Residents were taken out from the devastated city on Friday during a local ceasefire.
BBC News – World BBC News – World Residents were taken out from the devastated city on Friday during a local ceasefire.
NYTimes – US Pike, 50, is being held in solitary confinement and faces an uncertain future after surviving a failed lethal injection.
NYTimes – World Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta announced it is closing, citing pressure from Russian authorities. The outlet, whose co-founder Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize, said the government had orchestrated its demise. Reports noted recent searches of a senior editor's home and the detention of one of its journalists. Novaya Gazeta has been openly critical of Russia's war in Ukraine and was classed as a 'foreign agent' by Moscow.
NYTimes – US The 2-1 ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel is the latest setback for the Trump administration's efforts to assert control over state-run elections.
Sky News – Front Page Sir Patrick Stewart, the actor best known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in "Star Trek" and Professor Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" films, has died at 86. He died in Los Angeles after living with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia, according to Al Jazeera. Tributes have been paid to Stewart, who was born in Mirfield, England.
BBC News – World Pope Leo XIV has become the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election, casting a mail-in ballot in his native Chicago ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, the Vatican confirmed. The Chicago-born pontiff, who has a tense relationship with Donald Trump, mailed in a ballot in a contest that will decide control of the U.S. Congress.
NPR – Politics U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ordered a formal ethics inquiry into government lawyers' conduct in the East Potomac Golf Links case, asking them to explain contradictory statements about their plans for the municipal golf course. The inquiry follows allegations that Trump administration officials may have misled the court.
NYTimes – World Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to becoming the European Union's first "associate member," aiming to conclude negotiations by June 2027. The unprecedented status is intended to reduce American influence over Canada and expand trade, though it has faced strong opposition from Germany.
A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to stop demanding that California state and local election officials segregate ballots and threatening them with criminal prosecution for noncompliance. The ruling came from a San Francisco-based court.
Pike, 50, is being held in solitary confinement and faces an uncertain future after surviving a failed lethal injection.
