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Good morning! North Korea is flexing its military muscle, Washington is facing questions over a major civil rights overhaul, and a British university wants thousands of people to eat blue muffins in the name of science. Meanwhile, an iconic French car is getting an electric makeover, Tarantino is heading to the stage, and the NFL delivered a wild Sunday. There's plenty to catch up on.

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Trump said on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an energy ceasefire in the war's fifth year. His brief social media post gave no details beyond saying it had taken effect immediately, and he added, "Do not break it!" Kyiv welcomed the news within hours.

Zelenskyy called the announcement good news for everyone, but said Russian drones and glide bombs had struck Ukrainian energy sites throughout the day. His office confirmed that a power plant in Kharkiv was attacked after Trump's post, and Moscow has still not commented on the ceasefire.

Harmeet Dhillon took over the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division in April last year, promising to reshape it. Over 18 months, she has pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys and replaced many of them with inexperienced ideological allies, according to four current and former division officials.

Three of those officials spoke anonymously for fear of retribution. They say Dhillon has used the division's enforcement powers to pursue the president's agenda, a view of its purpose that departs sharply from the tradition of a unit created almost 70 years ago to enforce federal civil rights law.

A projectile hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Sunday, killing one person and injuring 11, and a Saudi military spokesman said it started a fire in a passenger hall. The civil aviation authority identified the person killed as a Pakistani resident in a statement.

The strike came a day after an attack on the same airport killed 13 people and injured 308, and it was the second in two days on the Saudi capital's main airport. Houthi forces in Yemen have stepped up attacks on Saudi territory in recent weeks.

North Korea fired several ballistic missiles eastward, some flying more than 559 miles, in what Seoul called a show of force answering South Korea's first hypersonic glide vehicle test.

Hurricane Simon churned along Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm late Sunday, with forecasters expecting a midweek landfall and up to 8 inches of rain in spots.

Poland has detained a man suspected of plotting to assassinate Donald Tusk and his defense minister, and a spokesman said officials treated the threat as deadly serious.

A Florida sheriff's deputy, Kevin Morris, was killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 95 after a wrong-way driver, who also died, made a U-turn into northbound lanes near Titusville.

A fast-moving wildfire north of Los Angeles prompted evacuation orders in Santa Clarita Sunday, scorching 172 acres by evening with just 12% containment and its cause still under investigation.

Indigenous Peoples Day falls on Monday, and Shiyazh Pete, the first Navajo Nation member to sign with an NFL team, will greet fans at an Albuquerque celebration.

A British police unit has dropped Palantir after a two-year trial, and the US firm must now show it has deleted the unit's data and cut all links.

Citroën has revived the 2CV as an electric concept car, and the retro city runabout shown at the Paris Motor Show is due in showrooms by 2028.

US tariffs now run between 10% and 12.5% on imports from 60 economies, including the European Union, Japan, Canada and Mexico, after the Supreme Court struck down earlier duties.

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The University of Southampton is asking thousands to eat blue muffins and time the colorful results, testing whether faster digestion is linked to sharper thinking.

Scientists are studying whether sauna heat delivers real health benefits, since extreme warmth dilates blood vessels, speeds the heart and triggers heat shock proteins in the body.

Two "extremely rare" Roman silver coins, minted by the rebel emperor Carausius around A.D. 286-293, could fetch thousands of pounds at auction after a detectorist found them in Gloucestershire.

Milwaukee took Game 1 of the NLCS 2-1, where Brice Turang homered to left center in the fourth and the Dodgers managed seven hits but one run.

Baltimore beat Atlanta 30-23 in overtime, after Tyler Huntley led a tying drive in the last minute of regulation and then scored on a sneak.

The Giants and Commanders played to a 27-27 tie, with New York scoring 14 in the fourth quarter after trailing at halftime and neither side scoring in overtime.

New England routed Las Vegas 45-17, the widest margin of a Sunday that also saw Detroit beat Arizona 45-21 and Green Bay beat Chicago 31-7.

Robert Pattinson plays the host of "To Catch a Predator" in Primetime, a film about the show that hunted alleged child abusers from 2004 to 2007.

Sacha Baron Cohen will star in Quentin Tarantino's first stage play, and The Popinjay Cavalier is set in 1830s Europe with Tarantino directing in London.

Katseye releases a new album this week, and the streaming slate also brings Marvel's VisionQuest, Judd Apatow's tribute to Norm Macdonald, and a new Castlevania game.

What it is: About 6,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States now fly drones for search and rescue, fire and traffic crash investigation, and tactical response, according to the Law Enforcement Drone Association, which estimates that 80% to 90% of them use devices made by DJI, a Chinese manufacturer. China controls most of the global drone market and is the dominant source of the minerals the devices require.

The detail: The administration has moved to build up American drone makers, banning many foreign-made drones from the market and announcing tariffs of 15% to 100% on some imported models, which makes them considerably more expensive for agencies to buy. Critics say the domestic industry cannot yet keep up with demand, nor match Chinese drones on quality or price. New Jersey's Ocean County Sheriff's Office flies an all-DJI fleet out of a custom-built bed in a department SUV.

Why it matters: Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Fennessy, who runs that program, once piloted a camera drone through a blasted-in window during a standoff in which a wanted man fired on officers for hours. The video showed walls riddled with bullet holes and then the man's body, which let police clear the house without entering it. "No one's hurt. Everyone's safe," Fennessy said.

What to watch: Whether departments replace their fleets at the new prices or fly what they already own until it breaks, how quickly American manufacturers close the gap on cost, and whether smaller agencies that bought in cheaply end up grounded.

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Americans will spend more than $13 billion on spooky season, and up to half a billion of that goes to haunted attractions, where people pay to be frightened.

Teenage hovercraft racers from Bristol, England, hit speeds of up to 70 mph in machines with no brakes, which one 15-year-old says feels like a shopping cart pushed really fast.

A rainstorm stranded 70 people partway through a 242-mile desert ultramarathon, and buses pulled the last of them off an aid station in Utah's Bears Ears.

Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Bahamas (1492) · The first Oktoberfest is held in Munich (1810) · Robert E. Lee dies in Lexington, Virginia (1870) · Voskhod 1 carries the first multi-person crew into orbit (1964) · The USS Cole is bombed in the port of Aden (2000)

"If, as it now appears, this was an act of terrorism, it was a despicable and cowardly act." — Bill Clinton, on the attack on the USS Cole, 2000

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