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Oct 07, 2026
The badges of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are seen as they patrol the halls of an immigration court in New York in May. - Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/File
The Department of Homeland Security's sweeping election-fraud operation has drawn on tens of millions of records, scrutinized dozens of nonprofit voter-registration groups and considered deploying undercover agents to investigate organizations suspected of helping noncitizens register to vote, according to newly obtained internal documents.
The 166 pages of records, released on Wednesday by the advocacy group Democracy Forward, offer a detailed look inside one arm of the Trump administration's escalating election-integrity campaign, which has marshaled federal investigators, immigration databases and voter records in an effort to identify noncitizens suspected of illegally registering or voting. They show the extensive infrastructure the administration has built within its immigration enforcement agency to pursue probes aligned with Trump's election fraud beliefs, with multiple layers of data reviews, dozens of organizations investigated, primary elections tracked and weekly reports summarizing the progress of the various projects.
Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative division of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, described the undertaking as a phased national initiative involving voter-roll acquisition, data ana
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Oct 07, 2026
Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf on Wednesday and is expected to become the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, forecasters say.
According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the storm will strengthen as it moves toward the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week, becoming a hurricane by Thursday. It could peak as a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph by Thursday night before weakening as it approaches the coast.
It's unclear exactly where Isaias might make landfall. Current models show the center of Isaias coming onshore anywhere from eastern Louisiana to the western Florida Panhandle. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 25 counties ahead of the storm.
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The NHC said there was "an increasing risk of dangerous wind and storm surge impacts along portions of the northern Gulf Coast," adding that floods will be possible due to heavy rainfall. Isaias is expected to produce rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches from far southeastern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. Some areas could see up to 10 inches of rain.
The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June to November, has not gone this late in the year without a hurricane since 1905, according to the Associated Press. A typical Atlantic hurricane season produces 14 named storms, of which seven become hurricanes. This year, there have been nine named storms, and no hurricanes.
Where is Isaias now and what is its path?
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Oct 07, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November's midterm elections.
Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller gets consent beforehand. The petition calls for a waiver that would allow political groups to use artificial or prerecorded voices in unsolicited wireless calls.
The Republican-led FCC advanced the request for public comment and could rule on it as soon as late October.
Consumer advocacy groups warn the proposed change could trigger a surge of unwanted, partisan and potentially misleading automated calls in the critical final days of the election, which will determine which party controls Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump's term.
The potential perils became evident two years ago during the presidential primary season when thousands of voters in New Hampshire received a robocall with an AI-generated voice of then-President Joe Biden. The call suggested voters should forgo casting a ballot in the primary and "save" their votes for the general election.
Under the waiver request before the FCC, some state and federal laws protecting against deception and voter intimidation would continue to prohibit certain misleading election-related messages. But granting it could weaken a major deterrent for bad
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Oct 07, 2026
WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers appears to be breaking with President Donald Trump on another key issue less than a month before Election Day.
"Drinking a Labatt and watching the Red Wings, man, it just doesn't get any more Michigan than that," Rogers said in a new video ad released on Oct. 7. "Here in Michigan, we know that Canada is not our enemy. We need to end this tariff war now."
The statement marks the second time in recent weeks that Rogers spoke out — albeit without criticizing Trump by name — against one of the president's unpopular initiatives. This time, Rogers is calling for an end to Trump's widespread trade war against Canada, America's biggest trading partner.
The Republican Senate nominee also split with Trump on the Iran war in late September, saying it "needs to end and end quickly."
Rogers' public shift on tariffs comes amid mounting opposition in Michigan to Trump's tariffs and GOP concerns that voters will reject their candidates up and down the ballot for failing to address cost-of-living concerns. Election Da
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Oct 07, 2026
National Republicans have spent months trying to rescue Ken Paxton. He's complicating that effort.
Tensions are brewing with some Republicans after POLITICO published Paxton's closed-door comments that "D.C." Republicans were largely controlling his race.
"He is welcome to raise his own money and say whatever he wants," said one Republican involved in the Paxton rescue effort, who like others in this article was granted anonymity to speak candidly. "In fact, if he did that, he'd probably be winning right now and we wouldn't need to spend all this money."
Senate Republicans and top operatives didn't want to be in this position in the first place. Many had warned that the Trump effort to unseat Sen. John Cornyn and back Paxton in the primary would cost Republicans hundreds of millions to drag Paxton across the finish line in the general election. Cornyn and Senate GOP groups spent millions of dollars on ads during the primary attacking Paxton over his series of scandals and warning he was a flawed candidate.
Since then, the usual crowd of never-Paxton types has expanded into a wider circle of frustrated Republicans who are irked by the effort it's taking to boost the scandal-plagued Senate candidate. And Paxton saying he doesn't control his campaign messaging — alongside his remarks that President Donald Trump's midterm convention hurt him politically — isn't helping.
Paxton also complained about the drag of the Iran war and high prices on his campaign in another c
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Oct 07, 2026
Christa Pike is conscious and speaking in the hospital after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her last week, an outcome her legal team described as "unprecedented," and one that has raised questions about what happens next in her case.
Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, and spent 30 years on death row. Her execution was scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 30, but two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital failed to kill her. She was taken to the hospital, where she received lifesaving care.
Pike's survival has brought intense scrutiny to Tennessee's execution procedures. Gov. Bill Lee suspended the one remaining execution scheduled for this year, and the state's top prison official, Correction Commissioner Frank Strada, is stepping down at the end of October.
Pike's lawyers said the resignation was "justified, but it does nothing to help Christa now. What happened to her Wednesday reflects a systemic failure that goes far beyond any one person," they said in a statement issued Sunday, according to ABC News.
Slemmer's mother, May Martinez, described the situation as a "mess" and said she was left without justice
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Oct 07, 2026
The 2026 House map continues to move further onto GOP terrain. But while Democrats are dreaming big, the GOP insists they can hold the majority.
Score talked to the DCCC's Deputy Executive Director Will Van Nuys and the NRCC's Communications Director Will Kiley.
The two operatives chose four under-the-radar races where they're feeling good about their underdog candidates pulling off an upset. If these races flip, they know they're having a good night.
"We're not saying that this won't be a tough fight to the end, but we know we feel very good about where we stand," Kiley said.
"Our job is to make sure that we raise as much as we can to expand this battlefield as far as we can," Van Nuys said.
Rep. Jeff Crank won this seat by 14 points in 2024 in his third bid for Congress. But Colorado Springs is "trending Democrats' way" with fast growth of younger and Hispanic populations. That shift, along with Trump's unpopularity, has Democrats hoping for a flip, Van Nuys says.
Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson's run for Senate has left this Northeastern Iowa seat open for the taking, Van Nuys argues. Frustrations with beef imports, rising gas prices and the popularity of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand have Democrats hoping state Rep. Lindsay James can turn this seat blue.
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is making it his personal mission to elect his former adviser and federal prosecutor Zach Dembo and flip Senate nominee Rep. Andy Barr's Lexington-based seat. Dembo released an internal poll in late September showing him with a five-point lead.
Van Nuys says emergency
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Oct 07, 2026
By Olena Harmash and Vladyslav Smilianets
KYIV, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Russia pounded Ukraine with waves of missiles and drones in one of its most "vile strikes" on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, killing at least 20 people, including children, and damaging industrial facilities and energy infrastructure.
Zelenskiy said the strike coincided with Russian ?President Vladimir Putin's birthday.
The heaviest death toll was in Pryluky in the northern Chernihiv region, where a Russian missile obliterated a five-storey residential building. At least ?14 people, including four children, were killed there, local officials said.
"Today, as a birthday 'gift' to Putin, the Russian army destroyed a residential building in Pryluky...," Zelenskiy said.
"The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively. This was one ?of the most vile strikes: 70 missiles in total, many of them ballistic."
An excavator and dozens of rescuers with shovels sifted through rubble at the site where several sections of the five-storey building collapsed.
Emergency workers used ladders to get to the upper floors of what remained of the building. Around 50 people were wounded, including seven children, regional officials said.
BIG JUMP IN REPORTED DRONE INTERCEPTIONS
Zelenskiy said six other people were killed in Kyiv, Oleksandria and Kremenchuk during the heavy overnight attack.
Russia's defence ministry said its forces had carried out a "massive strike" on military-industrial facilities ?in Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions, using high-precision land-, sea- and ?air-launched weapons, as well as drones.
Ukraine's air force said it had downed just over 80% of the 46 jet-powered drones launched by Russia — a sharp increase from recent weeks when, on average, air defences took down 50% to 60%.
Since the summer, Russia has used increasing numbers ?of the new high-velocit
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Oct 07, 2026
Two investigations are underway into a former Cornell University student's allegations that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024 -- one to determine whether criminal charges should be brought and another to examine how the university handled her case.
Newly obtained videos reviewed by ABC News show members of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity being questioned by university police in the weeks after the alleged assault.
One of the video shows Chi Phi members who were allegedly in the house that night, but not involved in the group sex, telling Cornell University police they heard it was all consensual.
One fraternity member told police in the video that "what people were saying was that there was like multiple consenting adults in this room."
Another told investigators that "the general rumor that was going around was that it was a ... consensual thing."
The investigator subsequently appeared to question how the fraternity members could possibly know the encounters were consensual.
"Dude. I was a college kid," the officer said. "I get it. I'm like, in college, I wouldn't have been like, 'Oh, that was a sick consensual act last night.'"
"I guess where -- how do they know it was consensual?" the officer questioned.
The fraternity member said he could not recall exactly what had been said but that he believed the men had told others they had sex with the woman.
"I can't recall exactly what was said, but yeah, I mean, they … they said that they had sex with her, I guess," the fraternity member said.
The officer pressed him on his inability to identify the fraternity members who were there.
"I just get worried because you know how it looks," the officer said. "You're a brother."
Angelina Katsanis/Reuters - PHOTO: Cornell U
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Oct 07, 2026
President Donald Trump announced a $6.6 billion investment with AI defense company Anduril Industries on Tuesday -- the most recent government funding agreement into a company with investment ties to the president's sons.
The Trump administration announced the Navy will support $2.9 billion of the total cost to help create a new facility in Baltimore County, Maryland, that will manufacture critical parts for the Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine.
"In a tremendous victory for our country and for the city of Baltimore, Anduril is investing $3.7 billion in a state-of-the-art shipyard that will be known forever as Arsenal-2," Trump said at an event announcing the investment.
Damien Eagers/PA Wire IRISH Press Association via AP Images - PHOTO: Donald Trump visit to Ireland"Right here in Sparrows Point, you'll build the next generation of American submarines, including autonomous subs, torpedo tubes, and critical components for our cutting edge Virginia-class attack submarines," Trump said.
Republican senator calls for Judiciary Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden1789 Capital -- a venture capital firm that lists Donald Trump Jr. as one of six partners along with three founders -- claimed a major stake in Anduril in June 2025 from a $2.5 billion investment into the company.
Since that investment, Anduril has been awarded 135 other contracts with the U.S. government and to date has received around $1.8 billion from those agreements, according to active defense contracts posted to
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Oct 07, 2026
TOKYO - Mounting anger over a U.S. Marine arrested on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman in Okinawa has once again inflamed long-simmering tensions over the U.S. military presence in the prefecture, as Tokyo seeks to enact the most sweeping change in its security strategy in Okinawa in decades.
Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, was taken into custody on suspicion of killing Anna Yagi, 39, who died of suffocation in a hotel Saturday, local police said. Ballard is also suspected of stealing Yagi's wallet and other belongings.
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Ballard has denied the allegations, police said.
The case was referred to the local prosecutor's office, though it remains unclear whether authorities will prosecute Ballard. Under a long-standing agreement governing U.S. troops in Japan, Ballard is subject to Japanese jurisdiction because the alleged crime occurred while he was off-duty.
The incident drew immediate backlash from Okinawan and national authorities. Both the U.S. ambassador to Japan and the commander of U.S. Forces Japan were summoned to Tokyo, and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called the case "extremely brutal and heinous" in a statement on X.
About 180 people held a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday evening, and a demonstration outside the Foreign Ministry is scheduled for Thursday evening.
U.S. Forces Japan said Tuesday that all personnel stationed in Okinawa would suspend all activities for 48 hours starting Wednesday and
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Oct 07, 2026
Tropical Storm Isaias formed in the Gulf on Wednesday and is expected to strengthen into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season.
Forecasters said Isaias will get rapidly more powerful as it moves toward the U.S. Gulf Coast later this week and is expected to become a hurricane by Thursday.
It was not immediately known where the storm might make landfall on the Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center's (NHC) initial projections said the center of Isaias could come onshore somewhere between eastern Louisiana and the western Florida Panhandle.
The NHC said there was "an increasing risk of dangerous wind and storm surge impacts along portions of the northern Gulf Coast," adding that floods will be possible due to heavy rainfall.
The Atlantic season has not gone this late without its first hurricane forming since 1905, according to the Associated Press.
An unusually strong El Niño has contributed to the relatively quiet Atlantic hurricane season by increasing wind shear — rapid changes in wind speed or direction with height — which can disrupt tropical storms and make it harder for them to strengthen into hurricanes.
Where is Isaias, and what is its path?According to the
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Oct 07, 2026
Tropical Storm Isaias has formed in the Gulf and is expected to approach the U.S. northern Gulf Coast on Friday after becoming a hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Isaias would be the Atlantic Basin's first hurricane of the season and is its ninth named storm. El Niño continues to bring a more active season in the Pacific. The storm formed with less than two months remaining in the 2026 hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30.
Maps show possible pathTropical Storm Isaias, which grew from Tropical Depression Nine on Wednesday and is pronounced "ees-ah-EE-ahs," is expected to pass to the north of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday before approaching the U.S. Gulf Coast the following day, according to forecasters. It is expected to rapidly strengthen.
"Hurricane watches will likely be required for a portion of the U.S. northern Gulf coast later today," the hurricane center said Wednesday. Tropical storm-force winds were extending outward up to 45 miles from the storm's center.
Isaias is forecast to bring moderate to heavy rainfall to the Gulf Coast and into the rest of the Southeast this weekend into early next week. The hurricane center forecasts 3 to 6 inches of rain and as much as 10 inches in some places on the central Gulf Coast from southeastern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.
Some longer-range forecast models also see this mois
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Oct 07, 2026
Millions of Medicare beneficiaries will receive a $90 payment from the Social Security Administration this week as part of an effort to lower health care costs for older Americans.
President Trump announced on Oct. 2 that the administration would send a one-time payment to around one-third of people enrolled in Medicare Part B, which covers doctors' visits, outpatient care and preventive screenings.
In a White House statement, the Trump administration said the "premium rebates" were intended to help "enrollees pay for their Medicare Part B premiums." The payments will be issued automatically to 20.8 million qualified Medicare beneficiaries starting this week.
Most enrollees will receive a direct deposit for $90 on or around Oct. 8. Paper checks will be sent to some beneficiaries later this month.
The rebate comes from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which was set up by Congress in 2008 to make improvements to Medicare Parts A and B. The $90 payment will cover less than half of the standard monthly Part B premium, which is $202.90 for 2026, up from $185 in 2025.
Some have warned that the payments do not go far enough to cover increasing Medicare expenses. Juliette Cubanski, director of Medicare policy at KFF, a nonprofit health policy organization, said Part B annual premiums are expected to rise by $79 in 2027, which would consume "most of the $90 payment." The KFF
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Oct 07, 2026
In July, Reps. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, and Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat, had a request for the Federal Election Commission: help make sure artificial intelligence chatbots do not feed voters false information about the 2026 midterm elections.
The lawmakers, writing to the FEC as well as the Justice and Homeland Security departments, urged the agencies to coordinate on "AI-driven threats to election integrity" and to press AI companies on their safeguards. Their concerns come as a quarter of likely voters use AI tools daily and at least 38% have gotten information about candidates or voting from AI search summaries, according to a September survey released by the American Association of Political Consultants Foundation.
But later that month, FEC Commissioner Shana Broussard, a Democrat, wrote back with a blunt answer: the agency couldn't help. With only two of its six commissioner seats filled, the FEC "cannot proceed," she wrote, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Broussard signed the letter as an individual commissioner. Without a quorum — the four members needed out of a total of six — she could not under federal law even speak for the agency.
With Election Day just four weeks away, the exchange offers a window into how little the FEC can do as campaigns enter their final stretch. Without a quorum, agency staffers are limited to collecting and publishing campaign finance reports, answering questions from candidates about the law and fielding new complaints.
But the agency charged with policing how campaigns raise and spend money can't open investigations, iss
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Oct 07, 2026
London — The involvement of a small American firm linked to associates of President Trump in an energy project in Bosnia and Herzegovina worth more than $1.5 billion has raised questions about how the White House could be using its leverage in the fragile Balkan state.
U.S. lawmakers accuse the Trump administration of lifting sanctions on Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik in an effort to enrich and empower allies of Mr. Trump, and of undermining longstanding U.S. foreign policy interests in the region in the process.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump was hailed by Dodik after his Serb nationalist party won one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's three presidency seats, which are split between Bosnia's Muslim minority, known as Bosniaks, as well as Serb and Croat ethnic groups under the country's complex power-sharing electoral system.
"If it had not been for Donald Trump's magnificent victory … we would probably be political corpses today," Dodik told supporters in a speech, in which he also thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his support.
Company with links to Trump poised to build gas pipelineAAFS Infrastructure & Energy, a company incorporated in the U.S. last year and headed by President Trump's former personal attorney Jesse Binnall and Joseph Flynn, the brother of Trump ally General Michael Flynn, is close to securing a contract to develop the Southern Interconnection Gas Pipeline.
The pipeline project has been discussed by Bosni
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Oct 07, 2026
It's common sense that common cents are getting less use in Americans' daily lives. Congress has already taken action to eliminate the lowest rung — the penny — and now another coin collecting dust in people's wallets could be on the chopping block next.
The House and Senate both passed bills earlier this year aimed at eliminating the penny once and for all. The bipartisan Common Cents Act was unanimously approved in each chamber, but has yet to get President Donald Trump's signature to become law.
It followed the Treasury Department announcing last December that the U.S. Mint would no longer produce pennies, which at the time cost more than three times their value to make.
Trump's First-year Government Overhaul Delivers Change Washington Hasn't Seen Since The 1960S
U.S. nickels are shown on display at an unveiling ceremony Jan. 12, 2006, in Washington, D.C.Now, lawmakers want the administration to act on another portion of their bill, which would direct the Treasury to study the potential of making the nickel with cheaper materials than are currently used.
"If it costs 13 cents to make a five-cent coin, Washington should fix the problem instead of wasting more taxpayer money," House GOP Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., told Fox News Digital. "My bill gives Treasury a path to make nickels at a lower cost without disrupting how Americans use them. It is a simple reform that saves money and brings a little more common sense to government."
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Oct 07, 2026
Much of President Donald Trump's second term has focused on changes to the nation's capital.
But his ambitions to remake the physical architecture of the presidency transcend Washington: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David.
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The plan calls for a parcel of the private club to be designated a permanent, official sanctuary for foreign leaders and future U.S. presidents, designed to host international summits and house presidents when they take vacations in Florida, according to a proposal presented to Palm Beach County officials by Trump International Golf Club's legal counsel. Future presidents would also be offered comped memberships to the Trump club.
"Just as Camp David, Windsor Castle, or the Elysee Palace are known worldwide, so too will the Presidential Golf Course in Palm Beach County," Harvey Oyer, a lawyer representing the Trump course, wrote to the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners in a letter last month. Oyer asked the county, which owns the property the course is on, to provide a piece of the land to the federal government, and he promised Trump would pay for the construction of a presidential residence and facilities on that land.
Oyer told The Washington Post that a name has yet not been selected for the presidential golf course.
"It would further cement Palm Beach County as one of the most recognizable brands and destinations in the world," Oyer said.
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Oct 07, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the economy is "accelerating" and inflation, along with bond yields, will come back down once the conflict in Iran ends.
"Right now, we have this energy shock that's generated by the Iran conflict, and headline inflation is about 3.5%. But my message is underlying inflation — core inflation — is down to about 2.3%," Bessent said at the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce on Monday night.
He asserted that median wage growth is in line with headline inflation, and that "we will get to the other side of this Iran conflict. Energy will come back down, and the wage growth will continue."
Read more: How oil price shocks ripple through your wallet, from gas to groceries
He said 1 million private sector jobs have been created this year, while government jobs have been trimmed by 300,000.
"Real wage growth comes from private sector jobs, and I think we're just starting to see the acceleration here," he said.
But not everyone sees the wage picture the same.
Gregory Daco, chief economist for EY, notes that
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Oct 07, 2026
Health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor says no special measures have been ordered regarding a reported plague death in Russia (Igor IVANKO)The United States made a formal request pressing Russia for information on the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, a source close to the matter said Tuesday, as calls grew for transparency from Moscow.
Russian authorities have denied that they are imposing anti-plague measures and played down the reports of an incident at a plague research institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region last week.
But US President Donald Trump said he would speak soon with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the World Health Organization's head called on Moscow to be open about the situation.
"We have officially requested additional information from the Russian government," a State Department spokesperson said Tuesday.
"We are also in official communication with other countries around the world to share information," they added.
The request for information was sent via a confidential diplomatic communication, known as a demarche, according to a source close to the matter.
During a trip to Iceland, Rubio said: "We encourage Russia to be transparent and share more information with the world so that all of us could react accordingly and appropriately."
Trump later said he would be speaking to Putin about what happened.
"I have a call scheduled, yes," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if he had spoken to Putin, adding that it would happen "very soon."
Asked what US intelligence agencies were saying about the situation, Trump said: "We're in very deep discussions. We'll be able to report on it probably tomorrow."
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Oct 07, 2026
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror images in chemical molecules.
Many molecules of life come in versions that look alike but aren't exactly identical, like right and left hands. One mirror-image of the chemical carvone smells like mint, for example, while the other has a whiff of caraway.
When designing drugs to treat diseases, scientists want to be choosy about which mirror-image they're getting. They want the version of a molecule that'll treat a cold, not the kind that'll make the sniffles worse.
Kagan and Soai found ways to make chemistry pick a side, designing and manipulating reactions to produce the desired mirror-image.
"This is probably the coolest experiment in organic chemistry," said Peter Somfai, a member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. "Taken together, the groundbreaking discoveries by Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have reshaped our understanding of molecular chirality — how it is created, amplified and transmitted."
"Chirality" comes from the Greek word for ""hand."
Soai, in 2003, successfully created the first-ever chemical reaction which produced only one of a molecule's mirror-images. "Other than life itself, no one had previously achieved this feat," the committee said in a news release.
"It might be difficult to say that this drug, or that drug, was developed using this," Somfai said. "I would say all of them, because we use this as a tool, we use this as an understanding, how to develop catalysts, how they function."
"The medicines we have today would not be possible without this chemistry," said Rigoberto Hernandez, president of the American Chemical Society.
Kagan, 95 years old and born in France, is af
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Oct 07, 2026
NETANYA, Israel (AP) — Israelis gathered Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage, and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has devastated the territory and left its 2 million people living in dire conditions.
In southern Israel, families mourned at intersections, bomb shelters, and the site of a music festival that Hamas-led militants overran three years ago in the deadliest attack against Israel. It is the first anniversary that all the hostages are home, marking a new stage of grief.
For Palestinians, the anniversary brings another day of life of misery and difficulties after an Israeli retaliatory campaign in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of people. Most of the population of about 2 million people live in vast, squalid tent camps, with large parts of the strip's cities reduced to rubble. More than half the territory remains in the hands of the Israeli military, and despite a ceasefire deal reached nearly a year ago, Israeli strikes continue almost daily.
For the region, the day highlights a startling transformation over the past three years. Israeli troops occupy a large chunk of southern Lebanon in their conflict with Hezbollah, which began firing on Israel in 2023 in support of Hamas. Iran and the United States are locked in a confrontation that has seen attacks across Arab Gulf countries and has shaken the global economy — a conflict that Israel helped launch and that
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Oct 07, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump's unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran.
The cash advantage, spread out across a half-dozen groups, is driven largely by the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc., which had nearly $416 million in cash on hand at the end of August and began stepping up its spending on critical races in September.
But that money may have come too late, forcing the president's group to pay much higher rates because of the shrinking availability of air time. Four Republican Senate campaign officials said groups that reserved advertising time last spring paid much lower rates than MAGA Inc. and its affiliated groups.
Instead, by waiting until September, Trump-connected organizations are sometimes paying more than five times what they would have spent if they acted earlier.
A representative of MAGA Inc. familiar with the group's strategy said its spending has allowed Republicans to keep races more competitive than they would have been otherwise. In some cases, the group has been the only one on the air criticizing Democratic candidates.
The MAGA Inc. representative and the Republican Senate campaign officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy.
The challenge is acute in places like Texas, where Trump will travel on Wednesday for the second time in a week to stump for Republican Ken Paxton's Senate campaign. The state hasn't elected a Democratic senator since 1988, yet MAGA Inc. has spent more
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Oct 06, 2026
Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3, according to a memo from the acting Army secretary.
The execution, the first carried out by the U.S. military in more than 60 years, is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT, according to the memo issued Tuesday by acting Army Secretary Adam Telle.
The Pentagon announced Monday that Hasan would be executed by firing squad after President Donald Trump approved the decision Friday.
Handout/Getty Images - PHOTO: Maj. Nidal Hasan Moved To JailUnder the military's execution process for prisoners on death row, the Army secretary initiates the proceedings, which then require approval from the defense secretary and eventually the president.
Under Army policy, executions must happen within 150 days of the president approving it, but no sooner than 60 days.
The military has not executed a service member since 1961, when Pvt. John Bennett was put to death after being convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria.
On Nov. 5, 2009, Hasan, then an Army psychiatrist, opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at the Fort Hood military base, killing 12 soldiers and one civilian before he was shot, severely wounded and arrested.
Hasan was convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder and sentenced to death in 2013. He was sent to a military detention center at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
He is one of four death row inmates in the Army justice system.
The announcement of his execution comes after ABC News reported in June that the Army had been
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Oct 06, 2026
Truck stops nationwide were warned to "proceed with caution" Tuesday by a major industry group after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to promote the use of "red dye" diesel fuel.
Red dye diesel is exempt from federal excise taxes because it is intended for farm equipment and other off-road uses.
The order, signed before farmers in Nebraska on Monday night, aims to bring down fuel prices by "temporarily" allowing highway use of red dye diesel fuel, according to a White House statement.
U.S. voters are deeply frustrated by the high price of gas, and the Trump administration is under intense pressure to bring down fuel costs before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Monday's order instructs Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to "defer certain diesel fuel tax payment obligations and to provide penalty relief to the extent permitted by law."
It does not waive the federal taxes, because only Congress can eliminate a tax.
Following Trump's directive, the Energy Marketers of America warned gas stations to "proceed with caution."
"Whether relief is available, whom it covers, and on what conditions depend on Treasury determinations and guidance not yet issued," the group said. "Deferral is not forgiveness."
Moreover, the order does not "resolve EPA or state restrictions" on the dyed variety of diesel fuel, the EMA said.
Other trucking and gas industry groups sounded a similar note of caution.
"The White House appears to be trying to encourage the supply chain to move toward selling dyed fuel in non-traditional ways," the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America and the National Association of Truck Stop Owners said in a note to their members.
"We do not expect most reputable diesel retailers and fuel marketers to do this,"
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Oct 06, 2026
With the astonishing news that Christa Pike is conscious, talking and making a "medically unprecedented" recovery following her botched execution, Tennessee is now facing a critical question: Will the state try to kill her again?
"Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care," her attorneys said in a statement on Oct. 6. "Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery."
So far, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has not responded to repeated calls from Pike's attorneys and death penalty observers to commute her sentence to life in prison. That leaves open the possibility that Pike will face a second execution, even after her attorneys said the first attempt on Sept. 30 amounted to unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
"We're in uncharted territory," said Robin Maher, executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, which does not take a stance on the death penalty.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has not decided whether a second execution attempt would violate the constitution since 1947," Maher told USA TODAY. "These are questions that have never needed to be asked before and no one knows the answers."
As Pike continues to recover in a Tennessee hospital, USA TODAY is looking at the issues that state officials will need to weigh when deciding whether Pike will live or die.
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Oct 06, 2026
Susan Collins; Troy Jackson. (Getty)Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Troy Jackson debated for the first time Tuesday in Maine, trading attacks over President Donald Trump, the cost of living and abortion in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.
Maine is central to Democrats' path to the Senate majority as they try to capitalize on Trump's unpopularity. Jackson tried to do just that Tuesday by tying Collins to Trump, name-checking him at least 20 times in one hour of debating on WGME-TV.
"It matters who you stand with," Jackson said in his opening statement. "I don't owe Donald Trump and the billionaires anything. I don't fight for billionaires like she does."
Collins, meanwhile, emphasized multiple instances when she opposed the Trump administration.
She also sought to localize the race and pitch her seniority — and her perch as chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee — as a boost to Maine. She touted $1.5 billion in federal funds that she has brought home to the state for 672 projects in the last five years, "from Madawaksa to Kittery, from Eastport to Rumford."
"I've been able to bring home federal dollars to help ease the burden on our taxpayers," Collins said.
Jackson set the tone for the debate early by connecting Collins to Trump and repeatedly saying she votes in alignment with him 96% of the time. Collins questioned the methodology of the study he cited.
In a moment that
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Oct 06, 2026
Students chant slogans during a demonstration against under-resourced schools, in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026.
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What began as protests over missing teachers, overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating schools has grown into a nationwide crisis in France, drawing hundreds of thousands into the streets and triggering violent clashes between demonstrators and police.
Students say years of underinvestment have left them with teacher shortages, long school days and deteriorating facilities. The government says those legitimate concerns have been overtaken by violent groups, while unions and opposition parties accuse officials of responding to young protesters with excessive force.
The Union Syndicale Lyceenne, a high school students' union, said the movement had reached a "new record" on Tuesday, claiming 1,800 schools were blocked, disrupted or closed. Less than three weeks earlier, it had all begun at a single school outside Paris.
What sparked the protests?
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Oct 06, 2026
Christa Pike is conscious and speaking in the hospital after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her last week, her lawyers said Tuesday.
"Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care. Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery," her legal team wrote in a statement released to the media.
Pike had been unconscious and in critical condition in the days after two doses of pentobarbital failed to end her life on Wednesday, Sept. 30, according to her attorneys.
Dr. Joel Zivot, a medical expert who has consulted with Pike's legal team, told the Associated Press that the latest update "bodes well for a good recovery," but said that the full picture of her long-term health won't be clear for some time.
"She has recovered to a certain degree that she's able to be off a ventilator and able to speak, but in no way would I announce her free of further serious risk," he said. "There's still a lot of bad things that can happen here."
Fallout from the failed execution has brought intense scrutiny to Tennessee's execution procedures. Gov. Bill Lee suspended the one remaining execution scheduled for this year and announced that the state's top prison official would be stepping down.
In a statement, Correction Commissioner Frank Strada said resigning was "in the best interest of Tennesseans" while an independent review examines what happened on Sept. 30.
Strada will leave at the end of October, and an interim commissioner will be named later, Lee said.
Pike's lawyers said the resig
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Oct 06, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference at the House of Collections in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 6, 2026. - Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague, amid days of stonewalling from Russian officials about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the episode.
The death of the technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia immediately raised alarms throughout the administration, prompting a race to compile intel and plot for a potential public health response, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
But Russia's reluctance to share information about the incident has complicated those efforts, leaving officials uncertain what broader risks it could pose — and how exactly to defend the US against them.
"It's incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday. "Maybe it's bigger than we thought. We don't know, but I think it would be reckless at this moment, given the limited information we still have, to speculate."
US officials were in touch with the Russian government as early as last Friday, a St
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Oct 06, 2026
People pay their respects at a memorial on the steps of the Town Hall, following a vigil the previous day, in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, Feb. 14, 2026. - Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press/AP
US authorities have announced the arrest of a 30-year-old from Washington state in connection with the February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.
The person, identified by authorities as James Cody Bryant, was arrested in Bellingham, Washington, on Tuesday morning on a charge of conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country, according to an announcement by the US Justice Department. The February attack on a secondary school in the small town of Tumbler Ridge was Canada's deadliest school shooting in decades, leaving eight people dead and dozens wounded.
Bryant was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday afternoon in Seattle, according to a press release ahead of the announcement. CNN has not yet confirmed whether Bryant has legal representation.
Bryant was allegedly "in repeated contact with" the 18-year-old Canadian shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, "offering advice, sending money and even agreeing to live stream the horrific event" on Twitch, said Neil Floyd, the acting US attorney for the Western District of Washington, at a press conference in Seattle.
The money Bryant gave the shooter amounted to a little over $100, primarily to buy a lighter and a pair of shoes that Van
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Oct 06, 2026
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that makes a specific kind of tax-exempt diesel fuel reserved for farm and construction equipment available to a broad set of road vehicles in an effort to reduce overall diesel costs.
The type of diesel, known as dyed diesel, is exempt from a 24.4-cent per gallon federal tax, making it a lower-priced option than regular diesel. Some states expanded access to dyed diesel in a similar fashion over recent weeks, providing relief from state diesel taxes.
Dyed diesel is nearly identical to regular diesel, besides a small amount of dye used by law enforcement officers and inspectors to ensure only permitted vehicle owners avail themselves of the fuel.
Should you use your 401(k) to pay off credit card debt?The executive order on Monday came weeks ahead of the midterm elections, targeting costs associated with a fuel vital to the supply chain for everything from groceries to clothing to electronics.
The White House called on federal agencies to defer payment of federal road taxes over the remainder of 2026, and seek out ways to relieve payment of the deferred taxes.
"Farmers and truckers are essential to the American way of life. Restricted global diesel supply has led to rising prices, and these key industries have been particularly hard hit," the White House said in its executive order.
"While my Administration has already undertaken hist
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Oct 06, 2026
Delta Air Lines Flight 7, slated to depart for Tokyo, carrying 275 passengers and 15 crew members, struck an Air Canada passenger jet with its left wingtip, a Delta spokesperson told Fox News Digital. No injuries were initially reported.
"While taxiing at Los Angeles International Airport, a Delta aircraft made contact with an Air Canada aircraft," a Delta statement said. "Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people, and we apologize to our customers for the experience and delay in their travel."
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Air Canada flight AC785 had just arrived to Los Angeles from Toronto when it was being towed to the gate, the airline told Fox News Digital.
"An aircraft operated by another airline made contact with its tail," Air Canada said. "There are no reported injuries. The Air Canada aircraft will be taken out of service for inspection and repairs.
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Oct 06, 2026
Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said Tuesday.
Pike's attorneys said her prognosis is still unclear and said she faces "a long recovery."
"Against all odds, Christa Pike is conscious, speaking, and continues to receive critical medical care," attorneys for Pike said in a statement. "Despite the severe damage she endured to her arms, she is still handcuffed and shackled to the bed. Her recovery is medically unprecedented."
Her attorneys said they are grateful for the first responders and the medical team at the hospital "who treated Christa like a human and have provided exceptional care to her."
The statement was the first indication that Pike has improved since an ambulance carried her away from a Nashville prison last Wednesday.
Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as they attempted to put her to death for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. The lethal injection drug didn't kill her, but her lawyers said her arms were left burned and blistered.
As recently as Sunday, her attorneys said Pike had remained unconscious and on a ventilator since the failed execution attempt.
Dr. Joel Zivot, a professor of anesthesiology and surgery in Atlanta who consulted as an expert for Pike's legal team, said the development "bodes well for a good recovery." But, he added, it could be weeks or months before anyone knows exactly what her recovery
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Oct 06, 2026
Tropical Depression Nine has formed off the coast of Mexico in the Gulf of America, and forecasts show it will be the Atlantic's first hurricane this season, making a dangerous landfall threat to the U.s.
The system is currently getting better organized, and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said it is forecast to be a tropical storm on Wednesday and a hurricane on Thursday.
The NHC said the system is likely to be a Category 2 hurricane by Friday night, with estimated winds at 100 mph.
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It will be named Isaias.
A tropical depression has maximum sustained winds of 38 mph or less, and unlike tropical storms and hurricanes, tropical depressions are identified with numbers and not names.
The depression is moving toward the east near 5 mph.
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Oct 06, 2026
Young Americans are reconsidering the value of a college degree given the high cost of college and the prospect of taking on student loan debt, which is prompting some colleges and universities to cut tuition costs to attract students and boost enrollment.
A report by Bloomberg noted that several colleges and universities have announced plans to lower their tuition either this year or in the next academic year when students arrive on campus in fall 2027. For example, Emory & Henry University historically offered significant merit scholarships amounting to up to $23,000 to help students negate some of the $40,000 price tag they faced, the report noted.
However, the school moved to reduce tuition by half to $19,900 for undergraduate students this academic year to lower the sticker price students are evaluating, while still offering merit scholarships up to $5,000 and covering tuition costs for certain in-state students from Virginia who meet income criteria.
"Our tuition reduction plan was just one piece of a larger strategic enrollment strategy," said Dr. Louise "Lou" Fincher, president of Emory & Henry University, told FOX Business. "Ultimately, we wanted our published tuition to better reflect the real cost of an Emory & Henry education."
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Oct 06, 2026
Attorneys for Olympic canoeist David Hearn asked the internal watchdogs at the Justice and Interior departments on Tuesday to investigate the circumstances surrounding his arrest, indictment and the dismissal of the case, according to a letter seen by CBS News.
Hearn's case garnered national attention, after he was falsely accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and subsequently indicted on a charge of felony destruction of government property.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, later moved to dismiss the case after she said new information had come to light showing the damage had been caused by a contractor's "botched installation," not vandalism.
"Because of the actions of various DOJ and DOI employees, Mr. Hearn was deprived of his liberty, indicted for a crime he did not commit, threatened with incarceration of up to 10 years, and endured the defaming of his name and reputation by high-ranking government officials," Hearn's attorneys wrote in the letter to DOJ Inspector General Don Berthiaume and DOI Inspector General Caryl Brzymialkiewicz.
Those officials, they pointed out, included Pirro, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and President Trump.
"The DOJ OIG and the DOI OIG must conduct detailed and comprehensive investigations to determine what happened inside their agencies that led to the shocking and indefensible treatment of Mr. Hearn," they wrote. "Anything less than a full and fair review would be a betrayal of your mission and perpetuate the outrageous mistreatment of Mr. Hearn."
Hearn was
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Oct 06, 2026
Thousands of people gathered at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday in support of "Jane Doe," the former student who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a fraternity in October 2024.
The "Justice for Survivors" rally was organized by over 20 student organizations who led a late afternoon march to Day Hall, which houses the university's administrative offices and had been vandalized by activists overnight.
Students, faculty, and residents from across the state took part in the protest calling for Cornell administrators to resign over their handling of the case.
"We are known as the rape school," Saya Taylor, a Cornell sophomore, said at the rally. "We can be known as leading a nationwide reform movement."
Demonstrators held signs accusing the Ivy League school of protecting the alleged rapists and demanding accountability.
"Jane Doe deserved a campus that supported her," Taylor said. "Jane Doe deserved an administration that delivered a fair and proper judicial process. Jane Doe deserved a police department that would actually follow up on her case. Instead, she was silenced."
Late Monday, the Cornell University faculty introduced a resolution declaring it has no confidence in the administration's ability to address the "ongoing crisis of sexual assault" on campus.
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Oct 06, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after President Donald Trump said he would start paying for controversial taxpayer-funded ads with a campaign account, there's no sign he plans to refund the millions of federal dollars already spent on them.
Nearly $12 million worth of ads have already aired, according to AdImpact, as part of the $20 million the Department of Homeland Security tapped for the contract.
But Trump's plan to pay for the ads with MAGA Inc. doesn't mean there's any reimbursement coming, said a White House official who was not authorized to talk publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Trump said the ads were "really good" and "promotion for the country, done by many presidents before." Asked whether he'd repay the funds already spent, he said, "We'll decide."
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer slammed Trump for not committing to reimbursement and said he believes the president's plan for covering future costs represents illegal coordination with his super PAC.
"Trump must return this money to the American people and there must be a full investigation into this gross waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars," Schumer told The Associated Press.
The ads, which began airing in late September, glorify Trump and echo his political messaging going into the midterms. One features a clip of Trump talking about the threat of communism and another is
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Oct 06, 2026
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency on Monday as neighboring Pennsylvania battles its largest measles outbreak in three decades.
"After reviewing the latest data on measles cases in New York State, I am declaring a state disaster emergency to strengthen our ongoing efforts to confront this disease," Hochul said in a statement. "No one should get seriously ill or die from a vaccine-preventable disease."
Measles cases surpass 1,000 in Pennsylvania amid the state's largest outbreak in decadesIt marks the first time a state has issued an emergency order since measles cases began rising last year. At least 95% of measles cases in the U.S. have been among people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.
The order allows registered nurses to order the collection and testing of specimens for suspected measles cases.
Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo - PHOTO: New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a news conference, Oct. 2, 2026, in New York.Early symptoms include cough, runny nose, fever as high as 104 Fahrenheit and red, watery eyes, according t
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Oct 06, 2026
Most families of the six soldiers killed in the deadliest attack of the Iran war were not attending a major White House event for Gold Star families hosted by President Donald Trump.
Only one family member of those killed in an Iranian drone strike March 1 on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait confirmed to The Associated Press that they planned to attend Tuesday's reception with Trump and the first lady. Troops who survived the attack have raised questions about why they were stationed at a site that didn't have sufficient air protection and was viewed as a likely target.
The war, launched Feb. 28, has claimed the lives of 19 U.S. troops and wounded more than 800 others. The annual gathering honors Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day, which falls on the last weekend of September.
The White House said this year's reception honors nearly 40 fallen service members from conflicts dating to the Vietnam War. Trump was expected to deliver remarks followed by a candle-lighting ceremony and a musical performance that included a rendition of "America the Beautiful."
Families are still waiting for answers about what happened in the March 1 strikeGold Star families have expressed frustration over the lack of informatio
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Oct 06, 2026
The former CIA officer arrested after authorities discovered roughly $40 million worth of gold bars in his Virginia home pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to a single count of wire fraud, admitting he defrauded the U.S. government out of nearly $200 million for his personal benefit.
Alexandria Sherrif's Office via AP - PHOTO: CIA Official Gold BarsDavid Rush was previously described by prosecutors as a "master manipulator" who used his clandestine position to amass millions worth of gold bars and luxury watches -- though the government prior to Tuesday's hearing was tight-lipped over the extent of his alleged deception and the total amount he sought to profit off his job.
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Oct 06, 2026
President Donald Trump said Monday night that he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for a multimillion-dollar pro-Trump ad blitz ahead of the midterm elections, saying his super PAC will now pay for them.
But he appears to have no plans to reimburse the federal government for funds already used on the ads, a White House official said Tuesday.
"The President's [social media post] was not referring to reimbursement," the official told ABC News.
While Trump dismissed criticism of the ads as "a rather standard thing to do," he posted Monday that he had decided to pay for them on his own dime.
"I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc," Trump wrote, referring to his super PAC.
Eric Lee/Reuters - PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks with media before boarding Marine One as he travels to Grand Island, Nebraska, on the South Lawn of the White House, Oct. 5, 2026.The move came after the U.S. government bankrolled a series of ads that aired nationally and heavily featured the president. One of the ads was a direct copy of a spot Trump's campaign ran in 2024.
A White House official confirmed to ABC News Monday night that MAGA Inc. will pay for ads moving forward but defended them as something previous administrations have used.
"Presidential Public service announcements are nothing new. Administrations of both parties have used public service announcements to explain policy and make the case for the nation's direction," the official said.
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Oct 06, 2026
More than 122,000 cases of Gatorade have been voluntarily recalled because they may contain undeclared food dyes, according to a Food and Drug Administration alert.
The recall affects 28-ounce bottles of four flavors of yellow and orange Gatorade sold in 37 states. They may be colored with synthetic food dyes, Yellow No. 6 and Yellow No. 5, or both, but the labels of the recalled products didn't properly disclose those ingredients.
While both dyes are legal for companies to use in food and beverage products, they have to be declared on labels because, in rare cases, they can cause allergic reactions, including hives, wheezing and asthma attacks.
The recall comes after PepsiCo — which makes Gatorade — announced in April 2025 that it would transition away from synthetic dyes in favor of natural ones. It's part of the company's efforts to comply with U.S. health officials' encouragement for food and beverage companies to stop using artificial coloring.
What products are affected? PepsiCo has issued a voluntary recall of cases of Gatorade Lemon Lime, Gatorade Lemon Lime Zero, Gatorade Orange and Gatorade Orange Zero. The products were shipped to more than three dozen states, including Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, North Dakota, New York and Texas.
The recall wa
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Oct 06, 2026
Supporters have launched an online campaign in recent weeks aimed at protecting the identity of a woman, identified as "Jane Doe," who alleges in a civil lawsuit that she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a Cornell University fraternity in 2024.
Jane Doe's lawyer says that the ex-Cornell student has received "multiple threats" in recent days aimed at exposing her real identity.
"There are people out there trying to track her down," Thomas Giuffra, who ?represents Jane Doe, told CNN's State of the Union on Sunday. "They said, 'We're gonna shut you up. You're gonna still get hurt by us. You're gonna pull this lawsuit out or we're gonna do something to hurt you even more.'
"The threats, the abuse to protect what's going on, the status quo — these guys are disgusting," Giuffra added.
Among those trying to identify Jane Doe is political commentator Michael Tracey, who publicly asked anyone with information about her identity to contact him and said he would publish her name and identifying details.
The possibility
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Oct 06, 2026
One day after a campus-wide alert notified students about a reported rape at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024, the school's police department received a tip from an anonymous caller saying that the Chi Phi's fraternity's leadership asked a potential witness to stay quiet because "the reputation of all involved and the frat would be ruined" if details of the incident spread across campus, according to the school records reviewed by ABC News.
Videos first obtained by ABC News showed that Cornell investigators in the following days began questioning witnesses about a potential coverup by the fraternity brothers.
"Chi Phi held a meeting essentially to get all of the men on the same page about what happened. I know for a fact there are group me messages about the situation," one female student told investigators.
'Jane Doe' solidarity posts flood social media after Cornell rape lawsuitThat student told investigators that the fraternity brothers described the incident as a "consensual orgy" but expressed concern that it "would be bad for [their] image."
The woman at the center of the case, an undergraduate student identified only as Jane Doe, originally made a complaint to campus police in November 2024, three weeks after the incident occurred, that she had been raped by 8-10 men at the Chi Phi fraternity house.
The case has now rocked the university and started conversations about
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Oct 06, 2026
BERKELEY, Calif. - After artificial intelligence safety advocates captured Washington's attention with dire warnings about the technology's power, the Trump administration and its allies embraced some of their suggestions, while moving to sideline the advocates themselves.
Battle lines have been drawn in recent days over part of an accord signed by President Donald Trump and AI chief executives last week: Who should audit AI companies' systems to ensure their technology behaves as intended.
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Leading AI companies - including OpenAI and Anthropic - have for years worked with a cluster of nonprofits concentrated in the Bay Area's AI safety community, which grew out of the effective altruism movement. But Trump's tech-world allies say the work of auditing AI should be taken on by America's largest consulting firms.
"In my view they should be professional auditors, not these NGOs," investor and former top White House AI adviser David Sacks said on his All-In podcast last week. He said in a post on X last month that the AI safety nonprofit METR, which has worked with Anthropic, was too close to the company to be called independent. Soon after, Anthropic said it would partner with consulting giant Accenture to build a team of outside evaluators.
At a conference here over the weekend, members of AI safety organizations grappled with the impact of what some see as a coordinated campaign to delegitimize their work and paint their community as cultish and unserious. The event took place at a former hotel po
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Oct 06, 2026
Thousands of people gathered at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday in support of "Jane Doe," the former student who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a fraternity in October 2024.
The "Justice for Survivors" rally was organized by over 20 student organizations who led a late afternoon march to Day Hall, which houses the university's administrative offices and had been vandalized by activists overnight.
Students, faculty, and residents from across the state took part in the protest calling for Cornell administrators to resign over their handling of the case.
"We are known as the rape school," Saya Taylor, a Cornell sophomore, said at the rally. "We can be known as leading a nationwide reform movement."
Demonstrators held signs accusing the Ivy League school of protecting the alleged rapists and demanding accountability.
"Jane Doe deserved a campus that supported her," Taylor said. "Jane Doe deserved an administration that delivered a fair and proper judicial process. Jane Doe deserved a police department that would actually follow up on her case. Instead, she was silenced."
Late Monday, the Cornell University faculty introduced a resolution declaring it has no confidence in the administration's ability to address the "ongoing crisis of sexual assault" on campus.
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Oct 06, 2026
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading last month in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty)The S&P 500 on Tuesday hit a record, as the index rose for a fourth straight day, supported by rising technology stocks, hopes for a positive earnings season, and a pause in oil's recent surge.
The broad-based closed higher by 0.58%, its first record closing high since Aug. 13. The Nasdaq Composite also jumped 0.45%. It also hit a record high for the second time this week.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq's gains were overwhelmingly powered by gains in tech companies, such as chipmakers Marvell and Broadcom.
Nvidia, the world's largest public company, also rose and moved closer to becoming the first company to ever reach $6 trillion in market value. Other trillion-dollar tech stocks also rose Tuesday. Microsoft, Amazon, SpaceX, Meta Platforms and Tesla shares all traded in the green.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote address at the GTC AI Conference in San Jose, Calif., last year. (Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty)Investors are also looking forward to the start of the third quarter's earnings season, which begins in earnest next week with the country's biggest banks reporting their results.
"Heading into the start of the earnings season, analysts and companies have been more optimistic than normal in their earnings
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Oct 06, 2026
The US trade deficit jumped to more than $100 billion in August as importers wrestled with a new round of President Trump's tariffs and continued to bring in billions of dollars' worth of components for AI data centers.
The total gap: $105.6 billion, a 13.8% increase from July's revised $92.8 billion deficit, the highest level since early 2025, when importers stocked up ahead of Trump's "Liberation Day" and a later four-month surge in imports that pushed average monthly trade deficits north of $120 billion.
Imports rose in August by 4.3%, compared with a 1.4% increase in exports. The US brought in $420.8 billion in total imports in August against $315.2 billion in exports.
In an analysis, Capital Economics said the "sharp rise in imports suggests third quarter GDP growth will be well below our current forecast of 4.0%," suggesting that the final annualized figure could be closer to 2.5%."
"The relatively broad-based rise in goods imports mean net trade was still a drag overall," the group added.
The new data released Tuesday by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis showed yet another pivot in global trade, covering the first month after a new phase of
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Oct 06, 2026
The $110 billion merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery closed on Tuesday after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last-minute effort to halt the deal.
The new company — known as Skydance — brings the HBO Max and Paramount streaming services under one umbrella, roughly seven months after Paramount won a long bidding war with Netflix (NFLX) for Warner Bros.
Skydance stock began trading on Tuesday under the symbol SKYD.
The merger faced plenty of pushback and a long road to closing. "The completed transaction unites two of media and entertainment's most storied companies, each with a history spanning more than a century, giving the combined business a rare legacy to build on," Skydance
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Oct 06, 2026
Communities with high birth and marriage rates could soon gain an advantage in securing federal transit money — a long-sought goal of the Trump administration but one that a top Democratic appropriator calls "bizarre and dystopian."
The Federal Transit Administration wants to revamp a multibillion-dollar program that helps state and local authorities fund infrastructure projects such as rail improvements and new bus lanes. Public feedback on the administration's plan, which was rolled out Oct. 1, is being accepted through mid-November.
The idea would fulfill a priority of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to steer grant money to parts of the country with birth and marriage rates higher than the national average, a policy initiative he unveiled shortly after being sworn into office early last year.
Under the transit proposal, the FTA would cover up to 10 percentage points more of a project's costs if an area's average birth and marriage rates meet, exceed or are just below nationwide thresholds.
"Moving forward, the federal government is focusing on smart, affordable projects with high ridership. If you want federal funding, your project needs to align with where communities and families are actually growing," the Transportation Department said in a statement.
But the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee had harsh words for the proposal.
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Oct 06, 2026
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday evening temporarily allowing the use of red-dyed diesel on public roads and deferring the federal excise tax on that fuel through the end of the year, a move aimed at lowering costs for truckers and farmers facing record-high diesel prices.
Red-dyed diesel is chemically the same product as standard highway diesel, but carries a red dye to mark it as off-road fuel — meaning it is not subject to the 24.4-cent-per-gallon federal excise tax that applies to diesel sold at the pump for road use, such as for tractors and heavy machinery. Using it in highway vehicles has been illegal, carrying penalties for tax evasion, according to CNBC.
According to the White House, the order instructs the Treasury Secretary to hold off on collecting federal excise taxes on highway use of dyed diesel between October 5 and December 31, 2026, and to do so without charging interest or imposing penalties. The Treasury is also directed to direct the Internal Revenue Service not to impose penalties for on-road use of dyed diesel during that period. The order further instructs officials to explore pathways, including legislation, to eliminate the deferred tax obligations entirely.
The White House projected that a trucker who tops off an 18-wheeler's tank with 250 gallons stands to save over $100 on a single fill-up, provided the trucker's state suspends its own diesel tax as well. On top of the federal levy, each state levies its own diesel excise tax, and those state-level taxes average out to 35.5 cents per gallon, according to CNN.
The order also directs the Secretary of Agriculture to coo
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Oct 06, 2026
The interior ministry said 86,000 had joined the protests, unions gave a higher figure (ROMEO BOETZLE)Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined high school students who for days have been demanding better learning conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations.
Students have blocked the entrances to hundreds of high schools for 15- to 17-year-olds since late September, complaining of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures.
Unions, rights groups and the children have accused the authorities of using disproportionate force -- a police stun grenade tore the hand off one teenager on Monday and another youngster had his teeth knocked out last week after police fired a grenade launcher at his head.
"I'm afraid for my future," Selma, 15, told AFP without giving her surname, among the thousands marching in the country's second largest city of Marseille.
The unrest has erupted with just months to go before the 2027 election to choose a successor to centrist President Emmanuel Macron, with far-right veteran candidate Marine Le Pen riding high in the polls despite a graft conviction.
"We just want to save our education and be educated," said Oceanne, 18, also at the protest in the southern port city.
She said she had suffered from absent teachers who were either not replaced or replaced by "pointless substitutes".
Another student held up a sign complaining of long hours at school.
"Timetables as packed as Le Pen's criminal record," it read, in a jab at the far-right presidential hopeful.
A major march was set to depart from central Paris in the early afternoon.
The interior ministr
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Oct 06, 2026
LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offense over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that authorities have linked to Iran.
The arrest is the seventh in connection with a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran during this year's war.
Five British men in their 20s were detained near the perimeter of the base in the early hours of Sept. 27, and a 25-year-old British-Iranian man was arrested in London on Thursday. All six have been released on bail under investigation.
Counter Terrorism Policing said a British national was detained Tuesday in the Westminster area of central London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said detectives "continue to pursue multiple lines of inquiry" and "remain committed to investigating all possible angles."
Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swooped on the rural area late at night. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans linked to the five suspects, but no explosives.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the United Kingdom saw "strong indications" that Iran played a part in the incident, without saying why or what the nature of the suspected plot was.
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Oct 06, 2026
Two injured crew members from one of the ships have been sent for treatment [Petko Momchilov / Reuters]
A civilian cargo ship has sunk and its crew is missing after being attacked by drones in the Black Sea, Bulgarian officials say.
A second vessel - carrying grain - was also hit within Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said. Its 18 crew were rescued.
Radev did not say who was behind the attacks, which come as Russia intensifies strikes in the Black Sea, particularly the eastern side, as part of its war against Ukraine.
Moscow has not commented on the latest incident, a day after it was accused by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of striking a civilian vessel carrying corn. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the attacks were "unacceptable".
Air and sea drones were involved in the attacks at about 03:00 (23:00 GMT), some 70 miles (112 km) off the coastal town of Byala in eastern Bulgaria, Radev said.
The sunken ship was flying under the flag of Togo, he said. Named the Alfa Watan, it was a Turkish-owned general cargo ship and was reportedly heading for Sulina, Romania.
It is not clear what the Alfa Watan was carrying or how many people were on board.
A Bulgarian vessel was close by, but when they arrived all they saw was an overturned boat and rafts as well as life jackets. A search operation has been launched.
Radev said Bulgarian sailors had rescue
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Oct 06, 2026
MOSCOW, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among people who had come ?into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died ?last week.
Authorities say the 28-year-old woman died on Friday from pneumonia of an as-yet unestablished origin, in ?a case that has prompted international concern, including from US President Donald Trump.
Rospotrebnadzor, the watchdog, said in a statement that no infectious diseases had been reported among the staff of the same plague research institute in Irkutsk over the past 10 ?days and that extensive testing ?had found no microorganisms in the deceased woman's body linked to her work.
Elena Sofina, deputy head of the Shelekhov district near Irkutsk, ?where a local hospital was placed under quarantine, said that what she called "a dangerous diagnosis" had not been confirmed.
She added that 60% of those placed under quarantine as ?a ?precaution had already been released. Local media ?said around 200 people had previously ?been quarantined.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov expressed appreciation for an offer of help on Monday from Trump, although without making clear if Moscow planned to accept it.
"It's always good when mutual assistance is offered," Peskov told reporters.
He said the public health watchdog was handling the situation and would provide further information as it became available.
Trump ?on Monday described the situation as a "big problem ?for Russia". US Secretary of State Marco ?Rubio said on Tuesday it was ?incumbent on Moscow to share more information.
World Health Organization spokesperson ?Christian Lindmeier said on Tuesday that Russian ?authorities had yet to ?officially respond to a WHO request for information about the death of the lab worker.
"All of the patient's contacts have been reportedly identified and ?are being monitored
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Oct 06, 2026
Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army major who killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X.
He added, "The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come."
The U.S. military has not carried out an execution since 1961 and has not used a firing squad to execute a service member since World War II.
The announcement of Trump's approval came days after a failed attempt to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection. The failed execution prompted Tennessee's governor to halt further executions this year and order a third-party review.
Asked whether the failed execution in Tennessee would lead him to seek changes to capital punishment, Trump called it "an interesting situation." He told reporters in Denton, Texas, that carrying out lethal injections "shouldn't be very difficult."
Trump's approval sets in motion a series of procedural steps toward carrying out Hasan's execution. But Hasan could put the process on hold — potentially for years — by filing a habeas corpus appeal challenging the leg
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Oct 06, 2026
The battle over Americans' clocks reemerged in an unlikely way over the weekend, with President Donald Trump picking a fight with one of his top allies over the issue.
There have been many fights in Congress over the nearly two years that Trump has been in office for his second term that either ended in partisan victory or gloriously fizzled out, but one has quietly gone onto the shelf despite his pressure on Republicans to do something about it.
And that fight is over allowing states to voluntarily observe daylight saving time year-round to effectively do away with the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks. It's a popular issue with voters and the president, and there's a bill that passed the House this summer to enact the change. But it's a policy issue that has divided both sides of the aisle and ground to a halt in the upper chamber.
Trump Urges Senate To Pass Bill Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent After Overwhelming House Vote
President Donald Trump wants to make daylight saving permanent, but a geographic coalition of northern versus southern states are in a heated debate over the merits of the change, which spells doom for the bill.Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has been one of the more vocal opponents of the bill, vowing to block any attempts to fast-track it on the floor. That resistance earned him a Truth Social p
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Oct 06, 2026
A statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland on August 6, 2026. - Christina House/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
Disney raised prices on many of its theme park offerings today, coinciding with the start of the company's new fiscal year. But consumers aren't pushing back the way they did a few years ago.
Disney's price hikes are an annual October ritual for the company, and it's always a tricky balancing act between increasing revenue and consumers' willingness to pay.
Many ticket types, passes and add-ons at Disneyland are not increasing at all this time. But premium products are getting more expensive, like the highest-level, skip-the-line service at Walt Disney World, which could now run just shy of the $500 mark during peak demand.
It's a reflection of the company's strategy: Spread the price boosts across different audiences, while leaving bottom-tier prices - like the slowest season, one-day, one-park tickets - unchanged.
Its theme parks strategy, Disney said, has evolved over time. Higher-priced premium products and add-ons, alongside targeted discounts and a refresh of older attractions, allowed the company this summer to generate the strongest parks and cruises revenue in two years.
The company kept entry-level prices stable this year, when many consumers are reigning in discretionary spending.
"Our goal is to put guests at the
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Oct 06, 2026
A statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland on August 6, 2026. - Christina House/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
Disney raised prices on many of its theme park offerings today, coinciding with the start of the company's new fiscal year. But consumers aren't pushing back the way they did a few years ago.
Disney's price hikes are an annual October ritual for the company, and it's always a tricky balancing act between increasing revenue and consumers' willingness to pay.
Many ticket types, passes and add-ons at Disneyland are not increasing at all this time. But premium products are getting more expensive, like the highest-level, skip-the-line service at Walt Disney World, which could now run just shy of the $500 mark during peak demand.
It's a reflection of the company's strategy: Spread the price boosts across different audiences, while leaving bottom-tier prices - like the slowest season, one-day, one-park tickets - unchanged.
Its theme parks strategy, Disney said, has evolved over time. Higher-priced premium products and add-ons, alongside targeted discounts and a refresh of older attractions, allowed the company this summer to generate the strongest parks and cruises revenue in two years.
The company kept entry-level prices stable this year, when many consumers are reigning in discretionary spending.
"Our goal is to put guests at the
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Oct 06, 2026
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau's policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.
Jill Fields, a former supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, made a formal whistleblower complaint to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders over the federal response to anti-ICE protest activity around federal buildings, as well as in a residential area, early last year.
Fields asked Congress and the Justice Department's watchdog to investigate the allegations, her attorneys said in a letter to lawmakers. She says they violated the First Amendment right to free speech and to peaceably assemble.
Fields says Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, told the head of the field office to open an investigation into activities outside the federal building even though, she says, the activities were protected free speech. Separately, she says the White House gave a directive to FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate a group of protesters using megaphones during immigration enforcement operations after FBI agents had conducted a check into the conduct and declined to open an investigation.
President Donald Trump had viewed a video of people using megaphones to alert residents about immigration activities, advise them of their legal rights and encourage them not to open their doors unless immigration enforcement agents had signed judicial warrants, according to the letter.
A person whose name is redacted in the complaint told Fields that an investigation would be opened because "the President wants this investigation," Fields' whistleblower complaint says.
The protests were staged across Los Angeles after the Trump adminis
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Oct 06, 2026
Oct 6 (Reuters) - Governments, courts and companies are considering restrictions and examining existing rules on smart glasses amid worries that the technology, ?brought to mainstream by Meta's Ray-Bans, could be used to photograph, film or ?audio-record confidential materials or people without their knowledge.
Here is a summary of what countries and regions ?are doing to protect people's privacy, in alphabetical order.
AUSTRALIA
The federal government said in September it was considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces due to privacy and security concerns.
Public Service Minister Katy Gallagher asked the country's Public ?Service Commission for advice on ?whether their use should be prohibited and what exemptions might be required.
BRITAIN
Courts in England and Wales have prohibited the use ?of Meta smart glasses because of restrictions on taking images and videos in courts.
British cinema operators are also introducing policies to prohibit or restrict camera-enabled smart glasses, the ?UK ?Cinema Association said in August.
EUROPEAN UNION
Smart glasses ?have attracted scrutiny from European privacy ?regulators and some lawmakers, and the European Data Protection Board has commissioned a report into their "social acceptability".
Member of the European Parliament Veronika Cifrová Ostrihonová also urged the European Commission, which has not proposed legislation specifically targeting smart glasses, to consider possible action.
NORWAY
The government said it planned to propose a temporary ban on the ?use of AI glasses in places where the ?public regularly gather, such as parks, beaches, museums, ?shopping centres and public events.
Norway's ?capital Oslo banned smart glasses in schools in August.
UNITED STATES
New ?York's Unified Court System banned smart glasses ?from all its
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Oct 06, 2026
Christa Pike remains unconscious and critically ill after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her last week, her lawyer said, and doctors do not yet know whether she will recover.
"We don't know the prognosis and may not know for several days," attorney Stephen Ferrell said on CNN's State of the Union. Ferrell said he has not been allowed to see her and doesn't know of her speaking or regaining consciousness.
"I think at the very least the governor should commute Ms. Pike's death sentence to a life sentence," Ferrell added. "We don't know what her physical state will be, but it is clear that she has endured a torturous attempt at executing her."
On Monday, Ferrell reiterated his calls to CBS Mornings, saying: "The least that could happen now is that we at least take death off the table and start looking for what the future could be for her." He said it was not clear when Pike would be able to participate in any legal process were she to recover.
The failed execution led to Gov. Bill Lee announcing on Saturday that Tennessee's top prison official is stepping down.
In a statement, Correction Commissioner Frank Strada said resigning was "in the best interest of Tennesseans" while an independent review examines what happened on Sept. 30, when Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital.
Strada said he still believes the state "carried out its responsibilities in accordance with the established protoco
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Oct 06, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the devout Catholic conservative who has long warned of animus against religion in America, says in a new book that he believes the court's landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty."
Alito, who dissented sharply in the 2015 case, made the claim at Catholic University of America three years after Obergefell v Hodges in a speech that was not open to the public or widely covered at the time. The remarks were published this month in "So Ordered," a collection of Alito speeches that he says reflect his judicial philosophy and outlook on the country.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo - PHOTO: Associate Justice Samuel Alito stands in his chambers at the Supreme Court during an Associated Press interview, in Washington, Sept. 29, 2026. Seven of the 19 Alito speeches published in the book were delivered to Catholic groups.
"In dissent from that ruling," he said in the 2018 address, "I expressed my worry that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry -- or, if you like, with dignitary harm -- would drive believers out of public life."
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Oct 06, 2026
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at Butler High School in Vandalia, Ohio, on Sunday. (Mark Schiefelbein / AP)Republicans are swamping House and Senate races with an unprecedented flood of late ad spending as the party tests whether hundreds of millions of dollars can buy it some reprieve from the eroding political environment that's threatening longtime Republican states and districts.
Since the start of September, Republicans have made more than $700 million worth of new advertising bookings in congressional races alone, according to an NBC News analysis of data from AdImpact, a political ad-tracking firm. That's new money on top of what had already been committed to those races in ad reservations made over the summer.
By comparison, Democrats booked more than $430 million in new ad reservations across those races last month.
The disparity is greatest in the battle for the Senate majority, where almost 7 of every 10 newly booked advertising dollars are coming from Republicans. That's led by a massive, late investment in the Senate race in Texas, where Democrat James Talarico is threatening a longtime Republican seat and the GOP has poured in almost $150 million in new ad dollars to back up its nominee, Ken Paxton.
The gap is smaller in the House, where a bit less than 6 in 10 of those new ad dollars are coming from the GOP.
Democrats still have a number of advantages in their corner, including President Donald Trump and his party's eroding standing among voters, Democrats' own well-funded candidates, and help from outside groups. Candidates can take advantage of a rule that allows them to buy television ads at cheaper rates than outside groups, too.
But the color of the
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Oct 06, 2026
After reports that a lab technician's death was possibly linked to pneumonic plague in Russia, U.S. officials said they are closely watching the situation.
The lab technician is a 28-year-old woman who worked at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, which was set up in the 1930s as an anti-plague body and later expanded its scope to other highly dangerous diseases. The woman died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of "unknown" origin, according to the public health agency, Rospotrebnadzor.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday morning that Russian officials had shared some information about an infected lab worker and their concerns that other Russians could be affected.
"There's very limited travel between the U.S. and Russia, obviously, but … if something like that gets out, it could quickly spread," said Rubio, who added that he didn't think it was cause for alarm. "We're watching and monitoring it closely."
Here's what to know about the pneumonic plague.
Is this like the bubonic plague?The main clinical forms of plague are bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic.
All forms - caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis - are treatable, particularly when detected early.
Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague globally, according to the World Health
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Oct 06, 2026
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that scientists believe offer clues to how the universe evolved.
"It was a great surprise and I obviously didn't expect it," Halzen said, speaking to the committee by phone from Italy, in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce the winner.
Halzen said it was predicted before that he would win the Nobel Prize but the announcement still made him feel "strange."
"I'm working on a proposal and I hope winning this will help getting it approved," he said to chuckles from the audience.
Halzen paved the way for a new kind of astronomy
The Nobel Committee for Physics also said Halzen's work was instrumental to the construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.
"Francis Halzen realized that the ice at the South Pole could visualize these neutrino messengers from cosmos," committee member Eva Olsson said during the news conference. "People joined him in the quest for these neutrino messengers. The messenger is bringing information from cosmos. They opened the door to distant galaxies and tell us about the processes of exploding stars."
Born in Belgium, the 82-year-old scientist is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S, which operates the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Efforts by The Associated Press to reach him were not immediately successful.
Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with a mind-bogglingly small mass. Yet they are everywhere: they spew from stars like the sun and trillions zip through our bodies every second.
Scientists can't glimpse the mysterious g
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Oct 06, 2026
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful "The PTL Club" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.
Bakker died Monday, his second wife, Lori Bakker, said in a statement. His cause of death was not immediately clear.
"He was a pioneer of Christian television, but to me, he was my husband, my best friend, and the man I was honored to walk beside through so many seasons of life and ministry," she said.
The pair lived near the Missouri entertainment town of Branson and filmed their TV show "The Jim Bakker Show" there since it launched in 2003. Bakker suffered a stroke in 2020.
But it was another evangelical program that made Jim and his first wife Tammy Faye Bakker cultural icons — so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and 1990s by late-night comedians and parodied on "Saturday Night Live." A theatrical movie on their lives, "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," was released in September 2021.
At its peak in the mid-1980s, the Bakkers' ministry included not only the TV show drawing up to 13 million nightly viewers but also the Christian-based Heritage USA theme park and hotel in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Bakker got his start as a traveling preacher
Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and attended North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, where he met Tammy Faye. They married in 1961 and dropped out of college to start their own traveling ministry — he preached, she sang and played the accordion as they crossed the country visiting churches and tent revivals.
They caught the attention of televangelist Pat Robertson, and in 1965 launched a children's show on Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. By 1966, he was hosting "The 700 Club," a Christian talk show.
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Oct 06, 2026
Speaking at a midterm-election rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, Trump discussed higher gasoline prices resulting from the conflict and argued that Americans should accept the economic impact.
"They can take out a city. Let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay," Trump said, adding that the war was nearly over and describing the costs as "a small price to pay for keeping the world safe."
— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) October 6, 2026
Los Angeles and San Diego are California's two largest Southern California metropolitan areas and together are home to millions of residents, major military installations, international trade hubs and critical economic infrastructure.
The remarks quickly circulated online, drawing sharp condemnation from California officials who accused the president of treating millions of Californians as expendable.
Gov. Gavin Newsom responded on social media by linking Trump's remarks to the administration's recent deployments of federal forces into California.
"After sending the National Guard and Marines to occupy California, Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should 'take out' Los Angeles and San Dieg
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Oct 05, 2026
President Donald Trump said Monday night that he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for a multimillion-dollar pro-Trump ad blitz ahead of the midterm elections, saying his super PAC will now pay for them.
While he dismissed criticism of the ads as "a rather standard thing to do," he said he had decided to run them on his own dime rather than that of the U.S. government in a post on his social media platform.
"I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc," Trump wrote, referring to his super PAC.
Eric Lee/Reuters - PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks with media before boarding Marine One as he travels to Grand Island, Nebraska, on the South Lawn of the White House, Oct. 5, 2026.The move comes after the U.S. government bankrolled a series of ads that aired nationally and heavily featured the president. One of the ads was a direct copy of a spot Trump's campaign ran in 2024.
A White House official confirmed to ABC News Monday night that MAGA Inc. will pay for ads moving forward but defended them as something previous administrations have used.
"Presidential Public service announcements are nothing new. Administrations of both parties have used public service announcements to explain policy and make the case for the nation's direction," the official said.
Trump defends spending millions on taxpayer-funded promotional ads: 'For the country'Earlier Monday
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Oct 05, 2026
President Donald Trump said Monday night that he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for a multimillion-dollar pro-Trump ad blitz ahead of the midterm elections, saying his super PAC will now pay for them.
While he dismissed criticism of the ads as "a rather standard thing to do," he said he had decided to run them on his own dime rather than that of the U.S. government in a post on his social media platform.
"I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc," Trump wrote, referring to his super PAC.
Eric Lee/Reuters - PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks with media before boarding Marine One as he travels to Grand Island, Nebraska, on the South Lawn of the White House, Oct. 5, 2026.The move comes after the U.S. government bankrolled a series of ads that aired nationally and heavily featured the president. One of the ads was a direct copy of a spot Trump's campaign ran in 2024.
A White House official confirmed to ABC News Monday night that MAGA Inc. will pay for ads moving forward but defended them as something previous administrations have used.
"Presidential Public service announcements are nothing new. Administrations of both parties have used public service announcements to explain policy and make the case for the nation's direction," the official said.
Trump defends spending millions on taxpayer-funded promotional ads: 'For the country'Earlier Monday
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Oct 05, 2026
Thune's comments, made to Politico, come days after President Donald Trump appeared to give out Sen. Tom Cotton's phone number amid the senator's objections to the bill.
"The president feels strongly on it like he does a lot of issues," Thune told Politico. "It's something we're having conversations about, but there's no clear path forward or consensus on it yet."
When to set your clocks back. The 2026 daylight saving time start, end
In July, the House of Representatives voted to allow states to enact year-round daylight saving time, but the bill has stalled in the Senate. Cotton emerged as one of the leaders of the opposition to the Sunshine Protection Act.
During an October 2025 Senate floor speech, Cotton pointed to when daylight saving was briefly made permanent by Congress in 1974 a
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Oct 05, 2026
Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration at Cornell.Photograph: Olga Fedorova/EPA
Mass protests erupted at Cornell University on Monday, with students criticizing officials' handling of gang-rape allegations, demanding the president's resignation and painting "SMASH THE PATRIARCHY" on an administration building.
Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration, sparked by the high-profile case of a former student known as Jane Doe, who said in a recent lawsuit that she was plied with drugs and raped at a fraternity house in 2024. The case has prompted international outrage and intense scrutiny of college fraternities and sexual violence on US campuses.
Protesters shouted, "Ban the frats" and held signs saying, "At Cornell, rapists are safer than women" and "Stop rape culture." Some demonstrators directed their anger at Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell's president, arguing he had failed to keep students safe and chanting, "Kotlikoff, resign!"
The demonstration took place after some students had smashed a glass door at the entrance of Day Hall, a building that houses
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Oct 05, 2026
By Jarrett Renshaw and Kanishka Singh
GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, Oct 5 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to expand access to tax-exempt diesel that ?he unveiled from a rally stage in Nebraska.
High diesel prices, which shot to a ?record of about $6.50 a gallon last month, are a risk to Trump ahead of the November 3 midterm US elections ?in which control of Congress is at stake. Trump's Republican Party currently holds a narrow majority in the Senate and House of Representatives.
Prices for the fuel integral to trucking goods have risen in response to the US-Israeli war on Iran and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the conflicts having led to ?attacks on refineries in the Middle ?East and Russia.
Trump said the directive will waive the off-road requirement for tax-free diesel and allow anyone to buy the red dye diesel fuel that ?is used by the agriculture industry and by some off-road vehicles.
"We are not going to need it long, I hope," Trump said of the waiver.
The order released by the White House directs the treasury secretary, in ?consultation ?with the Pentagon chief, "to defer payment of the federal ?excise tax imposed for on-road use of ?dyed diesel fuel for the remainder of the year without interest or penalties, and to explore pathways to eliminate the obligation to pay the deferred taxes."
It also directs the US agriculture secretary to "ensure farmers' access to dyed diesel in high-demand areas" while asking the transportation secretary to coordinate with states, industry leadership, and labor organizations on access to dyed diesel.
G7 countries announced last week that they ?would release 100 million barrels of diesel, after pressure ?from Trump who had considered banning US exports of the ?fuel. But it was not clear how ?much of that release would be entirely new supplies or compliance with a ?global agreement in March.
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Oct 05, 2026
Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews speaks at the Spratt Issues Conference in Florence, S.C., on Aug. 22. (Sean Rayford / Getty)President Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur Monday to attack the Democratic nominee for the Senate in South Carolina as he urged voters to back Republican Sen. Darline Graham.
In a Truth Social post, Trump referred to Democratic candidate Annie Andrews three times as "trannie." He said Andrews, who is not transgender, is "not for South Carolina."
"And South Carolina must show, in the upcoming Election, that it is not for her," Trump added.
Andrews responded by largely ignoring the insult, saying in a statement first shared with NBC News that she will "work with anyone to put South Carolina first."
"As a mom and a pediatrician, I'm in this race to fight for my patients, my three kids, and South Carolina," Andrews said, adding that "lowering costs and making life better for families across our state is going to take all of us working together."
"If you care more about your bills than the politics in Washington, this campaign is for you," she said.
Graham's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the post by Trump, who often uses insulting nicknames for politicians and officials he dislikes.
Reached for comment on why Trump used the slur, the White House referred NBC News to his social media post.
The Human Right
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Oct 05, 2026
Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced. "He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar' during the attack.
"The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution," he continued. "Judgement day for Hasan has finally come."
If Hasan's execution is indeed carried out by a firing squad, it would mark the first such case for the service since Jan. 31, 1945, when Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad in France for desertion during World War II.
The last death sentence carried out by the U.S. military was in 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was executed by hanging at the gallows in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after he was convicted of raping and attempting to kill a young girl.
Hasan, who was born in northern Virginia, walked into a Fort Hood readiness processing center on Nov. 5, 2009, and opened fire using a semi-automatic handgun.
Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier.
Former Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler, a two-time combat veter
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Oct 05, 2026
Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced. "He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar' during the attack.
"The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution," he continued. "Judgement day for Hasan has finally come."
If Hasan's execution is indeed carried out by a firing squad, it would mark the first such case for the service since Jan. 31, 1945, when Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad in France for desertion during World War II.
The last death sentence carried out by the U.S. military was in 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was executed by hanging at the gallows in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after he was convicted of raping and attempting to kill a young girl.
Hasan, who was born in northern Virginia, walked into a Fort Hood readiness processing center on Nov. 5, 2009, and opened fire using a semi-automatic handgun.
Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier.
Former Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler, a two-time combat veter
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Oct 05, 2026
Christa Pike, the death row inmate who last week survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her, remained hospitalized on a ventilator Monday, according to her attorney.
He said it was still unclear whether Pike would regain consciousness but urged the state to "take death off the table" by commuting her sentence, renewing an earlier request that the governor denied before her botched lethal injection.
"The least that could happen now is that we at least take death off the table and start looking for what the future could be for her," attorney Steve Ferrell, of the Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, told "CBS Mornings."
Ferrell added that he and the rest of Pike's legal team were "certainly willing to discuss that with the governor, with whoever could make that decision."
He told "CBS Mornings" that, although Pike was alive, her condition was considered critical and hospital staff continued to work to clear her body of the lethal drug pentobarbital. Even if she were to wake up, her future would be uncertain, he added.
"It may still be a long time before she's able to participate in the legal process," said Ferrell.
However, in hopes of preventing the possibility of Tennessee trying to execute Pike a second time, which is historically what has happened to inmates who've survived botched execution attempts, he said Pike's legal team would push for the state to commute her death sentence to life in prison.
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Oct 05, 2026
An activist is seen retrieving a bucket from the tree sitter in the "grandmother" cottonwood tree on Sept. 24. - (Cassidy Araiza/For The Washington Post)LOCHIEL, Ariz. — For more than two months, activists sat high up in the branches of a giant cottonwood tree here on the border with Mexico in an effort to block federal contractors from knocking it down to make way for President Donald Trump's $46.5 billion border wall expansion.
But that standoff came to an end Monday when demonstrators say more than 50 Customs and Border Protection agents raided the activist camp and an excavator knocked down what they called a "grandmother" tree, estimated to be 150 to 250 years old.
Footage taken by protesters shows the massive tree crashing down as border agents look on, and the activists who worked to protect it wail.
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"We have been raided, assaulted, battered, bruised, bleeding by the Border Patrol agents," said Kate Scott, an activist who kicked off the group's tree sit, in a call following Monday's raid. As CBP cleared the area, about 10 people were arrested, the group of activists estimates, and another 10 received citations, including for "violation of a closure order" for being in the border-wall zone.
At least one activist showed images of scrapes and bandages on a Monday video call.
Customs and Border Protection previously identified cottonwood trees on federal land in Lochiel "that
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Oct 05, 2026
President Trump said Monday he will start paying for the pro-Trump ads that have blanketed the airwaves in recent weeks with money raised by his super PAC, after his administration drew intense pushback for using public funds on the ads.
"The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money," the president wrote on Truth Social. "This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc."
Emblazoned with the message "Paid for by the U.S. Government," the ads began popping up late last month on national cable and broadcast networks, including CBS, as the November midterm elections approach.
Several variations have aired, including one that features a recording of Mr. Trump saying, "We will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America," as photos of the president flash across the screen. Another recounts the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
CBS News reported last month that there are multiple versions of the ads. The U.S. government produced the content and paid for the airtime through an ad agency.
The Department of Homeland Security awarded LMD Agency $20 million for a "National Media Campaign" starting on Sept. 20, contracting records show. A day earlier, the White House Office of Management a
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Oct 05, 2026
CHICAGO (WGN) — A Chicago woman who was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz filed a lawsuit against the federal government Monday, calling for more action against the agent who shot her.
Marimar Martinez said the encounter with Border Patrol agents happened in Oct. 2025. She was allegedly heading to church to drop off clothing donations when she noticed immigration officers on her street.
"For the next 15 to 20 minutes, I followed these Border Patrol agents through my neighborhood, honking my horn, shouting out ‘La Migra,'" Martinez said while testifying on Capitol Hill in Feb.
Martinez said the driver of the Border Patrol vehicle she was following made eye contact with her before swerving into and hitting her truck.
"I drove forward and went around the Border Patrol agent who jumped out of his car and pointed his gun at me. I moved to the far-left lane, striking the curb on the far-left side of Kedzie (Avenue). The next thing I knew, I felt a burning sensation in my arms and legs," Martinez said. "As I continued trying to drive past the Border Patrol agents, I could hear my back passenger window shatter, and I felt bullets continue to pierce my body."
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Oct 05, 2026
President Donald Trump said the US was ready to help Russia with the reported plague case (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)Russia on Monday sought to downplay reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, even as President Donald Trump said Washington was closely monitoring the situation and offered US help.
Reports on Friday that pneumonic plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm.
"We're looking at it very strongly, we just heard about it," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked what Washington was going to do about the risk of plague coming from Russia.
"We'll help them, we'll help them as much as we can."
The Russian news outlet People of Baikal, citing unnamed sources close to the regional security services, said the dead woman may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube.
Other media reported a possible link between her death and a lab accident at the facility.
As many as 200 people with whom she may have had contact were under quarantine, the People of Baikal outlet added, without elaborating.
But Russian officials stressed that postmortem tests had not detected the disease.
Irkutsk Regional Governor Igor Kobzev said Monday that a special expert commission inspection in the region had found that "the cause of death was pneumonia of undetermined aetiology".
He said on Telegram that Russia's consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor had determined, following tests, that "no microorganisms linked to the young woman's professional work were found in her biological samples".
He added that there had been "no new cases of staff from the anti-plague institute seeking medical attention" since t
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Oct 05, 2026
By Kate Holton and Steve Holland
LONDON/WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Monday that a threat linked to Iran had prompted the removal of American B-1 bombers from a British airbase.
The planes had been stationed at RAF Fairford, the preferred European base for US bombers, and had recently been used in US strikes on Iran. Last week, five British ?men were arrested near the base — which Iran's Revolutionary Guards previously said was a legitimate target — on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
"We had an idea that there might be a threat, and why ?would I leave them there? It costs very little money to move them," Trump told reporters on Monday. "So we had a threat, and if we're going to be threatened, we just move them, and that sort of alleviates that. And we actually know the people ?that made the threat."
When asked if they were linked to Iran, Trump responded: "They would be linked to Iran."
Earlier on Monday, Vice President JD Vance said the US moved the bombers out of an abundance of caution.
"We do feel with some confidence that the Iranians are, you know, they're trying to do what the Iranian state has done for 49 years, which is engaged in acts of terrorism against the United States (and others), so we are being extremely cautious, and that's all I'd say about that," Vance told reporters.
However, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was no direct link between the sudden removal of the bombers and the suspected Iranian plot. He said the Pentagon is "constantly reallocating resources where ?they need to be."
A NATO military source had said on Monday: "It is still ?believed that Iran poses an acute threat to US assets in the UK."
While much about the incident remains unexplained, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said any plot was likely backed by Iran.
Iran has said accusations that it was involved in any plot are
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Oct 05, 2026
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped by almost 800,000 barrels last week, and the Trump administration moved forward with plans to sell another 40 million barrels in the coming months.
New data released on Monday by the US Department of Energy showed the US energy backstop sitting at 283 million barrels, down from 283.77 million the week prior.
That leaves about two weeks of US oil consumption in the reserve amid widespread worries about global stockpiles, which the head of Saudi Arabia's state producer on Monday called "scarily thin."
Amin Nasser, chief executive of Saudi Aramco, added at an Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Monday that releasing stockpiles will buy economies some time but won't fix the imbalances that have developed between supply and demand.
Yet these withdrawals in the US could soon accelerate after the Trump administration unveiled a request for bids from companies to buy up to 40 million barrels of crude oil from the SPR, with the aim of having the companies return those supplies "with additional premium barrels." The solicitation process is ongoing, and it's unclear if companies will agree to those terms.
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Oct 05, 2026
An Ohio man who was found guilty of murdering his wife and staging the crime scene to make it seem as if an intruder had broken into their home and fatally shot the mother of two was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
Caleb Flynn, 40, a former pastor who once appeared as a contestant on "American Idol" in 2013, was found guilty of aggravated murder and multiple counts of murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of his wife, 37-year-old Ashley Flynn.
Judge Jeannine Pratt called the former pastor's actions "abhorrent" and "quite honestly impossible to fathom."
Caleb Flynn called 911 early on Feb. 16 to report that his wife had been shot by an intruder at their home in Tipp City, north of Dayton. He was arrested three days later. Prosecutors alleged that Caleb Flynn "executed" his wife by shooting her twice in the back of the head in bed so that he could be with his mistress and manipulated the crime scene to make it seem as if an intruder had broken in through the garage.
Pool via ABC News - PHOTO: Caleb Flynn appears for his sentencing in the Miami County Court of Common Pleas, Oct. 5, 2026, in Troy, Ohio.Pratt said that after considering the evidence in the case, there is "one clear and obvious conclusion" -- that Caleb Flynn poses the "highest risk" of harm to the public -- and admonished the "layers of deceit, manipulation and cruelty" that he has shown.
"You could have walked away. You cou
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Oct 05, 2026
When it comes to the battle for control of the U.S. Senate, Republicans are mostly playing defense. The lion's share of the races that will decide which party secures a majority in November are in red states — including Texas, Iowa and Ohio — where the GOP is hoping to hold on against ascendant Democratic challengers.
Minnesota is one of the few states in the country where the party is in a position to go on offense and potentially turn a blue seat red.
In pursuit of that goal, the GOP has put its hopes in Michele Tafoya, a former sports broadcaster and NFL sideline reporter turned politician who polls suggest has a real chance of winning in a state that has been dominated by Democrats in recent election cycles.
Tafoya is running for the seat currently held by Democrat Tina Smith, who is not pursuing re-election. Instead her opponent will be Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flannagan, a progressive who supports policies like Medicare for All and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Minnesota has been at the center of some of the biggest controversies of President Trump's second term, particularly his administration's sweeping immigration crackdown. Though a majority of Minnesotans disapprove of Trump's performance as president, Tafoya has steadily chipped away at Flanagan's lead in polls since the primary.
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Oct 05, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the "biggest regret of my career" and that he also "should've stopped" Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming Health and Human Services secretary in the early days of President Donald Trump's second term.
In "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents," to be published Tuesday, the North Carolina senator defends his decision at the time to not be "the lone voice in the wilderness" preventing Trump's nominees from confirmation. But Tillis makes clear he was always skeptical of allegations about Hegseth's turbulent management style, treatment of women and excessive drinking. Hegseth denied all the allegations.
"I know for a fact that there are others like me," Tillis writes, "Republicans who agreed to go along with the early demands of the Trump team no matter how ridiculous they were, believing that failing to do so would mean the end of their political career, and who now see that things have gone way too far."
He writes that he can count at least 30 of his GOP colleagues who have "expressed reservations (to put it mildly) about many of the president's actions in private. Then, when the reporters showed up with their cameras and microphones, they'd have nothing but nice things to say."
Tillis, who announced last year that he would not run for reelection in a "breaking point" with the president on his sweeping
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Oct 05, 2026
An expedition began on Oct. 2 as researchers left Purdue University on a mission that hopes to find the lost plane of aviator Amelia Earhart, who went missing along with her navigator Fred Noonan in 1937.
Three members of the Taraia Object expedition, a joint effort among the Indiana-based university, Purdue's Archaeological Legacy Institute and the Purdue Research Foundation, then traveled from Los Angeles to meet others in the 17-person team. Next, they'll travel to Fiji and Kiribati in the South Pacific in search of the Lockheed Electra 10-E flown by Earhart nearly 90 years ago.
On Oct. 7, the entire group will travel to Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific island between Australia and Hawaii, where a popular theory suggests Earhart and Noonan landed after failing to complete their journey to circle the globe at the equator.
"I am feeling very confident about this," lead archaeologist Richard Pettigrew previously told USA TODAY. "I'm pumped."
The search, one of countless efforts to locate the lost aviator since her disappearance, centers around the "Taraia object," a visual anomaly discovered through satellite imagery in the island's lagoon.
The search through the years: Amelia Earhart vanished in 1937. New evidence could find her plane.
The mission, originally set for October 2025, was delayed due to weather conditions. Permission from Kiribati's government was also a factor; Kiribati is the island nation that controls Nikumaroro, and has now allowed the mission to proceed.
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Oct 05, 2026
Several Supreme Court Justices appeared skeptical Monday of a request from oil companies to preemptively block a climate change lawsuit that could hold them liable for climate damages.
Many of the justices raised questions about the court's ability to even take up the case at this time.
"A number of the discussions that you've had with my colleagues make me think that we're really early in this case - that this is sort of premature from the standpoint of this court exercising its jurisdiction," liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told Suncor Energy lawyer Kannon Shanmugam.
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Oct 05, 2026
The woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a Cornell University fraternity in October 2024 told one of the accused men in a recorded phone call weeks later that she was "10 shots deep" when she arrived at the Chi Phi house and was now struggling to remember what had caused "so much damage on my body and brain."
"The only way for me to heal is to know what happened," the woman, identified as "Jane Doe" in a civil lawsuit, said during a Nov. 7, 2024, call, according to audio obtained by ABC News. "That's why I'm trying to just piece it together, you know, like I'm just like confused."
During the call, the Chi Phi fraternity member told her that she consented to having a threesome with him and another fraternity brother.
He also insisted that Jane Doe had told him she had not been drinking when she showed up.
"You did tell me you were sober, by the way," he said. "You said you hadn't been anywhere."
"That is not true. I never would have said that," she replied.
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Oct 05, 2026
A British Airways Boeing 777 similar to the one used for the Chicago flight. (John Keeble / Getty)LONDON — A British Airways passenger jet flying from London to Chicago descended 28,000 feet in just seven minutes after declaring an emergency due to an unspecified "technical issue," the airline said Monday.
The Boeing 777 took off at 12:15 p.m. local time (7:15 a.m. ET) but started descending just 30 minutes later while flying over Ireland, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
The plane turned around and spent around four hours zigzagging over the Bristol Channel, a waterway to the west of England, before landing back at London Heathrow Airport at 5 p.m. local time (noon ET).
"The aircraft landed safely after our highly-trained pilots returned to Heathrow following a technical issue," British Airways said in an emailed statement. "Customers disembarked the aircraft normally and our teams are working to get their travel plans back on track as quickly as possible."
Heathrow did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Passengers will likely be put up in hotels by the airline until another flight can be arranged, as stipulated by the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority.
Britain's National Air Traffic
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Oct 05, 2026
Former Army secretary Dan Driscoll has given his first interview since resigning from the Pentagon in September after clashing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Driscoll is just one of a series of high profile departures since Hegseth took over, with the secretary carrying out a purge so substantial it reportedly even raised President Donald Trump's concerns.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Driscoll acknowledged the pair had disagreements on a number of issues, without going into specifics.
"Once he makes a decision, there's nothing I can do about it. I don't have to like it," he said of Hegseth. "But I think it's unfair to describe our relationship so flatly - that every interaction was bad, or that we disagreed on everything.
"If you polled us, we probably agreed on more than 50 percent of things. What's been reported is all the things we disagree on.
"I'll never talk about our private conversations but we were both very passionate about our positions, and I would advocate as strongly as I possibly could - knowing I'm talking to my boss, and the final decision-maker."
Former Army secretary Dan D
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Oct 05, 2026
The Supreme Court began its latest term on Monday with a docket full of high-stakes cases that touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including guns, voting and transgender rights.
This will be the second full term for the nation's highest court since President Trump returned to the White House. The previous term, which wrapped up in June, was packed with landmark rulings in a long list of major cases, including Trump's tariffs, birthright citizenship and a slate of key immigration decisions.
The justices will likely take on additional cases over the course of the term, but there are already plenty of pivotal cases for the court to consider in the coming months.
Here's a rundown of the big cases headed to the Supreme Court this term and what their eventual rulings might mean for the country.
GunsOver the past two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions that have significantly expanded gun rights. It could go even further next term when it considers whether laws banning certa
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Oct 05, 2026
The Supreme Court began its latest term on Monday with a docket full of high-stakes cases that touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including guns, voting and transgender rights.
This will be the second full term for the nation's highest court since President Trump returned to the White House. The previous term, which wrapped up in June, was packed with landmark rulings in a long list of major cases, including Trump's tariffs, birthright citizenship and a slate of key immigration decisions.
The justices will likely take on additional cases over the course of the term, but there are already plenty of pivotal cases for the court to consider in the coming months.
Here's a rundown of the big cases headed to the Supreme Court this term and what their eventual rulings might mean for the country.
GunsOver the past two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions that have significantly expanded gun rights. It could go even further next term when it considers whether laws banning certa
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Oct 05, 2026
A school bus filled with children rolled over in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning in central Florida, killing two and injuring multiple others, according to authorities.
The bus was traveling to a high school and carrying 39 passengers, including 37 high schoolers, the bus driver and the driver's 9-year-old daughter, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference Monday morning.
Two people died in the crash, including a tenth-grade girl on the bus and an individual in a Jeep involved in the crash, Judd said.
WFTV - PHOTO: A school bus filled with children flipped over on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, in Winter Haven, Fla.Five to seven trauma alerts were issued and multiple people are being treated at the hospital, including one in critical condition, according to Judd.
The crash occurred in Winter Haven, Florida, and was reported at about 6:15 a.m. on Monday, according to authorities.
A preliminary review of video footage shows that the school bus was driving in its lane when a white Chevy Malibu traveling the opposite direction drifted over the center line for unknown reasons, hitting the bus, Judd said. This caused the bus to crash into a silver Jeep head-on, he said.
10 injured after car crashes into crowd of rugby fans lining street in Australia; driver arrestedAnother vehicle was involved, bringing the total to four vehicles impacted by the crash, officials said.
"It was a horrible crash," Judd said. "It was a terrible, tragic morning."
Emergency helicopters flew some victims to the hospital, while others left in ambulances or private vehicles, accordi
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Oct 05, 2026
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung
WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court opened its new nine-month term on Monday by hearing a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to thwart a lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms ?caused by climate change.
US-based Exxon and Canada-based Suncor appealed after the Colorado Supreme Court let Boulder's lawsuit accusing them of state law violations ?proceed. President Donald Trump's administration has backed Exxon and Suncor, arguing that the federal government's authority to regulate air pollution precludes Boulder's claims.
"This case involves an unprecedented effort to use state law to ?regulate global conduct," Kannon Shanmugam, a lawyer for the oil companies, told the justices.
Boulder is suing the oil companies under Colorado law, Shanmugam added, "on the theory that their global conduct increased the global use of fossil fuels, which led to an increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, which contributed to global climate change, which resulted in global harms."
"Our constitutional system does not permit state law to be used in that manner. The Constitution bars the application of state law to certain inherently federal areas," Shanmugam said.
"Because ?of the ambient nature of air and water and ?the conflicting rights of states, this court has held for over a century that federal law governs interstate pollution claims. That principle applies with even greater force to claims involving global climate change," Shanmugam said.
Arguments were ongoing in the case.
The top US ?judicial body opened its new term on the first Monday in October, as is its custom. It also has major cases involving Trump's hardline immigration policies and state-level bans on assault-style rifles, among others, lined up for the term.
Boulder's city and county governments have accused Exxon and Suncor
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Oct 05, 2026
Washington — Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84.
Both the longest-serving Republican House speaker and the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, Hastert's stunning fall from grace came in 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover up his sexual abuse of teenage boys during his time as a high school wrestling coach.
Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell confirmed Monday that Hastert died at his home over the weekend due to natural causes. No further details were given.
Born in 1942 in Aurora, Illinois, Hastert grew up in a farming community. He went on to graduate from Wheaton College, where he received a degree in economics, before earning a teaching degree from Northern Illinois University. Hastert married Jean Kahl in 1973. The couple had two sons.
Hastert worked as a teacher in Illinois for 16 years while coaching wrestling. In 1976, he was named Illinois Coach of the Year. Four decades later, he would admit to sexually abusing boys during his time as a coach.
Hastert then served in the Illinois legislature, before going on to be elected to represent Illinois' 14th district in the U.S. House in 1986.
Hastert served in Congress from 1987 to 2007. With the mentorship of House Minority Leader Robert. H Michel, Hastert's profile grew among the GOP ranks, and in 1995, he became chief deputy whip. When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stepped down in 1998, Hastert became the conference's second choice for his successor, following Rep. Bob Livingston's decision to step aside amid a scandal over extra-marital affairs.
Known as the "accidental
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Oct 05, 2026
Washington — Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84.
Both the longest-serving Republican House speaker and the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, Hastert's stunning fall from grace came in 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover up his sexual abuse of teenage boys during his time as a high school wrestling coach.
Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell confirmed Monday that Hastert died at his home over the weekend due to natural causes. No further details were given.
Born in 1942 in Aurora, Illinois, Hastert grew up in a farming community. He went on to graduate from Wheaton College, where he received a degree in economics, before earning a teaching degree from Northern Illinois University. Hastert married Jean Kahl in 1973. The couple had two sons.
Hastert worked as a teacher in Illinois for 16 years while coaching wrestling. In 1976, he was named Illinois Coach of the Year. Four decades later, he would admit to sexually abusing boys during his time as a coach.
Hastert then served in the Illinois legislature, before going on to be elected to represent Illinois' 14th district in the U.S. House in 1986.
Hastert served in Congress from 1987 to 2007. With the mentorship of House Minority Leader Robert. H Michel, Hastert's profile grew among the GOP ranks, and in 1995, he became chief deputy whip. When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stepped down in 1998, Hastert became the conference's second choice for his successor, following Rep. Bob Livingston's decision to step aside amid a scandal over extra-marital affairs.
Known as the "accidental
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Oct 05, 2026
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will provide commentary across the Fox News lineup.Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is joining Fox News Channel as an on-air contributor, FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced on Monday.
Leavitt, 29, who will provide commentary across the Fox News lineup, starts on Nov. 1. She most recently served as the 36th White House press secretary during President Donald Trump's second administration, from January 2025 until August 2026.
"Karoline's firsthand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of today's political landscape. We look forward to her providing our audience with authentic and sharp insight across all FOX News Media platforms," Scott said in a statement.
Trump Says Karoline Leavitt Will Leave White House Press Secretary Role, Become Outside Advisor
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will join FOX News Media on Nov. 1.Leavitt added, "I am grateful for the opportunity to continue appearing on Fox News Channel as an official member of the extrao
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