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A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the president cannot ban news organizations from covering him at the White House because he dislikes their coverage. Judge Timothy Kelly found that barring more than seventy journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico violated their free speech rights in two separate ways, and their due process rights.

The ruling extends an earlier order and holds that the three outlets are likely to win their constitutional claims when the case reaches trial. The judge granted them a temporary restraining order on September 24, and he pointed repeatedly to the president's own statements and social media posts in reaching his conclusion.

The White House publicly asked for Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation as ambassador to Greece on Tuesday, and she announced within two hours that she was quitting. She had faced accusations of improper conduct in Athens, including a report that she asked a donor to pay her credit card bill, and said she would "vigorously defend" herself.

Trump said she had done a good job but would not be there any longer. "I didn't like what I read," he said. Guilfoyle, a former television host and the former fiancée of the president's eldest son, called the claims false and the post the honor of a lifetime.

Former gang boss Duane "Keffe D" Davis was sentenced on Tuesday to at least 40 years in prison for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur. A jury convicted the 63-year-old in September of murder with a deadly weapon over the drive-by shooting that killed the rapper in Las Vegas in September 1996.

Prosecutors argued that Davis did not fire the gun himself but led the group that did, and he admitted in his memoir that he supplied the weapon. He is the only person ever charged in the case, which went unsolved for nearly thirty years, and he says he will appeal.

Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung cancer, and surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung in a ninety-minute operation the Vatican says went without complications.

Russian strikes have left 600,000 people in Ukraine without electricity, and Zelensky said energy sites in Kyiv and Kharkiv were hit overnight despite the ceasefire announced on Sunday.

Turkish police raided the headquarters of pro-opposition broadcaster Halk TV in Istanbul, halting its live broadcasts as 11 people were taken into custody in a probe tied to its owner.

Water quality and cancer rates have become central issues in Iowa's 2026 races, with the state posting the nation's second-highest rate of new cancer diagnoses amid concern over farm nitrates.

AI data centers are moving onto federal land, and developers rebuffed in Boulder City, Nevada, applied for adjacent public acreage instead, in a fight now shaping the governor's race.

The FDA has received reports of two deaths linked to bootleg versions of an experimental weight-loss drug, and poison centers logged 862 retatrutide exposures since July.

Kroger will cut 3,000 corporate jobs over three years as it leans into artificial intelligence, and the chief executive told staff the way work gets done is changing.

Taiwan plans to buy six million metric tons of liquefied natural gas a year from an Alaska project, and it may invest up to $4.4 billion in it.

China's exports jumped 36.3% in September from a year earlier, and its trade surplus reached $938 billion over the first nine months as partners press it to rebalance.

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Archaeologists say the world's oldest shipwreck lies off the coast of Turkey, dated to between 4,400 and 4,700 years ago, roughly when the Great Pyramid was being built.

Portable solar kits are increasingly powering disaster relief and refugee camps, from Rohingya shelters in Bangladesh to Nepal's flood zones, as costs fall and technology improves.

A Dragon capsule is chasing the space station with 6,300 pounds aboard that include fresh blueberries and two solar blankets for spacewalks later this month.

Freddy Peralta threw six scoreless innings as the Rays beat the Guardians 3-1, evening the ALCS at a game apiece after Jose Ramirez's fourth-inning error led to three unearned runs.

The USWNT rallied from two goals down to draw world champion Spain 2-2 in Chester, Pennsylvania, with Mallory Swanson scoring her first U.S. goal since the 2024 Olympics.

A central figure in college basketball's point-shaving scheme, Jalen Smith, was sentenced to six years in federal prison, the first penalty in a case involving nearly 30 NCAA games.

Brady Tkachuk scored a natural hat trick in the second period as the Panthers routed Columbus 7-3, with brother Matthew Tkachuk matching a club record with five assists.

Newly released security footage shows Kelly Clarkson browsing Brooklyn novelty store Art of Play, which she accused of treating her as if she couldn't afford Molly, a $15,000 bird automaton.

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles play the Dashwood sisters in Georgia Oakley's "Sense and Sensibility," the first major version directed by a woman, opening in theaters Friday.

Todd Haynes previewed his romantic noir "De Noche," starring Pedro Pascal, at France's Lumière Film Festival, recalling he hired a costume designer who said what matters most is the smell.

What it is: Tight diesel supplies will last well into next year, with relief unlikely before the second half of 2027, the International Energy Agency warned Wednesday in its October report. U.S. diesel prices hit $6 a gallon for the first time last month, and wholesale prices reached all-time highs near $220 a barrel in the United States and Europe.

The detail: Global diesel exports fell 700,000 barrels a day year over year in September, as a 1.3 million-barrel daily loss from Russia and the Middle East was only partly offset. Even as high prices cut overall oil demand, the IEA said diesel demand stayed strong, propped up by government measures meant to ease high prices for consumers.

Why it matters: Analysts warn relief for U.S. truckers and farmers is unlikely soon, with the White House under pressure to lower fuel prices less than a month before the midterm elections. The IEA also warned delivered diesel prices in Europe, Africa and Latin America could rise again in the coming weeks because of tensions in crude freight markets.

What to watch: Watch refinery output, which the IEA expects to recover rapidly toward year-end, though it still projects supply falling short of demand through the fourth quarter of 2026. Also watch the Gulf, where Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, including an Aramco building targeted overnight, could derail the supply recovery the IEA forecasts for 2027.

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A Jack Russell has been loose in Yellowstone for a month, and volunteers say Luna keeps crossing intersections and letting herself into lodges through automatic doors.

Brad Ryan took his grandmother camping after learning she had never seen a mountain, and eleven years later they have visited every national park in the country.

Sotheby's is showing a dinosaur before it goes to auction, and the Nanotyrannus, a smaller T. rex cousin, stands six and a half feet tall with unusually long arms.

The Battle of Hastings is fought in England (1066) · Theodore Roosevelt is shot in Milwaukee and gives his speech anyway (1912) · "Winnie-the-Pooh" is published (1926) · Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier over California (1947) · Martin Luther King Jr. is named the Nobel Peace laureate (1964)

"It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." — Theodore Roosevelt, after being shot in Milwaukee, 1912

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