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• Baltimore awaits answers in black man's death, remains on edge

  29-04-2015 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott Malone, Ian Simpson and Warren Strobel BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Police and National Guard troops patrolled Baltimore's streets, giving the city a semblance of calm on Wednesday after the worst civil unrest in decades as residents await an official account of the death of a 25-year-old black man. After a curfew helped police thwart the kind of violence that saw buildings burned and stores looted on Monday night, schools reopened and business resumed in the city where the man, Freddie Gray,
  
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• Oregon school shooter identified as 16-year-old former student

  17-10-2026 00:06 via cbsnews.com
  
  The 16-year-old gunman who shot and killed three children and one 25-year-old teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday has been identified as Griffin J. John II, Bend's police chief announced in a news conference Friday. Police said he was shot and killed by a bystander at the school. The suspect was a former student of Silver Rail Elementary, police said. The attacker used a shotgun purchased by his mother, law enforcement sources told CBS News. In Friday'
  
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• Another wildfire races through Southern California, prompting mass evacuation orders

  16-10-2026 22:06 via nypost.com
  
  A wildfire in Orange County exploded in size Friday, forcing evacuation orders as it torched homes and threatened dozens more, growing to over 460 acres in just three hours.
  The Norte Fire broke out around 11:30 a.m. in the San Clemente area and quickly grew to at least 50 acres by around noon, according to the Orange County Fire Authority and CalFire.Crews fight the Norte Fire, which has exploded to 465 acres burned homes in the area. Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via APThe blaze h
  
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• Katie Zacharia reportedly out as White House press secretary after first week on the job

  16-10-2026 20:25 via yahoo.com
  President Trump signaled on Friday that he might replace embattled new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after less than one week on the job. Around the same time, multiple outlets reported that Zacharia had already been let go. Citing "three people familiar with the matter," the New York Times reported on Friday afternoon that Trump had "fired" Zacharia. A senior White House official told Fox News that Zacharia is "transitioning out" of her role, and CBS News and the Washington Post pu
  
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• ICE officer who struck man with vehicle put on leave as DA weighs charges

  16-10-2026 18:56 via abcnews.com
  
  The Immigrations Customs and Enforcement officer who allegedly struck a man with a vehicle during a pursuit outside Houston last weekend has been placed on administrative leave, the agency said.The move is standard for all use-of-force incidents, according to an ICE spokesperson."This incident is under active internal investigation," the spokesperson said in a statement Friday.On Saturday, Miguel Parra-Hernandez was hit by a car operated by an ICE agent during an arrest as the unidentified offic
  
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• A powerful El Niño could disrupt winter getaways. Here's what travelers should know.

  16-10-2026 17:59 via travel.yahoo.com
  
  As travelers look to escape the cold for warm weather over the holiday season, an unusually strong El Niño could lead to unseasonal weather in several popular vacation destinations.The climate pattern, which occurs when waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become unusually warm, can shift weather patterns across the country, potentially affecting popular winter getaways from Florida to the Caribbean."El Niños are associated with more storminess across the southe
  
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• Oregon governor praises 'heroic' bystander who stopped school shooter

  16-10-2026 17:58 via yahoo.com
  A teenager shot his way through locked doors at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher, police say.The children were 5, 8 and 11 years old, Bend Police Department Chief Mike Krantz said during a press conference on Thursday evening. The suspect, identified as a 16-year-old Bend resident, was shot and killed inside the school by a member of the community who saw him enter the building and pursued him, Krantz said. A 7-year-old child and
  
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• Photos show Pope Leo celebrating Mass at the hospital after cancer surgery

  16-10-2026 17:55 via cbsnews.com
  
  The Vatican released new photos of Pope Leo XIV — the first since his lung cancer surgery — showing him celebrating Mass at the hospital in Rome.The photos, released Friday, show the American-born pope standing at an altar in green vestments, celebrating Mass at a small chapel in Gemelli Hospital.Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement that the pontiff presided alone over the liturgy, distributed Communion to medical personnel and Vatican gendarmes present and delivered a
  
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• Fed chair warns AI spending could fuel inflation and pledges to contain prices

  16-10-2026 17:52 via abcnews.com
  
  Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh warned of a potential "shock" to the U.S. economy delivered by a rise in artificial intelligence spending, pledging to contain price increases as a flood of private sector funds drives up demand."If you’re a central banker, you’re in the business of trying to ensure stable prices and full employment, you’ve got to recognize this as a shock," Warsh said in Bangkok, Thailand, at a conference organized by the International Monetary Fund.A surge in
  
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• Trump administration is accused of fast-tracking migrant children's asylum cases

  16-10-2026 16:49 via abcnews.com
  
  Immigrant advocacy groups representing migrant children have sued the Trump administration to stop what they call a "cruel and unlawful scheme" to fast-track migrant children's asylum cases.In a complaint filed Thursday night, the groups allege that new government policies have transformed the asylum process for migrant children into a "deportation assembly line depriving them of their rights."The lawsuit comes as immigration attorneys and advocates say unaccompanied migrant children are being r
  
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• Diddy moved to a new prison after reports of a luxury lifestyle behind bars

  16-10-2026 16:47 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been moved to a federal prison in Pennsylvania after reports that the hip-hop mogul was living the high life and was injured in a fight at his New Jersey lockup, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday.The federal Bureau of Prisons is transferring Combs, 56, from FCI Fort Dix to FCI Allenwood Low, a low-security facility south of Williamsport and about 155 miles (250 kilometers) west of New York City, the pers
  
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• U.S. journalist beaten and Palestinian farmers injured in West Bank settler attack

  16-10-2026 16:40 via bbc.com
  
  Watch: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank during olive harvest
  Dozens of masked settlers have attacked Palestinians and set fire to cars and olive trees during the annual olive harvest in the occupied West Bank.A BBC team witnessed one of several attacks in farmland near the Palestinian village of Abu Falah. A local official said the attacks had injured 12 Palestinians, including four dual Palestinian American citizens. A foreign journalist was also among those hurt.Driving into
  
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• Six Flags park to reopen days after man falls to his death from roller coaster

  16-10-2026 15:20 via yahoo.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — Six Flags Over Georgia is set to open its gates Friday for the first time since a man fell to his death from one of the amusement park's towering roller coasters.Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old school employee from Atlanta, was thrown from the Goliath coaster on Monday, and authorities are investigating what happened. The park was already scheduled to be closed Tuesday through Thursday and is reopening as scheduled Friday evening, though Goliath is not expected to be
  
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• Trump's drug company holdings surged from $1.7 million to $56 million, Democrats say

  16-10-2026 14:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Investments in pharmaceutical companies made on behalf of President Donald Trump increased significantly after he returned to the White House last year, with his portfolio adding millions of dollars in stock in firms that benefited from a Republican-backed law that shields certain medications from Medicare price negotiations, according to a report from congressional Democrats.The report, released Friday by the Joint Economic Committee’s minority arm, found that Trum
  
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• The U.S. economy is facing 2 hot wars heating up at a bad time for the White House

  16-10-2026 13:01 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Yields are above multidecade highs, both gas and diesel prices continue to climb, and critical midterm elections are around the corner.Adding to pressure on the US economy and the current administration, the world's two largest hot wars are heating up.'Iran knows when the midterms are too'In the Middle East, dual fronts along the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea have seen a resurgence of conflict in recent weeks that has heavily disrupted oil flows in the region. (Yasin Demirci/Anadolu via Getty
  
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• Body found in barrel at Lake Mead identified as 1980s shooting victim

  16-10-2026 12:31 via cbsnews.com
  
  The remains of a man who was shot in the head and stuffed into a rusted barrel found on the shore of Lake Mead after the water level dropped were identified Thursday as an Arkansas man whose decades-old killing remains unsolved. Edward Lelburian Jackson was in his mid- to late 50s when he died, Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse said. Authorities are looking for people to come forward to help solve Jackson's killing. There was no evidence directly linking the killing to organized crime in nearby
  
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• Major hurricane Trudy keeps strengthening as it nears Mexico's Pacific coast

  16-10-2026 12:30 via yahoo.com
  Oct 16 (Reuters) - Hurricane Trudy rapidly intensified into a major hurricane on Friday morning, carrying ‌maximum sustained winds near 120 mph (195 kph) and ‌higher gusts, as it moves closer to Mexico's Pacific coast.Additional ​strengthening is still forecast before Trudy is expected to approach the Mexican coast on Saturday as a life-threatening major hurricane, the US-based National Hurricane Center said."Trudy has ‌the potential to ⁠even reach Category 4 or 5 inte
  
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• Trump calls Ukraine's renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries 'a disgrace'

  16-10-2026 12:01 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  
  Plumes of smoke rise from an oil refinery after a Ukrainian drone strike in Moscow on 20 September.Photograph: Reuters
  Donald Trump has called Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries “a disgrace”, while renewing his criticism of Volodymyr ⁠Zelenskyy after an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine collapsed.
  Ukraine resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries ⁠after Zelenskyy said that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire abruptly declared by Trump last we
  
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• Amber Guyger released on parole after serving 7 years for Botham Jean’s murder

  16-10-2026 12:00 via dallasnews.com
  
  Former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger (left) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2018 shooting death of Botham Jean. (Archive Photos)
  Former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger walked free from prison Friday morning after serving seven years behind bars for the murder of Botham Jean. 
  Guyger, 38, shot 26-year-old Jean inside his apartment in September 2018. He had been sitting on his couch eating ice cream when Guyger, who was off-duty but still in uniform, opened the door. She s
  
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• Trump says Ukraine resuming strikes on Russian oil sites is a ‘disgrace’

  16-10-2026 11:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump has labeled Ukraine’s resumption of strikes on Russian oil refineries a “disgrace,” the latest salvo in his campaign to pressure the U.S. ally over rising gas prices that could cost Republicans in next month’s Midterm elections.
  
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• 'You should be ashamed of yourself': Heated Senate debates become personal

  16-10-2026 11:14 via cnn.com
  
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  Candidates faced off in heated debates Thursday night in two of the country’s most competitive Senate races, showing how bitter — and personal — each contest has become.
  In Maine, Democratic nominee Troy Jackson told GOP Sen. Susan Collins to “shut up” after she suggested a protester was one of his supporters. And in Alaska, Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan questioned Democratic opponent Mary Peltola’s “character” while citing allegations she mist
  
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• Power struggle erupts in Trump's White House as specter of midterm losses loom

  16-10-2026 11:00 via yahoo.com
  White House aides, who have kept clashes muted during President Donald Trump's second term, have begun jostling more openly for power as they brace for widespread midterm election losses and internal upheaval, according to interviews with 20 staffers, advisers and people close to the president.The interviews, most of which were conducted on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel machinations, paint a picture of infighting that has started to resemble the pitched battles of Tru
  
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• Jerry Seinfeld turns tables on radical anti-Israel agitators after chaotic Chicago stunt backfires

  16-10-2026 10:43 via foxnews.com
  
  Comedian Jerry Seinfeld turned the tables on anti-Israel hecklers who attempted to derail his Chicago performance last Friday, mocking the protesters as security removed them from the venue.Viral video from the confrontation shows activists shouting at Seinfeld at the Chicago Theatre, accusing Israel of committing "genocide" in Gaza and alleging that American taxpayer dollars are funding the deaths of thousands of civilians."Twenty-two thousand Palestinians who are children now are killed with o
  
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• China tells Trump's press secretary to visit 'more often' after toilet comments

  16-10-2026 10:43 via yahoo.com
  New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia appears to have reservations about China's toilets (Jim WATSON)Beijing told the White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia on Friday to visit China "more often", after she said the country lacked "proper toilets" less than a week into her new post.After years of intense rivalry between the United States and China over globally challenging issues from trade and technology to Taiwan and human rights, the US president's new spokesperson took the two si
  
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• 'They're babies': Oregon mourns 3 children killed in elementary school shooting

  16-10-2026 10:27 via yahoo.com
  Three children and a teacher were killed after a 16-year-old forced his way through locked doors at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., on Thursday. The children were 5, 8 and 11 years old, Bend Police Department Chief Mike Krantz said during a press conference Thursday evening. The suspect was shot and killed by a member of the community who saw the suspect enter the school and pursued him, Krantz said. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek praised the bystander for “heroically”
  
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• Trump administration sued over collection of sensitive voter data from 47 states

  16-10-2026 08:47 via foxnews.com
  
  The Trump administration is being sued over its efforts to collect and analyze sensitive voter data from across the country.The complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, alleges the Department of Homeland Security has obtained voter files from at least 47 states and handled the data in a way that violates federal law.DHS' secretive probe of the voter data, which includes a policy to combine it with commercial datasets, ignores federal safeguards and the privacy rights o
  
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• Trump admin sued over alleged illegal collection of sensitive voter data from 47 states

  16-10-2026 08:47 via foxnews.com
  
  The Trump administration is being sued over its efforts to collect and analyze sensitive voter data from across the country.The complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, alleges the Department of Homeland Security has obtained voter files from at least 47 states and handled the data in a way that violates federal law.DHS' secretive probe of the voter data, which includes a policy to combine it with commercial datasets, ignores federal safeguards and the privacy rights o
  
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• Lawsuit alleges DHS collected voter data from 47 states and violated privacy laws

  16-10-2026 08:47 via foxnews.com
  
  The Trump administration is being sued over its efforts to collect and analyze sensitive voter data from across the country.The complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, alleges the Department of Homeland Security has obtained voter files from at least 47 states and handled the data in a way that violates federal law.DHS' secretive probe of the voter data, which includes a policy to combine it with commercial datasets, ignores federal safeguards and the privacy rights o
  
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• Sam Darnold takes responsibility for Seahawks' loss at Denver: 'It's BS'

  16-10-2026 07:32 via sports.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER — Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold didn't wait for a question when he met the media after Thursday night's loss. It's not like he didn't know what was coming. "No way to sugarcoat it, that one sucked," said Darnold, who threw two late interceptions in a 17-14 defeat to the Denver Broncos, including a crucial one in overtime. "Can't turn the ball over, obviously that's at the forefront of my mind." He was just as blunt with his teammates afterward. He took responsibility for
  
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• Democrat's debate 'cue cards' steal spotlight in high-stakes Senate clash

  16-10-2026 07:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Alaska Democratic Senate hopeful Mary Peltola faced ridicule Thursday night after her use of notecards during a debate with Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan drew mocking responses from GOP critics — including a pointed jab from her incumbent opponent.Sullivan is in an unusually close race with Peltola, a former congresswoman, that is further complicated by another candidate with his same name but a different middle initial, as Republicans fight to hold their narrow Senate majority."Really, Mar
  
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