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Football provides a homecoming and hope in Lahaina, …

The Lahainaluna High School football junior varsity team plays against Baldwin High School at Sue D. Cooley Stadium, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Lahainaluna’s varsity and junior varsity football teams are getting back to normal since the devastating wildfire in August. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

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No evidence of hate crime, police say as slain Detroit …

Samantha Woll, president of the board at the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue poses for a photo in Detroit, Oct. 13, 2022. Samantha Woll, a Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed to death outside her home Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 police said. The motive wasn't known. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP)

Search for suspect in fatal shooting of Maryland judge …

Officers with the Frederick County Sheriiff's Dept. SWAT Team search for suspect Pedro Argote at the former Garden State Tannery plant in Williamsport, Md. on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. Washington County Sheriff Brian Albert said authorities are “actively working” to apprehend 49-year-old Pedro Argote for the “targeted attack” of Maryland Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson. (Ric Dugan/The Frederick News-Post via AP)

A police dog attacked a Black trucker on his knees. An …

A mural in Circleville, Ohio reads "My town. My Health. Circleville," on August 3, 2023. In July, the K-9 program at the Circleville Police Department found itself under much greater scrutiny after police body and dash cameras recorded an officer's Belgian Malinois attacking a Black, kneeling trucker as he was surrendering alongside a highway with his hands up. (AP Photo/Patrick Orsagos)

Diana Nyad marks anniversary of epic Cuba-Florida swim, …

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Diana Nyad, left, her expedition leader Bonnie Stoll, right, and staff from the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital position "Rocky," a rehabilitated green sea turtle, for return to the Atlantic Ocean Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, from a beach in Key West, Fla. The turtle release was part of a weekend 10th anniversary celebration commemorating Nyad's successful 2013 swim from Cuba to Key West, ending at the same beach. Rescued in January and taken to the Turtle Hospital, "Rocky" required an eight-hour intestinal surgery, breathing treatments, a blood transfusion and months of medications to survive. At age 64, Nyad came ashore on Labor Day 2013 after swimming continuously for 52 hours and 54 minutes across the Florida Straits from Havana. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Manhunt continues for Nashville police chief’s son suspected …

These images provided by the City of La Vergne shows La Vergne Police Officers Ashely Boleyjack and Gregory Kern. Police in Tennessee were searching Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023 for the estranged son of Nashville's police chief as the suspect in the shooting of the two police officers outside a Dollar General store. (City of La Vergne via AP)

A Detroit synagogue president was fatally stabbed outside …

Samantha Woll, president of the board at the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue poses for a photo in Detroit, Oct. 13, 2022. Samantha Woll, a Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed to death outside her home Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 police said. The motive wasn't known. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP)

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The father of American teenage hostage freed by Hamas …

Uri Raanan talks to reporters outside his home after his daughter Natalie and her mother Judith Raanan were released by Hamas, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in Bannockburn, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Violence forced them to flee. Now faith sustains …

A young migrant prays during a service at the "Embajadores de Jesus" Christian migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. While many places in Mexico provide shelter for migrants from other countries, some shelters in Tijuana have seen an influx of Mexicans fleeing violence, extortion and threats by organized crime. (AP Photo/Karen Castaneda)

Evacuees live nomadic life after Maui wildfire as …

CORRECTS SPELLING OF TOWN - Tiffany Teruya talks about her opinions on housing and education issues affected by August's wildfire on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Teruya's two-bedroom apartment at Kaiaulu o Kupuohi, a 89-unit affordable rental housing, burned down from August's wildfire. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

Houston’s next mayor has big city problems to fix. …

Houston mayoral candidate state Sen. John Whitmire answers a question during a televised candidates debate held at the Houston Public Media studios Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

A slain Maryland judge presided over the divorce …

A man walks past the Washington County Circuit Court building in downtown Hagerstown, Md., Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Authorities say Maryland Circuit Court Judge Andrew Wilkinson was shot to death in the driveway of his home on Thursday night, had presided over the divorce case of the man now identified as a suspect in the killing. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Ohio embraced the ‘science of reading.’ Now a popular …

FILE - Books sit on shelves in an elementary school library in suburban Atlanta, on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. The battle over how to teach reading has landed in court. With momentum shifting in favor of research-backed strategies known as the “science of reading,” states and some school districts have been ditching once popular programs amid concerns that they aren’t effective. (AP Photo/Hakim Wright Sr., File)