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#1 Trump Media Advisor Katie Zacharia Named White House Press Secretary - Terri Cullen for CNBC, Katie Zacharia, Anna Lulis, Molly Ploofkins, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Desiree on X
President Donald Trump named Katie Zacharia as the next White House press secretary. Zacharia has worked since June as a senior communications advisor for Trump Media, owner of the president’s preferred social media outlet, Truth Social, according to her LinkedIn profile. She also serves as general counsel at Fix California, a conservative activist group founded by Trump administration official Richard Grenell, according to her profile...#2 Trump, Rubio Weigh Firing US Envoy to Greece After Mounting Reports of Improper Conduct - Matthew Lee for AP, Larry Conger, Yashar Ali, RedWave Press, Ken LaCorte, and Lesley Abravanel on X
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are considering firing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle after a series of reports alleging she has engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before and during her tenure in Athens. A senior U.S. official said Sunday that Trump and Rubio are “extremely pissed off” by Guilfoyle’s reported conduct and would likely decide on what action to take this week after Monday’s Columbus Day holiday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said Rubio had been particularly angry, not least because he visited Athens just last week and Guilfoyle attended most, if not all, of his events and greeted him on his arrival with a bear hug as the allegations swirled...
#3 Minnesota Homecoming Shooting Suspect Out on Bond After Gunfire Sends Football Fans Fleeing - Stepheny Price for Fox News, Commentary Trump Daily Posts, New York Post, Rapid Response 47/Fox 9, Eric Daugherty, and Steve Cortes on X
A Minnesota homecoming celebration shattered by gunfire has become the latest flashpoint over crime and bail after the accused shooter was released from jail just two days after his arrest. Adam Abdihakeem Adam, 18, posted bond and was released Saturday evening, according to Hennepin County jail records reviewed by Fox News Digital. Police say he shot two teenagers outside Eden Prairie High School during its Oct. 2 homecoming football game, prompting the evacuation of the stadium...
#4 In Combative First Michigan Senate Debate, Rogers and El-Sayed Trade Attacks -Joey Cappelletti for AP/PBS, Eyal Yakoby, Benny Johnson, Rob Schneider, Eric Daugherty, The Tennessee Holler, and Joshipooo on X
The first debate in Michigan's closely watched U.S. Senate race turned combative Thursday as Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly traded personal attacks, talked over each other, and even continued arguing during a commercial break. The contentious hourlong grudge match followed weeks of the two candidates sparring online and in advertisements that have flooded the state in the highly competitive campaign for an open Senate seat...
#5 Lone Debate for South Carolina Senate Gets Testy - Caroline Vakil for The Hill, CSPAN, Senate Republicans, South Carolina Democrat Party, Newsweek, and Corey Allen - Palmetto Talk Live on X
Sen. Darline Graham (R) and pediatrician Annie Andrews (D) faced off in their one and only debate on Sunday in the South Carolina Senate race, which quickly became testy as Graham sought to tie the physician to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) while Andrews suggested the GOP senator wouldn’t be able to stand up to the White House. Graham, Andrews, and libertarian Kasie Whitener, a radio host and professor, participated in a debate hosted by South Carolina ETV and Public Radio (SCETV) in Columbia, S.C...
#6 Protesters Rally as President Trump Visits Syracuse - Natalie Mooney for Spectrum News, ThePersistence, News to Remember, MP Arizona, Sarrah Bellus, and Sean Hannity on X
President Donald Trump made a stop in Syracuse to rally in support of gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman. Critics, however, held an event of their own. Thousands filled Syracuse’s Clinton Square Friday evening, just blocks from where President Trump was set to make remarks. Their message for the president: Not in our house, Central New York resists. “What Donald J. Trump stands for is not what we stand for; it’s not what real citizens of Syracuse and Central New York stand for,” said Judy Jerome, an organizer with the CNY Solidarity Coalition and Indivisible Onondaga County. Protesters wanted to express their concern over the president and his administration’s policies. “The president is not a friend of the environment, definitely not a friend of good immigration,” Jerome said...
#7 ‘I Should Have Won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes’: Trump Seethes at Award Snub - Miles J. Herszenhorn for USA TODAY, Eric Daugherty, Al Jazeera English, Mouin Rabbani, Amplify Veracity, The Daily Beast, and RedWave Press on X
President Donald Trump’s deep indignation at not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize boiled over late at night on Oct. 9, as he lashed out at the prize committee and disparaged the international jurist selected as this year’s laureate. The U.S. president has long coveted the prize, which he says he deserves for his efforts to settle or prevent conflicts around the world. In a social media post expressing outrage at getting passed over yet again, Trump said his diplomatic accomplishments should make him more than worthy of the award. “In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1,” Trump wrote on his social media platform...
#8 Americans Hall and Woodford Win 2026 Nobel Economics Prize - AP/NBC News, The Nobel Prize, Stanford University, Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal on X
American-born economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel memorial prize in economics on Monday for their work on models that have helped governments and central banks manage economic shocks. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners in Stockholm, saying the winners were being honored “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization.” “The laureates have helped us smooth out the economy’s peaks and troughs,” the academy said in a statement...
#9 Top Democrats Join the Wealthiest in Fighting a California Tax Increase on Billionaires - Sophie Austin for ABC News, C.L.P./Buzz Patterson, Truth Tony, bread, Cross and Crowbar, and Not True on X
It is not just tech moguls and venture capitalists fighting a California proposal to tax the net worth of billionaires, even though they are putting up the majority of the money in one of the most expensive ballot fights in state history. Lining up alongside them is a coalition of prominent Democratic voices and party allies like Gov. Gavin Newsom, Planned Parenthood, and the California Teachers Association, as well as most Republicans. They say it will drive wealthy people — and their tax money — out of California, creating bigger budget problems in the years ahead...
