The Chicago Police Department solved the 1960 cold-case murder of 8-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz because of DNA technology, finding one of their own homicide detectives responsible.

The detective, Thomas F. McInerney Jr., died in 2006 at age 70 after retiring in 1987. He’s not a suspect in any other crimes.

“McInerney should never have worn the CPD star, and it is devastating to accept that he was never identified and held accountable while he was alive,” the CPD said in a statement to NBC News Monday.

“This case is an example of our commitment to never forget the victims of violence and their families, no matter how much time passes,” CPD added in a post on Facebook on Monday.

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One person has died and several others were injured in an incident involving a Six Flags roller coaster Monday afternoon in Georgia, according to police.

The incident took place at Six Flags Over Georgia, about 15 miles northwest of Atlanta, according to the Cobb County Police Department. Detectives with the department’s major crimes unit will investigate the incident.

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The U.S. government has spent almost $22 million in taxpayers' funds on ads praising President Donald Trump, an NPR analysis found.

The administration reportedly spent $10 million since Trump pledged last week to pay for the ads himself.

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Former Proud Boys leader and convicted seditionist Enrique Tarrio claimed Monday that he was stranded in Warsaw, Poland, because the U.K. had banned him from entering.

“I can’t even land to switch planes…But it didn’t end there. I am now stuck in Warsaw because @British_Airways has an ‘issue’ with me flying. I’ve missed two flights because of unknown reasons,” he said in a social media post on Monday. The reason for his trip was unclear.

Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack before he was pardoned by President Donald Trump, then called on U.S. Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose for assistance.

In a separate post, he wrote, “Maybe my brown ass can get on an inflatable raft and enter the UK by crossing the channel… Plus I’ll get some government money.”

“Only way to get in these days,” he added.

RJ Mitte, best known for his portrayal of Walter White Jr. on “Breaking Bad,” has died at age 34.

A representative for Mitte confirmed the actor’s death Monday in a statement to Variety, not long after TMZ broke the news.

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Emergency help for Christa Pike was delayed by confusion among first responders and Tennessee prison officials following her failed lethal injection last month, according to 911 dispatch recordings reviewed by The Associated Press.

The recordings show that precious minutes elapsed as officials and responders tried to figure out whether a request for emergency help in the execution chamber was legitimate. The first call came in at 8:40 p.m. on Sept. 30, and it was about a half an hour before prison officials affirmed it was legitimate and began letting responders through the prison gates.

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Country singer Kacey Musgraves responded to a dig from Kristi Noem by reminding the former Homeland Security Secretary that she once shot her own dog.

In Noem’s post, she tried to insult Musgraves for posing for a photo with Texas Senate Democratic nominee James Talarico, saying that she prefers country singer Ella Langley over Musgraves.

“And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico,” Noem wrote Monday on X.

But Musgraves seemed to have the last word, making a reference to Noem admitting in 2024 that she once shot her 14-month-old puppy because it was “less than worthless” as a hunting dog.

“I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it,” Musgraves replied on X.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he “may” meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during next month’s trip to Asia, doubling down on a similar comment he made two months earlier.

“That’ll be exciting, won’t it?” the president told reporters. “But I get along with him.”

Trump also said in August that he plans to meet the North Korean dictator some time this year. He has met with Kim on three previous occasions, in 2018 and 2019.

The U.S. does not have formal diplomatic relations with North Korea, and Trump is the only sitting president to have met with the country’s supreme leaders. The president has floated his cozy relationship with Kim on multiple occasions.

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that he had nothing to do with Homeland Security Investigations agents raiding the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) earlier that day, but not before he added on to his years of racist attacks against the Muslim congresswoman.

“I understand they are looking at her very carefully. I’ve always found her to be totally crooked personally but that has nothing to do with me. I think she’s a terrible person, she’s just a complainer,” the president told reporters. The raid is reportedly related to immigration paperwork filled out by Omar’s now-deceased father when she was a child.

“She comes from a country that is a non-country,” Trump continued, referring to the very real country of Somalia of which Omar is a refugee. “And then she comes over here and she complains about our Constitution. I think she’s a terrible person, but that’s really up to the DOJ, I have nothing to do with it.”

Omar, who has been an unapologetically outspoken Trump critic, lambasted the president earlier for trying to intimidate her with the raid just weeks before the midterm elections.

“Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” the Minnesota Democrat wrote on social media. “For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.”

A Republican-linked political action group is drawing unwanted attention after spending thousands on TV ads attacking a Democrat Senate nominee — only to accidentally run the commercials in the wrong state.

GOP super PAC Defending Main Street mistakenly bought roughly $25,000 worth of ad spots in Portland, Oregon, where it ran ads intended for viewers in Portland, Maine, multiple outlets reported. The ads, which aired over several days beginning last week, attack policies championed by Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson.

In a statement to MS NOW, the super PAC blamed the error on its media vendor.

“The vendor is refunding Defending Main Street the full amount of the misplaced spend,” the statement read. “No donor funds will be lost as a result of the vendor’s error.”

At least five violent deaths have been reported since October 2025 along the same stretch of a popular trail in Michigan’s capital, leading local investigators to wonder whether they should be looking out for one killer.

“One question that we are being asked is, ‘Do we have a serial killer in Lansing?’ ... What we need the public to know is that we are investigating all of these cases,” police Chief Robert Backus told reporters earlier this month. “They are all active investigations, and we are looking at the idea or the possibility that these may be related cases.”

According to CNN, Backus said investigators believe the crimes could represent a pattern targeting white unhoused men who were sleeping overnight along the Lansing River Trail. Lansing Mayor Andy Schor told the outlet in a statement that authorities have a suspect in at least one of the deaths in custody, and that police are looking into “all possible connections.”

“We know that the general public has not been targeted in these attacks,” Schor said. “The Lansing river trail and our downtown remain safe for residents and visitors.”

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Actor Selma Blair was arrested Sunday after she allegedly punched one flight attendant and bit another on board a Delta flight, as well as tried to open the plane door while still in the air, according to TMZ.

Blair’s rep told ABC News that the actor experienced a “medical emergency that led to the alleged conduct.”

“Upon landing, she received immediate medical attention and is currently in stable condition,” the rep said.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed the arrest to ABC News. TMZ reported that police were waiting for Blair at a John F. Kennedy International Airport gate. She was taken to a local hospital for evaluation and two flight attendants reported injuries while one received care at a hospital.

The Trump administration continued to air taxpayer-funded propaganda ads on television Monday morning despite a federal judge’s temporary order the night before blocking the government from running the campaign-style videos, according to advertising data from AdImpact.

After a coalition of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit challenging the ads – arguing they constitute taxpayer-funded “propaganda” – the Department of Homeland Security said in a Saturday court filing that the ads wouldn’t continue past Sunday. President Donald Trump had also said campaign funds would be used to pay for future ads.

In a Sunday order, Judge Jennifer Rochon wrote the administration must “cancel or cause to be cancelled” any such ads from airing starting Sunday evening, and that the government is banned from “using, disbursing, or transferring” DHS funds to develop and distribute the videos.

But according to the advertising data, two of the ads aired multiple times during various shows after Rochon’s deadline passed, including on “ABC World News Tonight” and CBS’s “60 Minutes.” The ads, which were paid for using DHS funds, included one resembling a Trump 2024 presidential campaign video and another of him and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth advocating for the Iran war.

Democratic Party officials also filed a lawsuit against Trump last week seeking a court order to block the taxpayer-funded ads.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said an alleged terrorist plot targeting an air base in western England was most likely organized by an Iranian military group.

“I can confirm our assessment that it is highly likely to have been coordinated in Iran, almost certainly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard,” Burnham told parliament on Monday.

“We will not tolerate these threats on our soil,” he continued. “We will crack down on Iran’s use of criminal networks using our full range of powers to target them and their funding streams.”

Five men were arrested last month and later released on bail on charges stemming from an alleged plan to attack the military airfield of RAF Fairford, an base used by the U.S. to launch strikes on Iran.

A dual British-Iranian national was also arrested in late September on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, but was later released on bail.

The threats prompted the U.S. Air Force last week to withdraw all bombers stationed at the facility.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) said the Trump administration’s raid of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home early Monday is a reminder of what a chicken President Donald Trump is, and of his tendency to lash out at Black women who challenge him.

“This is a gross abuse of power and the latest in a decade-long, racist smear campaign against a duly-elected Black Congresswoman,” Pressley said in a statement.

She noted that Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and Somali American congresswoman who has endured years of racist and Islamophobic smears by this president, fits the profile of a number of Trump’s critics who have faced intense public attacks by him: Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

In other words, all Black women.

“Trump is a coward who is weaponizing his DOJ to fuel hate and intimidate his opponents with baseless attacks like these, just like he’s doing with Rep. McIver, Lisa Cook, and Tish James,” said Pressley, who is also Black. “We stand with you, Congresswoman Omar.”

Hackers attacked French supermarket fridges overnight, forcing the temperature to heat up to 50 degrees Celsius.

The cyber-attack affected several hundred Intermarché shops and Coopérative U outlets across France, leading to fires and food losses.

The Paris prosecutor’s office called it a “large-scale” attack, according to Sky News.

Dominique Schelcher, CEO of Coopérative U, confirmed the attack on X, calling it “unacceptable.”

“Our teams are fully mobilized, in coordination with refrigeration specialists, to restore the situation as quickly as possible,” Schelcher said. “An investigation will be necessary to shed full light on this attack. Targeting equipment essential to the preservation of fresh products and to the food supply of the French people is of extreme gravity and is unprecedented. It is unacceptable.”

Justice Department attorneys received an earful at a Monday hearing for a temporary restraining order in the case over President Donald Trump’s plan to convert Washington’s historic public golf course into a championship showcase — with the federal judge furiously demanding to know why the government cut down hundreds of trees over the weekend without adequate notice.

“You know why I’m furious right now? I was hearing from everybody on plaintiffs’ side that this was going to happen and I said repeatedly, no, I trust the government,” Judge Ana Reyes told the DOJ. “I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done.”

Reyes imposed a temporary pause on the Justice Department’s tree removal at the golf course until Tuesday morning, demanding to know who ordered the weekend removal and how long government attorneys knew of the plan. She said that if her current order is violated by “even two seconds” that there will be contempt proceedings, and flatly rejected the administration’s claims they had done all they could.

“Do you have email accounts? Do you have cell phones? Do you have regular phones? Do you have the ability to get into a car and go to where plaintiffs are and tell them?” she asked of their efforts.

“You did not do your best. You did your absolute worst.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) lashed out at the Trump administration for raiding her home early Monday, saying President Donald Trump is once again trying to politically intimidate her.

“I’m OK,” Omar said on social media, amid reports of Department of Homeland Security agents searching her Washington, D.C., home. The raid is reportedly related to immigration paperwork her now-deceased father filled out when she was a child.

“Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement,” said the Muslim congresswoman, who has endured years of racist and Islamophobic attacks by the president. “For 10 years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.”

She added: “I will not be silenced.”

Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) tore into President Donald Trump and his administration for its Monday morning raid on the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the progressive congresswoman frequently targeted by racist and Islamophobic attacks from the president.

“I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar,” Smith told HuffPost in a statement. “This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.”

Smith said the Trump administration’s decision to raid Omar’s home, which reportedly stems from immigration paperwork Omar’s now-deceased father filled out when she was a child, is yet another piece of the president’s “corrupt playbook.”

“Use all the powers of the federal government to attack our leaders. Deploy an out of control, violent federal police force to invade our communities and kill and injure Minnesotans. Launch baseless and hateful attacks on the Somali community. And feed Trump’s longstanding obsession with Representative Omar,” said the senator. “Minnesota won’t stand for it.”

The Justice Department declined to give any details on the reason for the raid. Instead it simply confirmed it was conducting an investigation.

“Today in the Washington, D.C, area, Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice,” a DOJ spokesperson told HuffPost. “This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”

Former President Barack Obama is continuing his run of endorsements with a slate of new videos boosting his party’s Democratic Senate candidates in Michigan and Mississippi, Abdul El-Sayed and Scott Colom.

“Abdul’s a doctor, and he’s taken on special interests to fight for good jobs, better health care, and lower costs,” Obama says of progressive El-Sayed, urging Michiganders to turn out. El-Sayed is competing with Republican Mike Rodgers for the state’s open Senate seat.

“Abdul has never taken corporate money. He understands that health care is a human right, and he thinks we should invest here instead of wasting money on endless wars. So make your voice heard. Vote.”

Obama is set to campaign alongside El-Sayed, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson, and other leaders at a joint rally later this month.

In a separate video, the former president also endorsed Colom, who is running a long-shot race against incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, an ally of President Donald Trump. Colom is currently a Mississippi-based district attorney.

“Mississippi, it’s time for a change,” Obama said in his video boosting Colom. “That’s why you need to send Scott Colom to the U.S. Senate.

He continued: “Scott made his community safer, prosecuting violent crimes as district attorney, and fighting corruption in Columbus. Now he’s running for Senate to raise wages, lower costs, and save your healthcare and hospitals. Mississippi, your vote matters. Let’s get this done.”

Homeland Security Investigations agents raided the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar on Monday amid a criminal investigation into the Minnesota Democrat, according to The Associated Press and Fox News.

“This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation,” DHS said in a statement to AP.

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