| No Images? Click here  Monday, October 1INDONESIA PREPARES MASS BURIAL A mass burial of earthquake and tsunami victims is being prepared for hundreds of bodies in the Indonesian city of Palu. The death toll, now more than 800, is expected to rise as rescuers reach hard-hit areas. [AP]CANADA AGREES NEW NAFTA TERMS The U.S. and Canada reached a deal to update NAFTA and keep it a trilateral pact with Mexico. The agreement boosts U.S. access to Canada’s dairy market and protects Canada from possible U.S. auto tariffs. [HuffPost]KAVANAUGH CLASSMATE: HE’S LYING North Carolina State University professor Chad Ludington has joined a handful of former classmates of Brett Kavanaugh in contradicting the Supreme Court nominee’s claims about his past drinking. Ludington told The New York Times that Kavanaugh played down “the degree and frequency” of his drinking at Yale to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week and that he often saw Kavanaugh “staggering from alcohol consumption.” [HuffPost]PROSECUTOR: ‘NO CASE AGAINST KAVANAUGH’ Rachel Mitchell, the outside prosecutor hired by Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans to lead the questioning of Christine Blasey Ford, asserted in a memo that a “reasonable prosecutor” would not press charges against Kavanaugh based on Blasey’s allegations. [HuffPost]CALIFORNIA PASSES GENDER BOARDROOM RULE California became the first state to require corporate boards of directors include women. The law states that any corporation based in the state must have a minimum of one woman on its board by the end of 2019. By the end of 2021, that number increases to at least two or three women, depending on the total number of directors. [HuffPost]TRUMP LAWSUIT OVER NET NEUTRALITY California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the nation’s toughest net neutrality measure, requiring internet providers to maintain a level playing field online. The move prompted an immediate lawsuit against the state by the Trump administration. [HuffPost]CANCER SCIENTISTS WIN NOBEL James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo jointly won the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.” [AP]
 NUNES HAS A SECRET This writer went in search of the Iowa dairy farm owned by the family of Trump backer Devin Nunes — and things got very weird. [Esquire]TWO KOREAS BEGIN MOVING LAND MINES Troops from North Korea and South Korea began removing some land mines along their heavily fortified border, as part of a pact to reduce tension. [Reuters]RONALDO DENIES RAPE CLAIM Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has denied a rape allegation from 2009 that was reported in Germany’s Der Spiegel. “What they said today: Fake, fake news,” Ronaldo, 33, said in a video posted on Instagram. [HuffPost]GRASSLEY APPLIES FOR TRUMP BAILOUT CASH Millionaire Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) supported President Donald Trump’s $12 billion bailout for U.S. farmers to mitigate the damaging effects of Trump’s trade war. Now the senator is applying for a piece of those same bailout funds for his own 750-acre Iowa farm. [HuffPost]SARAH PALIN’S SON ARRESTED Track Palin, the eldest son of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), was arrested for the third time in less than three years on charges stemming from domestic violence incidents. [HuffPost]NELSON REVEALS BETO SONG Country music legend Willie Nelson unveiled his new election-themed song “Vote ’Em Out” at a massive rally for Democratic Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke in Austin, Texas. [HuffPost]
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