Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 79, reports say

The blast that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around in rural Tennessee left no survivors, authorities said Saturday. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said during a news conference that officials were working on the assumption that all of the people at the site were dead. The total number of people who died was unclear, as was the cause of the blast. Davis had said earlier there were 18 people missing. The explosion occurred Friday morning at Accurate Energetic Systems, which supplies and researches explosives for the military.

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star known for films like “Annie Hall” and “The Godfather,” has died at 79. People Magazine reported her death on Saturday in California, citing a family spokesperson. No further details were immediately available. The news has shocked fans worldwide. Her unique style and depth made her a standout actor of her generation. She became iconic with roles like Annie Hall and Kay Adams. Her career spanned decades, charming audiences in films like “Baby Boom,” “Father of the Bride,” and “First Wives Club.” Keaton's legacy in film remains timeless.

High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended with two separate shootings on Friday night. Authorities report at least six people dead and many others injured. In Leland, four people were killed and about 20 were injured after a football game. Four of the injured are in critical condition. State Senator Derrick Simmons described the scene as chaotic. No arrests have been made, and authorities are seeking information. In Heidelberg, two people were killed on a school campus during homecoming. Police are searching for an 18-year-old for questioning. Investigations in both towns are ongoing.

National Guard troops have started patrolling in Memphis, Tennessee. At least nine National Guard troops began their patrol Friday at a store and tourist center in Memphis. Protests have been ongoing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center near Chicago, and two U.S. senators say they were denied entry to the facility on Friday. A federal judge has blocked the deployment of Guard members to Chicago for at least two weeks, citing no significant evidence of a “danger of rebellion” to justify the deployment. Trump insists that crime is rampant in Democrat-led cities including Chicago and Portland, Oregon, where a separate court battle is keeping troops from being deployed.

National Guard troops sent to Illinois by President Donald Trump can stay in the state and under federal control, but can’t be deployed to protect federal property or go on patrol for now, an appeals court ruled Saturday. The decision comes after federal Judge April Perry on Thursday ruled to temporarily block the National Guard deployment for at least two weeks, finding no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois during Trump’s immigration crackdown.

National Guard troops in Illinois can stay in the state, but can't be deployed for now, appeals court rules.

Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Godfather’ series, has died at 79, People magazine reports.

As the National Guard enters Memphis, some longtime residents are recalling the thousands sent there in 1968. Back then, troops were responding to protests by striking sanitation workers that drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., then turned chaotic. A week later, the Guard was back after King was assassinated and uprisings arose across the nation. President Donald Trump said last month he would deploy the Guard and use of a slew of other federal agencies to fight crime in Memphis. A spokesman for the Tennessee Military Department says some Guard members are already assisting with community safety patrols, security and traffic control to help reduce crime.

President Donald Trump says he's directed the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure that U.S. troops are paid on Wednesday despite the government shutdown. Trump said in a social media post Saturday that he was acting because “our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th.” He said he was using his authority as commander in chief to direct Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “to use all available funds" to pay the troops. They were in danger of not receiving their next paycheck on Wednesday after the government shut down on Oct. 1.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione say a New York federal judge should dismiss criminal charges, including a death-eligible count, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive. In papers filed Saturday, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack where a gun and ammunition were found. They said he was not read his rights before he was questioned by law enforcement officers after Brian Thompson was fatally shot as he arrived at a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference. And they said a warrant was not obtained before his backpack was searched.

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin. Daniella Santoro turned to an archaeologist friend for help.  It turns out to be a grave marker for a 42-year-old Roman sailor named Sextus Congenius Verus, who died 1,900 years ago. The tablet had been held at a museum in the seaside town of Civitavecchia that was destroyed during World War II. That's where the grandfather of the home's previous owner was stationed, and fell in love. The couple apparently brought the tablet from Italy after the war. Now the FBI is in talks with Italian authorities to repatriate the tablet.

Authorities are investigating a powerful blast that tore through an explosives plant in rural Tennessee as first responders say they've recovered no survivors. .

Former President Joe Biden's treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer has entered a new phase. A spokesperson says the 82-year-old Democrat is now undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment to manage the cancer. Biden's office announced in May that he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that it had spread to his bone. The cancer was discovered after Biden reported urinary symptoms. Last month, Biden had surgery to remove skin cancer lesions from his forehead.

Trump directs the Pentagon to use 'all available funds' to ensure US troops are paid on Wednesday despite the shutdown.

4 dead in shooting that injured others after homecoming football game in Mississippi, official says (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert that erroneously stated the dateline as HEIDELBERG, Miss.).

There are no survivors in the blast at a Tennessee explosives factory, sheriff says.

Police in a small Mississippi town are investigating a shooting during the school’s homecoming weekend that left two people dead. Both were killed on the school campus Friday night, Heidelberg Police Chief Cornell White told The Associated Press. He declined to say whether the victims were students or provide other information about the crimes.

A Mississippi state senator says four people were killed in a shooting in a small town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there. State Sen. Derrick Simmons said the shootings happened in the downtown area of the small town of Leland, Mississippi, where people had gathered following the Friday game. Simmons represents people in that region. He said four other victims who were critically injured were among about 20 others injured in the shooting. They were taken to hospitals.

Power has been restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv, a day after Russia launched major attacks on Ukraine's power grid, causing widespread blackouts. Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people and damaged residential buildings. Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said Saturday the main work to restore power is complete, though some outages remain. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for stronger air defenses and tighter sanctions on Russia. Meanwhile, leaders of Britain, France, and Germany have agreed to proceed towards using hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine’s war effort.

The final episode of comic and actor Marc Maron's influential podcast drops Monday. It'll be the last of more than 1,600 shows. Some key moments in his 16-year run include a long and emotional interview with Robin Williams in 2010 that gained more attention when Williams died four years later. The episode would enter the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. Then-President Barack Obama took the show to another level in 2015 when he came to Maron's garage studio for an interview. Stand-up comic Todd Glass used the show to publicly come out as gay in 2012.

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so. The Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted 1972, protects whales, seals, polar bears and other sea animals, and it places restrictions on commercial fishermen and shippers. The legislation has long been a target of conservatives and industry members who now seek to remove key pieces of it. A GOP-led bill is in the works to do just that. Conservation groups adamantly oppose the changes and say they will erase years of hard won gains for jeopardized species.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2025. There are 81 days left in the year.

Venezuelans in the U.S. are welcoming the news that opposition leader leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Price. However, they acknowledge her win does little to help those facing deportation threats. Machado has aligned herself with President Donald Trump’s policy on Venezuela as she fights for democracy to the country. The Trump administration has ended programs that allowed over 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work legally in the U.S. The government has deported hundreds, citing security threats. Millions of Venezuelans have fled economic and political instability since 2014, with over a million settling in the U.S.

New Orleans voters head to the polls to elect a new slate of city leaders, including a mayor to replace term-limited incumbent LaToya Cantrell, who faces federal corruption charges tied to an alleged affair with her bodyguard. Of the city's more than 10 mayoral candidates, Helena Moreno, a former television reporter turned city councilmember, has raised the most money. Across the ballot, any candidate who receives more than 50% of the vote wins outright, otherwise the top two candidates head to a run-off on Nov. 15. The city's embattled sheriff is also seeking re-election despite a 10-inmate jailbreak occurring under her watch in May.

Officials say an explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant has left 18 people missing and feared dead. The blast occurred Friday at Accurate Energetic Systems, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. A spokesperson for the Humphreys County Emergency Management Agency says there's no further danger of explosions. The scene was under control Friday afternoon. The company processed explosives and ammunitions for the military. Residents miles away reported feeling the explosion. Video shows flames and heavy smoke rising from the debris. The company has not responded to requests for comment.

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 18 missing and feared dead, sheriff says

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

President Donald Trump is in "exceptional health," according to his physician, who evaluated him Friday. Trump underwent a checkup at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The visit included lab tests, preventive health assessments, a flu shot and a COVID-19 booster. Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella, Trump's doctor, says the evaluation was part of Trump's ongoing health maintenance plan. The assessment helps prepare Trump for upcoming overseas trips to the Middle East and Asia. Barbabella noted Trump's cardiac age is 14 years younger than his actual age of 79. The White House initially described the visit as a "routine yearly checkup."

Two jurors who voted in June to convict Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault said they regret the decision and only did so because others on the panel bullied them, the former movie mogul’s lawyers said in a newly public court filing. Weinstein’s lawyers are seeking to overturn his conviction for first-degree criminal sex act, arguing in papers unsealed Thursday that the guilty verdict was marred by “threats, intimidation, and extraneous bias,” and that the judge failed to properly deal with it at the time. In sworn affidavits included with the filing, two jurors said they felt overwhelmed and intimidated by jurors who wanted to convict Weinstein on the charge, which accused him of forcing oral sex on TV and film production assistant and producer Miriam Haley in 2006.

When U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday morning that the federal government had reached an agreement with Qatar to build a facility at an Air Force base in Idaho, social media posts began popping up online from people across the political spectrum expressing outrage at the concept of a “foreign military base” on American soil. But the facility being built at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho isn’t a separate base at all: It’s a group of buildings that will be built to handle training and maintenance for Qatari troops. And the agreement with Qatar has been in the works for years. Here are some things to know about international training agreements and the Mountain Home Air Force base.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are starting to walk north to return to their homes after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that troops were withdrawing to the agreed-upon deployment lines. The announcement came after Palestinians reported heavy shelling Friday morning in northern Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said early Friday that Israel’s Cabinet approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the release of all remaining hostages and of Palestinian prisoners.