Friday Playlist: Songs with Horns

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GOP ad against Gillum stirs up political storm

While Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum was managing the city's response to a hurricane of historic proportions, his supporters were engaged in a separate storm because of a negative campaign ad lobbed by backers of the Democrat's gubernatorial opponent, Ron DeSantis. With Hurricane Michael barreling toward Florida's Big Bend and Panhandle regions, the Republican Party of Florida unleashed a caustic television ad declaring Gillum is "running for governor and also from the FBI."

Blumenthal touts Americares’ hurricane relief effort

United States Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks at a press conference inside the Stamford headquarters and distribution center of Americares, one of the largest nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies, alongside Americares President and CEO Michael J. Nyenhuis and Americares Vice President of Emergency Programs Kate Dischino.

Correction: Border-Abandoned Migrant Families story

In a story Oct. 12 about immigrants in Arizona, The Associated Press reported erroneously the name of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Smugglers in recent weeks have been abandoning large groups of mostly Guatemalan adult and child migrants near Arizona's boundary with Mexico, alarming Border Patrol officials who say the trend puts hundreds of children and adults at risk PHOENIX - Smugglers in recent weeks have been abandoning large groups of Guatemalan and other Central American migrants in Arizona's harsh cactus-studded Sonoran Desert near the border with Mexico, alarming Border Patrol officials who say the trend is putting hundreds of children at risk.

Hurlburt Special Tactics team opens Tyndall runway

Barely 24 hours after Hurricane Michael made landfall and virtually destroyed Tyndall Air Force Base, a Special Tactics team from the Hurlburt Field-based 23rd Special Tactics Squadron had opened a runway and begun bringing air traffic into the base.

OPINION: Is Iran’s Regime Finally Nearing Its Demise?

For months, the Iranian people have sustained wave after wave of unprecedented anti-regime protests, with one uprising following another. The economy is on the verge of collapse, poverty and inflation are out of control, the national currency is in freefall, and entrenched unemployment frustrates the hopes and dreams of millions of young Iranians.

‘The View’ Tackles Trump-Kanye Oval Office Meeting:…

Kanye West's Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump took over the first segment of ABC's "The View" on Friday, where the ladies appeared to all agree that the White House was "using" the rap mogul. Sunny Hostin kicked off the conversation by referencing something Meghan McCain said during their morning meeting, about the fact that "this happened to [West] around the anniversary of his mother's death, and that perhaps triggers his mental illness."

Protester Asks GOP Senator To ‘Apologize’ To Her Children …

Anti-Brett Kavanaugh protesters flooded Capitol Hill for weeks before his eventual confirmation to the Supreme Court, walking hallways in protest, holding loud demonstrations and confronting senators in their office buildings. Alethea Torrellas Shapiro had been attempting to harass senators on the Hill for days and regularly used her school-aged children to do so.