Caitlin Clark has been an avid reader since she was a kid, thanks in huge part to her mother. Now the Indiana Fever star can add writer to her ever-growing resume with a new children’s book, “EXTRAordinary! A Little EXTRA to Reach BIG Dreams,” that comes out Tuesday. It’s a picture book that’s written in rhyming verse. Clark first thought about not having it rhyme, but she said it just worked better. The book focuses on teamwork, perseverance and the love of those around her, including her family, friends and teammates. Clark’s book is based on a quote on a mirror that’s still in her childhood bedroom.
An Idaho appeals court is scheduled to hear Lori Vallow Daybell’s appeal of her convictions in Idaho for killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival. She is asking the Idaho Supreme Court on Monday to reverse her convictions in the deaths of Joshua “JJ” Vallow, Tylee Ryan and Tammy Daybell, whose husband married Vallow Daybell weeks later. Vallow Daybell holds doomsday religious beliefs and claimed people in her life had been possessed by evil spirits. She also has been convicted in Arizona for conspiring to murder her estranged husband and her niece’s ex-husband.
An Oberlin College professor and his wife are dead and the educator’s 31-year-old child is being held on a $3 million bond and facing murder charges in their deaths. The bodies of 64-year-old Pipo Nguyen-Duy, a studio art and photography professor and acclaimed fine art photographer, and his wife, 56-year-old Tran Thi Nam Phong, were found shot in their off-campus home Wednesday. Asia Nguyen-Duy, previously known as Daniel Jones, of Ashland, Oregon, was arraigned Thursday on charges of murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence in the killings. The suspect, who is gender neutral, has not yet entered a plea.
Children from the Plain community play on a trampoline in Intercourse, Pa., on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Police in Georgia said Tuesday that three people, including two juveniles, have been arrested in connection with a plot to carry out a shooting at a high school in metro Atlanta. The three were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. The FBI discovered threatening posts online from one of the trio and worked with local police to make the arrests on Oct. 20 and Oct. 23, apprehending two of them in Georgia and a third in California, The announcement of the plot comes after a 16-year-old boy killed three children and a teacher in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in central Oregon.
Britain's King Charles III watches a youth performance at The Future Bahamas Youth Rally and Exhibition at Clifford Park in Nassau, Bahamas, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)
Cindy Banda, who is battling cancer while caring for her sister's kids in addition to her own, holds her necklace as she drives past the house from where her sister, Melissa Banda, was abducted by her ex-husband before he killed her, in McAllen, Texas, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Palestinian women and children watch the Palestine Strongman Championship from among the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A teacher wounded in last week’s attack on a special education classroom at an Oregon elementary school says she never had a chance to try to shelter any of the children inside. In a statement issued by a family friend, Becky Drury said Wednesday that she ran to see what was going on when she realized something was happening — but immediately saw the shooter and rushed back to the classroom. She tried to close the door, but the gunman was already there. She says she was shot at close range and fell down, unable to get up, and all she could do was pretend to be dead.
An airstrike has killed three children in Yemen, according to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. They accuse Saudi Arabia of launching the attack in Yemen's southwestern province of Dhamar. The Houthi-run health ministry said Saturday that the strikes hit houses in al-Ar village, killing a child aged 8 and two aged 10 and wounding more than a dozen people. Meanwhile, a journalist is undergoing surgery after being attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine suffered severe injuries, including a nearly detached finger and broken vertebrae, during the assault on Friday.