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• What May Help Investigators in Amtrak Crash

  13-05-2015 21:25 via abcnews.go.com
  
  NTSB investigators arrived at the scene this morning.
  
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• Fast-moving Southern California wildfire burns homes and forces thousands to flee

  17-10-2026 18:51 via cnn.com
  
  A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California quickly consumed hundreds of acres and burned multiple homes after sparking in Orange County Friday, county officials said.
  The Norte Fire began around noon near a neighborhood in the San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano areas and by Friday evening had grown to 570 acres, the Orange County Fire Authority said. It’s one of several fires that have broken out since Thursday amid fierce Santa Ana winds affecting Southern California.
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• Katie Zacharia praises Trump as ‘kind, wonderful, gracious’ after White House exit

  17-10-2026 18:50 via yahoo.com
  President Trump's embattled new press secretary Katie Zacharia was forced out Friday after less than a week on the job. Zacharia confirmed widespread reports that Trump had let her go in a post on X just after 9 p.m. ET Friday, alongside a photo of the two of them in the Oval Office. “President Trump is a kind, wonderful, gracious, thoughtful, enthusiastic, and hardworking man,” she wrote. “I wish more Americans appreciated him. No one will ever make America great the way he ha
  
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• Police identify teenage gunman, teacher and 5-year-old killed in Oregon shooting

  17-10-2026 18:16 via yahoo.com
  A teacher and one of the three children who were killed in Thursday's mass shooting at a Bend, Ore., elementary school were identified on Friday during a press conference in which authorities provided additional details about the incident. The 16-year-old suspect, who was killed by a community member within minutes of opening fire at the school, was also identified. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said Friday that Rhoam Summer, a 5-year-old student, and Megan Lambert, a 25-year-old teacher, w
  
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• Trump says neither he or Musk are to blame for Ukraine drone issues

  17-10-2026 17:14 via cbsnews.com
  
  Ukraine is still unable to use its interceptor systems against Russian drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, because of speed restrictions imposed on Starshield, an upgraded military version of Elon Musk's Starlink, amid an ongoing row with President Trump."Unfortunately, we can't use Starlink or Starshield technology on our territory today to shoot down jet-powered Shaheds," Zelenskyy said in an online group chat with reporters at the EU Summit. "They fly, and we can st
  
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• Trump's decision to waive Russia sanctions sparks bipartisan outrage

  17-10-2026 17:09 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to waive sanctions on Russia days before they were to take effect drew outrage Saturday from members of Congress, which had overwhelmingly passed the legislation in a bipartisan display of American support for Ukraine in the war with Russia. Lawmakers from both parties blasted the executive order late Friday, the latest in a series of steps that the Republican president has taken drawing the United States closer to Russia's Vladimi
  
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• Judge denies gag order request in Cornell sex assault civil case

  17-10-2026 16:48 via abcnews.com
  
  A New York judge on Friday rejected a request to impose a gag order in the civil case brought by a former Cornell University student who alleged she was sexually assaulted at a fraternity house in 2024, calling the request a "'side show' meant to muddy the waters and distract from the merits of the claims and defenses involved in this case."Judge Phaedra Perry-Bond said the public statements made by Jane Doe's attorney that one of the men named in the civil lawsuit used to justify the request "e
  
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• Trump is hitting the campaign trail. But he's largely missing from GOP ads.

  17-10-2026 16:00 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is barnstorming the country to boost Republicans in the final weeks of the midterms. But many candidates want to keep that support quiet.The president is nowhere to be found in GOP ads, even in red states where Republicans were happy to tout his endorsement two years ago. And some candidates are hesitant to appear with Trump on the campaign trail — even as they hope he will help juice turnout among the MAGA base in November.Democratic House and Senate candidates and outside gr
  
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• Pope Leo is discharged from hospital, 4 days after undergoing lung cancer surgery

  17-10-2026 15:57 via cbsnews.com
  
  Pope Leo XIV was released from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung. The pope exited via the hospital's main entrance. A large crowd waiting outside the hospital cheered for him.   He shook hands with several people, then stopped to talk with a young woman who appeared to be wearing a bandage on her right arm and was holding a doll in the image of Pope Leo. The Pope was smiling. Once in the car
  
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• French police clash with protesters as tens of thousands rally over cost of living

  17-10-2026 15:42 via yahoo.com
  By STAMOS PROUSALISPARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Clashes broke out between police and protesters in cities across France on Saturday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in some of the country's most violent protests in years over ‌rising costs and declining public services.Some 272 people had been arrested by mid-afternoon after violent incidents involving hooded individuals, including in ‌Paris, Marseille in the south, Rennes in the northwest, Toulouse in the southwest and
  
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• Online forum controlled by Nevada GOP House candidate contains slurs and Nazi talk

  17-10-2026 14:35 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before running for Congress, Marty O’Donnell was an award-winning music composer for the popular “Halo” video game franchise.His work drew legions of fans to an online forum, which the Nevada Republican has tried to turn into a galvanizing force as he tries to unseat a Democrat in a Las Vegas area district that could help decide House control. O’Donnell has served as the group’s de facto leader, referring to himself as its “benevol
  
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• Reported attacks on ships near Strait of Hormuz hit a new weekly high

  17-10-2026 12:37 via cbsnews.com
  
  What to know about the Iran war today:The U.K. Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) monitoring agency said at least ten vessels have been attacked in or near the Strait of Hormuz since last Sunday, a weekly high since war broke out in February, and 23 attacks were recorded since the start of the month, almost double the average.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian denied Friday that Tehran sought nuclear weapons, expressed readiness for dialogue and condemned U.S. sanctions during talks with Georgia
  
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• Proposed bill could be the break Hollywood has been waiting for

  17-10-2026 12:37 via washingtonpost.com
  The beleaguered U.S. film and TV industry, which has seen significant dollars leave for foreign countries, local production plummet and thousands of jobs vanish, may have some relief on the way.It comes in the form of proposed legislation that has the rare support of lawmakers across the political spectrum. Indeed, President Donald Trump and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have been equally vocal in throwing their weight behind the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act, whi
  
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• Zelensky urges support for new U.S. sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold

  17-10-2026 12:11 via yahoo.com
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged supporters Saturday to speak out in defense of new U.S. sanctions against Russia, hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing a sweeping package of restrictions targeting the Russian economy.The White House decision has further raised fears that Ukraine could be left exposed to Moscow’s escalating assaults with winter approaching.Russian attacks overnight killed at least four people, including
  
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• Vatican says Pope Leo will be released from hospital Saturday, 4 days after cancer surgery

  17-10-2026 11:39 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is being released from the hospital on Saturday, four days after lung cancer surgery, and will deliver the traditional noon blessing Sunday from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced.The 71-year-old Leo had the lower lobe of his right lung removed after doctors identified a suspected cancerous nodule. The surgery confirmed he had adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer. His personal physician and surgeon said in a separa
  
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• Pope Leo leaves hospital 4 days after lung cancer surgery

  17-10-2026 11:39 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo left Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery for lung cancer.Dozens of well-wishers greeted the pope as he walked out of the hospital and into a waiting vehicle to return to the Vatican.The 71-year-old pontiff had the lower lobe of his right lung removed after doctors identified a suspected cancerous nodule. The surgery confirmed he had adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Chec
  
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• Trump's election fraud task force is going after the people who investigated him

  17-10-2026 11:00 via washingtonpost.com
  The White House task force that President Donald Trump charged with uncovering evidence of election fraud hasn’t produced any. Instead, it has shifted to releasing records that his administration is using to help build a public case against officials who investigated him. The president initially promoted the task force, led by pro-Trump journalist John Solomon, as part of a push to uncover election fraud. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories
  
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• The online campaign to share the Cornell rape accuser's identity reached millions

  17-10-2026 11:00 via yahoo.com
  As a rape investigation at Cornell University spiraled into a national firestorm, some people went online to seek the identity of the alleged victim.Social media posts on X that attempted to reveal the name of the woman at the center of the case, identified in court filings only as Jane Doe, were viewed more than 87 million times over two weeks, according to data reviewed by The Washington Post.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washingt
  
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• ICE detainees allege excessive force during attempted removals to Mexico

  17-10-2026 11:00 via newsweek.com
  
  ICE detainees are asking a federal judge to intervene at the agency’s largest detention camp, citing sworn accounts alleging that guards beat people who resisted removal to Mexico and that masked personnel allegedly beat others and ordered them to cross the southern border.The motion for a preliminary injunction, filed Thursday in federal court in El Paso, Texas, concerns Camp East Montana, a sprawling immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss. The request is backed by declarations from
  
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• An armed dad and a teacher stopped an Oregon school shooter. It took just 3 minutes.

  17-10-2026 09:32 via cnn.com
  
  Community members grieve at the site of a makeshift memorial in front of Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 16. - Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images
  On a sunny Oregon fall morning, parents dressed their children up and sent them to Silver Rail Elementary School for picture day. It’s the kind of picture parents return to years later, marveling at how small their children once were and how their smiles looked before their faces changed.
  But for some families, snapshots
  
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• 'It was an honor': Katie Zacharia responds after being fired just 5 days into the job

  17-10-2026 03:55 via yahoo.com
  President Trump’s embattled new press secretary Katie Zacharia was forced out Friday after less than a week on the job. “It was an honor to work for him,” Zacharia wrote on social media, confirming widespread reports that Trump had let her go. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told CNN in a statement that Zacharia “will continue to support the President as she transitions to a new role.”Zacharia is the shortest-tenured White House press secretary in
  
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• Trump pauses Russia sanctions passed by Congress, citing U.S. national interest

  17-10-2026 03:42 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest.Trump personally signed the legislation just last month. Named after late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, it had sought to clamp down more quickly on the flow of financial resources fueling the war against Ukraine.Trump's unexpected move comes a week after he stunningly said
  
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• FEMA lays groundwork to shift disaster burden to states

  17-10-2026 01:40 via politico.com
  The Trump administration plans to reduce state and local dependency on federal disaster aid and could move Federal Emergency Management Agency workers out of Washington, D.C., according to an internal FEMA memo obtained by POLITICO.FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton wrote in an Oct. 15 memo — confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it — that the agency will “strengthen state and local emergency management capacity” in an effort to lower reliance on the federal g
  
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• DOJ warns California election officials of possible prosecution over noncitizen votes

  17-10-2026 00:28 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is escalating its fight with California ahead of next month's midterm election, warning that local officials who process and tabulate ballots submitted by suspected noncitizen voters are putting themselves at risk of criminal investigation and potential prosecution.The letter Friday from a senior Justice Department official and obtained first by The Associated Press is the latest salvo in an ongoing tussle with heavily Democratic California, comin
  
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• A teacher saved lives by tackling and fighting the Oregon shooter, police say

  17-10-2026 00:19 via yahoo.com
  By Herbert Villarraga and Deborah BloomBEND, Oregon, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A teacher in the Oregon classroom where a shooter killed three children and an adult threw her cellphone at the shooter, tackled him and fought him in an act that saved lives, police said on Friday.A day ‌into their investigation of the latest U.S. school shooting, authorities released new details of the scene inside a special needs classroom of Silver Rail ‌Elementary School where three school children aged 5, 8 a
  
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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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• Judge threatens to sanction Trump for delaying deposition in $10 billion BBC case

  16-10-2026 21:43 via forbes.com
  ToplineA federal magistrate judge threatened Friday to levy sanctions against President Donald Trump for failing to “participate” in his own defamation lawsuit against the BBC, after the broadcaster informed the court that Trump had backed out of a planned deposition in the case and suggested he couldn’t be interviewed until next year.President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn as he departs the White House on October 12 in Washington, DC. Getty ImagesKey FactsMagistrate Jud
  
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• U.S. deficit nears $2 trillion as government spending keeps climbing

  16-10-2026 21:19 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  The US federal budget deficit for 2026 officially came in Friday at $1.992 trillion, a final tabulation to close out the government's fiscal year and another reminder of Washington's spiraling reliance on red ink.This deficit number represents about 6% of the US gross domestic product and was a result of $5.403 trillion in total revenues for the fiscal year against total spending of $7.396 trillion.The 2026 reading is a 12% jump from 2025's $1.775 trillion deficit.These final numbers came in the
  
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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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