He was killed during a U.S. military operation, Trump says.
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Monday, October 28
INSIDE THE RAID THAT KILLED BAGHDADI The helicopters flew low and fast, ferrying U.S. special forces to a compound where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding in Syria. President Donald Trump watched the raid in real-time via a video link, as troops blasted into the hideout and sent the militant running the last steps of his life. [AP]
CALIFORNIA DECLARES WILDFIRE EMERGENCY Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a statewide emergency on Sunday as a spate of wildfires grew across the state, forcing mass evacuations and plunging millions of people into darkness amid the latest round of preventative blackouts. [HuffPost]
CHRIS WALLACE GRILLS PENCE OVER ISIS RAID Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly refused to directly answer questions from Fox News’ Chris Wallace on Sunday about Trump’s failure to alert the “Gang of Eight” ― a bipartisan group of congressional leaders ― about the raid beforehand. [HuffPost]
WHAT BAGHDADI'S DEATH MEANS The death of terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi marks the demise of one of the most brutally effective jihadist leaders of modern times — a man who commanded tens of thousands of fighters from around the world, carved out a territorial caliphate in the Middle East and refined a horrific ideology that survives him. [AP]
LEBANON PROTESTERS FORM HUMAN CHAIN Protesters formed a human chain across Lebanon on Sunday, pressing a historic wave of demonstrations against political leaders blamed for corruption and steering the country toward economic collapse. [Reuters]
FORMER REP. JOHN CONYERS DIES AT AGE 90 Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan died Sunday at the age of 90. He served in the House from 1965 until December 2017, when he resigned following allegations that he sexually harassed several female staffers. [HuffPost]
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EU AMBASSADOR SAID 'IT WAS QUID PRO QUO' U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told House lawmakers last week that Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son before a White House meeting amounted to a quid pro quo, his lawyer told The Wall Street Journal. [HuffPost]
CHICAGO'S TENTATIVE DEAL WITH SCHOOL SUPPORT STAFF Chicago has reportedly reached a tentative deal with striking school support staff, but there's still no agreement with the teachers union. Monday classes are canceled, making this walkout Chicago’s longest teachers strike in more than 30 years. [HuffPost]
1 MILLION CHILEANS JAM CAPITAL IN PROTEST Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched peacefully in Chile’s capital, intensifying pressure on a government struggling to contain deadly unrest over economic hardship. “All of Chile is marching here,” Santiago Mayor Karla Rubilar said, adding that there was hope as well as sadness among the demonstrators. [AP]
REP. KATIE HILL RESIGNS AMID ETHICS PROBE California Democrat Katie Hill said she is resigning from Congress amid an ethics investigation into unproven claims that she had a relationship with one of her congressional staff members after being sworn into office. [HuffPost]
TEEN FIGHTS TO SAVE BRAZIL FROM BOLSONARO “We are fighting for our lives,” 19-year-old Artemisa Xakriabá said in a speech during the youth climate strike in Manhattan, not far from where Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, would later tell the United Nations that climate change is a “globalist” conspiracy, deny that the fires were devastating the Amazon, and place blame for the blazes on indigenous people. [HuffPost]
SECRECY REMAINS OVER IRELAND'S MOTHER AND BABY HOMES The day after Michael O'Flaherty was born, his mother tried to see him. But, she told him, she was stopped by a nun who told her, 'Go mind your own business, your baby is gone.' The nuns didn't forbid O'Flaherty's mother from seeing her newborn son again, they just didn't tell her who her baby was, or that he was in the same building. [CNN] |
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