Paul Manafort makes his way through television cameras as he walks from Federal District Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, and Manafort's business associate Rick Gates have pleaded not guilty to felony charges of conspiracy against the United States and other counts. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 31, 2017 - 3:33 AM
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. WHAT MESSAGE MUELLER IS SENDING
The special counsel warns individuals in Trump's orbit: If they lie about contacts between the president's campaign and Russians, they'll face criminal prosecution.
2. SAILORS SEA TALE NOT ADDING UP
The Coast Guard says that two Hawaiian women who say they were lost in the Pacific for months never activated their emergency beacon, adding to inconsistencies to their story of survival.
3. CATALONIA'S FORMER LEADER EXPECTED TO ADDRESS HIS FUTURE
Spain's foreign minister says Madrid would be surprised if Carles Puigdemont seeks political asylum in Belgium.
4. NEW FINGERPRINT ALGORITHM HELPS ID BODIES FOUND DECADES AGO
Since launching a new effort in February, the FBI and local medical examiner offices have identified 199 bodies found between 1975 and the late 1990s.
5. PARCHED JORDAN BEING HIT HARD BY CLIMATE CHANGE
Yet large-scale solutions such as a cross-border desalination project with Israel are entangled in politics.
6. BERGDAHL SENTENCING HEARING SHIFTS TO Defence
The Army sergeant convicted of desertion in Afghanistan is expected to testify about his brutal five years of captivity by Taliban allies.
7. HOW BALLOT IS SEEN AS 'OBAMACARE' REFERENDUM
Voters in Maine will decide whether to join 31 other states and expand Medicaid under the Affordable Health Care Act, the first time the expansion question has been put to voters.
8. GOOGLE-BRED WAYMO AIMS TO SHIFT ROBOTIC CARS INTO NEXT GEAR
An AP reporter boards a driverless Chrysler Pacifica minivan and finds that it cruised smoothly at 35 mph on faux neighbourhoods and expressways at a test base in California.
9. WHERE 'HOUSE OF CARDS' MAY FALL
Netflix is exploring a spinoff of the Emmy-winning political satire amid controversy surrounding star Kevin Spacey.
10. RIDING HIGH IN SUMMER, DODGERS ON BRINK OF WIPEOUT
Los Angeles, baseball's best team during the regular season, is one loss from being eliminated in their first World Series appearance since 1988.
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