Donald Trump is definitely not a racist xenophobe, he’s just a normal presidential candidate whose immigration plan would be modeled after an Eisenhower-era mass deportation called “Operation Wetback.” The real estate tycoon and seasonally appropriate squash made approving reference to likable Ike’s Mexican roundup during Tuesday night’s GOP debate:

University of Missouri police say they have apprehended the individual who posted threats on the anonymous app Yik Yak, sparking turmoil across the university yesterday and prompting some black students to spend the night off-campus.

Posts from Mizzou students across a variety of social media platforms reflected a campus in turmoil on Tuesday night and into the early hours of Wednesday morning.

As with any jingoistic carnival worth enduring, the content ostensibly central to Tuesday’s GOP debate was far overshadowed by that which seemed to be at its periphery: the commercials.

An FBI operation in Virginia has led to the arrest of a group of men described as white supremacists who were allegedly plotting violent attacks on synagogues and black churches, reports the Associated Press and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Frazier Glenn Miller, the bloodthirsty anti-Semite convicted of murdering three people at Jewish community centers in Kansas last year, has been sentenced to death. As the sentence was announced, Miller yelled, “Heil Hitler!” None of his victims were Jewish.

Kevin Dumont is the owner (for now) of Liquid Planet, a waterpark he founded in Candia, New Hampshire. Facing foreclosure, he recently decided to chain himself to the top of a slide tower. “I’m an out-of-the-box-thinking kind of guy,” Dumont told Gawker.

Earlier in tonight’s GOP debate, Sen. Marco Rubio made a rousing call for more vocational education. “Welders make more money than philosophers,” he said to applause. “We need more welders than philosophers.”

An 8-year-old boy in Birmingham, Alabama, who police said Tuesday “viciously attacked” a 1-year-old girl, has been charged with murder, the New York Times reports. The girl’s mother left the children alone to go out to a nightclub.

Somehow, once again, all the candidates’ demands have been met, the undercard round finished, and Ted Cruz’s flesh mask polished to a sheen. Come 9:00 p.m. EST, it’s time for another GOP debate live blog. And as our host for the evening will be Fox Business, this one is almost guaranteed to be extra terrible. We can’t wait.

Lois Colley, a Westchester County socialite and the wife of a millionaire McDonald’s franchise owner, was found dead this week, the New York Times reports. Police said they believe she was murdered.

A Chesapeake, Virginia woman has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for murdering her mother and then sending a photo of the body to her father’s cell phone, reports the Associated Press.

As expected, the story around the fatal police shooting of a man “acting bizarrely” in Los Angeles has gained some details but not a whole lot of clarity, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

Yesterday, protests at the University of Missouri reached an apex as hundreds of students, and at least one university professor, began physically expelling reporters from covering an encampment set up in a public university yard. What started out as a protest against the school turned into a protest against the media, prompting a mass confusion over who has what rights when the press encounters a hostile subject.

Country star Jason Aldean—47th on Forbes’ highest-paid celebrities list—went out in blackface and dreadlocks for Halloween, Nashville Gab reports. That’s him above, on the left, in blackface and dreadlocks.

Melissa Click has apologized to the “campus community” and “journalists at large” for blocking a reporter from documenting a student demonstration on Monday. “I regret the language and strategies I used... [and also] the way my actions have shifted attention away from the students’ campaign for justice.”

A spa worker whose dead body was found at Las Vegas cryotherapy center last month after 10 hours in a chamber chilled by liquid nitrogen suffocated accidentally, the Associated Press reports. The Clark County coroner’s office said that she died from asphyxia caused by low oxygen levels.

At tonight’s 358th GOP debate, Ben Carson is almost certainly going to be pushed to respond to the many, many, many claims of fabulism that have been levied against the candidate in recent weeks. So many, in fact, it can be hard to keep track (especially if your name is Ben Carson). But don’t worry—we’re here to help.

Nine people were reportedly killed this afternoon when a small jet crashed into an apartment building in Akron, Ohio.

In life you have to take the good with the bad because you have no choice. Fine. In the forest, though, you should be able to put your foot down: no gross and scary stuff with the ground.