A record-setting October heatwave has seen temperatures soar to the 90s across some parts of the US, with schools closing in Ohio due to the hot weather and surfers hitting the waves in New York City. The extreme weather saw New Orleans hit 95 degrees, Nashville reach 98 degrees and Mobile, Alabama, experience temperatures of 96 degrees. In Washington DC temperatures remain high as runners have been pictured jogging topless and tourists stopped for iced drinks. But it is a different story in Montana, where one woman has filmed himself jumping off a car and disappearing into 6 foot-deep snow. Temperature charts show the country split in two as temperatures plunged to 37 degrees in Billings, Montana and 47 degrees in Idaho Falls. ☀️🥵❄️☃️

Democrat Joe Biden would make gun manufacturers more legally liable for mass killings, and ban the manufacture of rifles styled to look like military assault weapons, under gun control policies his presidential campaign rolled out on Wednesday. He would also force owners of those guns to either sell them to the federal government or participate in a national gun 'registry' of the sort that has drawn howls from Second Amendment advocacy groups. People who 'possess' computer code that could allow a 3D printer to produce a plastic firearm would be required to submit to a federal government background check under Biden's plan, as though they were purchasing a finished weapon from a dealer. 😂 #facepalm

The judge who presided over Amber Guyger's murder trial presented her with a Bible and gave her a hug moments after the brother of slain accountant, Botham Jean, embraced the tearful officer. Judge Tammy Kemp hugged Jean's mother Allison after the sentencing, before also embracing Guyger and handing her a Bible. In an astonishing act of compassion, Jean's 18-year-old brother, Brandt, asked the judge if he could also hug Guyger, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison. 'If you truly are sorry, I forgive you. I know if you go to God and ask him he will forgive you,' Brandt said to Guyger in the courtroom. 'I love you just like anyone else. I'm not going to say I hope you rot and die just like my brother did. I want the best for you. I don't even want you to go to jail.'

Police have released bodycam video from two Texas cops who led a mentally-ill black man through the streets by a rope while they were mounted on horseback. Galveston officers Patrick Brosch and Amanda Smith arrested 43-year-old Donald Neely on a charge of criminal trespass on August 3, before deciding to transport him to the local station on foot as there were no squad cars in the vicinity. That decision sparked outrage, with authorities eventually deciding to release 36 minutes of footage from both of the officer's cameras, illuminating how the events unfolded. The video -released on Wednesday- shows how Brosch and Smith tied a rope around Neely's handcuffs after they had restrained him, before they ordered him to walk alongside their horses. 'We've just gotta do what we've gotta do,' Brosch is heard telling Neely, after Smith suggests that they should walk him to the station house. 👮🏻‍♂️