Robert Durst, a real estate heir who was sentenced to life in prison this week for murder, is on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19. Two right-leaning law professors have resigned from a commission set up by President Joe Biden to consider potential changes to the U.S. Supreme Court. A staff member for the U.S. House of Representatives' security service has been arrested on child pornography charges. An Iranian appeals court has upheld the sentence for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian aid worker accused of plotting against the country's Islamist government. Pope Francis appealed to pharmaceutical companies to drop their patents on COVID-19 vaccines to make them more widely available in poor countries. President Joe Biden said that being a cop today is "harder than it's ever been" in a speech Saturday saying that additional support and reform is needed for the increasingly burdened and dangerous profession. Police have found a car that belonged to an Ohio woman who went missing nearly 20 years ago with her two children. Gunfire at a high school football stadium in Mobile, Ala., has left four people hospitalized, police said. President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday became the first French head of state to attend a ceremony marking the mass killing of Algerian independence protesters by Paris police in 1961. An Amtrak train collided with a car hauler in southern Oklahoma, injuring five people aboard the train, local authorities said. Italy has rolled out its Green Pass, a government-issued health pass for citizens to work amid the pandemic, prompting protests. A gunman with a rifle shot three off-duty Texas constable deputies early Saturday morning, killing one and injuring the others, Houston police said. The United States has offered to pay an undisclosed amount to families of 10 Afghans civilians, including seven children, killed in a mistaken drone strike in August, the Pentagon said. A federal appeals court has ordered that several Oklahoma death row prisoners be reinstated to a lawsuit challenging the state's lethal injection protocol. The fatal stabbing of British member of Parliament David Amess has been declared a terrorist incident, Metropolitan Police said Saturday. NASA's Lucy spacecraft launched pre-dawn Saturday in Florida for its 12-year mission to visit eight mysterious asteroids. The Midwest is about to experience some relief as it slips into an increasingly moderate weather pattern. Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn and Australian actress Leila George are divorcing after one year of marriage, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles. Pop music star Taylor Swift's "Fearless (Taylor's Version)" is the No. 1 album in the United States this week. Television icon Katey Sagal is recovering from injuries she sustained when she was hit by a car while walking in Los Angeles. Dr. Tiffany Braley noticed a trend among patients who resisted being admitted to or staying in the hospital: They just wanted to get home, because they had no one to care for their beloved pets. Actor Suzanne Somers turns 75 and tennis star Naomi Osaka turns 24, among the famous birthdays for Oct. 16. On Oct. 16, 1991, police said George Hennard shot and killed 23 people and then took his own life at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. Children who spent more time in nature during pandemic lockdowns suffered fewer behavioral and emotional problems, British researchers say. |
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