{"id":33578,"date":"2024-10-31T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/thursday-headlines-happy-diwalloween#id33273"},"modified":"2024-10-31T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:01:00","slug":"thursday-headlines-happy-diwalloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/thursday-headlines-happy-diwalloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday headlines: Happy Diwalloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile, perhaps looking for attention prior to the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2024\/10\/31\/north-korea-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-test\/75958911007\/\">presidential election.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ USA Today<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Economist magazine endorses Kamala Harris, saying &#8220;being independent and being opinionated&#8221; aren&#39;t in conflict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/10\/31\/2024\/why-the-economist-is-endorsing-kamala-harris-in-2024\">with each other.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Semafor<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Election officials in battleground states are trying&mdash;and mostly failing&mdash;to fact-check Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/31\/politics\/election-officials-outmatched-elon-musk-misinformation\/index.html\">in real time.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ CNN<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An argument that social scientists don&#39;t seem to know how to incorporate the <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/without-chaos-theory-social-science-will-never-understand-the-world\">nonlinearity of chaos.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Aeon<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: Dodgers fans set a Metro bus on fire after their team wins <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/mta-bus-set-on-fire-as-fans-celebrate-world-series-win-in-los-angeles\/\">the World Series.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ KTLA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facebook is auto-generating militia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/facebook-militia-organizing-election\/\">group pages.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ WIRED<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Users report still being able to use Microsoft&#39;s controversial AI-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/email\/1d1f0ba9-c6e5-4fd2-b499-f8279b292d6f\/\">gender classifier.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ 404 Media<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Schools are banning Crocs because the shoes are said to be a distraction, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/10\/28\/crocs-school-bans-dress-codes-safety-gen-alpha-gen-z-trend-tripping\/\">and dangerous.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Fortune<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related: How the font Comic Sans became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91214335\/how-comic-sans-became-the-crocs-of-fonts\">Crocs of typefaces.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ FastCompany<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An eating tour of eastern France&#39;s choucroute garnie, pretzels, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/19de0bf0-1f9c-4ca5-adea-09cc7f653935\">and pork knuckles.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Financial Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Diwali and Halloween overlap this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2024\/10\/29\/diwali-halloween-desi-india-south-asia\/\">producing &#8220;Diwalloween.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Washington Post [+] <\/span><\/p>\n<p>An annual favorite, a round-up of &#8220;mundane&#8221; 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