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October 2021
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- October 31st
- Jen Psaki reveals she tested positive for COVID-19
- The FDA's review of the Moderna vaccine for teens could take until January 2022
- The Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial begins this week
- A small island nation just reported its first case of COVID-19 since the pandemic began
- Philadelphia is banning police from pulling drivers over for minor traffic violations
- University of Florida orders professors not to testify against voting restrictions
- U.S., E.U. reach deal easing steel, aluminum tariffs
- Biden says nuclear talks to resume with Iran
- Peering at the edge of the universe
- October 30th
- Trump is trying to keep call logs and handwritten memos away from Capitol riot investigators
- Mexico recovers illegally exported pre-Hispanic artifacts from Italy
- Climate protesters flood Rome amid G-20 summit
- How Trump has dodged social media bans to amass a staggering war chest
- Supreme Court declines to block Maine vaccine mandate for health care workers
- Oklahoma to continue lethal injections after inmate vomits during execution
- G-20 leaders back global minimum tax
- October 29th
- Supreme Court to consider case that could block the EPA from limiting greenhouse gases
- FDA issues 'transformative' authorization of Pfizer's COVID vaccine for children ages 5 to 11
- Khloé Kardashian says she has COVID-19 for a 2nd time
- Letitia James, New York AG who oversaw Cuomo investigation, announces she's running for governor
- Ice Cube reportedly drops out of movie after declining to get COVID-19 vaccine
- Rapper Fetty Wap arrested, accused of being part of a 'major drug trafficking ring'
- GOP Trump critic Adam Kinzinger won't run for re-election: 'Time to move on'
- Anti-Defamation League begs Fox News not to air Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 documentary
- House progressives endorse Biden's pared-back spending framework, likely making passage 'when, not if'
- Biden praises Pope Francis as 'the most significant warrior for peace I've ever met'
- Alec Baldwin movie armorer says she has 'no idea' where live rounds came from
- Late night hosts poke Facebook's Meta-morphosis, mock Mitt Romney's Halloween choices
- NAACP urges pro athletes to avoid signing with Texas teams due to the state's 'dangerous attacks on freedoms'
- To surprise groom who is blind, bride wears special tactile wedding dress
- The Virginia governor race is now exactly tied after a brutal Fox News poll for Democrat Terry McAuliffe
- 70-year-old makes history as oldest woman to climb Yosemite's El Capitan
- Top Jan. 6 federal judge slams DOJ for treating 'crime of the century' as some 'petty offense'
- North Korea isn't using a Kim Jong Un body double, South Korean intelligence says
- Report: U.S. government considering payments to migrants affected by Trump's zero-tolerance policy
- Thousands of Air Force personnel set to miss next week's COVID-19 vaccination deadline
- October 28th
- Oklahoma resumes executions after 6 years
- Criminal complaint filed against Andrew Cuomo, accusing him of forcible touching
- WSJ editorial board argues publishing letter from Trump 'hardly did him a special favor'
- New details emerge in SEC investigation of Sen. Richard Burr and brother-in-law's stock sales
- Why climate advocates are happy with Biden's spending framework
- Tucker Carlson has released the trailer for Patriot Purge, his new Jan. 6 documentary
- Mark Zuckerberg stars in surreal metaverse presentation before announcing company rebrand
- Biden unveils $1.75 trillion spending framework: 'No one got everything they wanted, including me'
- Mitt Romney stages a Ted Lasso moment with Kyrsten Sinema
- Succession star Brian Cox rips Johnny Depp and others in new book: 'So overblown, so overrated'
- College students 'smashed' voting records in 2020
- Country singer Morgan Wallen gets 2 AMA nominations but is banned from the show
- Biden claims 'everybody's' on board for his $1.75 trillion spending plan. Here's what's inside.
- U.S. economy slows to 2 percent annual growth in 3rd quarter amid Delta surge
- LA County reportedly set to pay $2.5 million in settlements over Kobe Bryant crash photos
- Biden will reportedly announce spending framework deal before leaving for Europe
- Legalising assisted dying: a complex, fraught and ‘necessary’ debate
- Late night hosts make billionaire tax policy entertaining, boo the Halloween weed edibles scare
- Wall Street Journal reporters say it's 'very disappointing' opinion page published Trump's 'misinformation'
- Woman sues Kellogg's over 'insufficient' strawberries in Pop-Tarts
- Aaron Neville ribs Kyrsten Sinema's denim-vest-at-work look
- Across the U.S., people who were at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot are running for office
- Report: Democrats will likely cut paid family and medical leave from bill
- October 27th
- Wall Street Journal jeered after printing Trump rant about 2020 election
- Ted Cruz grills Merrick Garland on satirical Nazi salutes, and 5 other moments from today's Senate hearing
- Rust assistant director reportedly admits he didn't thoroughly check gun handed to Alec Baldwin
- Netflix reportedly adjusted algorithm to suppress controversial movie and 'minimize press coverage'
- Cigarette sales had a COVID comeback
- 500 rounds of ammunition recovered from set of Alec Baldwin movie, sheriff says
- Low-income Americans and food banks are struggling to make rising food prices work
- 'Tiger King 2' trailer promises more bonkers moments from Joe Exotic
- Ex-NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof launches campaign to become next governor of Oregon
- U.S. drug company Merck strikes deal with nonprofit to share COVID pill formula with poorer nations
- State Department issues the 1st U.S. passport with an X gender marker
- Olivia Rodrigo: Joe Biden 'gave me a shoehorn'
- FTC reportedly investigating whether Facebook violated 2019 settlement
- 'Is he embarrassed?' Biden zings Glenn Youngkin for refusing to campaign with Trump in Virginia governor race.
- Minneapolis kids launch community newspaper to keep neighbors informed
- Late night hosts dislike Facebook's supercharged anger emoji and baked-in 'hate and lies'
- Report: White House telling Democrats climate spending could top $555 billion
- L.A. Angels' Shohei Ohtani honored with rare MLB Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award
- Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse trial rules prosecutors can't refer to men shot as 'victims'
- Florida surgeon general shares why he refused lawmaker with cancer's request he wear a mask
- Official: ISIS in Afghanistan could be able to attack U.S. in 6 months
- October 26th
- Senate Democrats release updated corporate minimum tax proposal
- FDA advisory panel backs Pfizer vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11
- Ongoing election harassment has vulnerable secretaries of state asking for protection and 'real consequences'
- Report identifies Twitter accounts 'brazenly coordinating' to target Meghan and Harry
- Trump's COVID response coordinator alleges the election 'distracted' his administration from fighting the pandemic
- Dune sequel set to release in 2023: 'This is only the beginning'
- Democratic senator tells tech executives being 'different from Facebook' isn't enough: 'That bar is in the gutter'
- 'It's almost like a scarlet letter': Why prominent Democrats are 'rebuffing' lucrative roles at Facebook
- This year's Thanksgiving dinner could be 'the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday'
- Rust actor recalls 'scary' and 'life-threatening' experience on set
- How Germany is beating COVID, and what America can learn
- Facebook reportedly gave the angry emoji 5 times as much weight as a 'like'
- COVID-19 cases and deaths are plunging across the U.S. What's the prognosis for winter?
- Britney Spears says her conservatorship is 'about to be over,' but 'I still want justice'
- AP poll: Only 16 percent of Americans oppose the kind of clean energy legislation blocked by Joe Manchin
- Biden reportedly ready to nominate 2 FCC commissioners as open seats threaten GOP takeover
- Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Kimmel survey the 'sad lineup' of newly outed Jan. 6 GOP lawmakers
- Princess Mako leaves Japan's royal family to marry college boyfriend
- Senate confirms voting rights advocate to 2nd Circuit federal appellate court
- 'Dads on Duty' show Louisiana high school students they have someone in their corner
- Tesla becomes world's 1st trillion-dollar automaker on huge Hertz order, European sales benchmark
- Rust gaffer calls out producers who 'save a dime' by hiring inexperienced crew
- Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin runs attack ad against Toni Morrison's 'Beloved,' McAuliffe
- Report: Washington's GOP secretary of state expected to take federal election security role
- Massive storm brings Lake Tahoe's water levels back above natural rim
- Shooting at Boise mall leaves 2 dead, 4 injured
- October 25th
- Authorities use DNA to identify victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy
- An 'emotional' Mark Zuckerberg reportedly sounded 'pretty mad' during today's earnings call
- White House launches new program allowing private citizens to sponsor resettling Afghan refugees
- Dave Chappelle responds to 'nonsense' controversy over Netflix special: 'I said what I said'
- A 'dangerous dereliction': Why some Democrats are pushing Biden to focus on Trump
- Amy Klobuchar says Facebook 'promotes extremism and hurts our communities'
- The alleged 'conspiracy of silence' in sexual assault reporting at Liberty University
- Kristen Stewart says only 5 of her movies are 'really good'
- Under Democrats' 4-week proposal, the U.S. would still be a global 'outlier' when it comes to paid leave
- Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective in kids between 6 and 11
- How Facebook is allegedly 'mischaracterizing its growth' to investors
- Donald Trump Jr. is selling 'guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people' shirts
- Biden hosts Manchin and Schumer in Delaware, only reports 'progress' on final spending deal
- Documents show how Facebook has struggled to crack down on human trafficking
- Alec Baldwin was practicing drawing a supposedly 'cold' revolver when he killed cinematographer, affidavit says
- John Oliver explains America's 'deeply weird,' weirdly practical strategic ambiguity on Taiwan and China
- Amazon concedes its paid and unpaid leave system is 'deficient,' 'inadequate,' and 'prone to delay and error'
- Sudan civilian leaders arrested in apparent military coup
- James Michael Tyler, the actor who played Gunther on Friends, has died at 59
- 2 Jan. 6 rally organizers say they will implicate GOP members of Congress in plot to overturn Trump's loss
- October 24th
- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: Expect inflation to improve by 'the middle to end' of 2022
- Facebook VP reportedly told employees to brace themselves for 'more bad headlines'
- Sportsbooks set Astros as World Series favorites
- Colombian forces capture country's most wanted drug lord
- Former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan defends withdrawal deal he negotiated with Taliban
- Jason Sudeikis parodies Biden from 8 years ago in SNL cold open
- The controversy over trans teens
- October 23rd
- This Bronx boy is doing his part to help shelter dogs get adopted
- Howard University students protest 'unlivable' housing conditions by sleeping in tents
- The world's tallest single-track roller coaster is coming to Southern California
- Halyna Hutchins' husband says she 'inspired us all with her passion and vision'
- Erdogan orders removal of 10 ambassadors from Turkey, including U.S. envoy
- U.S. military says drone strike killed al Qaeda leader in Syria
- Walmart recalls aromatherapy room spray over deadly bacteria concerns
- Lev Parnas, a former Giuliani ally, convicted on campaign finance charges
- The climate summit that could save the planet — or doom it
- October 22nd
- Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, killed on Baldwin movie, had reportedly advocated for safer on-set conditions
- New Facebook whistleblower alleges company wanted to avoid 'a fight' with Steve Bannon
- How the 'economics of global warming' are unfolding differently in Russia
- Peter Scolari, Emmy-winning Bosom Buddies and Newhart actor, dies at 66
- Supreme Court to hear challenges to Texas abortion law on Nov. 1, but won't block it in meantime
- Alec Baldwin expresses 'shock and sadness' over 'tragic accident' that killed cinematographer
- Day traders and Reddit are loving Trump's new media company
- Pfizer's vaccine is over 90 percent effective against symptomatic COVID-19 in kids
- Robert Durst charged in wife's disappearance after being convicted of killing his friend
- Judges are 'overwhelmingly' upholding COVID-19 vaccine mandates in many states
- Jon Stewart's first talk show kicked off with a Hitler joke so bad he was nearly canceled
- Halyna Hutchins, cinematographer killed on Alec Baldwin movie, remembered as a 'brilliant talent'
- Supply chain problems from ships to shelves, by the numbers
- Justice Department reportedly added 2 top prosecutors to the Matt Gaetz sex trafficking case
- Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert poke fun at Trump's 'Truth' social media app, 'streaming service'
- Lorli von Trapp Campbell of the Trapp Family Singers dies at 90
- Afghan chef uses traditional meals to welcome hundreds of refugees to the U.S.
- Biden explains Kyrsten Sinema's positions on the Build Back Better bill, says 'she's smart as the devil'
- Liz Cheney, Marjorie Taylor Greene take turns calling each other 'a joke'
- Photography director killed by Alec Baldwin's prop gun on New Mexico movie set, authorities say
- Texas governor appoints lawyer who represented Trump in 2020 election challenge as secretary of state
- CDC approves Moderna and J&J boosters, plus mixing shots
- Haitian gang leader threatens to kill abducted missionaries if ransom isn't paid
- October 21st
- Queen Elizabeth released from the hospital after overnight stay
- FBI: Remains found in Florida nature reserve identified as Brian Laundrie
- Mike Pence is reportedly 'still angry' that Trump endangered him and his family on Jan. 6
- 9 House Republicans vote with Democrats to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
- Netflix could reportedly add a content warning to Dave Chappelle special after walkout
- Experts worry Jan. 6 inmates could be further radicalized in D.C. jail's 'Patriot Wing'
- Adele has a framed piece of Celine Dion's used gum
- Sinema advisers blast her for 'hanging your constituents out to dry' in scathing resignation letter
- Manchin insists he offered to become an independent in case it would help Democrats 'publicly'
- Facebook Oversight Board says the company must 'urgently improve' its transparency
- Ransomware gang with ties to Colonial Pipeline hack reportedly recruiting talent under guise of real tech company
- Simone Biles says she's 'still scared to do gymnastics' in emotional interview
- Archaeologists used tree rings and astrophysics to prove Vikings were in Canada in 1021
- Celtics games wiped from Chinese internet after player's 'Free Tibet' video
- Senate Republicans block Joe Manchin's voting rights bill
- Late night hosts have questions, suggestions for Facebook's big 'metaverse' rebrand
- Biden, Democrats exploring new tax options after Sinema reportedly blocks rate hikes on corporations, the wealthy
- Retired FBI boss steps up to help community with school bus driver shortage
- Trevor Noah explains why it's so weird for cops and firefighters to freak out about vaccine mandates
- Texas couple weds at the train station where they met
- Trump announces financial backers to launch his own social media platform in 2022
- Bill Clinton says he is 'doing great' after hospital stay
- Doctors warn climate change is now 'the greatest global health threat facing the world'
- October 20th
- U.S. officials say drone attack targeted remote American base in Syria
- FDA OKs Moderna and J&J boosters, plus 'mix and match' approach
- The founder of eBay is reportedly helping Frances Haugen take on Facebook
- The political factors frustrating 3 retiring House Democrats
- Protesters demonstrate against Dave Chappelle special as Netflix acknowledges 'deep hurt'
- Joe Manchin dismisses 'bulls---' report he's threatening to quit the Democratic Party
- Parkland survivor David Hogg speaks out following gunman's guilty plea
- Paris Hilton speaks out about her 'severe PTSD' while pushing for youth treatment center reform
- Kyrsten Sinema's possible long game
- NYC to impose vaccine mandate for all city workers, including police
- How Biden's vaccination plan for young kids differs from the plan for adults
- What's on the chopping block in the negotiations over Biden's scaled-back spending package
- Brazilian lawmakers to seek charges against President Bolsonaro for COVID-related 'crimes against humanity'
- Haitian gang asks $1 million ransom for each of the 17 U.S. and Canadian missionaries it kidnapped
- Facebook reportedly believes now is a great time to change its name
- Stephen Colbert boos supply chain shortages of wine and ice cream, while Trevor Noah celebrates 'strike-tober'
- Coco vision: up close to Chanel opticals
- FBI raids Washington, Manhattan homes tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
- Rancher looking for adventure discovers sailboat whose builder shared his dream
- Transplant surgeons report successfully testing a pig kidney on a human, in organ transplant breakthrough
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom declares statewide drought emergency
- Biden tells Democrats he thinks deal could be reached on package of up to $1.9 trillion
- Trump reportedly pressed to send uninvited U.S. troops into Mexico, commando-style, to fight drug cartels
- San Francisco's lone In-N-Out closed after refusing to follow city's vaccine requirement
- Assaults against law enforcement officers rose in 2020
- Jan. 6 committee votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt
- October 19th
- Rep. Jeff Fortenberry indicted on charges of lying to federal investigators
- Senate Democrats hopeful they'll wrap up Biden agenda negotiations 'this week'
- Michael Cohen spotted meeting with a prosthetic mask-wearing Kanye West
- 'Delta Plus' subvariant detected in the U.K. Experts say don't panic yet.
- CNN's John King reveals multiple sclerosis diagnosis, says he's 'grateful you're all vaccinated'
- 'Malevolent, spiteful, narcissistic': Critics decry Trump's 'vile' statement on death of Colin Powell
- Queen Elizabeth turns down Oldie of the Year award because 'you are as old as you feel'
- Global approval of U.S. leadership has rebounded from the end of Trump's presidency
- Katie Couric grilled on Today about editing RBG interview: 'How did you justify that?'
- Terry McAuliffe has a friend in singer-songwriter Carole King
- Meghan McCain reveals the incident with Joy Behar that made her quit The View
- YouTube sued for allegedly failing to enforce ban on animal abuse videos
- Watch Colin Powell and Joe Biden drag race their Corvettes during the 2016 presidential campaign
- 'Donald Trump will lose this litigation': House Jan. 6 committee dismisses lawsuit as delay tactic, obstruction
- Texas gained 2 new House seats thanks to explosive Latino growth. Both new districts are majority white.
- Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders grin for the cameras as Manchin meets with progressives over spending impasse
- Rocker Randy Bachman reunited with guitar 45 years after it vanished
- Stephen Colbert can't help rising to Trump and Christopher Steele's 'pee tape' tease
- Diver discovers ancient sword that likely belonged to a crusader
- Ex-spy Christopher Steele stands behind the thrust of his Trump-Russia dossier, even the salacious 'kompromat'
- In one of his last interviews, Colin Powell spoke frankly about U.S. foreign policy
- Washington State coach Nick Rolovich out after not complying with COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- House Democrats Mike Doyle and David Price announce retirements
- California had its driest year since 1924
- October 18th
- Trump sues to block House committee from receiving Jan. 6 documents
- Republican resistance to Democrats' anti-gerrymandering efforts could lead to a GOP 'takeover'
- COVID has already begun to 'reshape' the public health workforce
- How one group's plan to out GOP lawmakers who attended Jan. 6 proved futile
- Large employers fear vaccine mandates will chase away workers. But 'real world data tells a different story.'
- How Joe Manchin's 'arbitrary centrism' could hurt the voters he represents
- Republicans pitching inflation as Democrats' downfall ahead of midterms: 'Voters are nervous'
- Almost all Afghans could fall into poverty in coming months, says U.N.
- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell dies of COVID complications at 84: 'A family man and a friend'
- Chinese journalists forced into 90 hours of lessons to ‘learn the party line’
- The supply chain fiasco
- China's economic growth weakens amid supply chain and electricity issues
- Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are engaged
- Statue of Robert E. Lee removed from Dallas park now stands at a Texas golf resort
- L.A. County wants Vanessa Bryant to take a psychiatric exam in lawsuit
- Investigators believe cargo ship dragged California oil pipeline in January
- October 17th
- Chicago Sky wins 1st WNBA championship
- Fauci says people 'react against' him when the truth is 'inconvenient'
- Jon Stewart rips the media for doing a 'terrible job at de-escalation'
- Halloween Kills scores best debut for a horror film during the pandemic
- Bill Clinton released from hospital after infection treatment
- Pete Buttigieg says he's 'not going to apologize to Tucker Carlson' over his paternity leave
- Gang kidnaps U.S. missionaries in Haiti
- Deal reached to avert major Hollywood strike
- SNL tackles Raiders coach Jon Gruden's resignation in cold open
- October 16th
- Protesters yell 'F--k Joe Biden' as president meets with preschoolers at daycare center
- Sicilian Catholic diocese bans godparents. Yes, it's partly due to Mafia godfathers.
- 78 arrested for blocking traffic in last day of D.C. fossil-fuel protests
- British lawmakers gather to mourn David Amess after stabbing police call a likely act of terrorism
- Joe Manchin reportedly vetoed Biden clean-energy proposal, gets in public fight with Bernie Sanders
- Jon Stewart gamely tackles the question: 'What's more Hitler?' COVID or vaccine mandates?
- October 15th
- Netflix reportedly fired an organizer of trans employee walkout sparked by Dave Chappelle controversy
- Why the FDA panel's booster greenlight was actually a 'bad meeting' for Johnson & Johnson
- DOJ to ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion ban while legal challenges play out
- Recovering Bill Clinton has reportedly been 'walking around, reading, texting, and joking with hospital staff'
- British officials mourn the 'absolutely devastating' death of MP David Amess
- 'You want more chucks?': Arizona attorney general flaunts his nunchuck skills in Twitter video
- The American 'Great Resignation' by the numbers
- Virginia GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin disavows 'weird and wrong' pledge to Jan. 6 flag at GOP rally
- Queen Elizabeth caught expressing irritation with world leaders who talk but 'don't do' on climate change
- Late night hosts wonder if Pelosi wrote Trump's election threat, explain Fox News' vaccine mandate war on Christmas
- Fox News poll has McAuliffe beating Youngkin by 10 points among Virginia parents, 5 points among likely voters
- Texas school official tells teachers they need to offer books with 'opposing' perspectives on the Holocaust
- Bill Clinton hospitalized with non-COVID-related infection
- Former Boeing chief test pilot indicted in connection with 737 Max
- La Niña has arrived, will likely stick around through early 2022
- October 14th
- Robert Durst sentenced to life in prison without parole
- U.S. 'working closely' with partners to resume regular evacuation flights out of Afghanistan
- The Jan. 6 committee will move to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for defying its subpoena. Then what?
- What pandemic experts are predicting for the U.S. this winter
- The White House is reportedly 'nearing the end of its patience' on reconciliation negotiations
- Initial unemployment claims fall below 300,000, a pandemic-era low
- GOP rally recites Pledge of Allegiance to flag flown by Jan. 6 insurrectionists
- Sexual abuse and ‘cruel indifference’: the disgrace of the French Catholic Church
- Biden administration announces plan for large wind farms along most of the U.S. coastline
- Out of fashion: Asos ‘curse’ has struck again
- COVID-19 was the No. 1 killer of Americans age 35 to 54 last month, and No. 2 overall
- Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Fallon critique William Shatner's space trek, sans sexy 'green women'
- Biden announces multi-industry '90-day sprint' to unsnarl clogged ports before Christmas
- House Jan. 6 committee hears testimony from Trump's final attorney general, subpoenas his deputy
- October 13th
- Police in Norway say man armed with bow and arrows killed 5 people
- Trump tells Republicans they should not vote in 2022 or 2024 without answers to 2020 'fraud'
- Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for 'Democratic unity' to help pass party's voter-backed spending package
- What Havana syndrome is like for 3 victims who are still seeking answers
- GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw has written a kids book about cancel culture
- Rep. Adam Schiff says GOP leader Kevin McCarthy is 'absolutely' an 'insurrectionist in a suit and tie'
- Apple is reportedly working on AirPods that can check your temperature
- Star Trek actor William Shatner just blasted off into space on Jeff Bezos' rocket
- Stressed supply chains and 'unusually high demand' pushed consumer prices higher last month
- Manchin and Sinema's 'very different' bottom lines could sink Build Back Better plan, Biden ally says
- DHS will stop mass immigration raids at workplaces, target 'exploitative employers' instead, Mayorkas says
- Late night hosts joke about Raiders ex-coach Jon Gruden's offensive emails, Greg Abbott's COVID boosterism
- Treasury Secretary Yellen says consumers shouldn't 'panic' about Christmas present shortages
- Texas agency pulls website for LGBTQ youth, with suicide prevention info, after taunt from Abbott's GOP challenger
- Fire burning near Santa Barbara grows to 13,400 acres
- Jewish death row inmate in Texas could get new trial after judge is accused of being antisemitic
- U.S. to open Canada and Mexico borders to vaccinated visitors in November
- Pamela expected to strengthen into hurricane before striking Mexico
- Task force shifts advice on aspirin use for preventing heart disease and strokes
- House approves legislation raising the debt ceiling until early December
- October 12th
- For the 1st time, FDA authorizes e-cigarettes
- Many private health plans in Colorado will soon be required to cover transgender-related health care and procedures
- Government revenues see biggest one-year increase since 1977
- American Airlines says Biden's vaccine mandate 'supersedes' Texas' order
- Rep. John Yarmuth, Kentucky's lone congressional Democrat, to retire at the end of this term
- Hunter Biden's dealings could threaten his father's anti-corruption positioning
- Brooklyn Nets say Kyrie Irving can't play or practice until he's vaccinated
- Kim Jong Un vows North Korea will build an 'invincible' military
- Dwayne Johnson doesn't rule out presidential bid but acknowledges 'I don't know the first thing about politics'
- 3 'concerning' ways in which COVID could change
- Scream trailer teases a surprising link to the horror franchise's past
- Fox News contributor complains about new Superman being bisexual, suggests he'll get 'a venereal disease'
- Archaeologists uncover massive, 1,500-year-old winemaking complex in Israel
- Trump lawyer John Eastman's employer argues he didn't explicitly ask Pence to overturn the election
- Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers laugh at Trump's low-energy Iowa rally, Capitol riot crowd size fixation
- CIA headquarters sells CIA-branded swag at its gift shop, has a 'belt-fed machine gun'–style hot dog machine
- On their 77th anniversary, Iowa couple finally gets to take their wedding photos
- Annual yard sale funds random acts of kindness in Virginia community
- FBI sting to catch Navy spy was apparently aided by the foreign country approached to buy U.S. nuclear secrets
- Justice Department asks court to pause Texas abortion ban while case is being appealed
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans 'any entity' from imposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates
- Jon Gruden resigns as Raiders coach amid fallout over racist, homophobic emails
- New California law requires public schools to offer free period products
- UPS driver killed after small plane crashes into California neighborhood
- October 11th
- Matt Amodio's stunning Jeopardy! streak finally ends after 38 wins
- Study: 85 percent of global population has been affected by human-induced climate change
- Netflix's Squid Game could be inspiring a wave of Korean language learning
- Facebook Oversight Board to meet with whistleblower over her 'serious claims'
- How COVID boosters could be deepening vaccine skepticism
- Netflix CEO defends Dave Chappelle special amid backlash, says stand-up 'exists to push boundaries'
- 4 theories behind Biden's 'underwater' polling numbers
- Hillary Clinton says the U.S. is still in a 'full constitutional crisis'
- The difference between reining in Big Tech and Big Tobacco
- Superman will come out as bisexual in new comic, DC announces
- The Saudi royal family reportedly gifted Trump robes made of fake cheetah and tiger fur
- George Clooney won't run for office because he'd prefer to 'have a nice life'
- 3 U.S.-based economists split Nobel Prize for using 'natural experiments' to topple labor market assumptions
- London police drop Prince Andrew investigation
- Big box stores are taking drastic steps to avert shipping delays. Small retailers are hoping for a holiday miracle.
- Is another Cultural Revolution underway in China?
- John Oliver tackles viral misinformation in immigrant communities, but also from his 'business daddy' AT&T
- Texas GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen West hospitalized with COVID-19
- No. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise slammed for refusing to say 2020 election wasn't stolen
- Earthquake, aftershocks rattle Hawaii's Big Island
- Russian man becomes 1st person without legs to scale world's 8th-highest mountain
- Trump reportedly came 'incredibly close' to naming Ivanka Trump as World Bank chief
- Adam Schiff: Jan. 6 select committee preparing to urge prosecution of anyone who ignores subpoenas
- Southwest cancels more than 1,800 flights over the weekend
- Taliban says U.S. agreed to give humanitarian aid to Afghanistan
- October 10th
- Navy nuclear engineer and his wife charged with trying to pass secrets to foreign country
- It reportedly took Trump multiple takes to tell rioters to leave Capitol in Jan. 6 video
- Former FDA commissioner suggests every household have a supply of at-home COVID-19 tests
- Poll: Most Republicans prefer candidates who encourage vaccination, oppose mandates
- How the worst drought in 3 decades could exacerbate Afghanistan's national crises — and create new ones
- Senators cluelessly question whistleblower about Facebook in SNL cold open
- Iran's revived nuclear program
- October 9th
- Scientists say 'premature' to predict if there will be another major COVID-19 wave, but room for optimism
- Biden ally suggests the Iowa caucus process is more restrictive than Texas' voting law
- McConnell writes AG Garland letter defending parents' right to tell 'local schools what to teach'
- Why the Jan. 6 committee needs to 'lay the foundation' before making testimonial requests
- Does China really believe it can achieve peaceful reunification with Taiwan?
- October 8th
- The 'significant hurdles' ahead of a normal-looking school year
- A That '70s Show spinoff set in the '90s is coming to Netflix
- The job market for college students and recent grads is back
- Biden rejects Trump effort to withhold records from Jan. 6 committee
- Whistleblower Frances Haugen wasn't the only frustrated Facebook employee
- Steve Bannon to defy House subpoena because he 'stands with Trump'
- Democrats could be on the 'precipice' of a minority-party era
- Game streaming service Twitch gets defaced with pictures of Jeff Bezos after major breach
- Trump to return to Iowa, his 'most affirmative step yet' toward a potential 2024 campaign
- Jobs report disappoints again with 194,000 additions in September
- Dave Chappelle jokes about 'being canceled' amid transphobic jokes controversy
- Idaho plans to bill MyPillow's Mike Lindell for 2020 election audits conducted to 'refute his false claim'
- Russian and Filipino journalists split 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for safeguarding 'freedom of expression'
- Germany after Angela Merkel: the long negotiations begin
- Late night hosts sweat new details on Trump's schemes to steal the election, wish Fox News a happy 25th
- New quarters will feature 5 trailblazing American women
- Texas abortion providers say patients are well aware 'this opportunity could be short-lived'
- Madonna makes Jimmy Fallon sweat, remove coat in 'disturbed' interview
- Elon Musk says Tesla is moving HQ to Austin from Palo Alto, citing affordable housing, room to expand
- Biden to expand 2 Utah national monuments downsized under Trump
- Florida Board of Education approves sanctioning school districts over mask mandates
- Senate approves bill raising the debt ceiling until early December
- October 7th
- Trump lawyer instructs former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee subpoenas
- How America's jobs recovery left Black women behind
- Democrats accepted Republicans' debt ceiling offer. Now what?
- Woody Harrelson punched a man in apparent self-defense at the Watergate Hotel, police say
- Matthew McConaughey declines to say 'where I stand on abortion' but criticizes Texas law
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell's 'complicated' road to renomination
- 18 former NBA players charged in alleged $4 million health care fraud conspiracy
- American trust in media drops to 2nd-lowest point on record
- Kathryn Hahn is reportedly getting her own WandaVision spinoff
- The FDA could still authorize a vaccine for young children by Halloween
- NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio misused security detail for personal benefit, investigation concludes
- 2021 Nobel Prize in literature awarded to British-Zanzibari post-colonial novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Rachel Maddow urges viewers to 'get your skin checked' after skin cancer surgery
- Wyoming banking heir donated 98 percent of private funds for Abbott's Texas border wall
- Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Fallon goof on Biden's $1 trillion coin, other budget dilemmas
- How the $1 trillion platinum coin would work, and how it could defuse the debt standoff
- Neighbors turn the tables and fix handyman's roof
- Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for COVID-19 grocery-licking Facebook hoax
- At least 20 killed after 5.7-magnitude quake hits southern Pakistan
- Colorado hospital system says it won't perform transplants on unvaccinated patients
- Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas abortion ban
- Oldest living former MLB player Eddie Robinson dies at 100
- October 6th
- White House to purchase $1 billion worth of rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests
- 'What kind of an offer is that?' Sen. Mazie Hirono rips into Mitch McConnell's debt ceiling proposal
- Twitter tests a new warning about the 'vibe of a conversation'
- Afghans reportedly escaped Kabul through a CIA gate so secret not even the Taliban knew it existed
- When should the public health emergency end?
- Facebook is reportedly conducting 'reputational reviews' of its new products
- Birds and marine mammals will be hardest hit by 'very uneven' recovery from Huntington Beach oil spill
- WHO approves world's first malaria vaccine in 'long-awaited landmark decision'
- Andrew Lloyd Webber says the Cats movie was so bad, it made him buy a dog
- 'Too bad': Senate Republicans insist the debt ceiling is Democrats' problem
- Black Panther star Letitia Wright has allegedly espoused anti-vaccine views on set
- Outside experts are reportedly advising the White House to scrap its universal COVID-19 booster plan
- Bill de Blasio's reportedly possible run for New York governor: 'Osama bin Laden is probably more popular'
- AT&T is reportedly a 'crucial source of funds' for the far-right One America News Network
- New poll stuffed with 'bad news' for Biden, Democrats
- Democratic senator dismisses Zuckerberg's whistleblower response: 'He has lost all trust if he ever had any'
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to 2 chemists who created a cheaper, greener way to build molecules
- A town in Italy just got 60 percent of its annual rainfall in 12 hours
- Late night hosts recap the Facebook flameout fallout, spoil the newest juicy Trump tell-all
- Despite pleas from Pope Francis and other advocates, Missouri executes intellectually disabled man
- Controversial New York police union head steps down after FBI raid
- This 9-year-old is helping get diverse voices into Utah's school libraries
- Idaho lieutenant governor bans vaccine mandates, tries to deploy National Guard during governor's 2-day trip
- New York couple weds at border crossing so Canadian family can be part of the big day
- Report: House Jan. 6 select committee can't track down former Trump aide to serve subpoena
- Biden: Changing Senate's filibuster rules to raise debt ceiling 'a real possibility'
- October 5th
- Biden: Infrastructure, spending bills are not about 'moderate versus progressive'
- Will this MLB postseason belong to a bunch of old guys?
- Facebook responds to whistleblower testimony by asking to be regulated
- The Taliban is the 'only team on the field' to quell Afghanistan's ISIS-K threat
- Why a deeply divided Senate may be a greater threat to Democrats than Republicans
- Virginia gubernatorial candidate rolls out ad campaign aimed at Taylor Swift fans
- 'Unusual' cable specifies that dozens of CIA informants have been arrested, killed in recent years
- DOJ reviewing decision not to charge FBI agents in Larry Nassar investigation
- Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says the company chooses to grow 'at all costs'
- Capitol Police respond to yet another threat in front of Supreme Court
- William Shatner says he's 'a little frightened' about going to space next week
- Ex-Trump aide Stephanie Grisham warns 'the 1/6 crowd' could fill a 2024 Trump White House
- Minting a trillion-dollar coin to solve debt ceiling crisis a 'gimmick,' Treasury chief Yellen says
- Russia beats Tom Cruise to the punch by arriving in space to make 1st movie in orbit
- HBO drops 1st trailer for Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon
- 3 scientists awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational methods of quantifying climate change
- Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah highlight some surprising, famous 'tax cheats' in the Pandora Papers
- Late night hosts joke about how people survived the great Facebook-Instagram outage of 2021
- What took down Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
- Francis Collins will reportedly step down as head of NIH
- Why Republicans are blocking Democrats from raising the debt ceiling
- Study: In less than a decade, 14 percent of the world's coral reefs were wiped out
- Texas parole board recommends posthumous pardon for George Floyd
- Capitol rioter gets jail time after judge says 'a slap on the wrist' won't do
- Officials looking into possibility that a ship's anchor caused California oil spill
- October 4th
- Britney Spears thanks #FreeBritney movement after father's conservatorship suspension
- Biden administration reverses Trump-era abortion referral ban on clinics
- 'It's mayhem over here': The Facebook outage, according to employees
- Resigning State Department adviser condemns Biden's 'inhumane' migrant expulsions under Title 42
- Billie Eilish set to voice Sally in Nightmare Before Christmas concert
- Jerry Seinfeld finally agrees that Bee Movie was disturbing
- Fans are not happy that Lizzo called Chris Brown her favorite person in the world
- Hollywood labor union votes to authorize a strike with more than 98 percent support
- Biden blames McConnell for 'meteor' heading toward U.S. economy
- Fauci clarifies Christmas comments: 'Have a good, normal Christmas with your family'
- Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit with widespread outage
- 'Wholly inappropriate': Kyrsten Sinema responds to Arizona State University bathroom confrontation
- Trump is reportedly telling people 'I'm running' and wanted to announce his 2024 campaign in August
- Why full FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine wasn't the 'silver bullet' for vaccination rates
- Pediatric cases of COVID-19 are declining in the U.S.: 'Encouraging news'
- Nobel Prize awarded to scientists for discovery that 'unlocks one of the secrets of nature'
- Russian state media ignores Putin's mistress revelations in Pandora Papers trove
- 'Pandora Papers' reveal 14 world leaders, other elites hiding wealth in tax havens, including South Dakota
- John Oliver explains why Teflon and other PFAS are bad, everywhere, and what to do about it
- Facebook whistleblower tells 60 Minutes her ex-employer isn't 'malevolent' but is definitely destroying societies
- Japan's parliament formally elects Fumio Kishida prime minister
- Tom Brady ekes out a win against Patriots, sets new passing record, in 1st game back in New England
- Huge oil spill hits Southern California's Huntington Beach, threatening 'environmental catastrophe'
- October 3rd
- Andrew Yang explains why Americans should worry about how campaigns affect their political leaders
- 'Too soon' to tell if Americans can gather safely for holidays, Fauci says
- Biden adviser: 'People will not get everything they want' in congressional negotiations
- How MLB can achieve unprecedented 'maximum chaos' on its final day of the regular season
- Multiple civilians killed in blast outside Kabul mosque hosting prayer service for Taliban leader's mother
- SNL is back and it has a new Joe Biden
- A transformed workplace
- October 2nd
- The possible reasons why Rodrigo Duterte is retiring from Filipino politics
- Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema calls her party's two-track legislative approach an 'ineffective stunt'
- Has the Walton family gained an outsized influence over a crucial environmental crisis?
- Incentives key to United Airlines' 'extremely effective' vaccine mandate
- How economists think the White House should potentially scale back Biden's $3.5 trillion agenda
- October 1st
- 'We failed': How the FDNY's 'rigid culture' led to scandal following George Floyd's murder
- The U.S. economic recovery is 'gaining steam' going into the fall
- California to require students get vaccinated against COVID-19 after full FDA approval
- The Texas abortion law's broader challenge for the Supreme Court
- Golden Globes group adds 6 Black members after massive backlash over lack of diversity
- Australia announces plan to reopen its border
- Most Americans are ignoring Capitol Hill negotiations, poll finds
- Trump reportedly refused a vegan charity challenge: 'If I lose even one brain cell, we're f---ed'
- COVID-19 pill cuts hospitalizations and deaths in half, Merck says
- Pelosi and Manchin may be closing in on a deal. Sinema says Democratic leaders are 'fully aware' of her priorities.
- Angela Merkel’s long goodbye
- Dubai kicks off delayed Expo 2020, the 1st World Fair in the Middle East
- Late night hosts give Congress 1 cheer for averting a shutdown, ponder what Kyrsten Sinema wants
- Trump's Russia special counsel John Durham is misrepresenting mysterious Trump-Russia link, researchers say
- Maryland teen uses cookies to start a kindness movement
- National school board group asks for federal help investigating 'heinous' threats
- Federal appellate court allows Biden administration to expel migrant families under public health order
- Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar to perform at Super Bowl
- House delays vote on trillion-dollar infrastructure plan
- Ex-Nazi secretary, 96, in custody after skipping trial
- Biden signs stopgap funding bill, averting government shutdown
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