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Trump REALLY Wants You To Know That He Is A Frickin’ Genius. Take His Cognitive Test With Us! Oct 20, 2026

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The President has been on another bizarre bragging tour over the results of three cognitive tests that are used for early detection of dementia. The point is, this is NOT a test that measures intelligence whatsoever. Instead, it measures for mild cognitive impairment, which only means he isn’t suffering from dementia. His perfect score may signal he has a great memory - there’s one tricky question that you’ll hear along with us for the first time - but it does not reveal his “extreme intelligence.”

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Trump Insists New Mexico Should IMMEDIATELY Change Its Name to “New America” Oct 20, 2026

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Why is our president so obsessed with changing names? His latest target is the state of New Mexico: Trump writing on his social media that a name change would increase home values and incomes, but made sure to insult the state by saying it’s known for its “crooked elections.” Of note, Trump lost New Mexico in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. There has been strong reaction from New Mexico officials, but not a lot of fear about what may happen next. While the president can change bodies of water and other geographic features, he cannot technically rename a state.

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Florida Set To Execute 77-Year-Old Vietnam Vet On Death Row For Nearly 4 Decades Oct 20, 2026

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77-year-old William Reaves will die by lethal injection tonight after being convicted of first-degree murder for the 1986 shooting of Deputy Richard Raczkowski. He will become Florida’s eighth prisoner over the age of 70 to be executed this year, but more than 100 military veterans sent a moving letter to Governor DeSantis on Monday, urging him to commute Reaves’ sentence to life given his PTSD from the battlefield. Meantime, Officer Raczkowski’s family and former coworkers say they’ve waited long enough for justice and plan to be at tonight’s execution. One deputy saying he wants the last thing Reaves to see is an Indian River County sheriff's uniform.

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Mississippi Officer “Justified” In Shooting One Year Old Boy Oct 20, 2026

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After a four month investigation, Mississippi’s Attorney General announced that a white officer was justified when he shot at a moving vehicle, killing a 1-year-old black boy and critically injuring the driver. Little Kohen Wiley’s mom and her friend were accused of shoplifting a box of diapers from Walmart, when 5 officers surrounded their vehicle as they were leaving the parking lot. Both women deny stealing anything and have never been charged. The officer who fired the shots, 33-year-old Hunter Foster, has had two accusations of using racial expletives towards his black co-workers and the police chief who chose not to discipline him, was just fired last month for using racial expletives in texts with colleagues.

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Legally Brunette: Sandra Birchmore Pt. 1 Oct 20, 2026

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Sandra Birchmore was failed by law enforcement as an adolescent, and it followed her through adulthood.

She was groomed, taken advantage of by authority figures, and her life was taken. Allegedly, someone wanted to ensure that she kept their secrets…

Emily and Shane are diving into the background of this case, what happened to Sandra, and the main players in this horrific crime.

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(Tuesday) "Morning Run": Trump Urges State Name Change, FL Execution Tonight, MS Says Shooting Justified, Super Bowl MVP Out, Elon's Gift To Kids, CNN Legend Leaving, RIP Richard Riehle, & MORE! Oct 20, 2026

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Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”

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BOMBSHELL UPDATE: O.J. Simpson May Have Had A Mob Accomplice On Night Of Murders Oct 19, 2026

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A New York Times investigation has revealed recently unsealed court documents that say O.J. Simpson may have had an accomplice who helped him dispose of the murder weapon in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. While Simpson was acquitted of the murders, according to the alleged accomplice’s brother, mobster Joey Ippolito was willing to testify about his role in the cover-up in exchange for lessened prison time for charges he was facing. The details surrounding this new information are shocking, even to Simpson prosecutors, who are claiming they knew nothing about this at the time.

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Killer Thriller: Did the Menendez Relatives Know About the Abuse All Along? Oct 19, 2026

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What did relatives know, and what did they keep secret?

Actress Marlene Forte, who played the brothers' aunt in Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, joins Killer Thriller to reveal the disturbing family secrets, the warning signs that may have been ignored, and why José Menendez's own sister defended the nephews who murdered him.

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Search For Amelia Earhart’s Plane Yields “A Clump Of Trees” And Coconut Crabs Oct 19, 2026

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What a let down. After high hopes that a 90 year mystery would finally be solved, a team of U.S. researchers are leaving a remote island empty-handed after suspected ‘plane debris’ was, in fact, a clump of trees The expedition arrived at Nikumaroro in the South Pacific after years of research and a hope that the team had finally located Amelia Earhart’s plane. Previous visits to the uninhabited island found signs of a castaway camp, a 1930s-era woman’s shoe and other evidence attributed to the celebrity aviator, including glass from a cosmetics freckle cream jar. But for now, the mystery continues.

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Shocking Twist: Longtime Pro Val Chmerkovskiy Suspended From ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Oct 19, 2026

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For the first time in its 35 seasons, ‘Dancing With The Stars” has suspended a pro dancer from the show, and it’s because of a social medial post. Val Chmerkovskiy shared a now-deleted TikTok post referencing the Will Smith and Chris Rock 2022 Oscars incident after judge Carie Ann Inaba criticized his wife and fellow pro dancer following their samba routine last episode. Even though Chmerkovskiy publicly apologized, the production company behind DWTS announced over the weekend that “the well-being of everyone who works on Dancing with the Stars is non-negotiable” and that Chmerkovskiy would not participate in this week’s competition.

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