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Friends and family are reunited with students at a fairground after a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.(Photo: Ryan Kang, AP)
Umpqua is the latest<span style="color: Red;">*</span>college to make the news for an awful<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reason
Another school shooting. Another shooter police say is "deceased." Another death toll that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>no matter what the number<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>leaves you with a sick feeling in your gut.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>It's a painful story that's far too familiar —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>especially in 2015. The school year was off to an especially violent start even before Thursday’s senseless shooting at an Oregon community college: Just since August, there have been three shootings at college campuses across the nation. And as the details of the tragedy at Umpqua Community College emerge, that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>awful, familiar feeling of sadness and helplessness<span style="color: Red;">*</span>takes hold again<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and we ask ourselves —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>again<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>When will the killings end?
Swiping is so yesterday
Ready or not, it's time to chip in. So to speak. Thursday marked<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a milestone in the effort to shift the U.S. to the use of microchip-embedded credit cards, a more secure alternative to the old cards that require the swipe of a magnetic stripe. Don't have your fancy new card? Don't worry. The October deadline is more a call to action for retailers than a cutoff. Stephanie Ericksen,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Visa's VP of risk product,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>explains: "We know, based on experience in other countries, it takes several years to get to critical mass. So we're seeing Oct. 1 as more of a kickoff toward increasing the momentum toward chip. People will still be able to use their (cards with) magnetic stripes." Good to know. Because many retailers don't have the chip-card readers.
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Rod Hometh, senior VP of strategic development at Ingenico Group, discusses the transition to chip credit card technology among U.S. retailers. He speaks on "Market Makers." Bloomberg
Whatcha gonna do, Joaquin?
Hurricane Joaquin brought the pain and rain to the Bahamas on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Thursday, strengthening into<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a Category 4 storm with winds of 130 mph<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>making it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the most intense storm of the 2015 hurricane season. Now the storm is heading north. The National Hurricane Center says Joaquin could graze the East Coast over the weekend — or it could go out to sea.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Regardless of how close Joaquin comes, torrential rain from a separate weather system is forecast to drench much of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, with<span style="color: Red;">*</span>catastrophic flooding possible in the Carolinas and Virginia.
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USA TODAY weather reporter Doyle Rice tells us what to expect from category 4 Hurricane Joaquin. USA TODAY
Shhhhhh ... Be careful what you say. Your new iPhone is listening.
If you’re one of the 13 million people who bought a new iPhone 6S or 6S Plus over the weekend, we’ll bet you don’t know that the new phones can capture about a second and a half of video and audio before and after each snap. Wait, what?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>This feature<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is set to “on” by default. Sure, static photos can get boring, but what concerns us is that audio will also be captured — unknowingly captured — and sometimes it'll be some<span style="color: Red;">*</span>brutal truth and not<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sweet nothings. ("Her hair looks horrible." "I know, right?" "Smile!")
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Ed Baig of USA TODAY shows off live photos, one of the new features of the iPhone 6s and 6s+.
Remains in a chimney solve 7-year-old mystery of missing teen
The Colorado cabin was empty and "it smelled bad," but otherwise nothing looked awry. It was vacant for 10 years, which is why no one found the body of Joshua Maddux stuck in the chimney. Construction crews started tearing the place down in August, and dental records just confirmed the body was, indeed, the 18-year-old missing since 2008. Investigators think Maddux was likely trying to squeeze down the chimney when he became stuck.
A rock chimney on the side of an old house.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Tony L. Moore, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
If you read only one thing tonight: One Syrian family's journey amid desperation
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A new superhero universe is letting the younger female crowd connect with<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Supergirl,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Wonder Woman<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Batgirl<span style="color: Red;">*</span>more than ever before. Brian Truitt has an exclusive sneak peek.
It's like a middle school nightmare: an app that lets people rate anyone they know on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a scale of 1 to 5 for all the world to see. Peeple is scheduled to launch in November. And there's no way to opt out.
Have you seen it?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Pretty much the best way to deliver a twinge of nostalgia with your holiday cards this year.
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Today U.S. Postal Service released A Charlie Brown Christmas stamps in celebration of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the classic TV special. USA TODAY
Navy brass, anxious to stay ahead of a potential recruiting and retention crisis, are launching a series of initiatives aimed at keeping its best young sailors, including expanded maternity leave and child care.
Who runs the world? Girls! Caltech!<span style="color: Red;">*</span>While American schools as a whole have lost some of the mojo they’ve showed in past years, they continue to dominate the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. <span style="color: Red;">*</span>At the top of the list for 2015-16 is California Institute of Technology. <span style="color: Red;">*</span>This is the fifth consecutive year that Caltech secured the top spot.
We all need a little distraction at some point during the day (what else are smartphones for?), so add<span style="color: Red;">*</span>DISTRACTME on the YO app. It'll be fun, we promise.
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This is a compilation of stories from across USA TODAY.
Contributing: Doug Stanglin, Charisse Jones, Doyle Rice, USA TODAY; Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY Network;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Steven Petrow, Special for USA TODAY;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Kevin Hardy and Patt Johnson, The Des Moines Register
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