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Texas. California. New York. Washington. The fifty, not only Miami.

A man shouts into the crowd at a No Kings rally, a megaphone in one hand and a sign calling postal workers election heroes.

The states

No Kings told the country to vote early.

Hundreds of rallies on Saturday were billed as nonpartisan. At the Lincoln Memorial people danced and held signs that said “Vote early” and “Hands off my vote.” In Atlanta, a councilman asked the crowd if they would use the one power the Constitution gives them.

The Rocket News · Washington · October 18, 2026

A woman writes at a memorial outside Silver Rail Elementary in Bend the day after the shooting.

Oregon

Bend named a 5-year-old and a teacher among the dead.

Rhoam Summer, 5, and teacher Megan Lambert, 25, were killed Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary. Police named the shooter as Griffin J. John II, 16. A parent, Kaylub Giamanco, shot him inside the school.

An officer holds police tape outside Silver Rail Elementary in Bend after a shooting killed four.

Oregon

A 16-year-old killed four at a Bend elementary school.

Police said a boy shot through the locked doors of Silver Rail Elementary on Thursday. A teacher and three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, were killed. A 7-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher were critically hurt. The shooter was found dead. He has not been named.

Alaska

Sullivan and Peltola rejected a third term.

In a Thursday debate in Anchorage, Alaska’s Senate candidates clashed over the Iran war, prices and Russian diesel. Both said President Trump cannot run again. The seat could decide the Senate.

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Workers move a ballot drop box on a residential street as investigators look at suspicious letters to election offices.

The states

Suspicious letters reached state election offices.

The FBI and the Postal Inspection Service said Thursday they are investigating mailings, some with an unknown substance, sent to election officials and lawmakers before Nov. 3. A letter to Senator Alex Padilla was intercepted.

Georgia

A man was thrown from a Georgia roller coaster.

Police said Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, was thrown from his seat at Six Flags Over Georgia, struck other riders, and was found below the ride. A witness said he seemed to hover, then landed back in a car head first.

The Gulf

Isaias left four dead. The rain is still moving.

The storm came ashore Friday night near Destin as a Category 2. Two people were killed in Florida and two in Alabama. On Monday morning more than 150,000 customers in Florida were still without power. The remnants are soaking the Appalachians.

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Hurricane Isaias, seen from orbit Friday morning, turns toward the northern Gulf Coast.

The Gulf

Hurricane Isaias is a major storm headed for the Gulf Coast.

At 10 a.m. Central time the National Hurricane Center placed the center 195 miles south of Pensacola, with winds of 120 miles an hour. Landfall is expected this evening on the Florida Panhandle or the Alabama coast.

Video · AccuWeather

Tennessee

Christa Pike is conscious and speaking.

Six days after Tennessee failed to execute her, lawyers said she is awake, shackled to a hospital bed, and facing a long recovery. She was to be the first woman the state put to death in two centuries.

Nidal Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. President Trump approved a firing squad on Monday.

Texas

Trump ordered a firing squad for the Fort Hood gunman.

The Pentagon said the president approved the method for Nidal Hasan, convicted in 2013 of killing 13 people. The Army secretary will set the time and place. Hasan, 56, is partially paralyzed.

Tennessee

Tennessee’s prison chief resigned after Christa Pike survived.

Frank Strada will leave later this month. He said the department followed protocol. Gov. Bill Lee accepted the resignation and has ordered a review.

Santa Elena Canyon, in the Big Bend stretch where a judge on Friday halted border-wall construction.

Texas

A judge halted the border wall in the Big Bend sector.

Judge Kathleen Cardone, in El Paso, said on Friday the government may not build there while the case goes on. The order covers the stretch the plaintiffs sued to protect.

Gov. Bill Lee ordered a review and halted the remaining execution this year after Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital.

Tennessee

Tennessee paused executions after Christa Pike survived.

She was still alive after two doses of pentobarbital. Gov. Bill Lee called off the remaining execution this year and ordered a review.

Francis Lee Rogers painted the birds of the Central Park Ramble. She was found dead there on Sunday.

New York

They killed the painter of the Ramble.

Francis Lee Rogers, 63, lived in Central Park and painted its birds. She was found dead Sunday in the gazebo where she slept. Jonathan Robles, 36, is charged with murder.

New York

The nor'easter is aimed at three states.

New Jersey to Massachusetts takes the hardest hit, from Friday night through Monday morning. New York may see 3 inches of rain. Long Island may see 5.

The networks plan to resume the White House television pool. CNN is assigned to the Archives.

Washington

The television pool is back.

CNN has a pool assignment at the National Archives with Trump and Xi. The White House approved the credentials. The networks call the situation fluid.

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were let back into the White House just after noon. The order lasts 14 days.

Washington

Judge Kelly ordered the passes back.

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico walked back in just after noon. The pass is good for 14 days. The case is not over.

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Maine

Collins is ahead in Maine. Barely.

A New York Times, Press Herald, and Siena poll of 619 voters puts her at 49 percent and Troy Jackson at 46. A majority still wants Democrats to run the Senate.

Missouri

Missouri’s map is back at the Court. The appeal went to Kavanaugh.

Politico: a third emergency filing in recent weeks. Opponents want this week’s appellate panel blocked.

New York

New York has the Assembly. Trump, Zelenskyy, Pezeshkian, Burnham.

Eighty-first session. First lady in the hall. CNN was at the door. The city is the desk.

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TSU put Talarico one point up on Paxton. The Senate race is a virtual tie.

Texas

Talarico 47. Paxton 46. TSU called it a virtual tie.

1,800 likely voters. Margin 2.3. Abbott still leads. Railroad is two points.

Video · MS NOW

Wes Moore, on CNN: an AI force with no job is an AI farce.

Maryland

Wes Moore: an AI force with no job is an AI farce.

The NGA chair, on CNN. Fifty guidelines are not a policy. Pritzker said Illinois cannot do this alone.

California

California: Newsom signed 13 bills. Seizing a ballot is a felony.

Mail ballots. Two hundred feet at the poll. He signed in Los Angeles. Trump has aimed at the mail.

Florida

Florida: Amendment 3. A tax cut. The firehouse says it will slow the trucks.

Homestead exemption up. Sixty percent to pass. DeSantis: fat to cut. Firefighters: a trainwreck without a plan.

Gov. Gavin Newsom at a podium, full color, navy suit. Wire photograph.

California

Newsom: an AI kill switch. Independent audits. California, not the White House.

An executive order Friday. Experts in two months. Trump called the fears a hoax. The governor did not wait.

A yellow bulldozer and a sample wall panel in the Big Bend desert, a canoe reading STOP THE STEEL, in color. No figures in the frame.

Texas

Texas: the wall is going up in Big Bend. First steel in a country that fought it.

CBP doubled the pace. Comstock. The canoe still says STOP THE STEEL. Abbott did not object.

Texas

Texas: nine in ten of the children. Unlicensed beds. Lawyers at 9 percent.

ORR sent them. Abbott will not push back. Escobar: a shame. Avila: a deportation factory.

Video · PBS NewsHour

The hangar at Gastonia Municipal Airport, Making America Safe Again, crowd and stage in color. Wire photograph.

North Carolina

Gastonia: a special place, then blood-soaked. Whatley got the hangar. Cooper got the smear.

Trump for Michael Whatley. Crime 31st in the nation. He called it the worst. Pretend I’m on the ballot.

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Florida

DeSantis: slash the property tax. Counties: libraries, parks, the firehouse.

A Florida ballot measure. He says there is fat to cut. Local officials say the roof comes off.

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California

Weber: the cloud is lifted. California mails the ballot. Trump’s screen is dead.

Every voter in the state gets one. The Secretary of State, after the Court.

Video · NBC News

Rep. Tom Tiffany at a podium, full color, blue backdrop. Wire photograph.

Wisconsin

Tiffany swam. Twelve stitches. “God was watching.” The campaign goes on.

Lake Wausau, Saturday night. A Bonanza lost power. Trump’s man for governor got out.

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Ken Paxton at a podium, full color: navy suit, red tie, blue backdrop. Wire photograph.

Texas

$51 million for Paxton. Talarico had the air. The caucus came in.

Texas PAC, Friday. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin. Hispanic voters 2-to-1 Dem.

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California

Lucas Fire past 3,400 acres. Newsom has a bill. The ridge does not wait.

Mendocino and Lake. Ten acres Thursday. CAL FIRE swore in 39 on the eleventh.

Video · KPIX CBS News Bay Area

New York

A $100 billion listing leaves the NYSE. Texas is the board now.

Energy Transfer, Sunoco, USA Compression. Early October. Y’all Street is not a joke.

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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez walking a Capitol hallway, full color. Wire photograph.

Washington

$1.7 million into WA-03. Braun has Trump. She has the seat.

No Going Back PAC. Gluesenkamp Perez, two-term. A district Trump carried three times.

Video · KGW News

A U.S. courthouse, red brick and flags on the lawn, pavement and sky in color. No figures in the frame.

Florida

Miami’s immigration courts are a crush. TPS is ending. ICE still has no cameras.

NPR Sunday. Haitians wait. Body cameras were a promise. The courts are the raid.

Video · NewsNation

Miami

Miami names the five in the van. The tape already had the speed.

Rolando Aleman Leon. Carlos Acosta Fajardo. Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo. Javierkys Reyes Quevedo. Julio Pineda.

Video · NTSBgov

Miami

Miami: one pilot kept saying they were too fast. The other did not answer.

NTSB, Wednesday: last 1:42 on the tape. “Too low terrain.” A go-around, then idle. Five still dead.

Video · NTSBgov

Miami

Miami: the Amazon jet tried to go around. The boxes say the landing was never clean.

182 mph at first touch. Throttles up, then brakes. Five dead in a van. The pilots sit today.

Video · NTSBgov

Miami

NTSB in Miami: five dead in a cleaning van. The recorders are in Washington.

Homendy: 1,300 feet past the runway. A Ford Econoline, seven inside. “Utter devastation.” A second briefing is due today.

Video · NTSBgov

A color gas-station canopy and $4.09 board; the man at the pump printed in black and white.

The Weekend

Labor Day Sunday is still the first $4 gasoline holiday on record.

AAA’s Sunday print is $4.15. The old Labor Day mark was $3.82, in 2012. Diesel is $5.88. Overnight, CENTCOM hit three Iranian tankers.

Video · FOX 10 Phoenix

An empty office floor after hours, a few screens still lit in a dark glass building.

The Country

As SNAP shrinks, the school cafeteria is next

Millions of children are losing food aid. Free lunch was supposed to be the floor. The floor is moving.

Video · NBC News

Washington

A suspect is stopped outside the correspondents’ dinner

Guns and knives on the sidewalk. The toasts went on inside.

Video · PBS NewsHour