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Things to do in the DC area: Fright Fête, Día de los Muertos … and more! 10/30/2025 04:44am • Lovers of indie bookstores and spine-chilling festivities should head to Fright Fête at Lost City Books in D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood this Friday. This is the fifth Fright Fête hosted on Halloween by Lost City Books. At the event, guests can expect costumes, dancing, snacks and refreshmen Chicago takes home win streak into matchup with New York 10/30/2025 02:02am • New York Knicks (2-2, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (4-0, first in the Eastern Conference) Chicago; Friday, 8 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Knicks -2.5; over/under is 235.5 BOTTOM LINE: Chicago hosts New York aiming to extend its three-game home winning streak. Chicago fini San Francisco mayor proposes denser housing to tackle affordability crisis 10/30/2025 12:03am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is trying to get more homes built for people like Liam Murphy: a fifth-generation city kid who found himself repeatedly outbid for tiny two-bedroom houses that wound up selling for $1.6 million. Murphy, 39, now lives about an hour's drive away Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica 10/29/2025 11:30pm • SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead and caused widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday. A landslide blocked the main roads of Santa Cruz in Search is on for 3 escaped monkeys after truck overturns on Mississippi highway 10/29/2025 11:23pm • HEIDELBERG, Miss. (AP) — Three monkeys remained on the loose Wednesday as searchers in masks, face shields and other protective gear scoured fields along a rural Mississippi highway where a truck carrying the primates overturned a day earlier. It remained unclear who owns the monkeys, who was tran Residents of rural community in southern Texas ordered to evacuate as firefighters battle blaze 10/29/2025 10:59pm • GREGORY, TX (AP) — Thick smoke blanketed a rural community in southern Texas and many residents were ordered to evacuate as firefighters worked to contain a blaze Wednesday evening, officials said. The Mill Fire in Gregory, Texas, about 150 miles (80.5 kilometers) southeast of San Antonio, had gr The Latest: US will share sensitive nuclear submarine technology with South Korea, Trump says 10/29/2025 10:24pm • The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, President Donald Trump said on social media after meeting with the country’s president during Trump’s ongoing trip to Asia. President Lee Jae Myung stressed to Trump in their Wednesday Army Corps approves Enbridge pipeline reroute around Wisconsin reservation 10/29/2025 10:14pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday approved energy company Enbridge’s plans to reroute an aging oil pipeline around a northern Wisconsin tribal reservation. Enbridge wants to build a new 41-mile (66-kilometer) segment of pipeline around the reservation of the Bad Jurors convict Illinois deputy of killing Sonya Massey but can't agree on first-degree murder charge 10/29/2025 09:45pm • PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a suspected prowler. Sean Grayson could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison or even probatio Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds at a hospital in Darfur, residents and aid workers say 10/29/2025 09:11pm • CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people at a hospital, including patients, after they seized the provincial capital of North Darfur over the weekend, according to the U.N., displaced residents and aid workers, who described harrowing details of the atrocities. The 460 pa Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that could decide who can provide abortion care in the state 10/29/2025 09:10pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Supreme Court is weighing a case that is expected to determine who can provide abortion care in the state. The court heard arguments Wednesday in a 2019 case challenging the constitutionality of a law that states only a doctor licensed by the State Medical Board c Furloughed IRS tax attorney starts second career running popular hot dog stand 10/29/2025 08:43pm • A furloughed federal tax attorney is turning his childhood dream into a reality with more time on his hands during the nearly monthlong government shutdown. Furloughed IRS tax attorney Isaac Stein, 31, is selling hot dogs from his “Shysters Dogs" stand, whose motto is “the only honest rip Paris prosecutor says 2 suspects in the Louvre jewel heist acknowledge their involvement 10/29/2025 08:38pm • PARIS (AP) — Two suspects in the Louvre jewel heist on Wednesday were handed preliminary charges of criminal conspiracy and theft committed by an organized gang, according to the Paris prosecutor's office. The prosecutor said they admitted their involvement. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau told a news co Putin claims Russian troops have surrounded 2 Ukrainian cities but Ukraine says that's not true 10/29/2025 08:32pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Wednesday that Russian troops have surrounded Ukrainian forces in two key eastern cities of Ukraine and offered to negotiate a deal for their surrender. Ukrainian military officials vigorously denied the claim. Putin, speaking at a meet The Latest: Hurricane Melissa impacting southeastern Bahamas after dozens killed across Caribbean 10/29/2025 07:48pm • SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — Melissa began affecting the southeastern Bahamas on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Authorities in the Bahamas were evacuating dozens of people from the archipelago’s southeast corner ahead of Melissa’s arrival as a Category 1 stor