The U.S. military said it killed a leader of the Islamist militant al-Shabaab group with an air strike in Somalia over the weekend, while the insurgents claimed responsibility for a new attack.

A University of Chicago-sanctioned panel discussion on race is preventing all white students from attending, saying it is a “BIPOC only” (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) event.

Republican pollsters have been warning Americans that many of the mainstream polls are “simply wrong,” according to former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He calls them a “continuation of a long pattern of the propaganda media favoring Democrats.”

Search and rescue teams in Florida on Monday were doubling back to check on tens of thousands of homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast after completing an initial search of the area that was ravaged by Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever to strike the United States.

The poll suggests that the Democrats’ focus on abortion rights as a key midterm issue is failing to resonate with what the party has long considered an ironclad voting bloc. 

Some people have expressed ethical concerns with the idea of using mosquitoes to spread a vaccine, including a lack of informed consent as well as concerns that it would be impossible to determine who has been vaccinated and what dose they received.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday it will spend almost $800 million to address flood mitigation, coastal storm damage protection and address supply chain resilience.