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Rycroft DWI charge, Broncos rally, Trump's Reflecting Pool speech

Rycroft was booked Sunday on charges including driving with an invalid license, according to TMZ; her lawyer says she is presumed innocent.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPresident Trump delivers his closing midterm message at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool at two p. m. Eastern, eleven a. m. Pacific.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe pool cost fourteen million dollars to renovate, The Independent says, and peeling coating is floating in it.

  3. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt stays closed to visitors until November twentieth.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA beautiful backdrop for a beautification pitch, and the president says the event will show how beautiful it is.

  5. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPeeling fragments, Vera. First the coating goes, then the foundations, and by Christmas we're all standing in a puddle. Hank?

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDamp.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDamp. That is the finest thing he has ever said to me.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIn football, Denver trailed Kansas City twenty-four to thirteen early in the fourth quarter and scored the last fourteen points to win twenty-eight to twenty-four.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMalcolm Roach sacked Patrick Mahomes on fourth-and-goal on the final play.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAlso today, USC's JuJu Watkins returns today after five hundred eighty-eight days, since tearing her ACL last March.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Trojans open against UNLV in Las Vegas.

  12. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorReality star Melissa Rycroft has been charged with a second DWI, after pleading guilty to a first in August. Her lawyer says everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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  1. Russell Wilson jabs Sean Payton while picking Broncos over Chiefs · Yahoo Sports
  2. Independents, an Alaska ruling and a Broncos comeback · BBC
  3. King Charles slips in the polls; Chiefs fall to Broncos · Yahoo Lifestyle Australia
  4. Trump gives closing midterm pitch at problem-plagued Reflecting Pool · AP News
  5. Stevens backs Rogers as Trump closes campaign at Reflecting Pool · CBS News
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