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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine why a tour bus returning home to Los Angeles from a casino trip plowed into the back of a semi-truck on a Southern California highway early today, killing 13 people and injuring 31 others. A maintenance crew had slowed down traffic on Interstate 10 before the vehicles crashed just north of Palm Springs. But the California Highway Patrol says the work had gone on for hours without problems.
SYDNEY (AP) — Police in Australia say a surfer has sustained teeth wounds to his thigh in the third shark attack off New South Wales state north of Sydney in a month. The man, in his 30s, was attacked Monday 22 miles north of Ballina, where a 25-year-old man sustained minor leg injuries while surfing on Oct. 12. On Sept. 26, a 17-year-old sustained a leg bite off Ballina. A 41-year-old Japanese surfer was killed by a shark off Ballina last year.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Nevadans have got the winning hand when it comes to this year's election. Campaigning for Hillary Clinton and Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto at a Las Vegas high school today, Obama said of the Democratic candidates. "You've got black jack." Masto, a former state attorney general, and Republican Rep. Joe Heck are vying to replace Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, who's retiring.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, is a "nasty guy." Trump is making the accusation following the disclosure by WikiLeaks of thousands of Podesta's personal emails that were hacked. Clinton's campaign has accused Russia of stealing them. Trump's comment during the third debate that Clinton was a "nasty woman" went viral on social media. Women's rights groups called it an example of misogyny.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns are taking a position on AT&T's proposed $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner. Donald Trump says he'd block the deal if elected. His campaign says "new media conglomerate oligopolies" have too much control, intrude on Americans' personal lives and unduly influence politics. Hillary Clinton's spokesman says Clinton believes that regulators should scrutinize the deal closely.
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