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Trump: Execution of Fort Hood shooter will not be livestreamed WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday announced that the execution of a man convicted of the Fort Hood shooting will not be livestreamed, a reversal after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that Nidal Hasan’s death by firing squad would be public. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/15/repub/trump-execution-of-fort-hood-shooter-will-not-be-livestreamed/? ps:Once again throwing his men under the bus!!!!!

Students to compete in civics bee championship in nation’s capital, carried on C-SPAN WASHINGTON — As partisan tensions rise in advance of the fast-approaching midterm elections, students will test their knowledge Wednesday in a field that’s long enjoyed bipartisan support: civics. https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/students-compete-civics-bee-championship-nations-capital-carried-c-span Colorado student wins top prize at National Civics Bee Championship WASHINGTON — Peter Daniell of Broomfield, Colorado, took home the grand prize Wednesday night after winning the National Civics Bee Championship in the nation’s capital. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/15/repub/colorado-student-wins-top-prize-at-national-civics-bee-championship/?

Gwen Graham spends a ‘workday’ helping to install solar panels LUTZ — Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Gwen Graham spent part of her Thursday helping to install solar panels on the roof of a firefighter’s home in northern Hillsborough County. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/15/gwen-graham-spends-a-workday-helping-to-install-solar-panels/? Matt Gaetz and two others named as defendants in sex trafficking civil lawsuit Two women have filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing former Florida U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz and two others of participating in an sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs, and travel across state lines. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/15/matt-gaetz-and-two-others-named-as-defendants-in-sex-trafficking-civil-lawsuit/? Florida Immigrant Coalition supports resolution pressing Congress to tackle immigration policy The Florida Immigrant Coalition on Thursday joined Illinois U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez and other advocates calling on Congress to tackle immigration policy and provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented people. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/15/florida-immigrant-coalition-supports-resolution-pressing-congress-to-tackle-immigration-policy/?

Another question I just thought of is who makes and provides the Sabbath lesson that SDA's read? Is the Sabbath lesson study provided by the union conference of whatever area the church is under or is it provided by the General Conference?

Food Substitutes for Egg Allergy Eggs are a staple in all kinds of recipes. In baking, they help hold ingredients together while adding texture and moisture. In cooking, they’re a quick and easy source of protein and other nutrients. But if you have an egg allergy, it can be tough to figure out how to cook or bake without eggs. https://www.webmd.com/allergies/food-substitutes-for-egg-allergy? ps:Or you don't want to eat eggs any more or for that matter dairy products??

Pornograkplhy I have recently beenadvised that the General Conference has a website which assists tlhe public in dealing with an addliction to pornography. Check it out if you think it might be of value to either you or so meone you know. https://gatewaytowholeness.com/

Clancy Contagion Spreads: Queens Mom Kills Her Kindergartener In a South Richmond Hill home in Queens, police found 5-year-old Fabiana Cabello unconscious, bleeding from her nose and mouth with a bruise on her temple. Her mother, 32-year-old Francis Cabello, had called 911 just before 7 p.m. on Wednesday, admitting to killing her own child. Officers rushed Fabiana to Jamaica Hospital. She did not survive. Autopsy findings showed scrapes and broken blood vessels around her eyes, heart, and lungs consistent with asphyxia. Cabello was charged with second-degree murder and held without bail.

Who pays the salaries of the SDA Pastors who work at the Glendale City Church? The quoted statement claims that Church is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination. The statement goes on to claim that Glendale City Church agrees with the positions of the "Pacific Union Conference" that supposedly affirm & welcome LGBT, ordination of female clergy. I was unaware that historic SDA's disagreed with their universities teaching modern science???

Drone strikes in the Black Sea raise fears of Russian escalation to test NATO’s response A string of drone attacks on at least seven cargo vessels in the Black Sea this month, off the coasts of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria, has some members of the alliance wondering if Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking escalation to test their support for Ukraine. Read more. What to know: The attacks in the two countries' exclusive economic zones threaten a global shipping route and have left two people dead, with at least 25 still missing. They also run the risk of drawing other countries directly into the war for Ukraine. Article 5 of the NATO charter has a mutual defense guarantee — an attack on one is an attack on all. But Romanian defense analyst Radu Tudor said it was uncertain as to whether it covers many of the Black Sea drone strikes because they occurred in the alliance members’ exclusive economic zones. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Russia strikes 9 Ukrainian regions as strain grows between Zelenskyy and Trump AP gets exclusive look at ‘StarGate,’ Ukraine’s first aerial drone to evacuate wounded soldiers What to know about Starshield and why its disruption rattled Ukraine’s forces

October 16, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. Let’s look at what happens when school police arrest children. In Corpus Christi, Texas. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times In the system There are a lot of police officers in Texas public schools. In the four years since a gunman killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, districts across the state have spent billions of dollars to put cops on every campus. They’re there both to protect against future attacks and to curb misbehavior and fighting, which swelled after the Covid pandemic. The crackdown has had an unintended consequence, according to an investigation by The Times and The San Antonio Express-News: It has swept tens of thousands of elementary students and middle schoolers into the justice system. In the 2024-25 school year, the most recent one for which data is available, about 4,800 Texans between the ages of 10 and 13 were referred for prosecution. That’s a third more than the number a decade before. What “referred for prosecution” means in plain English: Some kid slaps another kid on the playground, or puffs on a vape in the bathroom, or kicks a principal in frustration or rage, and a uniformed officer with a gun puts the child in handcuffs. Just like that the student’s not just in the school system, but in the criminal justice one, too. That can reshape a life. Some referred children receive a warning. Others end up before a judge, where they’re assigned community service, counseling or court supervision. In more serious cases, they end up in state juvenile justice facilities. In few cases do they return to school unchanged. Research shows that getting handcuffed and dragged out of school can hurt academic performance and can lead to future contact with law enforcement. Referrals are one of the places where the so-called school-to-prison pipeline starts. ‘She just gave up’ The stories our reporters recount are chilling. In 2024, a 12-year-old girl in Galveston got sent to the principal’s office for being “disruptive.” School officials suspended her and told her to go wait in the lobby for her mother to pick her up. Laquital Thompson and her daughter, who was arrested at her middle school in Galveston in 2024. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times She refused to go there. The administrators called for a school police officer, who arrived and told the girl: “You’ve got four seconds to walk over there. Otherwise, I’m going to put you in handcuffs, and we’re going to give you a ride.” The girl didn’t move. “OK, I’m done,” the officer said, and slid off her pink backpack to handcuff her wrists behind her back. His body camera footage shows the sequence: The New York Times “I didn’t really know why it was happening,” the girl told our reporters later. “Why would they put me in handcuffs?” The girl was eventually charged with trespassing. Two former school district police chiefs who reviewed the case at The Times’s request said that the arrest and the referral were unnecessary. But the girl pleaded guilty and was put on probation for a year, her mother told our reporters. And now her daughter has even more trouble in class. “She just gave up,” her mother said. The witness Kristian Hernández is one of the reporters who worked on the investigation. A native Texan, he grew up on the border and attended public schools in El Paso. Kristian was a straight-A student, but one of those straight-A students with long heavy-metal hair and a skateboard, the kind who gets in fights. He had plenty of contact with law enforcement along the way. The arrests he documented in schools didn’t surprise him, he told me yesterday. It was the age of those arrested. “There’s a lot of emphasis and even support for making schools more secure,” he said. “I haven’t talked to a single kid or parent who hasn’t expressed a fear of a school shooting.” That fear is understandable. Just yesterday, three kids and a teacher were killed at a school in Oregon. Still, Kristian continued: “What we learned that was surprising — and scary — is that no one is paying attention to what happens when schools are hardened against that threat.” Among other things, it’s 10-year-olds getting placed in the back of police cars, and 12-year-olds asking for lawyers. Please read the whole story, which is by Kristian, Asher Lehrer-Small, Clare Amari and Rosie Cima. A shooting in Oregon A 16-year-old blasted his way through locked doors into an Oregon elementary school, killing three children and a teacher before an armed bystander pursued him inside and killed him, the police said. The children killed were 5, 8 and 11. COMPUTE THIS The New York Times In 2018, OpenAI released its first GPT model. Trained with a mere 18 million trillion calculations, it was often incoherent. As the company scaled up — 5 sextillion, 2.6 septillion — the models improved. GPT 6 Astra is estimated to have required an octillion, or a thousand trillion trillion, calculations. It would take an iPhone 13 million years to do that math. The scale is hard to comprehend, so we visualized it. Related: Parenting can feel like doing an octillion calculations every week. Some families are turning to A.I. agents for help. THE LATEST NEWS Politics Elon Musk, who has major business interests in Texas, appeared to funnel $158 million to back Ken Paxton’s Senate bid there. Even as Democrats hope to flip congressional seats in red states, bluer states have a few races that are far closer than the party would like. A contract dispute is forcing many migrant children to face immigration judges alone. What happens when a 7-year-old agrees to leave the country without a lawyer present? President Trump’s attacks on the integrity of the midterm elections are raising fears among election officials that he could try to challenge results. Letters “containing suspicious substances” were sent to senators and state election officials in recent days. Investigations are underway. Around the World In Yemen. Social Media/UGC, via Social Media Via Reuters The Houthis, the Iranian-backed militia in Yemen, attacked the government’s headquarters there, officials said. Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemen’s government, accused Iran of trying to escalate the war. Russia and Ukraine have started striking each other’s data centers. The daughter of Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, traveled to the Balkan territory of Republika Srpska with an American businessman to explore a gas pipeline deal with the pro-Russian government there. Other Big Stories Trump canceled the Pentagon’s plan to livestream the execution of the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting. It’s a tough time to buy a house. Mortgage rates have pushed above 7 percent — their highest level in more than three years — and home prices remain elevated. It’s not just rich people getting richer. Harvard’s endowment grew by $11 billion this year to a record $68 billion — a 27 percent return. A teenager was arrested in suburban Chicago after his gun jammed before a planned mass shooting at a Hindu temple, the police said. The police identified a homicide victim found in a barrel in Lake Mead in 2022. They say he’s an Arkansas man killed in the 1980s. IN ONE GRAPHIC Source: Gallup polls of U.S. adults conducted in September 1949 and 2018. The New York Times Polls show that socialism is growing in popularity. Here, we track warming American attitudes toward it (and waning regard for capitalism), even as respondents aren’t quite sure what “socialism” means. OPINIONS Requiring fraternities to admit women can make campuses safer, the president of Wesleyan University argues. To solve today’s affordability crisis, we have to face a tricky, wonky, tenacious problem from yesteryear, Matthew Yglesias writes: the deficit. The Anniversary Sale ends soon: Morning readers, enjoy our best offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your interests with expert coverage of news, culture, business and more. Save now: $1/week for your first year. FREE TO READ Crisis in Paris: The city has acknowledged a “collective failure” to prevent sexual offenders from working in schools after a surge in abuse accusations. Rescuing Luna: A small dog who went missing in Yellowstone National Park for nearly five weeks was found safe. See a photo. Kelly Clarkson (Day 7!): The Brooklyn store that angered the singer has raised the price of the toy bird that she said it wouldn’t sell her to $15 million. We went to visit it. Your pick: The most clicked story in The Morning yesterday was about how to prevent stroke and dementia. Hilary Swank: She’s having her third child at 52. TODAY’S NUMBER McFarlane Toys $399 — That is the price of a new deluxe version of a Shohei Ohtani action figure from a company that usually sells superhero toys. It’s 14 inches tall and comes with home and away Dodgers uniforms, two pairs of cleats, more than a dozen interchangeable hands and two heads. One stares icily. The other gives a celebratory shout. Check it out. SPORTS Competitive eating: Tim Janus brought rigor and strategy to his sport, rising to No. 2 in the world. He died at 49. N.F.L.: The Denver Broncos held off a late comeback attempt and defeated the Seattle Seahawks in overtime, 17-14, in Denver, dropping the reigning Super Bowl champions’ record to 3-3 — matching their total of losses from last season. RECIPE OF THE DAY Bobbi Lin for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Here’s a minimalist recipe for butternut squash soup that delivers maximalist flavor, thanks to the balance between the sweetness of the vegetable and the warm sparkle of spices and acid that joins it in the pot. There are some lovely notes and modifications in the comments below the instructions, well worth considering. Butternut squash soup is a canvas. Paint on it! THE EYES HAVE IT Nathan Fielder interviewing Elizabeth Holmes in “You Can See Everything.” A24 The documentary “You Can See Everything,” about the disgraced tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, opens today. Manohla Dargis, reviewing it for The Times, calls the film “off-the-charts bonkers,” and “a wily, disturbing, self-aware exploration of the relationship between documentarians and their subjects.” More on culture Zara Larsson is poised for pop superstardom, and she came onto our “Popcast” culture show to talk about it. Watch, listen or read. Meet Mette Wendelboe Okkels, a Danish knitting luminary who runs the fiber-crafts brand PetiteKnit. The aesthetic of her patterns is pure Scandinavian chic. “I see these pictures and it’s like, ‘I’m going to live like this,’” one fan told The Times. “‘I’m going to make the sweater and I’m going to have breezy hair and endless cups of coffee.’” Hygge! 🇩🇰🧶☕ THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Watch “Prey,” a 2014 British cops-and-bad-guys series set in Manchester that’s kicking around on Amazon Prime. The Times liked it when it first came to America. I like it now. Sleep well on a plane. It’s possible! Subscribe to “The Backstory”: Our journalists often face tough calls about how to tell sensitive stories. In a new newsletter, we explain how we make those decisions, beginning with our coverage of the gang rape allegation at Cornell. Sign up here. Clean your refrigerator this weekend. (This should be a monthly chore — in restaurants it’s more like a daily one.) The kitchen porters at Wirecutter have some very good tips. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were inimically, maniacally and manically. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. If you’re not a subscriber yet, would you consider becoming one today? Subscriptions allow us to keep doing this work that we love. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson

October 16, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. Let’s look at what happens when school police arrest children. In Corpus Christi, Texas. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times In the system There are a lot of police officers in Texas public schools. In the four years since a gunman killed 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, districts across the state have spent billions of dollars to put cops on every campus. They’re there both to protect against future attacks and to curb misbehavior and fighting, which swelled after the Covid pandemic. The crackdown has had an unintended consequence, according to an investigation by The Times and The San Antonio Express-News: It has swept tens of thousands of elementary students and middle schoolers into the justice system. In the 2024-25 school year, the most recent one for which data is available, about 4,800 Texans between the ages of 10 and 13 were referred for prosecution. That’s a third more than the number a decade before. What “referred for prosecution” means in plain English: Some kid slaps another kid on the playground, or puffs on a vape in the bathroom, or kicks a principal in frustration or rage, and a uniformed officer with a gun puts the child in handcuffs. Just like that the student’s not just in the school system, but in the criminal justice one, too. That can reshape a life. Some referred children receive a warning. Others end up before a judge, where they’re assigned community service, counseling or court supervision. In more serious cases, they end up in state juvenile justice facilities. In few cases do they return to school unchanged. Research shows that getting handcuffed and dragged out of school can hurt academic performance and can lead to future contact with law enforcement. Referrals are one of the places where the so-called school-to-prison pipeline starts. ‘She just gave up’ The stories our reporters recount are chilling. In 2024, a 12-year-old girl in Galveston got sent to the principal’s office for being “disruptive.” School officials suspended her and told her to go wait in the lobby for her mother to pick her up. Laquital Thompson and her daughter, who was arrested at her middle school in Galveston in 2024. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times She refused to go there. The administrators called for a school police officer, who arrived and told the girl: “You’ve got four seconds to walk over there. Otherwise, I’m going to put you in handcuffs, and we’re going to give you a ride.” The girl didn’t move. “OK, I’m done,” the officer said, and slid off her pink backpack to handcuff her wrists behind her back. His body camera footage shows the sequence: The New York Times “I didn’t really know why it was happening,” the girl told our reporters later. “Why would they put me in handcuffs?” The girl was eventually charged with trespassing. Two former school district police chiefs who reviewed the case at The Times’s request said that the arrest and the referral were unnecessary. But the girl pleaded guilty and was put on probation for a year, her mother told our reporters. And now her daughter has even more trouble in class. “She just gave up,” her mother said. The witness Kristian Hernández is one of the reporters who worked on the investigation. A native Texan, he grew up on the border and attended public schools in El Paso. Kristian was a straight-A student, but one of those straight-A students with long heavy-metal hair and a skateboard, the kind who gets in fights. He had plenty of contact with law enforcement along the way. The arrests he documented in schools didn’t surprise him, he told me yesterday. It was the age of those arrested. “There’s a lot of emphasis and even support for making schools more secure,” he said. “I haven’t talked to a single kid or parent who hasn’t expressed a fear of a school shooting.” That fear is understandable. Just yesterday, three kids and a teacher were killed at a school in Oregon. Still, Kristian continued: “What we learned that was surprising — and scary — is that no one is paying attention to what happens when schools are hardened against that threat.” Among other things, it’s 10-year-olds getting placed in the back of police cars, and 12-year-olds asking for lawyers. Please read the whole story, which is by Kristian, Asher Lehrer-Small, Clare Amari and Rosie Cima. A shooting in Oregon A 16-year-old blasted his way through locked doors into an Oregon elementary school, killing three children and a teacher before an armed bystander pursued him inside and killed him, the police said. The children killed were 5, 8 and 11. COMPUTE THIS The New York Times In 2018, OpenAI released its first GPT model. Trained with a mere 18 million trillion calculations, it was often incoherent. As the company scaled up — 5 sextillion, 2.6 septillion — the models improved. GPT 6 Astra is estimated to have required an octillion, or a thousand trillion trillion, calculations. It would take an iPhone 13 million years to do that math. The scale is hard to comprehend, so we visualized it. Related: Parenting can feel like doing an octillion calculations every week. Some families are turning to A.I. agents for help. THE LATEST NEWS Politics Elon Musk, who has major business interests in Texas, appeared to funnel $158 million to back Ken Paxton’s Senate bid there. Even as Democrats hope to flip congressional seats in red states, bluer states have a few races that are far closer than the party would like. A contract dispute is forcing many migrant children to face immigration judges alone. What happens when a 7-year-old agrees to leave the country without a lawyer present? President Trump’s attacks on the integrity of the midterm elections are raising fears among election officials that he could try to challenge results. Letters “containing suspicious substances” were sent to senators and state election officials in recent days. Investigations are underway. Around the World In Yemen. Social Media/UGC, via Social Media Via Reuters The Houthis, the Iranian-backed militia in Yemen, attacked the government’s headquarters there, officials said. Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemen’s government, accused Iran of trying to escalate the war. Russia and Ukraine have started striking each other’s data centers. The daughter of Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, traveled to the Balkan territory of Republika Srpska with an American businessman to explore a gas pipeline deal with the pro-Russian government there. Other Big Stories Trump canceled the Pentagon’s plan to livestream the execution of the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting. It’s a tough time to buy a house. Mortgage rates have pushed above 7 percent — their highest level in more than three years — and home prices remain elevated. It’s not just rich people getting richer. Harvard’s endowment grew by $11 billion this year to a record $68 billion — a 27 percent return. A teenager was arrested in suburban Chicago after his gun jammed before a planned mass shooting at a Hindu temple, the police said. The police identified a homicide victim found in a barrel in Lake Mead in 2022. They say he’s an Arkansas man killed in the 1980s. IN ONE GRAPHIC Source: Gallup polls of U.S. adults conducted in September 1949 and 2018. The New York Times Polls show that socialism is growing in popularity. Here, we track warming American attitudes toward it (and waning regard for capitalism), even as respondents aren’t quite sure what “socialism” means. OPINIONS Requiring fraternities to admit women can make campuses safer, the president of Wesleyan University argues. To solve today’s affordability crisis, we have to face a tricky, wonky, tenacious problem from yesteryear, Matthew Yglesias writes: the deficit. The Anniversary Sale ends soon: Morning readers, enjoy our best offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your interests with expert coverage of news, culture, business and more. Save now: $1/week for your first year. FREE TO READ Crisis in Paris: The city has acknowledged a “collective failure” to prevent sexual offenders from working in schools after a surge in abuse accusations. Rescuing Luna: A small dog who went missing in Yellowstone National Park for nearly five weeks was found safe. See a photo. Kelly Clarkson (Day 7!): The Brooklyn store that angered the singer has raised the price of the toy bird that she said it wouldn’t sell her to $15 million. We went to visit it. Your pick: The most clicked story in The Morning yesterday was about how to prevent stroke and dementia. Hilary Swank: She’s having her third child at 52. TODAY’S NUMBER McFarlane Toys $399 — That is the price of a new deluxe version of a Shohei Ohtani action figure from a company that usually sells superhero toys. It’s 14 inches tall and comes with home and away Dodgers uniforms, two pairs of cleats, more than a dozen interchangeable hands and two heads. One stares icily. The other gives a celebratory shout. Check it out. SPORTS Competitive eating: Tim Janus brought rigor and strategy to his sport, rising to No. 2 in the world. He died at 49. N.F.L.: The Denver Broncos held off a late comeback attempt and defeated the Seattle Seahawks in overtime, 17-14, in Denver, dropping the reigning Super Bowl champions’ record to 3-3 — matching their total of losses from last season. RECIPE OF THE DAY Bobbi Lin for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Here’s a minimalist recipe for butternut squash soup that delivers maximalist flavor, thanks to the balance between the sweetness of the vegetable and the warm sparkle of spices and acid that joins it in the pot. There are some lovely notes and modifications in the comments below the instructions, well worth considering. Butternut squash soup is a canvas. Paint on it! THE EYES HAVE IT Nathan Fielder interviewing Elizabeth Holmes in “You Can See Everything.” A24 The documentary “You Can See Everything,” about the disgraced tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, opens today. Manohla Dargis, reviewing it for The Times, calls the film “off-the-charts bonkers,” and “a wily, disturbing, self-aware exploration of the relationship between documentarians and their subjects.” More on culture Zara Larsson is poised for pop superstardom, and she came onto our “Popcast” culture show to talk about it. Watch, listen or read. Meet Mette Wendelboe Okkels, a Danish knitting luminary who runs the fiber-crafts brand PetiteKnit. The aesthetic of her patterns is pure Scandinavian chic. “I see these pictures and it’s like, ‘I’m going to live like this,’” one fan told The Times. “‘I’m going to make the sweater and I’m going to have breezy hair and endless cups of coffee.’” Hygge! 🇩🇰🧶☕ THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Watch “Prey,” a 2014 British cops-and-bad-guys series set in Manchester that’s kicking around on Amazon Prime. The Times liked it when it first came to America. I like it now. Sleep well on a plane. It’s possible! Subscribe to “The Backstory”: Our journalists often face tough calls about how to tell sensitive stories. In a new newsletter, we explain how we make those decisions, beginning with our coverage of the gang rape allegation at Cornell. Sign up here. Clean your refrigerator this weekend. (This should be a monthly chore — in restaurants it’s more like a daily one.) The kitchen porters at Wirecutter have some very good tips. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were inimically, maniacally and manically. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. If you’re not a subscriber yet, would you consider becoming one today? Subscriptions allow us to keep doing this work that we love. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson

New WH press secretary’s credentials under scrutiny New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia shared at least 15 social media posts over the past two years identifying her as an “attorney,” despite having failed the California bar exam. The posts have raised questions about how Zacharia represented her credentials after graduating from Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law in 2011. She also repeatedly described herself as a lawyer during television and podcast appearances, though she acknowledged publicly that she had been advised not to use that term. + Read more: New WH press secretary failed the bar exam. She shared posts calling her an attorney anyway + Video: Zacharia denies misrepresenting her legal credentials

Zelensky and Trump clash over war A new dispute over Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service is deepening the rift between the US and Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities say Starlink has restricted some military internet services, disrupting operations amid an escalating dispute with the Trump administration. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is threatening to resume strikes on Russian oil refineries, despite Trump’s concerns that such attacks are driving up fuel prices ahead of the US midterms. + Read more: Zelensky praises ‘real leaders’ in Europe as his relationship with Trump deteriorates + Meanwhile: Ukraine runs out of Patriot interceptor missiles

Takeaways from Thursday’s heated Senate debates Two of the country’s most competitive Senate races grew increasingly bitter Thursday night as candidates traded sharp attacks during debates in Maine and Alaska. In Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson told Republican Sen. Susan Collins to “shut up,” while in Alaska, GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan questioned Democratic challenger Mary Peltola’s character over allegations she mistreated staff, prompting her to fire back. Though thousands of miles apart, both contests could prove pivotal in determining which party controls the Senate. + Read more: Key moments from the debates + Video: Protester interrupts Maine Senate debate + USAFacts: How red or blue is your state? Editor’s note: CNN has partnered with the not-for-profit USAFacts to share government data and insights that we believe are relevant to our audience.

Oregon community mourns after school shooting Community members grieve during a candlelight vigil in Bend, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images) Three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher were killed on Thursday when gunfire erupted at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon. Another child and a teacher were rushed to the hospital with critical injuries. Police said the shooter, a 16-year-old Bend resident, was shot and killed by a community member who pursued him into the school. Authorities have not yet identified a motive. The tragedy marks the 36th shooting on K-12 school grounds in the US this year, according to a CNN analysis. “As a country, we still lack the courage to do anything to try to prevent these things from occurring,” CNN Senior Law Enforcement Analyst Charles Ramsey said, warning that without meaningful action, more families will likely face the same heartbreak. + Live updates: Teen shooter kills 3 children, teacher in Oregon + Video: Superintendent’s emotional message after school shooting + CNN analysis: School shootings in the US this year

THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 16 1934 The Long March Mao Zedong begins leading his Communists followers on a 6,000-mile trek from southeastern to northwestern China. read more 1980s 1987 Baby Jessica rescued from a well as the world watches Arts & Entertainment 1854 Celebrated writer Oscar Wilde is born 1970 Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber release “Jesus Christ Superstar” concept album 1923 Walt Disney Company is founded Asian History 1964 China joins A-bomb club Black History 1995 Million Man March Crime 1991 23 diners massacred at Texas restaurant 1906 A shoemaker leads German soldiers in a robbery European History 1793 Marie Antoinette is beheaded Inventions & Science 1958 Chevrolet introduces the El Camino Slavery 1859 John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry Sports 1968 Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists at the 1968 Olympics 1996 Stampede kills 84 at World Cup match U.S. Presidents 1854 Abraham Lincoln speaks out against slavery Vietnam War 1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho awarded Nobel Peace Prize World War II 1946 Nazi war criminals executed 1946 Alfred Rosenberg is executed

☔ Winter forecast: Warmer and wetter Image: NOAA Winter in the U.S. looks like it will generally be wetter and warmer, but not necessarily snowier, according to the federal government's seasonal outlook. El Niño — the natural but temporary warming in parts of the Pacific — should help erase persistent Western drought but likely won't make Northern snow-lovers happy. Full winter outlook.

🐊 Scoop: Trump as Florida Man President Trump will return to his Florida base of operations to juice in-person early voting with an Oct. 23 rally in the southwest part of the state, Axios' Marc Caputo has learned. Why it matters: Florida is among the GOP's least problematic states in midterms, 18 days away. But Republicans are worried about enthusiasm and turnout, even in Trump's newly adopted home state. Polls show Rep. Byron Donalds and Sen. Ashley Moody with marginal leads over their Democratic opponents in the gubernatorial and Senate races. The Fort Myers rally is in the heart of Donalds' Southwest Florida district, among the state's solid Republican strongholds. 🗳️ State of play: Registered Florida Republicans outnumber registered Democrats by more than 1.5 million. So far, though, Democrats have cast more vote-by-mail ballots than Republicans, according to the state's Division of Elections. Republicans used to dominate mail voting in Florida. But that began to change after Trump started demonizing the method in 2020. So now Republicans rely more on early in-person voting. "Next week is crunch time," said a top Florida Republican consultant. "It's still Florida, and we still have more voters. But the environment isn't great and, sure, no one turns out our base more than the president. I hope it works." ✈️ Coming attractions: Today, Trump officially kicks off his Florida season by overnighting at his Mar-a-Lago club after a rally this afternoon in Dalton, Ga. Tomorrow, he rallies at Northern Kentucky University's arena in Highland Heights, Ky., then is back in Palm Beach for a MAGA Inc. Candlelight Dinner. Sunday, he'll return to the White House. Monday, he rallies in Wichita, Kan. Tuesday, he rallies in Greenville, S.C. Wednesday, he rallies in Clemson, S.C. Thursday, he rallies in Sioux City, Iowa. Next Friday, he returns to Florida for the rally with Donalds and Moody.

🌋 Geothermal's bipartisan boom Chart: Amy Harder/Axios. Data: Currence Geothermal — power drawn from the Earth's natural heat — is pulling off something remarkable in today's hyperpolarized America: winning fans across the political spectrum, Axios national energy correspondent Amy Harder writes. Why it matters: The bipartisan appeal, combined with surging electricity demand from AI, is helping fuel investment in a niche energy source yet to prove it can compete at scale. Geothermal received unusually extensive attention in a bipartisan Senate bill introduced late last month to cut hurdles for energy projects. The House passed a package this summer containing several of the same geothermal provisions. The rising cachet of geothermal is the product of three trends converging: Technologies adapted from the oil and gas industry, including fracking, are making it possible to tap heat in more places than just far-flung hot springs and volcanoes. Tech companies, on the hunt for reliable electricity, are willing to pay a premium for next-generation geothermal to power data centers. Investment is surging as companies race to scale a renewable energy source that can generate power around the clock. Keep reading.

🏎️ Elon's flying supercar Images: Tesla Elon Musk finally unveiled his long-promised next-generation Tesla Roadster last night, and it's every bit as outrageous as you'd expect from a man who launches rockets into space, Axios' Joann Muller writes. The car flies, does backflips and even drives upside down. Why it matters: Musk's latest creation — a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX engineers — pushes the boundaries of automotive technology, even if it's hard to imagine what practical purpose a flying sports car might serve. 🚀 Zoom in: At a theatrical unveiling yesterday, Musk showed off a two-seat electric supercar equipped with rocket thrusters and a powerful suction system. The Roadster uses high-pressure compressed air, rather than rocket fuel, to propel itself into the air and perform aerial gymnastics. Tesla claims the car can accelerate from zero to 60 mph in just 0.8 seconds — faster than any production car — and will exceed 230 mph, although Musk said the goal is to achieve "half the speed of sound," or around 380 mph. Screenshot: Tesla Reality check: Tesla hasn't disclosed the Roadster's price, driving range or how long it can stay airborne. Nor has it explained how a rocket-powered flying car could meet safety and regulatory requirements.

⚠️ The debt-fueled AI boom is cracking Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios Wall Street appears to be hitting its limit on AI — and financiers are starting to say the quiet part out loud: All of this AI spending doesn't look like it can pay off for everyone, Axios' Madison Mills writes. Why it matters: A massive gap is opening up between AI infrastructure spending and expected returns. AI providers are projected to spend $7 trillion on infrastructure through 2030. They're expected to generate no more than $3.6 trillion in related revenue over that same period, according to the Gartner consulting firm. Gartner also predicts that more than 80% of specialized AI cloud providers will cease operating independently by 2030. Explore the data ...

MAGA pushes martial law Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Getty Images MAGA activists are pushing for President Trump to resort to extraordinary measures — including martial law — if they believe the midterm elections are "rigged," Axios' Brittany Gibson writes. Why it matters: Some of the proposals go far beyond Trump's legal authority — and there's no evidence that the elections will be rigged. But people in this orbit have close access to the president. Prominent MAGA election activist Tina Peters met with Trump this month. Convicted in 2024 of crimes tied to a breach of election equipment, Peters was released this year after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted her sentence. Peters and her attorney, Peter Ticktin, also visited Trump at the White House in late June. 🔎 Zoom in: On a Sept. 30 video call for MAGA election activists streamed on Rumble, speakers warned of widespread election security breaches they believe will occur in November — and urgently pushed for remedies. Ticktin, Trump's childhood friend, said on the call "there would have to be martial law in the event ... [of] another rigged election." "There'll probably need to be commandeering of ballots and election equipment to make sure that we can get to the bottom of it before anything further occurs," he later told Axios. Gregory Stenstrom, who testified about alleged voting irregularities in Pennsylvania in 2020, said he most wanted the election paused over security concerns. Alternatively, he proposed Trump invoke the National Emergencies Act to force states to change how they run elections. 🥊 Reality check: "Emergency powers are not just a blank check for the president to go do whatever they want," said Derek Tisler, counsel for the Brennan Center's elections and government program. "The president still has to act within the Constitution and within statutes set by Congress." ps:So once again I ask who is really running this country?????

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