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Why do so many scary movies end with, the devil did it? How has cannibalism on screen changed? Why do directors need to stop using scary service workers in horror? This month on the It's Been A Minute podcast, we are diving into horror tropes and what they reveal about our current culture. Listen to It's Been A Minute wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. a minute wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

President Biden for the first time as president visited an Indian reservation in Arizona today. Biden issuing a historic apology for the federal Indian boarding school program. NPR's Jimena Bastillo has more. Biden's formal apology addressed a history of forced cultural assimilation. I formally apologize as president of United States of America for what we did. For over 150 years, Biden said that the U.S. underwent a horrific chapter during which Native American children were forced to undergo abuse and the erasure of their language. At least 900 children died, and the Interior Department estimates

that the number of victims is even higher. Biden's visit comes less than two weeks before Election Day. The formal apology took place on the Gila River crossing community school grounds. The Gila River Indian community sits in part in Maricopa County, one of the counties that could determine control of the White House. Jimena Bustillo and PR News Phoenix.

The federal judges will, Virginia, restore hundreds of previously canceled voter registrations, claiming the action was an illegal effort to stop non-citizens from voting. VPM News' John Khalil reports. The National Voter Registration Act largely prevents people from being removed from voter rules in the 90 days before a federal election. It's known as a quiet period and is meant to prevent elections officials from mistakenly removing eligible voters. Back in August, Republican Governor Glenn

Youngkin had instituted new processes around voterless maintenance in an executive order. Youngkin raised the prospect that non-citizens might vote otherwise. But there is little evidence that's a problem. Virginia court records from the past 20 years don't show any prosecutions for non-citizens voting. The Department of Justice and a coalition of civic groups sued, saying the order violated the so- called quiet period. Voters in Alabama were also restored to the roles after the DOJ sued under the same law. For NPR News, I'm Chad Khalil, in Richmond. The Washington Post has become the second major paper joining the LA Times in announcing it will not be endorsing a candidate in this year's presidential

race. The Post also says it won't be doinging a candidate in this year's presidential race. The Post also says it won't be doing so in the future. It marks a major break in tradition for the paper, which for 36 years has made presidential endorsements. The decision was not to endorse a candidate. It was made by the Post billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos. New orders for long-lasting manufactured products fell last month. Here's NPR's Scott Horsley. Orders for durable goods fell by 0.8% last month, weighed down by a sharp drop in orders for civilian aircraft. Excluding transportation, durable goods orders were up. McDonald's has identified a California onion supplier as the possible source of an E. coli outbreak

linked to the chain's quarter pounders. Taylor Farms of Salinas, California has issued an onion recall. Other fast food chains are pulling onions from their menus as a precaution. Crude oil prices are up, but retail gasoline prices continue to fall. AAA says the average price of the pump is now $3.14 a gallon. That's down about a nickel from a week ago, and 40 cents lower than this time last year. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. This is NPR News, Washington. This is NPR. Actor and producer Alec Baldwin will not face another involuntary manslaughter trial for the accidental death of the cinematographer on the set of the movie, Rust.

NPR's Mandolito Barker reports a New Mexico judge has denied a motion to reopen the case. In July, Alec Baldwin awaited his fate during a highly publicized trial. During a rehearsal for his western film, Rust, in 2021, he was holding a prop gun loaded with what turned out to be live ammunition. The gun went off, wounding the film's director and killing cinematographer, Helena Hutchins. During closing arguments, the judge ruled

that prosecutors deliberately withheld evidence about bullets supplied to the film set, and she declared a mistrial. Now that same judge has denied a motion to reconsider criminal charges, ruling that prosecutors did not raise any factual or legal arguments that would justify a new trial. Baldwin and his film crew eventually finished production. Rust is set to premiere at a film festival in Poland in November. Mandolita Barco, NPR News. Attention, Kmart shoppers. Actually, never mind, there are so few of you left, there's not

much point. The company that once had more than 2,000 domestic stores now has just one. The souls reviving Kmart in the U.S. mainland is located in the suburban Miami shopping mall where it sits largely ignored. Put out of business by nimbler big box rivals like Walmart and Target, as well as online competitor Amazon. The Miami store became the last Kmart in the U.S. when a Long Island store closed last weekend. On Wall Street today, the Dow was down 259 points.

The Nasdaq fell 103 points. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.