1  The United Nations says Israel has told all civilians in the northern half of Gaza to evacuate to the southern half of the territory within 24 hours, an unprecedented order applying to around 1.1 million people ahead of an expected ground offensive. Keep reading 2 NPR left Twitter back in April—when it was still called Twitter instead of X—and the media organization says its "Twexit" has only had a minimal effect on traffic to its website. Keep reading
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3 A man armed with a knife killed a teacher and wounded two others on Friday at a high school in northern France, an attack being investigated as potential terrorism. Keep reading 4 Mary Lou Retton's Dancing With the Stars partner says he's been in communication with the iconic gymnast and that while she's in the midst of a massive health struggle, he ultimately believes she will pull through. Keep reading 5 Since the Hamas attack on Israel, threats against some of the most progressive lawmakers have seen a "major uptick," according to the sources who spoke to Politico. Keep reading 6 As his ex-girlfriend and the former CEO of one of his companies testified against him in his fraud trial, Sam Bankman-Fried "laughed, visibly [shook] his head, and scoffed" multiple times, according to the prosecutor who was questioning Caroline Ellison. Keep reading
7 Jurors convicted a Denver-area police officer of homicide Thursday and acquitted another of all charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was put in a neck hold, pinned to the ground and given an overdose of the sedative ketamine by paramedics, the AP reports. Keep reading 8 One day after he won a GOP ballot to seek the position of House speaker, Steve Scalise is out of the running. Keep reading This Day in History On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia. One hundred and forty years later, on Oct. 13, 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the US Supreme Court building. Find out what else happened on this date here. From the Newser Archives On this day in 2021: Social Security Benefits See Biggest Jump in 39 Years Yesterday's Most-Read Stories
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Friday, October 13, 2023
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