Testing One, Two: The Obama administration is reversing education policy of recent years, now saying there’s too much emphasis on testing in public schools. The Administration is calling upon Congress to “reduce over-testing” and have no more than 2 percent of class time taken by testing.

Teacher’s unions had led the resistance to repeated testing. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said, “I can’t tell you how many conversations I’m in with educators who are understandably stressed and concerned about an overemphasis on testing in some places and how much time testing and test prep are taking from instruction.”

Nation: A woman drove into the crowd during the homecoming parade yesterday for Oklahoma State University, killing four people, including a two-year-old boy. Witnesses said some of the people hit went flying through the air. A total of 44 people were injured, some of them listed in critical condition. The 25-year-old driver was arrested for driving under the influence.

World: Despite being one of the most powerful storms to make landfall in the Western Hemisphere, Hurricane Patricia passed over Mexico’s Pacific Coast without causing catastrophic damage. Some homes were destroyed, trees uprooted, and roads cut, but the damage was minimal considering the power of the storm. Mexican authorities say warnings and evacuations kept people out of danger.

>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says there is an “element of truth” to some claims that the Iraq invasion and war was partly to blame for the rise of the Islamic State. Blair doesn’t apologize for the war, but he says strategic mistakes led to Iraq’s subsequent chaos and civil war.

Politics: After Hillary Clinton had the best week in her political career, Republican candidate Donald Trump is on the attack, even though he’s not running against her … yet. Trump told a crowd in Jacksonville, Fla., “You want to have a mess of a country, you want to have nothing but problems, you want to have a country that goes to hell? You elect Hillary president, you have a country that goes to hell.”

Gridiron: USC knocked off third-ranked and undefeated Utah last night in a major upset in the Pac-12 conference. It’s a major redemption for the limping USC after their coach was fired two weeks ago for being a drunk. USC didn’t just beat Utah, they trounced them 42-24. Freshman linebacker Cameron Smith intercepted three passes.

The Obit Page: Maureen O’Hara, the Irish beauty whose red hair and green eyes earned her the title “Queen of Technicolor” in the 1940s and 50s, has died in Boise, Idaho at age 95. Any movie shot with color film looked better with her in it. O’Hara was the gypsy girl in the 1939’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and played the feisty woman in a long list of cowboy movies, but she may be best remembered as the woman in “The Quiet Man,” who refused to consummate her marriage until the Irish-American boxer played by John Wayne fights for her dowry. She was worth fighting for.

Hope Springs: The 84-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch is dating Mick Jagger’s ex-girlfriend, the 59-year-old former model, Jerry Hall. Murdoch’s dating range has become nearly age-appropriate. He was 38 years older than his last wife.