Flipping Tables

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On This Day: History.com — Statue of Liberty dedicated | Women’s eNews — The Statue of Liberty and early feminism | EBSCO — Statue of Liberty is dedicated

Bolsonaro: CNN — Defies travel ban with flight to US | NBC News — Flees to U.S. | U.S. News/Reuters — Leaves Brazil for US | The Hill — Trump calls Brazil election “rigged” | Euronews — “Rigged” without evidence | SCMP — Bolsonaro’s party acknowledges Lula win

Israel: CNN — Record turnout live blog | Jerusalem Post — Election 2026 coverage | Times of Israel — Final polls | Al Jazeera — When will we know who won

Supreme Court / immigration: ABC News — Court declines to restore closure policy | U.S. News/Reuters — Denies judges power to shelve cases | Detroit News — Same

Phillip James: AP via U.S. News — Documents support citizen’s claim | WTOP — Same

Methane: The Hill — Loosening rules for low-producing wells | Center for Western Priorities — Rollback for all wells | Colorado Public Radio — Weeks after Colorado adopted stricter rules | Bloomberg — EPA readies bid to weaken controls

WMO: WMO — Greenhouse gas levels once again reach record high | UPI — CO2, other emissions record high in 2025 | SCMP — Impact will last centuries

El Niño: Raw Story/Guardian — Monster El Niño bears down on storm watchers Trump gutted | inkl/Guardian — “Cascade” of El Niño dangers | Rep. Amo — 41 lawmakers call for NOAA to prepare | Weather.com — Historic super El Niño ahead

AI term: The Hill — Trump says he will ban term | Forbes — Latest push for “Super Intelligence” | Mediaite — “In all relevant documents, and everything else”

Malfoid: Just the News — Education Department joins Malfoid trend | Know Your Meme — Malfoid / female Draco Malfoy | Yahoo — What is Malfoid

Heckler: CNN — Protester interrupts Trump rally | Mediaite — “Shove that ballroom” | IBTimes — Protester removed at Mississippi rally

Trump Jr.: Forbes — Hunted in Mongolia with oligarch who bankrolled his wedding | New Republic — Closer to Putin ally than we knew | Daily Beast — Hunting trip with Umar Kremlev | UNITED24 — Counterintelligence warning

Pretti: CNN — Family says feds stonewalling | MPR News — Parents speak on his killing | Star Tribune — Family news conference | WVTM/CNN — No answers nine months later

Tennessee escape: CNN — Escaped through fence, fled in stolen truck | NBC News — Manhunt for convicted killer | Washington Post — Search underway | WREG — Stole truck after escape

Bundy: KSTP/AP — Linked to another Utah teen’s 1974 murder | Fox 8 — Connected to another 1970s homicide | PBS — April Laura Aime DNA match

Swalwell: Yahoo/CNN — FBI raids billionaire’s mansion | Newsweek — Mansion raided | NewsNation — Investigation update | Signal — Swalwell ends bid, resigns (April)

Brand: NBC News — Appears in court for trial | Variety — Trial begins | ABC7 — Six women testify

UN Gaza report: CBC — Commission says genocide continued since truce | ABC Australia — Continued after truce | Al Jazeera — “Extermination” in West Bank

Good news: Good Good Good — Nurses secure first countywide 12-week paid parental leave | PublicSource — Compromise amendments | WPXI — Supporters rally at courthouse

Sources:
On This Day: History.com — New York City subway opens | Design World — Today in engineering history | Goldman Sachs — 1904 subway
Serbia: Al Jazeera — Vucic concedes to student movement | CBS News — Putin-endorsed leader concedes | Axios — Students topple Vucic | Al Jazeera — The leader brought down by students | Time — Orban loses Hungary (April)
Brazil: NPR — Lula wins fourth term | CNN — Bolsonaro rejects result | CNBC — Historic fourth term, markets fall | Time — Bolsonaro refuses to concede, Trump reaction | Rio Times — Washington reaction
Israel: Times of Israel — Election day guide | Times of Israel — Final polls, both blocs short | UPI — Liberman seeks treason probe | Jerusalem Post — Liberman: treason probe over Iran plot | Fortune — Netanyahu denies attack plan | Haaretz — Eisenkot final rally
Epstein report: House Judiciary Democrats — Report release | NBC News — Democrats call for special counsel | HuffPost — Keul allegation | MS NOW — 50-page report
James Comey: Axios — Comey charged again | CBS News — DOJ takes steps to charge Comey | CNBC — New case against Comey | The Hill — Charged a third time
Maurene Comey: CNBC — DOJ unlawfully fired Comey | ABC News — Judge reinstates Comey | Mediaite — Ruling text
Kennedy Center: 1News/AP — Judge urged to order release | La Voce di New York — Withheld messages | Nebraska.tv — Beatty motion to compel
Observers / election: AP via Click2Houston — Thousands of observers | NBC News — Same | NPR — Civil rights groups’ observers | CNN — DOJ sues to block Alaska results | PBS — Trump says he ordered Alaska suit | Fox News live blog — Port Huron rally
Minaj: Billboard — Trump praises Minaj at rally | Consequence — White House floats Minaj as press secretary | Mixmag — Minaj responds
ICE / Phillip James: AP via U.S. News — Documents support claim ICE detained mentally ill citizen | WTOP — Same | Yahoo — Same
Iran: CNN — US has plans for major strikes | The Hill — Post-midterm strike options | Al Jazeera — CENTCOM plans, will Trump approve
Ketamine: AP via Yahoo — Pentagon wants ketamine wafers | Washington Times — Ketamine wafers for wounded troops | SSBCrack — Emergency authorization pursuit
FORTRESS: Fox News — Inside the Pentagon’s FORTRESS plan | Newsweek — What is FORTRESS | DefenseScoop — FORTRESS program office memo | Anadolu — 90 days without support
Anthropic: U.S. News/Reuters — Opens books on growth and costs | Al Jazeera — $80bn loss, WSJ | TNW — $518bn compute commitments | Fox Business — Claude accessed Georgia voter data
Golf tax shelter: Forbes — Golf empire as billion-dollar tax shelter | Raw Story — IRS deal could bulletproof write-off | Unusual Whales — Forbes findings summarized
Soccer: EURweb — 3-year-old phenom, police called | BlackSportsOnline — Police called on 3-year-old | Fashion Times — Banned from Florida league
Central Park: CBS New York — Assault at knifepoint | ABC7 NY — Same | PIX11 — Calls for safety measures
Good news: Euronews — Bleached corals recover after touching healthy clones | KQED — Stanford’s new way to revive coral | CP24 — Healthy corals help bleached neighbours

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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

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 |

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