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A 250-foot monument along the Potomac now faces a third legal fight, satellite images tally what months of Iranian strikes cost American bases, and an aging NASA telescope is running out of sky. Plus, a man living rent-free in New York and a roadkill deer that landed in court.

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A Miami federal judge permanently dismissed President Trump's defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and the Journal, ruling Trump never plausibly showed actual malice. Judge Darrin Gayles called the complaint "grasping at straws" in a 20-page ruling, and Trump's legal team said on Saturday the president plans to appeal.

The suit targeted a story about a suggestive birthday letter bearing Trump's name in a 2003 album for Jeffrey Epstein, which Trump denies writing. Because the dismissal came with prejudice, Trump cannot refile an amended version in that court, though Gayles never decided who wrote it.

Washington, D.C., and Virginia sued in federal court on Saturday to stop Trump's memorial arch, planned beside the bridge linking the capital with Arlington National Cemetery. The new filing calls the project "flagrantly unlawful" and accuses officials of trying to "outrun judicial review," with construction possible as soon as next week.

The attorneys general argue three years of construction would snarl regional traffic, pollute the Potomac River and interfere with emergency services. A White House spokesman called the arch an iconic landmark for the world, while Judge Tanya Chutkan weighs halting work in an earlier lawsuit.

Iranian drones and missiles damaged or destroyed structures on 26 bases and other sites holding US equipment through August, causing billions in losses, a satellite analysis found. The more than 115 strikes first hit aircraft hangars and early-warning systems, clearing the way for strikes on warehouses and troop housing.

Two regional officials said the US has moved many aircraft and air defense systems out of the Persian Gulf as Trump weighs new strikes after Tuesday. A Pentagon spokesman insisted US forces and bases are well protected, while Central Command declined to comment on the scale of damage.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed put his cabinet through training at a military center, saying armed forces discipline builds stronger leaders amid unrest in Tigray, Amhara and Oromia.

London police arrested 139 protesters outside the US Embassy at a rally backing Palestine Action, the banned group, and police warned that more arrests were expected.

A rubber boat with no motor was adrift off the southern Dutch coast when rescuers pulled all 38 people aboard to safety, one of the country's first such interceptions.

Up to 4 inches of rain could soak the already saturated Southwest through Monday, with flood watches covering nearly all of Arizona and parts of four states.

More than 4 in 10 names on a federal list of 20,930 alleged noncitizen voters in California cannot be found on state rolls, according to an analysis filed Saturday.

An indicted Houston immigration officer will turn himself in on Monday after his unmarked SUV struck a fleeing construction worker in a parking lot, breaking the man's leg.

OpenAI is now seeking up to $20 billion, trimming its target by $10 billion as some investors scaled back, while still reportedly seeking a $1.25 trillion valuation.

Binance says it has already covered about 90% of the $6.3 billion stolen in a record hack, vowing to absorb the losses itself and reopen withdrawals soon.

Elon Musk's SpaceX lost its bid to dismiss an NAACP pollution lawsuit alleging its AI unit illegally ran 27 gas turbines to power data centers near Memphis.

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NASA's 22-year-old Swift telescope is expected to plunge back to Earth around Friday after a failed rescue, though dense tungsten pieces could survive reentry and likely hit the ocean.

A leading national OB-GYN group just updated its menopause guidance for the first time in 12 years, stressing hormone therapy for hot flashes while outlining nonhormonal options too.

Dinosaurs and other "charismatic" extinct species are over-represented in top journals, a Seattle paleontology researcher found, putting hard numbers on a long-standing hunch that glamorous fossils get favored treatment.

Golden State and Atlanta meet tonight in the first-ever WNBA Finals Game 7, with a costumed Halloween crowd expected in San Francisco and a first-time champion guaranteed.

Former NC State quarterback Philip Rivers has held serious talks about coaching his alma mater, though a deal isn't close and he wants to finish his high school season.

LeBron James and Joel Embiid will both sit out Philadelphia's road game in Charlotte tonight for injury management, the first time this season the two stars miss a game together.

Connor McDavid stretched his NHL-record streak of season-opening assists to 14 games by setting up a Ryan Nugent-Hopkins goal as Edmonton blanked the New York Islanders 4-0 on Saturday.

The Youth Olympic Games opened in Senegal, the first Olympic event held in Africa, as performers formed a giant map of the continent before tens of thousands of cheering spectators.

Ghouls, scary clowns and Barbie lookalikes are filling streets from France to Taiwan, with Halloween costumes turning up at sporting events, celebrations and even protests this week.

Brazil's famed meme-making machine went into overdrive after Flávio Bolsonaro left the country following his election loss, with jokes racking up hundreds of thousands of likes and shares across platforms.

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A North Yorkshire driver was criminally charged under the Deer Act for picking up roadkill he planned to freeze and eat, because officers said he was stealing from the council.

A 34-year-old New Yorker has never paid a cent of rent in the city in 18 months, house-sitting year-round and living on about $800 a month.

An overture written in a German prisoner-of-war camp was finally performed for the first time, more than 80 years later, after its sheet music sat for decades in an attic.

Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses spark the Reformation (1517) · Lyndon Johnson announces a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam (1968) · Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated (1984) · The Vatican formally acknowledges its error in condemning Galileo (1992) · The UN marks the world's population reaching 7 billion (2011)

"tragic mutual incomprehension" — Pope John Paul II, describing the Church's 17th-century clash with Galileo

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