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Today's headlines raise some big questions about accountability, the future of technology, and the cost of everyday life. There's a surprising turn on Wall Street, a debate that could reshape American neighborhoods, and a few stories you probably didn't see coming. From Washington to Hollywood, we've got the developments worth your attention.

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Jury selection begins Tuesday in the federal hate crimes trial of the white supremacist who killed ten people at a Buffalo supermarket, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Among the dead was Celestine Chaney, whose son Wayne Jones has spent the four years since speaking about her on gun violence panels.

Jones plans to attend the trial, and he does not want to see a death sentence; he has said that thinking each day about his mother's absence is one reason. "I really think that he should just sit and have to think about it year after year after year and just be miserable," he said.

One person died and several others were hurt in an incident involving a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia shortly before 4 p.m. on Monday, police in Cobb County said. Officers stationed at the park responded, and detectives with the major crimes unit are investigating the circumstances.

Aerial footage showed the Goliath coaster stopped midway with riders being helped off by workers, though police did not say which ride was involved. A park spokesperson said Six Flags was cooperating fully with authorities and would release nothing further out of respect for the family.

Ads promoting Trump and his policies kept running on public money for more than a week after he said his MAGA Inc. super PAC would take over the bill, and nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars has gone to air them since late September, according to tracking data from AdImpact.

Nearly $10 million of that was spent after October 5, when the president pledged on social media to fund the campaign privately, and the ads kept airing after a federal judge ordered them taken down. "The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads," Trump posted at the time.

Drones struck two ships in the Black Sea off Bulgaria Tuesday, sinking one vessel and prompting rescues, as Prime Minister Rumen Radev called the attacks "absolutely unacceptable."

A man stabbed at least eight people at a shopping mall in Incheon, South Korea, and police detained a 59-year-old suspect after bystanders subdued him on Tuesday.

DNA on a protective cover led French investigators to two stolen Renoirs, and four men now face preliminary charges over the September theft from a museum on the Riviera.

Katie Zacharia takes the White House podium Tuesday for her first briefing as press secretary, and she arrives while the administration fights the press corps in court.

The Army is deploying hundreds more soldiers to Texas' Rio Grande Valley this month, shifting troops already on the border after officials cited elevated drug cartel activity.

President Trump flies to Wasilla, Alaska, today to rally for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who faces former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola, before rallies in Arizona and Montana on Wednesday.

Bumble shares soared almost 50% Monday on reports of advanced takeover talks valuing the Texas-based dating app at $1 billion, far below its $14 billion-plus 2021 peak.

JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo report before the opening bell Tuesday, kicking off an earnings season where analysts expect S&P 500 profit growth near 30%.

Chip stocks extended a global sell-off Tuesday as SK Hynix plunged more than 10% and Samsung Electronics shed 7.4%, while Micron slipped about 3% in U.S. premarket trading.

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A 50,000-year-old woolly rhino skull, unearthed in a Somerset quarry in 2025, has gone on display nearby, where a Bristol scientist hailed it as an "icon of the Ice Age."

Coral reefs near seabird colonies grow healthier because of bird droppings, and researchers at Palmyra Atoll have traced an entire ecosystem to the nutrients in guano.

GM CEO Mary Barra said Monday the automaker remains on track for "eyes-off, hands-off" driving by 2028, debuting it in the electric Cadillac Escalade IQ first.

The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Dodgers 7-4 to take a 2-0 NLCS lead, as William Contreras homered and drove in the go-ahead run against the two-time defending champions.

The Minnesota Wild beat Vegas 4-2 behind a three-goal first-period surge, killing all five Golden Knights penalties to improve to an NHL-best 21 for 22 on the penalty kill.

Josh Allen piled up 331 total yards as the Bills outlasted the Rams 37-34 in overtime, with Tyler Bass kicking the winner after a blocked Rams field goal.

The Cleveland Guardians rallied past Tampa Bay for a 7-3 ALCS Game 1 win, as Patrick Bailey's tying 436-foot homer in the seventh chased starter Drew Rasmussen.

Alex Gibney's documentary "Musk" expands nationwide on Friday, and Elon Musk has spent weeks calling the filmmaker an "idiot" and a "horrible human" in posts on his own platform.

Brian Eno is relaunching Opal Records on Friday, and the label he founded in 1988 and shelved in 1991 will put two of his long-vanished albums back in print.

"Heated Rivalry" returns in late spring for a second season, and Jacob Tierney said the HBO Max hockey series will follow Shane and Ilya past the first season's ending.

What it is: The modest house — 1,000 square feet, three bedrooms, close to its neighbors — is illegal to build across most of the United States. After World War II, as suburbs spread, cities mandated ever-larger minimum lot sizes for single-family homes only, which effectively banned duplexes, townhomes and apartments across wide stretches of residential land and locked in economic and racial segregation.

The detail: On a century-old block in North Braintree, Massachusetts, clapboard homes of about 1,000 square feet sit close together, and Andrew Mikula, a housing economist, says modern zoning makes them illegal. Walk two blocks and the lots and the houses are both far larger. "You need to build a large McMansion just to justify the cost of assembling so much land," he said.

Why it matters: Fewer houses get built, and the ones that do are bigger and more expensive: most single-family zoning in that state now requires at least an acre, nearly the size of a football field. Critics of changing the rules say a state mandate strips local control and will not deliver cheap houses anyway, pointing to one small-lot Lexington home built in 1900 and since gut-renovated that recently listed for nearly $1.3 million.

What to watch: Five states have now moved. Kansas, Maine and Idaho cut their minimum lot sizes this year, Texas did last year, and most went below 5,000 square feet, about the footprint of a basketball court. Massachusetts voters decide on November 3 whether to require their towns to allow homes on lots that size.

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A Rhode Island grower may have smashed the world pumpkin record by nearly 300 pounds, and Ron Wallace's 3,156-pound squash now awaits confirmation from Guinness.

Florida's oldest historically Black university will build its first dorm since 1982, and Edward Waters secured $25 million toward $33 million in improvements in Jacksonville.

Robot umpires are having a busy postseason, and hitters won 57% of their ball-strike challenges in the first two rounds, up from 49% across the whole regular season.

The Continental Congress authorizes the first American naval force (1775) · The cornerstone of the White House is laid (1792) · An international conference adopts Greenwich as the world's prime meridian (1884) · Michael Dukakis is asked about the death penalty at a presidential debate (1988) · The last of 33 trapped miners is rescued in Chile (2010)

"No, I don't, Bernard, and I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life." — Michael Dukakis, second presidential debate, 1988

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