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• Women call out Pope Francis

  12-05-2016 23:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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