the families and friends of Fort Hood shooting victims, noting that he presided over the funeral of one of those killed, Michael Grant Cahill.
He added that he sides with the Catholic Church's opposition to capital punishment, "and Pope Francis made it even clearer."
"Thirdly, do we really want to imitate the terrorists of this world and make a public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries?" he continued. "The crime committed by Nidal Malik Hasan was heinous, but does exposing the public to his execution serve any purpose?"
"Has the potential moral injury, which the members of the firing squad might experience, been considered?" Broglio inquired. "Will the exposure of a livestream to the young and impressionable during the 250th anniversary year of our independence be able to be repaired?"
He asked if there was any "value" in having the U.S. military thrown "in the same boat with terrorists by broadcasting the image of the execution of a man in a whee
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Oct 12, 2026
Multiple people were seen dropping into a Manhattan manhole early Sunday morning, according to police, marking yet another incident in recent weeks involving people entering or exiting manholes across New York City.
Police are searching for three men seen entering a manhole on West 141st Street, in New York City's Hamilton Heights neighborhood, shortly before 1 a.m. on Sunday, New York Police Department sources told ABC News.
By the time police arrived, the men were gone, the sources said.
New manhole mystery in Upper West Side of Manhattan The manhole incident follows a separate incident just days earlier on Oct. 9, when police say four men and a woman were spotted emerging from a manhole on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The group drove away in a black SUV and left behind shovels and other tools, according to police sources.
Joel Carillet/istockphoto/Getty Images - PHOTO: Manhole cover for the New York City sewer.Police believe these urban scavengers pose no threat and instead are looking for valuables dropped or swept away after it rains.
The events over the weekend follow similar recent instances of individuals seen entering or exiting the manholes found across New York City streets.
Last month, in a separate incident, police arrested two individuals in connection with a sighting of people climbing out of a manhole near a hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stayed briefly during the U.N. General Assembly in September.
The NYPD and federal agents conducted additional sweeps of the area out of an abundance of caution given the U.N. General Assembly an
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Oct 12, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Actor Selma Blair was arrested after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants on a trip from Los Angeles to New York. She was also accused of kicking a police officer taking her to the hospital and kicking a nurse once she got there.
She pleaded not guilty Monday night to two counts of assault for state charges involving the officer and the nurse. And she faces separate federal charges based on what happened on the flight, which her representatives say was brought on by a severe medical emergency.
Blair, 54, was detained by police at around 11 p.m. Sunday after the Delta Air Lines jet parked at the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.
Blair and one of the flight attendants were taken to a hospital for evaluation, the Port Authority said.
A police officer taking her to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center said in charging documents that while she was securing Blair to a stretcher, Blair pulled a leg from the straps and kicked her repeatedly around the face, neck and chest, causing serious pain and substantial swelling. Later, a nurse moving Blair said the actor kicked her in the chest, causing substantial pain.
She was arraigned on two counts of second-degree assault late Monday at a court in Queens, where her lawyer entered a not guilty plea on her behalf. She appeared to cry as she stood in court in handcuffs, wearing jeans and a white hooded sweatshirt.
Her attorney Shawn Barnes told a judge her actions were not intentional. He said the actor, who has multiple sclerosis, missed several doses of "a powerful medication that controls severe neurological symptoms," according to the New York Daily News and New York Post.
He said she had gotten on the flight in Los Angeles af
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Oct 12, 2026
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Elon Musk has given millions to the Republican Party ahead of the midterm elections.
Since July, the world's richest man, 55, has given more than $276 million to Republican groups and his own super PAC, making him the largest donor in the midterm elections, according to The New York Times.
Representatives for Musk shared the figure with the outlet ahead of a federal filing deadline on Thursday, October 15.
Musk's giving this summer included $158 million to the main super PAC for Senate Republicans, the Senate Leadership Fund, his team told the publication.
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"In sum, that is one of the largest political donations in American history, and more than the group's Democratic rival raised from all of its donors that quarter," according to The New York Times.
Additionally,
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Oct 12, 2026
It's crunch time. With less than a month to go until the 2026 midterm elections, Democratic and Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives nationwide are making one last push to persuade voters in their districts — and help their party win or retain control of the chamber on Nov. 3.
The stakes are high. President Trump 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 parts of the president's agenda, investigate his administration and even impeach him (again).
Historically speaking, a president's party almost always loses seats when voters return to the polls to judge his first two years in office. (The average number lost since World War II? Twenty-six.) Sometimes, the backlash is so pervasive that the president's party loses seats across a wide range of competitive districts — a phenomenon known as a "wave" election.
But the past doesn't necessarily predict the future, and Republicans have certain advantages today that they didn't have before. Here's what needs to happen for each party to come out on top.
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Oct 12, 2026
Sean "Diddy" Combs was transported from federal prison for medical treatment early Saturday after suffering a head injury, according to TMZ, while his representative told Newsweek that Combs' team was working to confirm the circumstances.
"We are aware of the reports concerning Sean Combs and are working to confirm the circumstances. Sean's health and well-being are our immediate concern, and we appreciate everyone who has reached out," the representative said Monday.
Sources at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey told TMZ that an ambulance carrying Combs left the prison grounds at around 1 a.m. The outlet reported that it was unclear how Combs sustained the injury and said it had not confirmed whether he was taken to a hospital. Combs was conscious and speaking when he was returned to the prison before sunrise, TMZ said.
When reached for comment by Newsweek, the Federal Bureau of Prisons declined to discuss Combs' medical status. "For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including quarters assignment or medical status," the agency said in an email.
Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, May 15, 2022.The reported medical incident comes shortly after NBC News published an investigation into Combs' life at Fort Dix, citing four men who had spent time in his unit and photos and videos reviewed by the outlet. NBC reported allegations that Combs had access to contraband cellphones and alcohol and paid other inmates to perform tasks for him. Combs' spokesperson downplayed the report, while the B
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Oct 12, 2026
Sean "Diddy" Combs was transported from federal prison for medical treatment early Saturday after suffering a head injury, according to TMZ, while his representative told Newsweek that Combs' team was working to confirm the situation.
"We are aware of the reports concerning Sean Combs and are working to confirm the circumstances. Sean's health and well-being are our immediate concern, and we appreciate everyone who has reached out," the representative said Monday.
Sources at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey told TMZ that an ambulance carrying Combs left the prison grounds around 1 a.m. The outlet said it was unclear how Combs sustained the injury and that it had not confirmed whether he was taken to a hospital.
Combs was conscious and speaking when he was returned to the prison before sunrise, TMZ said.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons declined to discuss Combs' medical status with Newsweek. "For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual, including quarters assignment or medical status," the agency said in an email.
The reported medical incident follows shortly after an NBC News investigation into Combs' life at Fort Dix, citing four men who spent time in his unit, along with photos and videos the outlet reviewed. NBC reported allegations that Combs had access to contraband cellphones and alcohol and paid other inmates to perform tasks for him.
Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, on May 15, 2022.Combs' spokesperson downplayed the report, while the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on his conditions. NBC
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Oct 12, 2026
ERIE, PA - Authorities identified the adult victims and the suspected gunman who were found dead after what police described as a "horrific" mass shooting at a home near Lake Erie.
Police say on Oct. 9, a gunman fatally shot eight people, most of them relatives, including two young children and a pregnant woman. Authorities say the suspected shooter took his own life before police arrived. The victims included the suspect's wife, children and grandchildren, according to officials.
Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook on Oct. 12 identified the adult victims as Twila Tanner, 51; Angelina Stone, 24, who was eight months pregnant; Jonathan Stone, 19; Matthew Stone Jr., 21; Michelle Stone, 44; and Lora Roberts, 37, reported the Erie Times-News, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Cook identified the suspect as Matthew Stone Sr., 45.
Cook told the Erie Times-News he is not permitted to release the names of the other two shooting victims, a 5-year-old boy and a girl who was 22 months old, because they are under 18. Erie police also did not release the names of the children.
Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said the suspect shot and killed six people inside the house on the evening of Oct. 9. The gunman then allegedly met two other women, including a family friend, outside the home after they arrived in a "state of distress," Lorah said, citing surveillance video. The gunman allegedly shot the two women before he reentered the home and shot h
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Oct 12, 2026
By Jan Wolfe
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A US judge said on Monday that she was "furious" with Justice Department lawyers for their conduct in a lawsuit seeking to halt the Trump administration's takeover of a historic golf ?course in Washington, saying it was "inexcusable" that hundreds of trees were removed from the course over the weekend.
"More ?than being upset and furious right now, I am just deeply disappointed in the government," US District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington told government lawyers during ?a court hearing. "On what universe did anyone in your office think this was acceptable?"
Reyes said the abrupt removal of about 500 trees at East Potomac Golf Links, which began on Friday afternoon, was unacceptable because in May she had demanded that the government provide advance notice of any substantive construction work at the golf course.
The Justice Department's failure to notify the preservationist group that filed the ?lawsuit of the tree removal work "has cost the ?government all of its credibility" in the case, the judge said.
Justice Department lawyer Marissa Piropato said during the hearing that government attorneys had done their best to gather details on tree removal so ?they could share them in a court filing.
"You did not do your best," Reyes replied. "You did your absolute worst."
Since taking office in January 2025, US President Donald Trump has targeted US cultural and historical institutions - from museums and monuments to national parks and arts centers - in ?an ?attempt to reshape them.
The president announced plans last year to overhaul East ?Potomac Golf Links, a century-old public golf course ?owned by the federal government and managed by the National Park Service, part of the Interior Department.
Trump, a frequent golfer who owns several courses, has said he hopes the renovation will allow the course to host major tournaments.
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Oct 12, 2026
A person was sexually assaulted early Sunday morning at an off-campus party near the University of Chicago, officials said.
The victim reported the assault at 2:10 a.m., roughly 30 minutes after it occurred, and did not know the suspect, according to a university incident report. The party was held at 5625 S. University Ave. in Hyde Park, an address listed on social media as the home of the Lambda chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, a Jewish fraternity with chapters on hundreds of college campuses around the world.
On Monday morning, the street outside the fraternity was quiet apart from the chatter of passersby and the crunch of fallen leaves underfoot. A red flag bearing the organization's Greek letters fluttered in the wind outside the house, where curtains were drawn tightly across the windows.
The AEPi chapter at UChicago was told to halt all programming while university officials and local law enforcement investigate the reported assault, according to the fraternity's national organization. Jonathan Pierce, a spokesperson for the organization, said it learned of the assault on Sunday afternoon and has been working with the university's chapter leadership since then.
Pierce told the Tribune that all AEPi members are required to undergo sexual assault and harassment prevention training and could face expulsion for violating the fraternity's policies. Prohibited conduct includes repeated propositioning, coercive pressure, unwanted touching and physical violence, he said.
AEPi, like other Greek-letter organizations, is not officially recognized by the University of Chicago, though its students are still subject to the university's code of conduct and disciplinary procedures. Pierce said the fraternity's national headquarters provides the same oversight and support to all chapters, regardless of whether their universities officially recognize them.
"Most importantly, all of AEPi hurts for the person who was the victi
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Oct 12, 2026
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) trading near a record high doesn't mean all is fine and dandy in the US economy. Quite the contrary for many households as they battle higher costs for gas, fuel, and medical insurance this year.
Consumer sentiment fell to 46.3 in October, down 1.8 points from September's reading of 48.1, according to the latest from the University of Michigan. The result represented a five-month low.
Pressured household finances have appeared in the crop of third quarter earnings reports from packaged food companies. Food and beverage giant PepsiCo (PEP) slashed its
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Oct 12, 2026
Democrats may be discovering the political power of calling something rigged.
They're leaning hard into anti-corruption messaging in the final weeks of the campaign as new research suggests that linking corruption to Americans' economic struggles can boost Democrats into the home stretch.
Messaging from Democrats that tied corruption to housing, health care and the cost of living increased voter support for Democratic congressional candidates by about 3 percentage points, according to a national survey last month conducted by Blue Rose Research and Democratic-aligned Winning Jobs Narrative Action, which was obtained by POLITICO.
The findings align with a shift in how Democrats are talking about corruption — and help explain why that message has exploded on the campaign trail. From Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia to James Talarico in Texas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Democrats have zeroed in on a common argument: Washington is rigged to benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyday Americans.
"We have a corruption crisis in this country, and it is leading to an affordability crisis," Iowa Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek said during his Senate debate against Rep. Ashley Hinson last week.
It's a message that is reverberating across campaigns. In a recent presentation delivered to Democratic groups on Capitol Hill, longtime Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson offered a succinct playbook: "Corruption is why your costs are high," according to the presentation viewed by POLITICO.
His presentation also encouraged Democrats to lead with the acknowledgement that costs are high and then go into corruption, acknowledge that it happens across parties and avoid making President Donald Trump the sole focus of their attacks. "Trump works as an example of corruption that raises costs, not as the whole case," the presentation said.
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Oct 12, 2026
ROME and NEW YORK -- Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to a hospital in Rome on Tuesday morning, the Vatican said on Monday, a day after the pontiff said he would undergo surgery for a nodule found on his lung.
The operation was to take place in the "next few days," Leo said on Sunday.
Pope Leo to undergo surgery after nodule discovered on his lung, he saysPope Leo addressed the planned surgery in a statement on social media Sunday morning.
"The doctors believe that it is best to intervene, so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to remove it," the pope said. "The operation is already scheduled to take place in the coming days. I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers."
Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media via Reuters - PHOTO: Pope Leo walks as he meets members and volunteers of the Circolo San Pietro at the Vatican, October 12, 2026. A lung nodule, also known as a pulmonary nodule, is a small mass of dense tissue on the lung, according to the American Lung Association (ALA).
Nodules can be caused by a variety of factors including scar tissue, lung irritants, inflammatory conditions, current or past infections, or cancer. Most nodules are benign, according to the ALA. They are diagnosed with imaging tests including an X-ray or a CT scan.
Depending on the size, appearance,
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Oct 12, 2026
NANTERRE, France (AP) — DNA left on a protective painting cover helped investigators recover two stolen Renoirs and uncover what they suspected were preparations for another art heist, a French prosecutor said Monday.
Four men were given preliminary charges in the investigation into the Sept. 8 theft from the small Renoir Museum in the town of Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. The charges include organized theft and criminal association, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said.
One painting, "Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano," suffered a tear. The other, "Young Woman at the Well," had slight damage to its frame, Bessone said. He estimated their combined value at 4.2 million euros ($4.7 million).
The thieves used an electric saw to cut through a fence, entered the museum through the ground floor and cut clips securing the frames of four paintings. An alarm sounded and police officers arrived four minutes later, a swift response that "apparently caused the perpetrators to panic," Bessone said.
"As they fled, they were unable to take all four paintings and abandoned two of them, which were later found in a protective sleeve," he said.
Vehicle tracking led to the suspects
The DNA found on the abandoned cover matched that of a 29-year-old already under investigation in a drug trafficking case in which police were tracking his vehicle, Bessone said.
Vehicle-tracking data showed that the suspect, accompanied by a 41-year-old man, went to the home of a third man shortly after the theft, Bessone said.
Police surveillance also showed that the 29-year-old on Oct. 3 visited the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence — home to a large modern art collection.
The suspect then met wit
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Oct 12, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's home on Monday morning as part of a criminal investigation, according to people familiar with the matter.
The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents, said the people, who were not authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity. More details about the investigation were not immediately clear.
An email seeking comment was sent Monday to a representative for Omar.
The Justice Department said in a statement Monday that HSI agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the department in the Washington, D.C., area but provided no other details.
"This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation," the department said.
Omar, 44, represents Minnesota's 5th District, including Minneapolis. She was first elected to the House in 2018 and has been known as a member of what's called The Squad of female lawmakers known for their progressive views and pointed opposition to the Republican president.
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Associated Press writers Kathy McCormack in Concord, N.H., and Mike Catalini in Morrisville, Pa., contributed.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/federal-agents-searched-minnesota-rep-121754172.html
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Oct 12, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed focus to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.
The search of the Minnesota congresswoman's home so close to next month's midterm contests that will determine control of the House and the Senate was swiftly condemned by top Democrats in Congress, who raised questions about the timing given longstanding Justice Department protocol to avoid overt investigative steps involving political candidates in the direct run-up to an election. Omar, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, said separately that she was being targeted as one of the Republican's "political enemies."
The nature and scope of the investigation were unclear, though Trump and officials in his administration have repeatedly referred in recent months to the existence of an inquiry into Omar, a Somali-born Democrat whose status as an immigrant to the U.S. and left-wing views have drawn scrutiny from the White House and other Republicans.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin last month cited an "ongoing investigation" that he suggested was examining potential fraud on her family's immigration paperwork. "Something's going to happen," he said.
In a statement on X on Monday, Omar called the search an "attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement."
"For ten
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Oct 12, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed scrutiny to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.
The search of the Minnesota congresswoman's home so close to next month's midterm contests that will determine control of the House and the Senate was swiftly condemned by top Democrats in Congress, who raised questions about the timing given longstanding Justice Department protocol to avoid overt investigative steps involving political candidates in the direct run-up to an election.
The Justice Department confirmed in a statement that Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant in the Washington, D.C., area in connection with an ongoing federal criminal investigation but provided no other details.
The nature and scope of the investigation were unclear, though officials in President Donald Trump's administration have repeatedly hinted at the existence of an inquiry targeting Omar, a Somali-born Democrat whose status as an immigrant to the U.S. and left-wing views have repeatedly drawn criticism from Republicans and senior Trump officials.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said last month that there was an "ongoing investigation" related in part to whether Omar lied on her immigration forms and that "something's going to happen."
Omar responded to the s
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Oct 12, 2026
Voters in Massachusetts, Idaho, and Houston are reconsidering marijuana legalization, who controls it, and how existing laws are enforced.
gettyTen years after Massachusetts voters legalized recreational marijuana, they're being asked to reverse course. Meanwhile, voters in Idaho and Houston will weigh in on who gets to decide marijuana policy and how existing laws should be enforced.
The November 3 election offers an interesting snapshot of how the marijuana debate is changing. And for employers, the results could have implications for everything from workplace accommodations to drug testing and criminal background checks.
Massachusetts: Could Legalization Go Into Reverse?Massachusetts voters approved recreational marijuana in 2016, and the industry has grown considerably since then. In September, the state's Cannabis Control Commission reported that recreational marijuana businesses had surpassed $10 billion in cumulative sales.
Now, voters are being asked whether to dismantle that market.
Question 8 would eliminate recreational marijuana sales, the associated tax and regulatory framework, and home cultivation. Adults 21 and older could still possess up to one ounce, subject to limits on concentrates, without penalties. Medical marijuana would remain legal.
If approved, the measure would take effect January 1, 2028. Massachusetts would become the first state to repeal a voter-app
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Oct 12, 2026
US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle speaks during a dedication ceremony at the chancery of the US Embassy in Athens, on October 7. - Mark Schiefelbein/AFP/Pool/Getty Images
President Donald Trump is weighing whether to dismiss Kimberly Guilfoyle from her position as US ambassador to Greece after a string of reports about misconduct, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday.
Trump has been monitoring reports claiming Guilfoyle, who was engaged to Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. for four years, accepted lavish gifts as ambassador and sought money in exchange for providing access to administration figures before she was confirmed.
Lawyers for Guilfoyle have denied the allegations about seeking money and said reports about her travel were misleading, adding that she complied with federal gift and reporting requirements.
The reports have irked senior administration officials, particularly since they emerged when Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting Athens for a high-profile speech on Western democracy delivered from the Acropolis.
Trump is expected to decide soon whether to fire Guilfoyle, the person said. The president offered no defense of Guilfoyle when questioned by CNN about the allegations Friday.
"I just heard about it. Too bad. I mean, I don't know," Trump said. "I just heard a little bit about it. I don't know too much, but she was always very nice."
CNN has reached out to the
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Oct 12, 2026
US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle speaks during a dedication ceremony at the chancery of the US Embassy in Athens, on October 7. - Mark Schiefelbein/AFP/Pool/Getty Images
President Donald Trump is weighing whether to dismiss Kimberly Guilfoyle from her position as US ambassador to Greece after a string of reports about misconduct, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday.
Trump has been monitoring reports claiming Guilfoyle, who was engaged to Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. for four years, accepted lavish gifts as ambassador and sought money in exchange for providing access to administration figures before she was confirmed.
Lawyers for Guilfoyle have denied the allegations about seeking money and said reports about her travel were misleading, adding that she complied with federal gift and reporting requirements.
The reports have irked senior administration officials, particularly since they emerged when Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting Athens for a high-profile speech on Western democracy delivered from the Acropolis.
Trump is expected to decide soon whether to fire Guilfoyle, the person said. The president offered no defense of Guilfoyle when questioned by CNN about the allegations Friday.
"I just heard about it. Too bad. I mean, I don't know," Trump said. "I just heard a little bit about it. I don't know too much, but she was always very nice."
CNN has reached out to the
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Oct 12, 2026
(NewsNation) — Fort Polk in western Louisiana is where soldiers go to "play war." It's home to the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), where troops prepare for combat, especially before deploying. The goal of the Army's combat training centers is to replicate real-world warfare, and that increasingly means preparing for conflict shaped by drones and artificial intelligence.
Bryan Pickens, a veteran who served 14 combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq and has more than 20 years of military service in U.S. Special Operations, said the United States has a lot of catching up to do.
"I often say we are on a rowboat while our enemies are escaping us on a jet ski," Pickens said. "The Global War on Terror skills prepared us to fight dirt farmers. Not our peer enemies."
Pentagon clears way for anti-drone tech: Hegseth memo
Having also supported Ukraine's current war effort against Russia, Pickens now focuses on training U.S. and NATO forces on current warfare and modernizing the force.
The Pentagon announced a new Autonomous Warfare Command, led by a four-star general to scale AI, robotics and low-cost drone capabilities across the military.
NewsNation has learned exclusively that another goal of that push is the launch of an integrated technology system for the Army that works across equipment from d
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Oct 12, 2026
Signing up for a workplace 401(k) plan helps you build retirement savings efficiently. With a traditional 401(k), contributions are made on a pretax basis, and investment gains are then tax-deferred, which means there's no yearly tax bill to pay. Roth 401(k)s are funded, meanwhile, on an after-tax basis, but investment gains and withdrawals are tax-free.
In either case, your money needs to grow in accordance with your needs, and that means you need to choose the right investments. On a broad level, there's no data pointing to the percentage of 401(k) savers who actively pick funds for their savings. Among savers in Vanguard retirement plans specifically, only 31 percent choose their own investments.
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Many 401(k) savers may not actively choose investments because they don't realize they're supposed to choose specific assets or they find the task daunting (or they like what's been chosen for them). If you don't log in to your account to choose investments, your employer might choose them for you, which is legal. And much of the time, in the absence of picking funds yourself, your money will be routed to a target date fund.
Vanguard reports that 96 percent of its retirement plans offered target date funds at year-end 2025. And among plans in which employers chose default investments for 401(k) savers, 98 percent of those investments were target date funds. But financial advisers say target date funds aren't always the best choice.
How target date funds work
When you invest for retirement, your strategy usually needs to change over time. When retirement is decades away, the strategy can be to chase growth and take on more risk by putting m
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Oct 12, 2026
Rancher Yvette Mannon was already dealing with a destructive wildfire and rising fuel costs before the US announced new foreign beef imports [Yvette Mannon]
Nebraska rancher Yvette Mannon was already having a rough year.
In April, a wildfire destroyed 1,600 grazing acres and 13 miles (21 km) of fence along the ranch she bought in 2002. The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.
Mannon's 300 cattle survived the blaze - but the fencing needed to be replaced, and the herd still needed to be fed.
With steel prices at their highest levels in years, heavily affected by tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, that meant spending $4.89 a foot - for a total exceeding $300,000.
On top of that, because so much good grazing land had been destroyed, Mannon also needed a tractor out every day delivering hay to her cattle - at a time when diesel prices, spiking due to the Iran War, were up more than 40% from the previous year.
Then in August, the Trump administration announced it would import 300,000 metric tons of duty-free foreign beef in a bid to lower consumer prices. The news hit right before the September-November window when most US calves are weaned and sold.
The cattle market tanked immediately.
'It felt like a betrayal'"So we're 'Buy American', 'Let's Make America Great'," said Mannon, 63, who voted for Trump. "But for you guys over here, sorry."
"It just felt like a betrayal," she said.
Many farmers and ranchers across the US say they are being hit from all
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Oct 12, 2026
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building is seen under construction in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2026. - Mehmet Eser/Anadolu/Getty Images
Four years ago, with inflation at multi-decade highs, then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a blunt message to Americans: Getting inflation under control would come at a cost.
The Fed needed to act "forcefully," Powell told attendees at a key central banker conference that August. Doing so, he cautioned, would bring "some pain" for consumers.
Now, with the Fed back to raising interest rates for the first time in three years, a familiar warning about the economic fallout is resurfacing.
Inflation across the country is being driven primarily by fuel prices, which have skyrocketed since the war with Iran broke out in February. The Fed has little control over oil production, but by raising interest rates, it is seeking to prevent higher energy costs from spilling over into other parts of the economy and fueling broader inflation.
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Oct 12, 2026
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he intends to serve as GOP leader if Republicans lose their House majority in November — but he remains bullish about the party's chances despite significant headwinds.
"In the unlikely scenario where we lost the majority, I would expect my colleagues would ask me to continue leading this conference, even if we have divided government," Johnson told CBS News' Robert Costa in an interview near Johnson's hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Johnson, who has led House Republicans as speaker since 2023, has repeatedly pushed back on questions about his plans if the GOP loses the majority in the lower chamber in November. Known for his optimistic outlook, the speaker has expressed confidence that Republicans will hold on to the chamber, or even grow their narrow majority. But midterm dynamics traditionally boost the party opposing the party in control of the White House, and the unpopular war in Iran, high gas and diesel prices and other controversial Trump administration policies have added to those challenges for the GOP.
Last week, a comment Johnson made to Fox News on his plans for his future fueled speculation that he could retire from politics, as he suggested that he could go back to his hometown of Shreveport and start a lawn business if the GOP loses the House majority.
"It's just hilarious," Johnson said of the interest the comment spurred, telling Costa that the remark was "tongue in cheek."
"What I was trying to say to them is that throughout my whole life, my number one objective is to be of my highest and best use to God and to my country, and that's always what I've thought," Johnson said. "And I was trying to make the point that if God has a different design, then we'll follow that. But what I believe is, I'm going to be the speaker of the House for at least two more years."
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Oct 12, 2026
President Donald Trump's whirlwind travel itinerary this month reflects a careful calculation as Republicans brace for midterm losses: where he can mobilize his most devoted supporters, where his low approval ratings make him a liability and where he can simply have a good time.
His packed agenda reflects political strategy, travel logistics and the reality that the president - despite being far more active on the campaign trail than his predecessor - is an 80-year-old man with a country to run, people around him say. Trump insists on signing off on the list of places he is visiting each week, according to two people with knowledge of the process.
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Trump has publicly floated a visit to Maine, where GOP Sen. Susan Collins is in a tight reelection fight, but White House and outside advisers to the president say such a trip is highly unlikely. Two people involved in planning his schedule said there are no trips scheduled to Maine or New Hampshire.
Last week's stops included deep-red Nebraska, where the Senate race is closer than once expected; Texas, for the second time in seven days; Upstate New York, to stump for his friend, gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman, who trails by double digits in many polls; and Tennessee, for a rally near a military base.
While in Syracuse, New York, Trump brought former professional boxer Mike Tyson onto the stage to speak.
Bad weather forced him to cancel a trip to Alabama for a college football game, which would have been his second visit to the state in just over a week. Football games are more fun for him than rallies, said one Trump adviser, who like others working on the president's midterm strateg
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Oct 12, 2026
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Donald Trump has claimed that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an "energy ceasefire", with Kyiv saying it would support such a move but Moscow yet to comment.
The US president insisted that it was "effective immediately" but provided no details.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially expressed surprise at the announcement, before saying Kyiv would support it if Moscow did. He also accused Russia of striking Ukrainian energy facilities after Trump's post.
Trump has been urging Ukraine to stop strikes on Russian oil infrastructure - which Kyiv says are vital to curtailing revenue for Moscow's war machine - so Russia can fulfil a recently-struck deal to release diesel to the US and the global market.
The diesel deal, temporarily undoing sanctions on Russian imports, is attracting growing criticism. Zelensky called it a gift to Russian President Vladimir Putin. European officials and some US politicians, including from Trump's Republican party, have said they do not support it.
The deal is Trump's latest effort to lower domestic fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections, having spent months grappling with the political consequences of the war with Iran which has pushed up global fuel prices, particularly those for diesel.
That has soured Trump's standing with the American public, who have been stung by the higher pump prices and knock-on effects that led to across-the-board inflation.
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Oct 12, 2026
STOCKHOLM (AP) — American-born economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel memorial prize in economics on Monday for their work on models that have helped governments and central banks manage economic shocks, such as energy crises and inflation.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners in Stockholm, saying the two were being honored for work that has helped policymakers deal with economic fluctuations.
"The laureates have helped us smooth out the economy's peaks and troughs," the academy said in a statement.
Hall is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford with Columbia University in New York.
Woodford spoke to the committee by phone Monday from New York, saying: "It's a tremendous honor, it's a surprise."
"The laureates' work has provided us with a stable theoretical foundation for the models that are now used by central banks and governments around the world," John Hassler, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, said in a news release.
"With them, we are better equipped to deal with shocks in the economy, such as energy crises or sudden changes in how much households consume."
For decades, governments responded to economic shocks by following the Depression-era prescriptions of the British economist John Maynard Keynes: intervene in the economy by lowering taxes and hiking government spending, thereby encouraging consumers and businesses to spend and invest themselves and help growth get restarted.
"This is the Keynesian recipe and it worked well - until it didn't,'' said Timo Boppart of the Nobel economics prize committee. Policymakers had thought economic management involved simple tradeoffs - unemployment, for instance, would stay low at a time of high inflation and rise when inflation fell. But the "stagflation''
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Oct 12, 2026
Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico in Austin, Texas, on July 22. (Brandon Bell / Getty)Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico addressed his recent absence from the campaign trail Sunday, saying it was nothing but a "nasty case of the flu."
"I was in bed, drinking lots of liquids. Unfortunately, the campaign made me work from home, so I didn't even get full days off. But I didn't want to be out on the trail, and I didn't want to get anyone else sick. It's important, I think, for leaders to be responsible in these moments. And I'm glad to be back. I'm feeling much better," he told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth in an interview.
Talarico returned to the campaign trail Friday; his last in-person event in the state had been Sept. 26, and on Sept. 30, he spoke at a forum virtually, saying he wasn't feeling well.
In his absence, some conservatives speculated that he was taking a break for mental health reasons. One right-wing influencer falsely claimed Talarico was receiving treatment at the Lindner Center of Hope, a facility in Ohio.
Asked about those theories, Talarico said, "The internet's doing its thing."
"That's not true," Talarico said. "I just had the flu, and I feel much better. But it's a good reminder that you can't believe everything you read on the internet."
The Lindner Center also shot down the speculation Sunday,
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Oct 11, 2026
The road to Christa Pike's botched execution was paved with determination.
Dating back more than 20 years, government officials in Tennessee have been dogged in their efforts to carry out lethal injections despite serious concerns about their ability to do so and waning public support. Those concerns turned into red flags in the months leading up to Pike's execution date, death penalty observers say.
Most notably: The state botched another execution in May, and Pike's attorneys repeatedly warned Tennessee officials that her medical conditions would make lethally injecting her particularly difficult. Nearly 10 months before Pike's botched execution, they warned that personnel would have a hard time gaining access to her veins and properly delivering a fatal dose of pentobarbital.
The result, they said in January, was that Pike, 50, would "experience unnecessary and superadded pain and suffering, terror, and disgrace."
That's exactly what her attorneys say happened in the death chamber in Nashville on Sept. 30 after Tennessee repeatedly dismissed concerns from her attorneys, medical professionals and death penalty observers.
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Oct 11, 2026
US Senate candidates Democrat Annie Andrews and Republican Sen. Darline Graham take notes before a debate in Columbia, South Carolina, on October 11. - Sam Wolfe/Reuters
South Carolina has emerged as perhaps the most surprising Senate race to be competitive late in the 2026 midterm elections. And on Sunday night, appointed GOP Sen. Darline Graham, Democrat Annie Andrews and Libertarian nominee Kasie Whitener took part in the only debate currently scheduled in the race.
The debate was often contentious, with both Graham and Andrews taking aim at each other.
Andrews focused on the idea that Graham — the late former Sen. Lindsey Graham's sister, whom President Donald Trump plucked from obscurity to succeed him — is the choice of political insiders and not running a serious campaign. She at one point alluded to an embarrassing moment at a primary runoff debate in which Graham said, "National security is not my thing."
"If your surgeon said that appendectomies aren't really his thing, would you still hand him a scalpel? No," Andrews said. "So why would we hand Darline Graham a full term in the US Senate? She is unserious and unqualified."
Graham also hit Andrews early and often, seeking to tie her to the political left. And she repeatedly took offense to the attacks that Andrews lodged, accusing Andrews of going after her family.
Below are some takeaways from the debate.
Graham avoided another major flub
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Oct 11, 2026
By Luc Cohen
Oct 11 (Reuters) - A US judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from using taxpayer money to pay for political advertisements, after ?publicly funded television ads glorifying US President Donald Trump began airing in ?late September and sparked a bipartisan backlash.
Manhattan-based US District Judge Jennifer Rochon temporarily barred the advertisements after ?plaintiffs including watchdog group Common Cause brought a lawsuit alleging the ads were political propaganda designed to help Republican candidates in the November 3 midterm elections, not public service announcements.
The Trump administration was already planning to stop running the ads before Rochon's order, ?according to a separate statement ?filed with the court on Saturday.
The decision caps days of controversy over the taxpayer-funded advertisements, which were aired in the final weeks ?before the midterm elections.
"We won't stop until this administration is held fully accountable, and no president from any party can waste and abuse taxpayer funds for propaganda ever again," said ?Common ?Cause President and CEO Virginia Kase Solomón.
Trump on ?Monday said he considered the ?ads to be a "positive promotion for our great U.S.A." but that they would no longer be funded by taxpayers, and the White House said this week that the president's political action committee, MAGA PAC, would fund the ads going forward.
The White House said Trump's political action committee will not reimburse taxpayers for the ads that have already ?run. The ads end with a disclaimer saying they ?were paid for by the US government. The ?Justice Department did not immediately respond ?to a request for comment about the judge's order.
The plaintiffs, which ?also included a public employee union ?and a candidate for ?Alabama state representative, had asked Rochon to temporarily block the ads by Friday so that they could not air du
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Oct 11, 2026
By Jana Choukeir, Maha El Dahan, Timour Azhari and Yasmine Ghania
DUBAI/RIYADH, Oct 11 (Reuters) - One person was killed and nearly a dozen hurt in a new attack Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities reported, a day after a strike claimed by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.
Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen said an unidentified ?projectile had targeted Riyadh's international airport Terminal 4 on Sunday, causing a fire. Eleven people were wounded in addition to the fatality, the Saudi civil aviation authority said.
Coalition forces also said Saudi ?air defences had intercepted a cruise missile in the vicinity of King Khalid International Airport. They later added that a drone had been intercepted and destroyed in the country's Eastern Province, and a ballistic missile launched towards Khamis Mushait had been intercepted. Emergency alerts were ?also issued in Abha, in the south, early on Monday but the danger had since passed, the Saudi Civil Defense said.
The strikes have exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi defence capabilities as the kingdom wages an air campaign against the Houthis, who are fighting a ground war in Yemen against the Saudi-backed Yemeni government.
Footage released by Saudi state television of the Saturday attack on the Riyadh airport showed scores of religious pilgrims lined up at a gate as they prepared to travel to Islam's two holiest sites. A bright orange flash sent people running in panic, while parts of the roof appeared to cave in.
The airport was closed after the attack, the deadliest in the kingdom in ?more than a decade.
HOUTHIS CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR OTHER ATTACKS
In a televised speech ?on Sunday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack and said the group had also struck the airport in Dammam in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province and two facilitie
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Oct 11, 2026
A tiger is shown at the Saint Louis Zoo in St. Louis on Dec. 3, 2012. Officials at a wildlife park in Britain said Sunday a tiger that mauled a man to death after he entered its enclosure would not be euthanized. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A British zoo where a man was mauled to death by a tiger over the weekend said Sunday it will not euthanize the animal.
The tiger, named Altai, will not be put to death after the incident in which police said the man was killed after entering the big cat's enclosure at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, England.
"We would like to thank everyone who has expressed their concern following yesterday's tragic incident," the zoo said in a social media statement issued Sunday. "Our thoughts and heartfelt sympathies remain with the family and loved ones of the man who sadly lost his life."
Park officials said the facility would remain closed to give its staff time to recover from the incident.
"Many, many people have contacted us about Altai, the tiger," they added. "We can reassure everyone that he is safe and well and will not be euthanized as a result of this incident."
South Yorkshire Police said they received reports of a man entering Altai's enclosure at 1:35 p.m. local time on Saturday.
"The tiger subsequently attacked the man, resulting in serious injury," they said
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Oct 11, 2026
The Secret Service is working out how to handle threats that have evolved beyond a lone gunman to attack drones.
Deputy Director Matthew Quinn is leading the agency's new multimillion-dollar program to develop offensive and defensive drone capabilities. Among the new tools in the agency's arsenal is an artificial intelligence and radar-guided drone hunter, which disables enemy drones and captures them with a net.
"Swarms are a huge problem and a big threat," Quinn said. "I'd love to tell you the swarm problem is solved. It's not. I will tell you that at the White House, White House is the safest place on Earth."
Drones and the Secret Service The war in Ukraine has become a testing ground for the weaponization of drones. And that hasn't gone unnoticed by the Secret Service.
"We know that technology is going to hit the homeland at some point," Quinn said. "So we're using lessons learned there to build our program and make sure we're ahead of it before it gets here."
It's about planning ahead, Secret Service Director Sean Curran said.
"We have to assume that it's possible," Curran said. "The second we're not, we're going to get caught flat-footed."
The concern is that a small, rudimentary drone could be weaponized with explosives and do serious damage to a large concert, sporting event or campaign rally. 60 Minutes has learned the Secret Service used electronic jamming equipment to take down a drone at the December Arm
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Oct 11, 2026
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on President Donald Trump to "immediately reverse course" on his decision to allow Russian diesel imports, accusing the administration of violating federal law and handing Moscow a financial lifeline as it wages war against Ukraine.
"President Trump's decision to allow Russian diesel imports to the U.S. runs directly counter to that law," the senators said in a statement released Sunday, citing Congress' 2022 ban on Russian energy imports. "The Administration has also failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute."
The rebuke includes four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and John Curtis (Utah) — along with Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.). Shaheen is the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Trump announced Friday that Russia would supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel fuel "to the American and Global Marketplace" following a discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Treasury Department subsequently issued a general license allowing Russian diesel imports into the U.S. through April 2027.
The move comes as Trump scrambles to try to bring down fuel prices ahead of the midterms, with the Iran war — now in its seventh month — contributing to the surge in costs. In September, the average price of diesel hit a record $6.53 per gallon, according to AAA.
"The United States should not provide Putin with a financial lifeline while Russia co
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Oct 11, 2026
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on President Donald Trump to "immediately reverse course" on his decision to allow Russian diesel imports, accusing the administration of violating federal law and handing Moscow a financial lifeline as it wages war against Ukraine.
"President Trump's decision to allow Russian diesel imports to the U.S. runs directly counter to that law," the senators said in a statement released Sunday, citing Congress' 2022 ban on Russian energy imports. "The Administration has also failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute."
The rebuke includes four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and John Curtis (Utah) — along with Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.). Shaheen is the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Trump announced Friday that Russia would supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel fuel "to the American and Global Marketplace" following a discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Treasury Department subsequently issued a general license allowing Russian diesel imports into the U.S. through April 2027.
The move comes as Trump scrambles to try to bring down fuel prices ahead of the midterms, with the Iran war — now in its seventh month — contributing to the surge in costs. In September, the average price of diesel hit a record $6.53 per gallon, according to AAA.
"The United States should not provide Putin with a financial lifeline while Russia co
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Oct 11, 2026
Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it would "respond decisively" against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen a day after a strike on Riyadh's international airport brought the expanding Middle East conflict home to the Saudi capital. The Houthis later claimed responsibility for the attack and warned airlines against flying to Saudi airports, calling them "potential targets."
Saturday's attack killed at least 12, according to Saudi officials, and the Indian Embassy in Riyadh said another person had died the following day from injuries sustained in that attack. More than 300 were wounded.
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The attack revealed the vulnerability of the U.S. ally and the ramifications of the Trump administration's reluctance to openly help fight the Houthis more than seven months into Washington's war with Iran.
Riyadh's airport is Saudi Arabia's second-largest for civilians and is frequently used by royals and visiting dignitaries, including President Donald Trump in his last visit to the kingdom. The airport was attacked again Sunday, igniting a fire and killing one person and injuring 11, Saudi aviation authorities said. Officials also confirmed a separate attack on another major airport on the country's east coast.
The United States is providing Saudi Arabia with intelligence support, analysts and U.S. officials say. But the administration has stopped short of the direct military assistance that officials in the kingdom and its allies in Yemen's internationally recognized government have sought.
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Oct 11, 2026
Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it would "respond decisively" against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen a day after a strike on Riyadh's international airport brought the expanding Middle East conflict home to the Saudi capital. The Houthis later claimed responsibility for the attack and warned airlines against flying to Saudi airports, calling them "potential targets."
Saturday's attack killed at least 12, according to Saudi officials, and the Indian Embassy in Riyadh said another person had died the following day from injuries sustained in that attack. More than 300 were wounded.
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The attack revealed the vulnerability of the U.S. ally and the ramifications of the Trump administration's reluctance to openly help fight the Houthis more than seven months into Washington's war with Iran.
Riyadh's airport is Saudi Arabia's second-largest for civilians and is frequently used by royals and visiting dignitaries, including President Donald Trump in his last visit to the kingdom. The airport was attacked again Sunday, igniting a fire and killing one person and injuring 11, Saudi aviation authorities said. Officials also confirmed a separate attack on another major airport on the country's east coast.
The United States is providing Saudi Arabia with intelligence support, analysts and U.S. officials say. But the administration has stopped short of the direct military assistance that officials in the kingdom and its allies in Yemen's internationally recognized government have sought.
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Oct 11, 2026
The spike in oil prices since the Iran war began this year has attracted more thieves, and they are increasingly professional criminals.
West Texas Intermediate crude is up 60% so far this year, and fuel prices have risen even more as global refining capacity has fallen due to the Mideast and Russia-Ukraine wars.
While oil theft has long been a part of the industry, the problem has become prevalent enough for the Dallas Fed to ask about in its quarterly surveys.
The latest one showed that nearly half of firms that are primarily focused in the Permian Basin said their operations have been impacted by theft in oil fields. By contrast, 86% of firms operating mostly outside the Permian said they were not impacted.
The Permian is the heart of the oil patch and the epicenter of the shale revolution that has transformed the U.S. into an energy superpower.
It stretches across the vast expanses of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico—and is dotted with drilling rigs, pipelines, trucks and other infrastructure necessities.
That's made the Permian a target-rich environment. And now that U.S. oil prices have been hovering around $100 a barrel lately, criminals can't resist the payoff.
According to the Dallas Fed survey, 32% of executives who were impacted by oil theft said it had increased slightly over the last 12 months, while 47% said it remained the same, and 22% said it decreased slightly or significantly.
Nearly half of the oil executives (47%) said the most common form of theft was targeted and organized, while 42% described it as opportunistic petty theft.
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Oct 11, 2026
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A man whose toddler was among eight people killed in a mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary.
"I think that was a front for him," Julius Windham said as he stood at a memorial to victims of Friday's shooting, including his 1-year-old daughter Amarianna, her pregnant mother and the woman's 5-year-old son and unborn baby.
"Him every day, him smiling and being just — you would think of nothing like that would happen," Windham said.
The 45-year-old gunman took his own life. Authorities have not released his name, but Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said he was related to seven of the victims. The eighth was a friend of the pregnant woman, he said. Police have not made their names public, either.
Those killed include 2 women outside the home
Mourners on Sunday placed candles, flowers and stuffed animals outside the home where the man opened fire shortly before 5 p.m. Friday. Windham wore a T-shirt with pictures of the women and children and the words, "Forever In My Heart."
"Words can't even explain what I'm going through right now," Windham said. "But I gotta be strong for my community, you know what I'm saying? My family, my daughters, my sons, everybody."
Video and audio evidence recovered by investigators included muffled gunshot sounds coming from inside the home just before two "distressed" women arrived and began pounding on the door, Lorah said. The gunman then came out and shot them as they ran toward him, before returning inside.
Responding officers found the two women dead outside. After deploying a drone and robot, they went inside and found the bodies of the 5-year-old
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Oct 11, 2026
About 70 runners and volunteers participating in Utah's Moab 240 ultramarathon were evacuated from the rugged outdoor race course on Sunday after being stranded overnight by a heavy rainstorm that hit the area, authorities said.
The San Juan County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday that it coordinated with race organizers to assist the stranded runners, who had been unable to safely leave the affected areas.
Jon G. Fuller/VWPics via AP Images - PHOTO: Canyonlands National Park, Utah, where about 70 runners participating in the Moab 240 ultramarathon became stranded, Oct. 10, 2026, due to heavy rain. Destination Trail, which organizes and manages the race, said in an update on Sunday afternoon that buses were evacuating the final group of affected participants, who were stuck at an aid station near the Bridger Jack Mesa in the Bear Ears National Monument.
"We know this isn't how anyone hoped Moab 240 would go," Destination Trail said in a social media post to the stranded participants. "So many of you trained for months and traveled a long way to be here, and we're truly sorry the race ended this way. Sometimes the weather has other plans, and when it does, everyone's safety has to come first."
ABC News - PHOTO: The remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel are fueling flood threats, October 11, 2026, along the Southern California coast and in several Western states.Race officials said additional suppli
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Oct 11, 2026
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed growing confidence that his party will regain control of the House in November, as he visited two battleground districts in recent days to help Democratic candidates unseat Republican incumbents.
Jeffries campaigned Friday in New Jersey's competitive 7th Congressional District alongside Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett, a Navy veteran seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. The following day, he traveled to Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District to rally with Democrat Bob Harvie, a Bucks County commissioner challenging Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.
The two districts are heavily suburban, fairly affluent and politically divided — and they've caused heartburn for Democrats in recent years. The moderate Fitzpatrick has a long history of outrunning other Republicans and winning crossover support since he was first elected in 2016. Control of Kean's seat has flipped twice since 2018, but he narrowly won a competitive reelection two years ago.
Democrats have invested in both races this year and view both of them as highly competitive, as they hope to take advantage of an unfavorable political environment for President Trump's party.
"We're running through the finish line
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Oct 11, 2026
A businessman wanted for years in the U.S. for allegedly paying bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts in Venezuela has been taken into custody.
Alvaro Pulido was indicted in Miami federal court in 2019 and again in 2021 as part of an investigation into his longtime business partner, Alex Saab, a one-time ally of ousted President Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and State Department had been offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to his arrest.
Pulido was taken into U.S. custody after an investigation led by the DEA, FBI and Homeland Security Investigations agencies, Nicole Navas Oxman, a Homeland Security Task Force spokesperson, said Sunday.
Oxman didn't say how Pulido ended up in U.S. custody but said he will make his initial court appearance Tuesday in Miami.
Venezuelan authorities have so far been silent about the arrest, reflecting the challenge acting President Delcy Rodríguez faces in appeasing elements of the ruling coalition that want her to resist attempts by the Trump administration to round up scores of Venezuelan insiders wanted by the U.S., sometimes for years, for serious crimes ranging from corruption to drug trafficking.
The Colombian-born Pulido was arrested in Venezuela in 2023 as part of a sprawling crackdown on corruption inside state-run oil company PDVSA that was led by Rodríguez while she was serving as Maduro's vice president. She took over as Venezuela's acting president following the U.S. military's ouster of Maduro in January.
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Oct 11, 2026
A man was hospitalized after he was struck by a vehicle driven by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was allegedly pursuing him and another man on Saturday, Texas law enforcement officials and ICE said.
Maj. Anthony McConnell of the Harris County Sheriff's Office's Special Investigation Bureau told reporters that around 7:20 a.m. local time, law enforcement officers were called to Clay Road near Highway 6 just outside Houston after the unidentified ICE agent called 911 for an ambulance for the man, later identified by ICE as Miguel Parra-Hernandez, who was struck.
KTRK - PHOTO: Law enforcement officials are at the scene after a man was struck by a vehicle driven by an ICE agent during chase, according to the Harris Courty Sheriff's Office, on Oct. 10, 2026, in Harris County, Texas.An ICE spokesperson said in a statement that the agency was attempting to arrest another man, Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, a Mexican national who they allege had a criminal record and a final order of removal by a judge.
New surveillance footage shows ICE confrontation in NYC street before shootingThe ICE agent allegedly observed Mendoza-Cervantes and Parra-Hernandez, who the agency alleged was undocumented, enter a car and attempted a car stop, according to ICE.
McConnell said the ICE agent allegedly was pursuing the man and another person in their car and during the chase, the driver and the passenger left their vehicle on foot.
Surveillance video of the incident reviewed by ABC News appears to show the agent maneuvering his vehicle in the direction of the man running and striking him with the vehicle.
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Oct 11, 2026
Communities are beginning to assess the damage left behind by a powerful hurricane that tore through the region, leaving homes damaged, roads flooded and neighborhoods littered with debris.
Photos from some of the hardest-hit areas show the scale of the destruction as residents and emergency crews begin the long process of cleaning up and rebuilding.
How The Violent Category 2 Storm Unfolded Across Florida And Gulf Coast
Isaias slammed into the Florida Panhandle near Destin on Friday, Oct. 9, as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, bringing destructive winds, dangerous storm surge and widespread flooding.
The hurricane tore roofs from buildings, uprooted trees and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers across Florida and Alabama before pushing inland.
Stunning Footage Captures Hurricane Isaias From Inside The Storm's Eye
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Alex Dean cleans out his home that was severely damaged during Hurricane Isaias. Hurricane Isaias made landfall Friday, October 9 along the U.S. Gulf coast.Isaias marked the first hurricane to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast since Hurricane Milton battered Florida in October 2024, nearly two years earlier.
The storm also be
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Oct 11, 2026
Communities are beginning to assess the damage left behind by a powerful hurricane that tore through the region, leaving homes damaged, roads flooded and neighborhoods littered with debris.
Photos from some of the hardest-hit areas show the scale of the destruction as residents and emergency crews begin the long process of cleaning up and rebuilding.
How The Violent Category 2 Storm Unfolded Across Florida And Gulf Coast
Isaias slammed into the Florida Panhandle near Destin on Friday, Oct. 9, as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, bringing destructive winds, dangerous storm surge and widespread flooding.
The hurricane tore roofs from buildings, uprooted trees and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers across Florida and Alabama before pushing inland.
Stunning Footage Captures Hurricane Isaias From Inside The Storm's Eye
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Alex Dean cleans out his home that was severely damaged during Hurricane Isaias. Hurricane Isaias made landfall Friday, October 9 along the U.S. Gulf coast.Isaias marked the first hurricane to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast since Hurricane Milton battered Florida in October 2024, nearly two years earlier.
The storm also be
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Oct 11, 2026
Gavin Newsom has rarely shied away from a fight with Donald Trump, especially over immigration.
He didn't hesitate last year to sign into law a ban on federal immigration agents wearing masks in the state. And when he put his name on a package of legislation this year further clamping down on immigration enforcement, he said he was doing so to "push back on Trump's Orwellian immigrant tactics."
But when it came to a bill that would have required the state's public universities and community colleges to make undocumented immigrant students eligible for campus employment, Newsom balked.
Trump officials, he wrote in a message explaining his vetolast month, are "quick to wreak destruction for political spectacle." The risk of them seeking retribution against the schools was too great.
Newsom's decision to avoid confrontation prolongs a yearslong student-led push to persuade skeptical university officials to enact a first-in-the-nation policy that would benefit the roughly 60,000 undocumented students enrolled in the three school systems. And it has deflated immigrant rights activists in his home state ahead of Newsom's likely presidential run.
"There's disappointment that on this issue, the governor hasn't been willing to take a risk for a very important part of the California popula
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Oct 11, 2026
YARDLEY, Pennsylvania — Republican Brian Fitzpatrick sailed to reelection in Pennsylvania's first congressional district two years ago. But now, with just over three weeks to go until Election Day and public opinion continuing to sour on Donald Trump's presidency, Democrats smell blood in the water.
Their optimism that Fitzpatrick's Democratic opponent, Bucks County commissioner Bob Harvie, can defeat the five-term incumbent was on display on Saturday afternoon, as Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries and Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro hit the campaign trail in the leafy Philadelphia suburbs to drum up support for Harvie.
"A lot of people look at this race and think, ‘Well, this is not really one that Democrats can win,'" Harvie told POLITICO after a rally in a middle school gym in Lower Bucks County, where supporters waved red signs emblazoned with the slogan: "Fire Fitz."
"Clearly they are wrong because Leader Jeffries thinks we can win it," Harvie said. "Governor Shapiro thinks we can win it."
Jeffries' decision to campaign alongside Harvie in the final stretch underscores Democrats' growing bullishness heading into next month's midterms, when they aim to retake control of the House of Representatives and usher in a 2018-style "blue wave."
But it also illustrates the potentially risky bets party operatives are willing to place in the final stretch of campaigning, as they deploy relatively thin resources to try and expand their electoral map, including in districts that were previously seen as out of reach.
In recent days, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has committed to spending $900,000 in its bid to unseat Fitzpatrick. House Majority PAC, the House Democrats' main super PAC, has spent more than $6 million to reserve television advertisements in the race, accordi
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Oct 11, 2026
Russia has attacked a power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv despite President Donald Trump's statement earlier Sunday that both sides had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," according to Ukrainian officials.
A local official told ABC News the thermal power plant CHP-5 was struck at least twice, causing a fire. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a statement confirmed Russia had attacked the plant, as well as another in Kyiv, saying it had taken place after Trump's announcement.
Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images - PHOTO: A local resident walks through the ruins of his home following a Russian guided aerial bomb attack in Kharkiv, which killed one person and wounded eight, October 11, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Announcing the energy ceasefire earlier on social media, Trump said both Russia and Ukraine had agreed and that it would immediately come into effect, but Zelenskyy has said Ukraine was caught off guard by the announcement. Russia has yet to comment.
"Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" Trump's post said.
MORE: President Zelenskyy: 'We will stop' strikes on Russian diesel if Russia pauses attacksZelenskyy was surprised by Trump's announcement and only learned about it from social media, a senior source in Ukraine's presidential office told ABC News. Ukraine, however, was ready to accept it immediately if Russia agrees, Zelenskyy said.
Shortly before Trump's declaration, Zelenskyy told Jon Karl on "This Week" that Ukraine wanted an immediate "energy
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Oct 11, 2026
Washington — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Sunday defended the Pentagon's plan to livestream the execution of an ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, while saying that he doesn't see an "elevated risk" to U.S. security amid criticism.
"I think people need to understand, if you attack America, we will come after you and we will make sure that the punishment fits the crime," Mullin said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that the Pentagon planned to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who is set to die by firing squad on Dec. 3 in what will be the first military execution since 1961. The announcement sparked intense criticism, including from some Republicans, like Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who urged the Pentagon to reverse the "gruesome decision," saying there is "no need to livestream any execution, including this one."
"I would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America," Murkowski wrote in a post on X. "It would give this individual, who deserves no further notoriety, the martyrdom he seeks."
While Mullin defended the Pentagon's move, he said, "No one has to watch it if they don't choose to."
"I follow President Trump. He's the commander in chief of the country, and he does a phenomenal job," Mullin said. "He leads this country with a very, very, very direct, forward, straight
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Oct 11, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of six senators on Sunday called for President Donald Trump's administration to "immediately reverse course" on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices.
Trump shocked lawmakers when he announced on social media Friday that he struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call. He said Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to the American and global market, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter." Russia will deliver an additional 3 million tons "within a short period of time" after that, he wrote.
Four Republican senators and two Democratic senators signed onto the statement released Sunday in protesting the deal. They said the administration failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute.
"The United States should not provide Putin with a financial lifeline while Russia continues to kill Ukrainian civilians. The Administration must immediately reverse course," they wrote.
The Republican senators who signed onto the statement are Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Curtis of Utah. The Democratic senators are Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Tillis, in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," said there's a legitimate case for saying the president is not following the law if the administration goes through with its diesel purchase plan.
"We were very clear that Russia is the aggressor. Russia is the one who can end this war by backing out of territory that they occupied," Tillis said.
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Oct 11, 2026
Senator Roger Marshall listens as US Vice President JD Vance speaks during an event at Webco Manufacturing on September 14, in Olathe, Kansas. - Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/Getty Images
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall settled his debts this weekend with a bakery in Kansas after a bill for hundreds of treats his campaign ordered for a 2020 event sat unpaid for six years.
Holly Thomas, the owner of the shop that made cookies, brownies and cupcakes for Marshall's primary election watch party, said in a social media post on Friday that she will not vote for the senator in this year's election, where he is facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton, after he failed to pay the $678.75 he owed her small business.
"This isn't about political parties or policy disagreements. It's about my personal experience as a small business owner and the importance of honoring financial commitments," Thomas said. "That experience is why Roger Marshall will never get my vote."
Thomas said she reached out several times but never heard back, noting that the lack of payment came as her business was just beginning and at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. "Six years later, I haven't forgotten," she said.
Marshall posted a screenshot of a payment for $1,300 on Saturday, showing that he had paid the half-a-d
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Oct 11, 2026
By Andrew MacAskill
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit vote, as he warned voters in France and ?Germany about Moscow-backed efforts to influence their politics.
Burnham, who took over as Britain's ?leader in July and said last month that Britain could consider rejoining the European Union in the future, ?is the first British prime minister to say openly there was evidence of Russian interference in the referendum a decade ago.
"I asked the question coming to Downing Street, was there interference in the 2016 referendum from Russia? And I've had the clear answer that yes, there was," Burnham ?said in an interview with ?The Rest Is Politics podcast released on Sunday.
Burnham did not spell out how he believed that Russia interfered in the referendum and gave no ?details on what evidence this statement was based.
The Russian embassy in London did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Russia has previously denied meddling in the Brexit vote, casting Britain as ?gripped by ?anti-Russian hysteria.
Burnham's comments mark a departure from those ?of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, ?who campaigned to leave the EU, and said in 2020 there was no evidence of Russian interference in the referendum.
Britons voted 52%-48% to leave the EU in 2016, plunging the country into its biggest political crisis since World War Two.
Burnham said voters in European democracies needed to be better informed about efforts to disrupt their politics.
"I mean, these things are ?important now to put clearly on the record, and ?I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand ?that some of this politics is ?instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," he said.
Britain's government failed to establish ?whether Russia meddled in the 2016 referendum ?on membership of the ?EU, according to a report by p
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