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Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden said she prays to her late son, Beau Biden, as her family tries to support former President Joe Biden, who is battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer. In a new podcast, Dr. Biden spoke of her son, Beau, who died in 2015 after fighting brain cancer. "I pray to Beau, and I think he listens, and now with … Joe's cancer diagnosis, I get a little frustrated and I say, 'Beau, where are you? I need you,'" Jill Biden said. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eiHPmkJE

Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and has become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation. The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo’s most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever, with 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths, according to government data released overnight into Monday. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eAAwphaY

Flock Safety — a tech surveillance firm that makes AI-enabled cameras that scan and collect license plate information — has announced new guardrails after multiple reports of abuse by law enforcement and amid growing public backlash over mass surveillance technology. https://lnkd.in/em5ZTqS7

Customs and Border Protection is pausing construction in Big Bend National Park, CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said in an X post on Monday. https://lnkd.in/ef2rmazY

Ryder Williams, a 16-year-old lifeguard who was seen rescuing a child in the California surf last month, met with President Trump on Monday at the White House, along with the boy he saved, 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gsXsKjzk

More than two dozen cases of a rare "flesh-eating" bacteria have been detected in Gulf Coast states, including Florida and Louisiana, so far this year. https://lnkd.in/e7c75cPf

Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden said she prays to her late son, Beau Biden, as her family tries to support former President Joe Biden, who is battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer. https://lnkd.in/e4P3ftjr

President Trump contradicted Vice President JD Vance on Monday after the vice president asserted last week that the administration’s top priority amid the Iran war was to keep the price of oil and gas down for Americans. https://lnkd.in/en-amUSk

The defense began to present their case in the Lindsay Clancy trial on Monday after prosecutors rested their case against Clancy, whom they alleged “deliberately and meticulously” killed her three children in 2023. Clancy’s defense attorney called the 35-year-old’s mother and sister to the stand as two of the defense's first witnesses. https://lnkd.in/e_UfwnQZ

NEW: A judge in New York gave prosecutors at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office until Oct. 9 to respond to Luigi Mangione's motion to dismiss his state murder indictment, effectively meaning that Mangione's state murder trial, which had been set to begin on Sept. 8, is adjourned. https://lnkd.in/eq9NmY3W