News lead: Chris Magnus, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey are lying to immigrant families about housing, opportunities work and other support they will receive once they are in the northern cities. Magnus dismissed Republican claims that an influx of asylum seekers was causing “chaos” at the southern border. He defended the work of the Border Patrol, saying federal agents are working with immigrants as they arrive....

Comment Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! Today we’re taking this fun personality quiz from Evergreen Action called “Which IRA Climate Provision Are You?” (We are clean electricity.) But first: Republicans will probe Wall Street’s climate positions if they take back power Less than a week before the midterm elections, Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are preparing to investigate what they see as “woke capitalism,” a reference to Wall Street firms treating climate change as an economic risk, Maxine reports this morning ....

Truss, when prime minister, ordered a review of whether the UK should follow the Trump administration in moving the embassy from Tel Aviv. Asked if the UK government was still considering a move, a No 10 spokesman said: “It has been considered. There are no plans to move the British embassy.” The development came after British government officials told a group of foreign journalists that “there are no plans to move the British embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem”, a statement welcomed by the Palestinian mission in the UK....

Civilians have been told to evacuate the Russian-held Ukrainian city of Kherson “as quickly as possible” as Ukrainian forces encircle the area. Ukrainian troops “will soon launch an offensive against the city of Kherson,” said Kirill Stremusov, deputy head of the Russian-settled Kherson region, which Russia partially controls. Russian forces in Kherson have been pushed back 20-30 kilometers in recent weeks and are in danger of being pinned down on the right or west bank of the Dnipro River....

The West must “urgently strengthen” Ukraine’s air defense capability, including with US F-16s and F-18s and Swedish Gripen aircraft. Russian pilots have been cautious throughout the war, so even a small number of Western fighters could have a significant deterrent effect, according to the report by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). He warns that Western military aid is mainly focused on the ground war, as Ukraine has managed to contain the Russian air force....

The Russian navy continues to outnumber and outflank the Ukrainians in the northern Black Sea. Despite dominance on paper, the Russian Navy is on the back foot following several successful attacks by smaller Ukrainian forces. The October 29 attack on Sevastopol, in which unmanned surface vessels (USVs) with unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the Russian Black Sea Fleet, appears to have pushed them further into the shell of their naval bases....

Gus-Gerd verliert vor Gericht! Auch Altkanzler und Erdgaslobbyist Gerhard Schröder (78) verliert auf Platz zwei an seine Ex-Frau Doris Schröder-Köpf (59)! ▶︎ Wie BILD exklusiv erfahren hat, hat das Oberlandesgericht Celle heute seine Entscheidung im Streit um das lebenslange Wohnrecht in der Villa auf dem Zoogelände Hannover bekannt gegeben. Dort lebt der Altkanzler mit seiner Frau Soyeon Schröder-Kim (52) in einer 95-Quadratmeter-Wohnung. Die Villa selbst gehört ebenso wie ihr Ex-Mann zu gleichen Teilen Doris Schröder-Köpf....

Miami’s two-game winning streak can be directly tied to the return of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, as the Dolphins have wins against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions in his first two games back in action. He leads the NFL in passing yards per attempt (9.0) and passer rating (112.7) with the Dolphins amassing 2,340 passing yards this season, the most in the NFL. He’ll face the NFL’s fifth-ranked pass defense in Chicago that allows just 188 passing yards per game....

Italienisches Ski-Paar verkündet Babyglück Viel Spaß mit Irene Curtoni und Emanuele Buzzi. Wie das italienische Ski-Paar in den sozialen Medien mitteilte, erwarten sie Nachwuchs. 1/6 Irene Curtoni hat allen Grund zum Lächeln. Babyfreude im italienischen Skiteam: Am Donnerstag, zwei Tage vor dem Start der neuen Riesenslalom-Saison an diesem Wochenende in Sölden (Österreich), gibt die ehemalige Slalom-Spezialistin Irene Curtoni (37) bekannt, dass sie zum ersten Mal Mutter wird. Der Italiener macht es nicht mit einem Foto, sondern postet ein lustiges Video auf Instagram....

Photo: The Canadian Press Chief Wally Burns poses for a photo in a classroom at the school on James Smith Cree Nation on September 20, 2022. The chief of a First Nation where a mass stabbing occurred says some people still sleep with their guns as indigenous leaders in Saskatchewan gathered to call for immediate resources to address security in the north. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards The chief of a First Nation where a mass stabbing occurred says some people are still sleeping with their guns as indigenous leaders in Saskatchewan rallied to call for immediate resources to address security in the north....

2022-10-13T14:15:21.225Z The Sony-ZV-1F: Sony’s ideal first-time vlogging cameras (Image credit: Sony) (Image credit: Sony) (Image credit: Sony) (Image credit: Sony) So far, features we’ve seen include better touch mode, Hyperlapse, Slow Motion, Remote shooting via a paired smartphone, and the ability to tag scenes. 2022-10-13T13:58:10.285Z Sony Europe just premiered: A new camera is coming… Interestingly (well, maybe not) this is the same music we had for the GoPro launch. Could it be a similar kind of trailer we’ll be seeing?...

Some light rain was possible after midnight Sunday, and most areas of Los Angeles and Orange County will experience substantial rainfall by Monday morning that will continue throughout the day and Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. Showers are predicted to lighten on Wednesday, though they’ll still be intermittent. Total rainfall could exceed 4 inches, according to the NWS’ Los Angeles office. A drying trend is expected for the latter half of the week....

Less than 10 minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s side boosters returned for a successful, near-simultaneous landing not far from the launch pad. The core booster was jettisoned into the ocean after sending a classified payload en route to orbit for the US space force. The Falcon Heavy mission named USSF 44 lifted off from pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:43 am. ET (6:43 a.m. PT) carrying a military prototype microsatellite called TETRA-1 and a larger, unconfirmed satellite....

It marked just the fourth liftoff for the Falcon Heavy, its first in more than three years, and saw it fitted with three Falcon 9 boosters. The boosters, regularly launched on their own to carry SpaceX’s Starlink satellites into orbit, were needed to give their bigger sibling the necessary boost to reach the stars. Image: The rocket moments before liftoff… Image: …and heading into orbit The payload for the USSF-44 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida included two US Space Force spacecraft, including a microsatellite named TETRA-1, which was built for “various prototype missions....

“I think, judging from different angles with a lot of news flows — especially the unverified ones, we need to remain cautious,” said Edmond Huang, Credit Suisse’s head of China securities research. Speaking at the firm’s China Investment Conference, Huang said it’s more likely to be a measured process of reopening than an abrupt one. “It’ll take some time especially after party congress and the formation of the new government — which means it’ll be a more gradual process than overnight, with China reopening completely to the rest of the world,” he said....