Republican concerns mount over plan to livestream execution

A federal judge on Monday ripped the Trump administration for “inexcusable” gamesmanship after it removed hundreds of trees from a public golf course that the president said he wants to turn into “one of the greatest golf courses anywhere in the world” — a renovation plan being challenged in court. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said lawyers for the government had assured her it would give her ample warning if it planned any “irreversible” actions at the East Potomac Golf Links, only to chop down over 400 trees on the course over the holiday weekend without proper notice.

Actress Selma Blair has been arrested after an incident on board a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday night. Two flight attendants reported injures and one was taken to the hospital after the incident, according to the Port Authority Police. One of the flight attendants was bitten and the other sustained a laceration, according to a law enforcement source. It happened at 11 p.m. on board Delta Air Lines Flight 938. The flight crew needed to restrain her, a law enforcement source said.

A sixth measles-related death was reported Monday in Pennsylvania, involving a 39-year-old woman in Franklin County, amid the state’s largest outbreak in three decades. In a statement, the county’s coroner office said the woman had underlying medical conditions, though it did not provide specifics. A spokesperson for the Franklin County coroner’s office said the “primary cause of death was a probable acute cardiac event due to possible complications of the measles.”

Forecasters issued flood watches Monday and warned more rain and isolated thunderstorms could hit the Southwest after the remnants of tropical storm Rachel caused severe flooding in Las Vegas over the weekend. Las Vegas tied an all-time daily rainfall record for the month of October after receiving 1.08 inches of rain into Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service. The last time that much rain fell on the city in one October day was in 1947. Videos posted on social media showed a torrent of water rushing through a street near the Las Vegas Strip, with a Ferris wheel and casinos in the background.