National & World

• Students return to school in Asheville, North Carolina, area as community faces Helene recovery
• Woman survives snake bite during days lost in Australia’s Snowy Mountains
• Beijing knife attack injures five, including three children, police say
• Austrian mayor shot dead with suspect on the run, police say
• Fact-checking Harris’ CNN town hall in Pennsylvania
• A loneliness epidemic is spreading worldwide. Seoul is spending $327 million to stop it
• McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ Trump’s GOP
• Justice Department warns Elon Musk that his $1 million giveaway to registered voters may be illegal
• Suspected drunken driver heading wrong way passes Vice President Kamala Harris’ motorcade on interstate in Milwaukee
• At least 3,000 North Korean soldiers now inside Russia, US says
• Teen arrested after 5 people found dead at home in Washington state
• Rudy Giuliani must give control of luxury items and Manhattan apartment to Georgia election workers he defamed, judge rules
• Texas lawmakers hear testimony supporting death row inmate Robert Roberson – but despite subpoena, he does not appear
• Defense Secretary Austin visits Ukraine amid Russian gains and ahead of imminent US election
• Supreme Court declines to hear challenge of the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s structure
• Cuban power grid collapses for fourth time as hurricane arrives
• How an off-duty lifeguard found a missing 17-year-old in the ocean
• Former One Direction singer dead after falling from third-floor hotel room
• Family members stand behind Lyle and Erik Menendez as they await a decision that could see them released from prison
• Texas committee approves subpoena for death row inmate ahead of his execution
• Federal judge orders Alabama to reverse program that purged more than 3,000 names from state voter rolls
• US Navy searching for two crew members after aircraft crash near Mount Rainier