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Yesterdays News 10/16

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Reminder: I will be in Scotland for my birthday next week! Libras UNITE! Yesterday's news will still be coming out leading into midterms, but the time of day may change slightly, I will have a few days that I take off completely from being online, but I will announce those. SOURCES On This Day: JFK Library — October 16, 1962 | Office of the Historian — Cuban Missile Crisis

UChicago: Chicago Sun-Times — Group cheered as woman was assaulted | Block Club Chicago — Person of interest identified, banned | The Week — Echoes of Cornell

Cornell: CNN — 16 found responsible, two expelled | Chronicle of Higher Education — Why the Cornell men wrote essays | NBC News — Records on one accused student

Execution: CNN — Trump calls off livestream | NBC News — No livestream | Al Jazeera — Trump’s post, Obama reference | The Hill — Trump cancels Hegseth’s plan | Mediaite — Patel’s “From Russia, with Love”

Press access: Axios — Judge orders access reinstated until litigation concludes | ABC News — Preliminary injunction | Washington Post — Another blow to media bans

Ukraine: KRDO/CNN — Ukraine runs out of Patriot missiles | Al Jazeera — “Massive” attack kills at least nine | Kyiv Post — Strikes after Trump’s truce | Kyiv Independent — Moscow says scope unclear | Ukrinform — Supermarket logistics center destroyed | RNZ — Trump admin silent as Russia hits U.S. businesses | CBS News — U.S. may have withheld warnings | RFE/RL — Uncertainty over U.S. intelligence | CNBC — Musk: Trump “ultimately” responsible for Starshield curbs | Forbes — Ukraine says SpaceX restricting Starlink | CNN — Starlink restriction, early warning

Refugees: Boston Globe/AP — Deadline cut to contest status termination | Latin Times — 10 days to challenge

Omar: Al Jazeera — Administration seeks to strip citizenship, WSJ | Newsweek — Phone seized, citizenship targeted | CBS News — Home searched

Salazar v. Paramount: SCOTUSblog — Court appears likely to allow suit | ABC News/AP — Blockbuster-era law gets fresh look | The Record — Facebook pixel case

Blackburn: Billboard — “Not Like Us” AI video slammed | The National Desk — Blasted over AI video

Harris: Mediaite — “You are rude!” | Newsweek — Scolds crowd for laughing | New Republic — Tried to get journalist arrested | The Banner — What led to the press conference

Data centers: Texas Tribune — Crackdown exposes limits of state law | Axios — Abbott: data centers “dug their own grave” | CNBC — Texas turning blue may hinge on data center opposition | CNN — Death threats over data centers | Texas Politics Project — Poll

Marshall: MS NOW/AP — Sought funding; project could benefit his ranch | Yahoo/Independent — Railed against waste, sought $4.2M

Guilfoyle: CNBC — Resigns at White House’s request | Axios — Forced out | NBC News — Resigns amid misconduct allegations | Daily Beast — “Burn book” report

Zacharia: NBC News — Watchdog seeks investigation of legal résumé | SF Chronicle — Not licensed to practice law in U.S. | The Hill — Complaint filed with California bar

White powder: NBC News — Letters sent to election offices in 3 states | CP24/CNN — Multiple states | Forbes — Letters to Capitol Hill, election offices

Pope: CNBC — Diagnosed with cancer, lobe removed | CBS News — Recovering “as expected” | U.S. News/AP — Chicago Catholics rally for prayer | CNN — Pope’s first message

Cameroon: KDH News/AP — Killings spur protests, demands for laws | Human Rights Watch — Cameroon grapples with femicides | IBTimes — Teacher’s death, planned law

Israeli prisons: Washington Post/AP — Surge in inmates shot with rubber bullets | <a href="https://wtop.com/world/2026/10/israeli-rights-groups-report-a-surge-of-palestinian-inmates-bein

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Oct 19, 2026

Sources: On This Day: Federal Reserve History — Stock Market Crash of 1987 | Library of Congress — Black Monday Sanctions waiver: CNBC — Trump waives broad new Russia sanctions | ABC News — Order waiving Graham Act sanctions | France 24 — Rubio: 60 days to analyze | RFE/RL — Ukrainian officials slam waiver | The Hill — Zelensky denounces waiver | White House — Implementing the Graham Act | Debevoise — Graham Act explainer Starshield: Kyiv Post — Rubio: Ukraine lacks access to Starshield | Newsweek — Rubio denies ordered slowdown | CBS News — Ukraine still unable to intercept drones | CNBC — Musk: “ultimately POTUS” Dmitriev: TASS — UK, EU “sabotage” peace efforts | TASS — “Checkmate” | Gazeta do Povo — AI image of U.S. and Russia facing Europe | CNN — Dmitriev praises waiver Bend: CBS News — 3 children, teacher killed | PBS — Shooter attacked special-education classroom | NBC News — Bystander identified | Central Oregon Daily — Teacher threw phone, fought shooter | OPB — Survivors remain hospitalized Wichita: CBS News — Boy among 2 killed, 11 injured | ABC News — Truck drives through soccer game Measles: Al Jazeera — 4,410 cases | CDC — Cases and outbreaks | Contagion Live — October 16 update Omar: The Hill — Obama: probe is a political attack | Yahoo/Fox — Obama’s statement | Fox News — Homan on denaturalization | Arolsen Archives — The expatriation card file | JTA — Thomas Mann’s citizenship cancelled (1936) | Jewish Museum Berlin — 1933 revocation of naturalization UTSA: ESPN — Service member died from fall | TPR — Airman dies in rappelling accident | KSAT — Air Force statement Vance: Daily Beast — Blindsided by grieving husband | Yahoo — Minnesota widower demands answers | IBTimes — Vance: “huge mistake” BBC suit: Forbes — Judge threatens sanctions | Bloomberg — Judge threatens Trump with sanctions | TheWrap — Bailing on deposition Zacharia / East Potomac: CNN — Why Trump fired Zacharia after five days | NPR — Zacharia out | Washington Post — Photos obscuring what appears to be map of East Potomac | CNN — Administration seeks to remove judge | CNN — Work to start mid-November | Washington Post — Satellite images of tree removal France: Al Jazeera — Hundreds of thousands protest | CBS News — 1,800 arrested | France 24 — “Like we had a war” Meta / No Kings: TheWrap — Instagram account disappears | Common Dreams — Censorship fears | Raw Story — “We demand answers” | TPR — No Kings draws crowds with early-voting focus | Arizona Mirror — Crowds channel anger into early votes Norte Fire: ABC News/AP — Blaze burned 6 homes, 16,000 evacuated | FOX Weather — First Santa Ana event Good news: Physics World — Optogenetic therapy shows promise | Technology Networks — Gene therapy helps patients detect objects | NPR — Nobel for optogenetics

Oct 13, 2026

Sources: On This Day: History.com — Shot in the chest, Roosevelt kept talking | WPR — Shot in Milwaukee, 1912 Youngstown rally: CNN — Trump holds raucous Ohio rally | NBC News — Live blog | AOL — Protester punched in face as Trump calls her "fat guy" | Raw Story — "They're scum" | WFMJ — Live notes | The Vindicator — Trump stumps for Husted, Ramaswamy Musk: CNBC — $276 million, biggest known donor | CNN — Top booster for Republicans | MPR/AP — Quietly becomes biggest donor | The Hill — $366 million cycle total Grassley: BizPac Review — Files for reelection; would be 101 | Townhall — Files for 2028 bid Voting rules: Washington Times/AP — GOP states impose new voting rules | Mississippi Today/AP — Same | CNN — Ohio early voting shift Bankruptcies: Newsweek — Bankruptcies surge | Epoch Times — Filings up 11 percent | Time News — Small trucking fleets file Tariffs: Globe and Mail/AP — Trump sticks with tariffs despite disapproval | CP24/AP — Voters turn against tariffs | CNN — Author of tariff statute says tariffs are illegal | GBQ — Section 301 tariffs on 60 economies Ukraine: CNBC — Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating ceasefire | Euronews — Russia ignored ceasefire | PBS — Strikes continue despite claim | Axios — Trump announces ceasefire Houston: CNN — Man struck by ICE vehicle broke both legs | Click2Houston — Parra undergoes surgery, family allegations | Houston Chronicle — ICE vehicle hits man Pike: CNN — Emergency help delayed by confusion | CBS News — 911 calls | NBC News — Calls highlight confusion Mamdani: NY1 — Review after teen's death | Yahoo/CNN — Department-wide review | CNN — Marble Hill ICE shooting AI center: U.S. News/Reuters — Officials to move to White House | Crypto Briefing — CAISI under White House oversight Good news: Billboard — Musgraves fires back at Noem | Hollywood Reporter — Dig about killing her dog | TheWrap — Snarky clapback

Oct 12, 2026

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Oct 12, 2026

The word “gossip” started out as something sacred. In Old English it was godsibb, literally “God-sibling,” the name for a godparent or anyone who stood with you at a baptism and became spiritual kin. By the Middle Ages the meaning had loosened to cover any close friend or companion, and in particular the circle of women who gathered in the birthing room to help a mother through labor. Those long hours of waiting were filled with talk, and the “gossips” became known as much for their conversation as for their support. Men, fearful and suspicious of women in community without men supervising began to demonize women gathering publicly or speaking to each other. Male writers of the 1500s and 1600s sneered at “gossips” as idle, chattering women, and by the 1800s the verb “to gossip” meant exactly what it does today. It was uniquely WOMAN sin and was built to isolate a woman from network. Then... they added it to the Bible.

Oct 9, 2026

Sources: On This Day: History.com — Vice President Agnew resigns | Britannica — October 10, 1973 Swatting: Yahoo — Jane Doe targeted in swatting incident | CNN — Death threats as pressure builds | CNN — Inside the swatting incident | NBC — Wichita swatting case Civil Rights Division: Rolling Stone — DOJ stocking Civil Rights Division | CBS News — “Reverse discrimination” upends division | Bloomberg Law — Civil rights recast | NOTUS — How Trump transformed the office | Public Citizen — The attorneys Dhillon installed | MS NOW — Opinion | The Hill — Title IX rule rescinded | CBS News — Lowest refugee cap, mostly Afrikaners | IRAP — Ceiling expansion for Afrikaners | CS Monitor — Afrikaners settle in NYC shooting: CNN — Man shot by ICE with 5-year-old in car | The Intercept — Agent posing as construction worker | Yahoo — Mamdani statement | SAN — Protesters clash with police California: New Republic — “Go after anybody” | Yahoo — Newsom: “campaign of fear” | NBC San Diego — Surge starts in San Diego | LA Public Press — Arrests surge USS Lincoln: Stars and Stripes — Returns after 322 days | CBS News — Docks in San Diego | The Hill — Ends deployment Hasan: NBC News — Livestream of execution | PBS/AP — Pentagon confirms livestream | NPR — First firing squad since WWII | DPIC — First military execution in 65 years “Super intelligence”: Forbes — Anyone who says “AI” is an “enemy” | Yahoo — White House still uses “AI” Medals / Nobel Peace: Al Jazeera — Trump gives science awards to Musk, others | Euronews — “Modern-day Thomas Edison” | Al Jazeera — Peace Prize to Navi Pillay | CNN — Pillay wins | France 24 — Pillay wins | Euronews — Trump: “I settled eight wars” Johnson: The Hill — Floats return to Louisiana | Benzinga — Lawn business “with fervor” Mifepristone: NBC News — Review complete in March | STAT — Review continues into 2027 | CNN — Same Huckabee aide: The Hill — Aide suppressed embassy reports | Times of Israel — NYT report | GV Wire/NYT — How a diplomat altered reports Isaias: CNN — Gulf Coast evacuations, Category 3 | ABC News — Takes aim at Panhandle | Weather.com — Intensifies before landfall Good news: NobelPrize.org — Literature 2026 press release | NPR — Anne Carson wins | CNN — Genre-bending Canadian writer

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