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A volunteer and his 7-year-old German shepherd named after a goddess have been hailed as heroes for finding a lost toddler amid plummeting temperatures. In Dorchester, New Hampshire, temps were passing 40 on route to an expected 20°F when a mother called 911 to frantically explain that her 2-year-old daughter and the family dogs were […] The post Toddler Safe After German Shepherd Tracks Her for Hours in Cold Dense Woods appeared first on Good News Network.

Books Horror Highlights Dragons, Cults, and Vampires: Horror Highlights for October 2025 Emily Hughes recommends seven new horror releases for your Spooky Season TBR stack! By Emily C. Hughes | Published on October 29, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share Real horror heads know that the season for creepy reads is year-round—years ago, I read Dan Simmons’ Arctic exploration novel The Terror on a beach vacation, which was actually the ideal setting for it. But there really is something special about a horror novel in October. This morning, my New England neighborhood was misty and atmospheric, and I very nearly didn’t finish writing this because I was so tempted by my currently-reading stack. (In progress now: Daniel Kraus’ excellent World War I epic Angel Down and Caitlin Starling’s weird medieval tale The Starving Saints.) But if there’s one thing I love more than reading horror, it’s helping others find the horror they’re going to love to read. It’s a tremendous era in which to be a horror fan: our creepy orchard is laden with fruit. We’re blessed with dozens of new horror books each month. Sifting through them to find the ones that will really speak to you can be tricky—but I’m here to help. Here are seven October releases I’m particularly excited about. Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell (October 7, Gallery) Pell has been a new favorite of mine since her 2024 novella Cicada, and her debut novel is out this month. A queer retelling of “Rappacini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Her Wicked Roots follows Cordelia, who’s searching for her long-lost brother Edward. When her search brings her to Edenfield estate, she takes a job as maid and companion for Lady Evangeline’s daughters. But all is not right at Edenfield: Lady Evangeline keeps a greenhouse full of dangerous specimens, Cordelia has to don gloves before touching either of her young charges, and there’s evidence to suggest that Edward spent time there as well. It’s a lush and beautiful Gothic nightmare that’s steamy both in atmosphere and in content. Herculine by Grace Byron (October 7, Saga) Trans fiction about separatist utopias is having a bit of a moment right now—see: this Harron Walker feature on Mattie Lubchansky’s Simplicity, Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance, and Grace Byron’s debut, Herculine. When Byron’s protagonist, an unnamed trans woman, flees New York for her ex-girlfriend’s commune in Indiana, she thinks she’s found a safe haven: the commune, Herculine, is populated exclusively by other trans women. But breaking into an established social group is never easy, and the protagonist has been haunted by demonic visitations ever since she was forced to see a conversion therapist as a teen. And demons, it turns out, are very hard to shake. Herculine is a wild, surreal, sexy, and very funny tale about internalized hatred, the line between cult and community, and the long, pointed tail of trauma.  The Salvage by Anbara Salam (October 7, Tin House) In the 1960s, Marta, a marine archaeologist, travels to a remote Scottish island to study a recently-rediscovered shipwreck. When she finds herself stuck there due to the nasty combination of winter weather and the pesky Cuban Missile Crisis, she forms a bond with a local woman, Elsie. But the rest of the islanders are frosty, artifacts from the wreck keep disappearing, and Marta is sure she saw someone in the ship’s remains on one of her dives. This Gothic gem is so intensely atmospheric you’ll need a hot water bottle and a pair of wooly mittens handy while you read.  Good Boy by Neil McRobert (October 9, Wild Hunt) Horror fans will already know McRobert as the mind and voice behind Talking Scared, one of the biggest scary fiction podcasts in the game. His debut novella starts as a story about a missing child and a woman who sees something troubling, and unspools into an old man’s life story, from a formative childhood moment all the way to the present day. There are shades of Stephen King’s IT and John Langan’s The Fisherman here, but the novella’s small-English-town flavor sets it apart (it’s part of Wild Hunt’s Northern Weird Project, a novella series meant to highlight the strange and spooky corners of northern England—if this one’s intriguing to you, make sure to check out the rest!). Fair warning on this one: have your tissues handy.  Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez & Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (October 14, Aunt Lute) Many horror lovers will already know J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, a vampire novella that predates Dracula and features a tortured, sensual, deeply queer central relationship. Many more will know Jewelle Gomez from The Gilda Stories, her massively influential Black lesbian vampire novel from 1991. Here, the full text of Carmilla is paired with a brand-new short story set in the world of The Gilda Stories. Inspired by a moment from Le Fanu’s text, Caramelle tells the story of two vampires seeking sanctuary at a stop on the Underground Railroad—and Gomez’s foreword connects the two stories through themes of sexuality, oppression, and Black womanhood. King Sorrow by Joe Hill (October 21, William Morrow) New fiction from Joe Hill is always a cause for celebration, and King Sorrow is Hill’s first novel since 2016’s The Fireman. In 1989, college student Arthur and five of his friends summon an arcane dragon to get themselves out of a tight spot. But the dragon isn’t interested in ending the transaction there. He requires an annual sacrifice from Arthur and his friends—or else he’ll take one of them. Told over the course of thirty years, King Sorrow is a gripping, detailed, character-driven marriage of horror, dark academia, and fantasy from an auto-buy author. Pick up a copy, but make sure to lift with your knees, not your back—this one’s almost 900 pages.  Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment by Mo Moshaty (October 23, Tenebrous) Moshaty’s newest collection is a collection of ten stories and one novelette, each of which is based on a card from the tarot’s Major Arcana. It’s a framing device that could easily be cheap or obvious, but in Moshaty’s hands becomes something much more subtle: these stories aren’t about the tarot, not really. Instead, each story here explores characters forced to play the (metaphorical) cards they’re dealt. In “The Fever Man,” a couple reeling from a recent miscarriage find themselves haunted by a parasitic entity. In “Magic Hour,” a survivor of violence barricades herself inside her home until she’s isolated herself from the world. And in “Surface,” a dock worker encounters an aquatic being who challenges his understanding of desire, consent, and, uh, tentacles. The book plays with the anxiety of impossible choices and learning to live with circumstances you can’t change—it’s everything a horror collection should be. It never gets easier choosing just a few books to highlight from the dozens released each month—to see the full list of October’s new horror books, head over to my website. (Admittedly, starting a new horror fiction column in October is like deciding to try jogging by hopping the barrier and joining an in-progress marathon—I have no one to blame but myself.)[end-mark] News and Notes Two new horror bookstores: Any new bookstore is a good bookstore, but any new horror bookstore has a very special place in my heart. A recent Publishers Weekly feature highlighted The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn, NY, along with Midslumber Media in Portland, OR, Dreadful Bookshop in Casper, WY, and Haunted Burrow in Seattle, WA. And my sleuthing has turned up another new horror and thriller-centric bookstore coming soon to the fine city of Philadelphia: Ladies and gentlemen and others, I give you: Thrillerdelphia.  Bram Stoker Awards® Recommended Reading List: A note to horror professionals: we’re coming up on the end of the year, and as such, it’s time to start submitting and recommending books for next year’s Bram Stoker Awards! Submit your works published in 2025 for jury consideration here, and recommend books for the Stoker Reading List through the Horror Writers Association member portal. (While only HWA members can recommend works for the reading list, the list itself is publicly available and a great way to discover new horror you might’ve missed—the reading list for works published in 2025 is here.) Works published between Jan. 1, 2025 and Nov. 30, 2025 must be submitted by Nov. 30, 2025, and works published in December 2025. And if you’re curious about how the Stoker nomination and jury process works, this interview is a great rundown. The post Dragons, Cults, and Vampires: Horror Highlights for October 2025 appeared first on Reactor.

A video circulating across social media appears to show Hamas orchestrating a staged discovery of hostage remains.   The video, which was captured by an Israeli drone, shows individuals taking a body bag from a building and dropping it in a pit of dirt. The men, who Israel claims are members of Hamas, then shovel dirt on top of the body before a bulldozer drives up and lifts the body from the dirt. Red Cross workers are then seen at the scene as the supposed Hamas terrorists pull the body bag from the pile of dirt in the bulldozer’s bucket.   Hamas claimed the remains belonged to one of the 13 hostages still to be returned to Israel as part of the current ceasefire agreement, but following Israeli inspection, it was determined the remains are those of Ofir Tzarfati, a former hostage who Israeli soldiers discovered additional remains of in 2023.   The Prime Minister of Israel X account shared the video, writing, “Hamas cheated Israel. Cheated America. Cheated the world.”   Hamas cheated Israel. Cheated America. Cheated the world. pic.twitter.com/u5sPeE7rxH— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) October 29, 2025 The incident violates President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan, according to Israel. Trump’s plan directed all hostages, living and dead, be returned to Israel within days of the signing of the deal. While all the living hostages have been released, and some hostage remains, Hamas has failed to return the remains of 13 hostages.  Additionally, on Tuesday, Israeli Reservist soldier Master Sgt. Yona Efraim Feldbaum was struck and killed during an attack on Israeli troops on Gaza Strip, Israel announced Wednesday morning.   ???? ???? ??? ???? ?? ?????? ?? ??"? (???') ??? ???????, ???? ??"? ?????? ???, ???? ???? ????? ????? ???.??? ???? ??????? ????? ??? ??????? – ?? ????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ??? ??.????? ????? ?????? ?????? ???? ???.??? ???? ????. pic.twitter.com/Ray5Hv1Pz4— ????? ?”? Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) October 29, 2025 In response, to “Hamas’ blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF struck dozens of Hamas terror targets throughout Gaza” late Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces.   In the strikes, the IDF claimed to have eliminated five terrorists who took part in the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel. Additionally, Israel said it struck “three battalion commanders, two deputy battalion commanders, and 16 company commanders, observation posts, weapons production warehouses, launch posts, underground tunnels, [and] mortar shell firing posts.”   ?? In response to Hamas’ blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF struck dozens of Hamas terror targets throughout Gaza. ? Targets struck: – Key terrorists, including 3 battalion commanders, 2 deputy battalion commanders, and 16 company commanders– ?Observation…— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 29, 2025 Following the strike, Israel said Wednesday that it “has begun the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire in response to Hamas’ violations.”  “The IDF will continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement and will respond firmly to any violation of it,” according to the IDF.   Vice President JD Vance, who was in Israel last week, confirmed that the ceasefire is holding, but added, that “doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes.”   The post WATCH: Video Reports to Show Hamas Orchestrated Discovery of Hostage Remains  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Ronald Reagan famously said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” The U.S. Department of Justice is proving him right by continuing Biden-era lawsuits against pharmacies that waste taxpayer money, ignore inconvenient facts, and put federal crosshairs on the wrong culprits in America’s opioid crisis. These lawsuits are a remnant of the opioid crisis and have the potential to bring about serious unintended consequences for patients and pharmacies big and small.  Here’s the background: CVS Health, Walmart, Walgreens and Rite Aid all face similar lawsuits from the DOJ that alleged False Claims Act and Controlled Substance Act violations. Each of the complaints have nuances, but at their heart the government alleges that these pharmacies filled prescriptions for excessive quantities of opioids, filled opioid prescriptions significantly early, and did not do the proper due diligence to ensure the prescriptions had a legitimate medical purpose.  In return, the pharmacies contend that it is the job of the Drug Enforcement Agency to properly monitor the distribution and prescribing of these medications, while also rebutting the merits of the lawsuits. And the simple fact is that these pharmacists were doing their job—filling prescriptions—and the companies have enacted many internal policies to protect against unnecessary and illegal prescription drugs making their way into patients’ hands. As it occasionally does, the government did play a helpful role in forcing necessary changes to curb the opioid epidemic. It was a national tragedy that exposed failures in oversight and patient care, and important improvements have been made regarding how pharmacies, regulators, and physicians operate.CVS is among the many pharmacy companies using updated and advanced systems to detect suspicious prescriptions. The pharmacy giant also expanded pharmacist training and developed programs to help patients safely manage medication.  But as always, the government is now going too far. The Trump administration has continued a Biden-era lawsuit, even though the action will have minimal impact on patient health—but will spend millions of taxpayer dollars on yesterday’s crisis, rummaging through old records and chasing prescriptions from a decade ago. A better idea would be joining the administration’s fight against the fentanyl crisis that’s killing tens of thousands of Americans each year, today.  In 2023 alone, Customs and Border Protection seized more than 27,000 pounds of fentanyl, enough to kill the population of the United States several times over. Most of it originates in China and moves through Mexican cartels that exploit gaps in border enforcement. Traffickers take advantage of thinly spread inspection resources and lighter enforcement at more remote border points, concealing fentanyl shipments inside legal cargo or passenger vehicles.  Trump recognizes the threat fentanyl poses to Americans; it’s the stated reason he’s ordered several successful strikes on Venezuelan drug smugglers, and he’s raised awareness about China’s role in fentanyl entering our country. That’s why expecting pharmacists to challenge legitimate prescriptions from board-certified physicians makes no sense. These aren’t drug smugglers seeking to poison Americans in exchange for ungodly sums of money. Pharmacists are trained to understand how medications can helppeople. Unnecessary lawsuits put them in the position of trying to guess the line between compassion and abuse—and that may mean cancer patients and the elderly in hospices do not receive important pain relief and other care with a pass-through effect that could raise prices both at the pharmacy window and inside the store.The DOJ’s opioid lawsuits have already produced more than $10 billion in settlements—a disturbing amount of which has potentially been misspent by state and local governments. Many of these are the same government authorities that want to put the pharmacy companies in corporate prison.  And that brings us back to Reagan’s famous quip about government overreach. The Trump administration has done a lot right to resize and redirect government. It’s finally closing the borders, slowing the flow of fentanyl, and fighting crime.It’s time for the DOJ to support the rest of the administration’s correct priorities instead of wasting money on the Biden administration’s misguided holdovers. Everyone will win—patients, consumers and taxpayers—and the Trump administration. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The DOJ’s Pharmacy Crusade Will Harm the Patients It’s Meant to Help appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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It sparked a G5 solar storm that lasted 27 hours, sending auroras around the world. And then it did it again. And again.

This Halloween, we went to Loch Ness, Scotland, in search of a legend. Is there something strange lurking in those cold waters, or does science have alternative answers?

The fossil is 75 percent complete and belongs to the northernmost rhino species we've ever found.

"We started to observe a bizarre developmental malformation that we nicknamed double-head worms."