| No Images? Click here   By Holly ThomasEditor's note: We're currently updating our email newsletter system. Over the next few weeks you might run into some problems receiving our newsletters. Check your spam or junk mail folders, or email us at dailybrief@huffpost.com if your newsletters are missing. Thanks, and we apologize for any inconvenience. Monday, October 14FAKE PRESIDENT SHOOTS MEDIA IN VIDEO AT PRO-TRUMP EVENT A graphic video featuring a fake President Donald Trump stabbing members of the news media and lighting the head of a political rival on fire was played at a conference for his supporters at a Trump resort over the weekend, according to a report in The New York Times. [HuffPost]TYPHOON HAGIBIS PUMMELS JAPAN, KILLS DOZENS Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan to rescue people stranded in flooded homes, as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to at least 36. One woman fell to her death as she was being placed inside a rescue helicopter. [AP]DEBACLE: HUNDREDS OF ISIS SUPPORTERS ESCAPE Turkish forces approached a key Kurdish-held town in northern Syria, setting off clashes that allowed hundreds of Islamic State supporters to escape from a camp for displaced people and prompted U.S. soldiers to withdraw from a nearby base. [AP]FIGHTING IN SYRIA HAS ALREADY DISPLACED 130,000 More than 130,000 people have been displaced from rural areas around the northeast Syrian border towns of Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain as a result of fighting between Turkish-led forces and Kurdish militia, the United Nations said. [Reuters]TEXAS COP FATALLY SHOOTS WOMAN IN OWN HOME A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer fatally shot a black woman in her own home early Saturday while responding to a neighbor’s request for a welfare check on the residence, authorities said. [HuffPost]BILES SETS ALL-TIME MEDAL RECORD AT GYMNASTICS WORLDS Simone Biles set the all-time record for most medals by any gymnast at the world championships by winning the balance beam and floor exercise. Biles won her 24th medal on the beam, breaking a tie on 23 with the Belarusian men’s gymnast Vitaly Scherbo, and added her 25th less than two hours later. [AP] A global HuffPost project on everything you ever wanted to know about therapy, whether you've been once or 100 times. TRUMP ‘ORDERED TROOPS TO LEAVE NORTHERN SYRIA’ Amid growing chaos in Syria, Trump has ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the country’s north to avoid an “untenable” conflict between Turkey and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. [HuffPost]SCHIFF: WHISTLEBLOWER MAY NOT TESTIFY Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday it may not be necessary to have the whistleblower who first filed a complaint about Trump’s call with Ukraine testify before Congress, saying there were still major concerns about the person’s safety. [HuffPost]KIDS OF PRIVILEGE STAY ON TOP American children born in 1940 had a 90% chance of earning more than their parents. For children born in 1984, the odds were 50-50. Most accounts of this trend focus on the breakdown of upward mobility: It’s getting harder for the poor to become rich. But equally important is the decline of downward mobility: The rich, regardless of their intelligence, are becoming more likely to stay that way. [HuffPost]AIDES WANT TRUMP TO RUN FROM RISKY RUDY Trump is standing behind personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, one of his highest-profile and most vocal defenders, amid reports that federal prosecutors in the city Giuliani led as mayor are eyeing him for possible lobbying violations. [AP]BIDEN: NO OFFICE FOR FAMILY MEMBERS IN MY WHITE HOUSE Presidential candidate Joe Biden said no family member of his would have an office in the White House or act as a diplomat under his potential administration. His comments were in response to a reporter asking what kind of ethical guidelines Biden would create if elected president. [HuffPost]IRAN WOMEN ATTEND FIFA SOCCER GAME FOR FIRST TIME IN DECADES They had to sit well apart from the men, and the stadium was practically empty, but thousands of Iranian women in merry jester hats and face paint blew horns and cheered at the first FIFA soccer match they were allowed to freely attend in decades. [AP]SPAIN FINDS CATALAN LEADERS GUILTY OF SEDITION Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for sedition over their role in the region’s failed bid for independence in 2017. [Reuters]
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