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Oct 11, 2026
VATICAN CITY, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Pope Leo said on Sunday that doctors had detected a small ?growth on his lung during a recent ?health check and he would be undergoing surgery this week to ?remove it, in the first health scare of the 71-year-old pontiff's tenure.
Leo told pilgrims in St. Peter's Square for his weekly Sunday prayer that the growth was "well-contained" ?and caught at ?an early stage.
"Recently, during some medical examinations, doctors found a localized nodule in my ?lung," said the pontiff. "It was detected at a very early stage and is well contained."
"The doctors believe it ?is advisable ?to intervene, so, following ?their advice, I have ?decided to undergo surgery to remove it," he said. "The operation is already scheduled for the next few days."
Leo, elected pope by the world's cardinals in May 2025, is relatively young for a Church leader. He ?enjoys sports, including tennis, and is ?not known to previously have ?had health issues.
The ?late Pope Francis, Leo's predecessor, died at ?age 88 and was increasingly ?frail in ?his later years.
The Vatican press office said Leo's recovery from surgery was expected to take about ?a week. It ?did not immediately provide further details about the ?pope's health.
(Reporting by Joshua McElwee, Francesca LandiniEditing ?by Tomasz Janowski, Alexandra Hudson)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/pope-leo-says-undergo-surgery-104303066.html
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Oct 11, 2026
By Timour Azhari and Enas Alashray
RIYADH, Oct 10 (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in an attack on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, the deadliest in the kingdom in more than a decade, as the Iran-backed Houthis escalate a campaign they launched this summer.
The ?dead from the third attack this week on the airport included four Saudis, two people from Bangladesh and one person each from the US, Jordan, Palestine, ?Syria, Sudan and Egypt, the Saudi civil aviation authority said. At the latest count, 309 were wounded, officials said.
President Donald Trump said Washington was considering joining Saudi strikes on the Houthis in the conflict, a spillover ?from the war on Iran that the US and Israel launched in February.
Hospitals were flooded with wounded brought by ambulance and helicopter, some in critical condition after the attack, which occurred without warning.
CONFLICT ESCALATES AFTER YEMEN WAR CEASEFIRE UNRAVELS
The two previous attacks on King Khalid International Airport this week killed four and caused heavy damage to a Saudi commercial plane parked on the tarmac. The strikes have exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi defence capabilities as it wages an air campaign against the Houthis to support a ground war by the Yemeni government against the Iran-backed group.
The Houthis ?have not claimed responsibility for the attack, but a Saudi-led ?military coalition vowed to respond.
Trump, asked whether the US planned to join Saudi strikes on the Houthis, told reporters: "We may. We're going to look at it. We just found out about the recent attack, so we'll make a decision. We move very quickly."
US Secretary of State ?Marco Rubio condemned the attacks on the airport, saying they "demonstrate a blatant disregard for innocent civilian life". UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned Saturday's strike, reiterating that attac
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Oct 10, 2026
Erie police are investigating mental health issues as they look for a motive in the mass killing in which a 45-year-old suspected gunman killed nine people, eight of whom were related, before killing himself at a residence on Perry Street on Oct. 9.
"I think mental health is at play here, but I think it is too soon to really go into a motive," Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said at a news conference at City Hall on Oct. 10.
He said police are looking at the mass shooting as "a domestic situation" because eight of those killed were related to one another.
Lorah said the eight people who were killed were relatives and were all living at the house at 722 Perry St. He said the ninth victim was a family friend.
The family friend, a 51-year-old woman, was fatally shot outside the house along with a 37-year-old sister-in-law of one of the deceased, Lorah said.
Police detail sequence of killings
The other people were killed inside the residence, police said. The Erie County Coroner's Office has yet to release the names of those killed, but Lorah described the people found inside as a 5-year-old boy, a 22-month-old girl, a 24-year-old woman, a 44-year-old woman, a 19-year-old man and a 21-year-old man.
The 24-year-old woman was eight months pregnant, Lorah said. He said the suspected shooter, a 45-year-old man, was found dead inside the house with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Oct 10, 2026
Midterm elections often punish the sitting president's party, and Trump's popularity isn't helping the GOP's cause. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty)CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Even as he makes a case that Republicans should win the midterm congressional elections, President Donald Trump is bracing for the fallout should they lose.
Someone is bound to get blamed, and Trump said at a rally in Tennessee on Saturday that he expects it will be him.
"If we don't win the midterms, they're going to blame me," Trump said. "You know that. And if we do win them, I will get no credit whatsoever. It's true. I won't get any."
"But I'm working my ass off," he added. "You better get out there and vote."
Trump is in "grind it out mode" ahead of the midterms, a person familiar with the matter said, and is prepared for the worst-case election outcome.
Midterm elections often punish the sitting president's party, and Trump's popularity isn't helping the GOP's cause. Only 38% approve of his performance in office, compared with 59% who disapprove, according to an NBC News average of polls.
Trump is looking to defy historical trends by motivating core supporters who might be inclined to sit out the elections, and by offering voters an unusual sweetener if they preserve the Republican majority in the House and Senate.
He closed his hour-and-a-half-long speech with a reminder that "with your vote on November 3rd, you'll get $5,000."
That's the size of the check he's promising to send adults if Republicans win the midterms. The total price tag is estimated at
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Oct 10, 2026
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department said on Saturday it is investigating whether ?television networks violated federal antitrust laws over ?their decision to boycott covering the White House following its ?decision to pull the credentials of reporters from three news organizations, including CNN.
The networks under investigation, according to the New York Times, are ABC, CBS, CNN, ?NBC and Fox ?News.
"Group boycotts among commercial competitors can violate the Sherman Act," a Justice Department ?spokesperson said.
"The Antitrust Division is simply investigating to determine whether these news organizations have violated the ?antitrust laws."
The ?networks did not ?immediately respond to requests ?by Reuters for comment.
The television networks had briefly stopped providing pool coverage of Trump after he banned CNN, Politico and MS Now from the White House.
They later reinstated coverage of the Republican ?president.
CNN is one of the ?five news organizations — along with ?ABC, CBS, Fox ?News and NBC — that make up ?the primary White House ?television pool. They ?share the costs of covering the president, take turns organizing coverage and share the ?footage with outlets ?around the country.
(Reporting by Jasper Ward in ?Washington and Erin Banco in New York; ?Editing by Matthew Lewis)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-department-probes-tv-networks-230958845.html
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Oct 10, 2026
By Timour Azhari and Enas Alashray
RIYADH, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The third attack this week on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday left at least 12 people dead and more than 300 wounded, Saudi authorities said, and the Iran-backed Houthis claimed responsibility for the strike, a major escalation of their ?campaign against the Saudis.
The dead included four Saudis, two people from Bangladesh and one person each from the US, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, ?the Saudi civil aviation authority said. At the latest count, they said 309 were wounded.
Hospitals were flooded with wounded brought by ambulance and helicopter, people briefed on the matter said. Some were in critical condition.
Saturday's ?attack occurred without warning, with no alert issued by Saudi Arabia's threat warning system. This week's two previous attacks on King Khalid International Airport left four people dead and caused heavy damage to a Saudi commercial plane parked on the tarmac.
This week's deadly strikes exposed vulnerabilities in the kingdom's self-defence capabilities as it wages an air campaign against the Houthis to support a ground war by the Yemeni government against the Iran-backed group.
Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government have claimed hundreds of strikes on targets in Houthi-held territory. The Houthis have ?said these killed civilians including women and children.
Reuters could not ?independently verify those claims.
All flights were diverted from Riyadh on Saturday, and operations at the airport that serves a city of roughly 8 million people were temporarily suspended, the Saudi civil aviation authority said.
The head of the Houthi media office said in a post on ?X after the attack that the group had "shut down Riyadh international airport". The Houthis have said airliners should avoid Saudi airspace, declaring it a zone of military operations after the Saudi-backed Yemeni g
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Oct 10, 2026
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Saturday it still doesn't know what caused the death of a young worker at a lab in Russia that focuses on plague and other illnesses.
The U.N. health agency has cited initial, unconfirmed reports suggesting pneumonic plague, a severe disease less common than the better-known bubonic plague linked to the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Pneumonic plague spreads from person to person, causing a severe form of pneumonia, but recovery rates are high if it is detected and treated in time.
WHO, in its first full Disease Outbreak News since the case emerged earlier this month, called for a continued investigation.
Russian health officials, it said, had conducted more than 5,500 tests and found no evidence of any dangerous pathogenic microorganisms.
"Additional clinical, epidemiological and laboratory information, including confirmation of the diagnosis in the deceased laboratory worker, is required to improve confidence in the assessment," WHO said.
WHO continued to refer to "a purported second case" that, in emailed explanations to The Associated Press, it previously attributed to two tabloid news outlets in Britain and Serbia that cited unspecified reports in Russia.
Russia has denied any such second case.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/mystery-surrounds-young-workers-death-201307325.html
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Oct 10, 2026
Isaias made landfall near Destin, Fla., around 9:30 p.m. ET Friday as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It was the first hurricane of an unusually quiet Atlantic season. At least four people have died, two in Florida and two in Alabama, officials said.
The storm weakened quickly as it moved inland. As of 5 a.m. ET Saturday, it was a post-tropical storm with 35 mph winds about 25 miles south-southwest of Montgomery, Ala., moving north at 14 mph. It is expected to cross Alabama into the Tennessee Valley and dissipate Sunday.
About 700,000 homes and businesses across the Southeast were without power Saturday afternoon, down from more than 900,000 that morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
The biggest threat now is rain. The NHC expects 4 to 8 inches across southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia through the weekend, with up to 15 inches in spots. Flash flooding and landslides are possible in the southern Appalachians.
Is the storm headed your way? Follow it in real time on the new Yahoo Weather app.
Follow live updates on Isaias below.
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Oct 10, 2026
Isaias made landfall near Destin, Fla., around 9:30 p.m. ET Friday as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It was the first hurricane of an unusually quiet Atlantic season. At least four people have died, two in Florida and two in Alabama, officials said.
The storm weakened quickly as it moved inland. As of 5 a.m. ET Saturday, it was a post-tropical storm with 35 mph winds about 25 miles south-southwest of Montgomery, Ala., moving north at 14 mph. It is expected to cross Alabama into the Tennessee Valley and dissipate Sunday.
About 700,000 homes and businesses across the Southeast were without power Saturday afternoon, down from more than 900,000 that morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
The biggest threat now is rain. The NHC expects 4 to 8 inches across southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia through the weekend, with up to 15 inches in spots. Flash flooding and landslides are possible in the southern Appalachians.
Is the storm headed your way? Follow it in real time on the new Yahoo Weather app.
Follow live updates on Isaias below.
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Oct 10, 2026
The Pentagon acknowledged late Friday that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.
The Washington Post exclusively reported last month, based on information from six U.S. officials, that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its official, public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the time called that reporting "a complete lie" in a social media post. However, late Friday, the Pentagon raised the figure publicly reported in DCAS to include additional deaths.
As of Friday, the total troop deaths the administration is connecting to operations against Iran and officially reporting in DCAS stands at 21.
That figure includes two additional noncombat deaths: Maj. Sorffly Davius, 46, an Army National Guard member who died in Kuwait on March 6, and an unidentified Navy suicide that occurred in September, according to a U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide additional context on the troop deaths.
In addition, 865 service members have been wounded, according to updated data in DCAS.
The military also acknowledged one additional soldier's training accident death that it said was not tied to ongoing operations against Iran.
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Oct 10, 2026
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would decide whether to live-stream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, two days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it would be publicly shown.
"There are two thoughts: don't show it, and show it," Trump said at the White House. "By showing it, maybe other people won't be doing what he did. I'll make a decision, ultimately."
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The Pentagon said Thursday that the execution by firing squad would be live-streamed for the public to watch. It would be the first time the U.S. military broadcasts an execution live on the internet. The execution is scheduled for Dec. 3.
Faith leaders, human rights advocates and other groups criticized the announcement. Hasan, a former U.S. Army psychiatrist, in 2009 shot dozens of people at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas.
"In no way can Hasan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered," Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement.
Vice President JD Vance on Friday said that he would not personally watch the live stream and suggested that the execution might not be broadcast.
Trump earlier this week approved Hasan's death by firing squad. It would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.
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Oct 10, 2026
By Timour Azhari and Enas Alashray
RIYADH, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Several people were wounded in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on Saturday that forced a suspension of operations, the ?country's civil aviation authority said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but it comes amid ?an escalation of missile strikes by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis against Saudi Arabia.
The airport had already been struck in two earlier attacks this week that left four ?people dead and exposed vulnerabilities in the kingdom's ability to defend itself as it wages war on the Houthis. Saudi Arabia's early warning system did not issue an alert ahead of Saturday's incident.
The Saudi government's media office did not immediately respond to questions from Reuters.
One eyewitness at the airport on Saturday reported seeing an explosion and then multiple people lying injured on the ground inside. ?More than a dozen ambulances were seen rushing ?towards the facility.
An injured traveller told Reuters they saw something fly across the sky outside the airport before part of the ceiling near a departure gate collapsed.
US TO "LOOK AT" JOINING SAUDI FIGHT AGAINST ?HOUTHIS: TRUMP
Following the attack, US President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters outside the White House, was asked whether the United States planned to join Saudi strikes on the Houthis.
"We may. We're going to look at it. We just found out about the recent attack, ?so we'll ?make a decision. We move very quickly," he said.
The US embassy ?in Riyadh said it was "aware of attacks" and "strongly ?recommends all US citizens avoid this airport and surrounding areas."
The UK and Irish embassies in Saudi Arabia said in statements on X that they were also aware of a "serious incident" at the airport. The Canadian embassy said that "ongoing military activity" ha
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Oct 10, 2026
(NewsNation) — Joey Williams, the husband of a woman who died in Florida as Hurricane Isaias battered Gulf Coast states, is remembering his wife as an "ultra-nice badass person" whom everyone loved.
Jenn Biggs Williams, 57, worked in human resources. She and Joey were married for a decade. She is the first known fatality of Hurricane Isaias, which struck the Gulf Coast over the weekend.
A person in Birmingham, Alabama, also died in connection with the storm, the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency director confirmed.
4 dead from storm as Isaias brings threat of floods across the Southeast
Williams said that as the storm moved through, the couple went outside to take pictures of the sky and some of the damage it had caused. When they went back inside, a tree fell through the roof and into the living room, trapping both of them beneath it.
"I was able to squeeze out. My wife didn't make it," Williams told NewsNation. "The tree just fell on her and it was ... we like to think it was pretty instant, you know? I mean, just gone. Gone."
Williams said he was able to crawl out and began calling for his wife.
"I couldn't ... there's nothing, you know?"
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Oct 10, 2026
Isaias made landfall near Destin, Fla., around 9:30 p.m. ET Friday as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It was the first hurricane of an unusually quiet Atlantic season. At least two people were killed by falling trees, one in Florida's Escambia County and one in the Birmingham, Ala., area, officials said.
The storm weakened quickly as it moved inland. As of 5 a.m. ET Saturday, it was a post-tropical storm with 35 mph winds about 25 miles south-southwest of Montgomery, Ala., moving north at 14 mph. It is expected to cross Alabama into the Tennessee Valley and dissipate Sunday.
More than 900,000 homes and businesses in Florida, Alabama and Georgia were without power Saturday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. Downed trees and power lines blocked roads in Pensacola and Mobile, and roads flooded in Destin.
The biggest threat now is rain. The NHC expects 4 to 8 inches across southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia through the weekend, with up to 15 inches in spots. Flash flooding and landslides are possible in the southern Appalachians.
Is the storm headed your way? Follow it in real time on the new Yahoo Weather app.
Follow live updates on Isaias below.
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Oct 10, 2026
A man killed eight people including a pregnant woman, children and other relatives at his home in Erie, Pennsylvania, before taking his own life as well, authorities said Saturday.
Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said the 45-year-old man was related to seven of the victims in the previous day's shooting, while the eighth was a friend of the pregnant woman.
Video and audio evidence recovered by investigators included muffled gunshot sounds coming from inside the home just before two "distressed" women arrived and began pounding on the door shortly before 5 p.m. Friday, he said. The gunman then came out and shot them as they ran toward him, before returning inside.
Police arrived to find the two women dead outside. After deploying a drone and robot, they went inside and found the bodies of a 5-year-old boy; a 1-year-old girl on the first floor; two more women and two young men in a stairwell; and the shooter on the second floor.
"Out of respect for the victims and the families, I will not discuss the details of what our officers encountered inside that home," the chief said at a news conference. "But I want our community to understand the gravity of what happened and the profound impact this tragedy has had on those involved and on our community as a whole."
Lorah declined to discuss motive but said investigators would talk to other relatives and examine the cellphones of the women who were killed outside the home.
"They knew something was going on at that house," he said. "We have to figure out what that is."
Lorah said officers arrived within minutes of receiving an alert via ShotSpotter, a controversial gunshot detection system that relies on artificial intelligence and a network of microphones to ident
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Oct 10, 2026
Eight people were killed Friday in a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, police said.
The shooter was also dead, and there was no threat to the public, the city said. Authorities didn't provide more details.
"I have not seen anything like this in my 28-plus years," Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah told a local news station. "I'm not sure that the city of Erie has ever seen the loss of life and the devastation that we just witnessed."
Gov. Josh Shapiro said Saturday he offered his administration's "full support" to Erie Mayor Daria Devlin.
Erie is about 117 miles (188 kilometers) north of Pittsburgh.
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This story has been updated to correct the number of people killed in shooting to eight, not including the shooter, per information from authorities.
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GaNun is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/9-dead-shooting-northern-pennsylvania-153233875.html
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Oct 10, 2026
By Timour Azhari and Enas Alashray
RIYADH, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Many people were wounded in a blast at Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, according ?to two eyewitnesses and two people briefed on the matter, and travellers ?were evacuated from parts of the facility.
One of the eyewitnesses reported seeing an explosion and then ?seeing multiple people lying injured on the ground inside the airport. More than a dozen ambulances were seen rushing to the airport.
The Saudi government's media office and the Saudi civil aviation authority did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the ?incident.
Saturday's incident comes amid an ?escalation of missile strikes by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on the kingdom. The airport has already been attacked twice this week, leaving ?four people dead and others wounded, and badly damaging an aircraft.
Flight-tracking site flightradar24 showed all flights to Riyadh had either been diverted or cancelled, with only a helicopter ?hovering over ?the airport at one point.
The airport urged ?passengers to contact their airlines ?directly and check their flight status before heading there.
Kuwait Airways said it had cancelled flights to and from the Saudi capital due to what it described as the closure of Riyadh airport because of the "security situation" there.
Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways earlier cancelled multiple flights between their respective hubs and Riyadh, with some cancellations ?extending into Monday.
Houthi attacks on Thursday and earlier ?in the week had already prompted a number ?of carriers to suspend or ?cancel services to the Saudi capital, shortly before Riyadh is ?due to host major energy and investment ?conferences.
Organisers of those ?conferences said on Saturday they would go ahead as planned, and they sought to reassure attendees of their security.
The Houthis have said airliners should
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Oct 10, 2026
Christa Pike is out of the hospital and receiving medical care in prison following a failed execution attempt.
Her legal team, Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, and Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, issued this statement on Oct. 10:
"Christa Pike was discharged from a local hospital and is now at Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center where she has been housed for more than 30 years. She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances. She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery."
More: Christa Pike's lawyers faced communication hurdles as execution failed
Pike's attorneys said Oct. 8 that she'd been able to walk after spending days in the hospital unconscious and intubated following her failed execution attempt on Sept. 30.
Pike's attorneys remain concerned about psychological damage and lasting impacts to her cognitive functioning.
The attorneys reported they were allowed to visit with her for the first time after she regained consciousness on Oct. 6. That was after they were already told by medical professionals on Oct. 5 there was a possibility she was brain-dead and would need to be taken off life support.
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Oct 10, 2026
Christa Pike is out of the hospital and receiving medical care in prison following a failed execution attempt.
Her legal team, Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, and Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, issued this statement on Oct. 10:
"Christa Pike was discharged from a local hospital and is now at Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center where she has been housed for more than 30 years. She is grateful to the first responders and her medical team for their care in these extraordinary circumstances. She is continuing to receive medical care at the prison, and we will continue to track her recovery."
More: Christa Pike's lawyers faced communication hurdles as execution failed
Pike's attorneys said Oct. 8 that she'd been able to walk after spending days in the hospital unconscious and intubated following her failed execution attempt on Sept. 30.
Pike's attorneys remain concerned about psychological damage and lasting impacts to her cognitive functioning.
The attorneys reported they were allowed to visit with her for the first time after she regained consciousness on Oct. 6. That was after they were already told by medical professionals on Oct. 5 there was a possibility she was brain-dead and would need to be taken off life support.
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Oct 10, 2026
Isaias made landfall near Destin, Fla., around 9:30 p.m. ET Friday as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. It was the first hurricane of an unusually quiet Atlantic season. At least one person was killed when a tree fell on a home in Escambia County, Fla., the sheriff's office said.
The storm weakened quickly as it moved inland. As of 5 a.m. ET Saturday, it was a post-tropical storm with 35 mph winds about 25 miles south-southwest of Montgomery, Ala., moving north at 14 mph. It is expected to cross Alabama into the Tennessee Valley and dissipate Sunday.
Nearly 900,000 homes and businesses in Florida, Alabama and Georgia were without power Saturday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. Downed trees and power lines blocked roads in Pensacola and Mobile, and roads flooded in Destin.
The biggest threat now is rain. The NHC expects 4 to 8 inches across southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia through the weekend, with up to 15 inches in spots. Flash flooding and landslides are possible in the southern Appalachians.
Is the storm headed your way? Follow it in real time on the new Yahoo Weather app.
Follow live updates on Isaias below.
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Oct 10, 2026
Post-Tropical Cyclone Isaias was moving northeast through central Alabama near Birmingham on Saturday after roaring ashore as a Category 2 hurricane late Friday evening near Destin, Florida, with winds of about 105 mph, causing at least four deaths.
Trees and power lines were down in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, creating dangerous conditions and forcing road closures late Friday, officials said. Power outages are in the hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across much of Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and western Georgia.
At least four people have been reported killed in the storm, two each in Alabama and Florida, authorities said Saturday.
The storm broke a two-year drought of U.S. hurricane landfalls, with the most recent being Hurricane Milton in October 2024, two years to the day before Isaias made landfall.
The center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Isaias was moving north over Alabama on Saturday and is expected to reach the Tennessee Valley later in the day and into Sunday, when it will make a northeastward turn. As of 5 p.m. ET Saturday, the center of Isaias was about 5 miles west of Birmingham, Alabama, moving northeast at 15 mph, according to the National Weather Service. The storm is forecast to continue inland and weaken further.
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Oct 10, 2026
A Philadelphia police officer died Saturday after he and his partner were ambushed and shot multiple times while responding to a report of an armed man in the western part of the city.
Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel identified the officer who died as Shane Seiber, a 40-year-old father who spent 10 years on the force.
He leaves behind his wife and his two children, a 7-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter.
"He fought valiantly, but he lost his life today," Bethel said at a morning news conference. "His wife was able to be by his side before he passed, as well as his family."
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During the news conference, Mayor Cherelle Parker said Seiber "paid the ultimate price while sacrificing his own life to protect and serve our city."
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Parker also announced plans to seek legislation expanding Pennsylvania's involuntary commitment laws to cover substance use disorders and other mental or behavioral health conditions. She said she would work with Gov. Josh Shapiro, the state legislature and Attorney General Dave Sunday on the proposal.
The mayor also referenced the deaths of ni
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Oct 10, 2026
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on as President Donald Trump speaks to the news media, on the South Lawn of the White House on October 6. - Finn Gomez/Getty Images
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's announcement that the execution of the convicted Fort Hood mass shooter would be shown in public caught people across the Pentagon and the Army off guard, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Hegseth made the announcement in an interview with far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday, which he'd visited to give a speech to the crew welcoming them home from their deployment to the Middle East.
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things," Hegseth said during the interview.
That comment was the first time many in the Army and Pentagon heard about the idea of a firing squad's execution of Nidal Hasan in Texas being made public, and there were immediately questions about what "public" would mean. There are Army regulations about who can watch a military execution, including family of the prisoner and of the victims, media representatives and a chaplain.
But it was decided by Hegseth, acting Army Secretary Adam Telle, and Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell and his staff that "public" would mean it would be livestreamed, one source familia
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Oct 10, 2026
Daylight is already fading, and soon Americans will set back the clocks too. But this year political support is building for doing away with seasonal time changes by switching to permanent daylight saving time.
That would be a mistake, scientists say.
A new report echoes a chorus of scientific research saying that permanent standard time is the best solution for eliminating the dreaded twice-yearly clock change.
You might enjoy daylight saving time for its later sunsets throughout the year. But standard time's earlier sunrises are more in line with our body clocks, leading to better sleep and mood, authors of the report say.
For now, most of the nation is scheduled to set the clocks back Nov. 1, ending daylight saving time and returning to standard time. (All states except Arizona and Hawaii currently follow daylight saving time.)
The new analysis reviewed evidence on the public health implications of establishing permanent standard time and permanent daylight saving time. Though the analysis is Canadian, co-author Ralph Mistlberger said it can be applied to the United States and much of the research reviewed was conducted in the United States.
"Morning light is the primary environmental time cue that aligns our biological clocks to local time. If morning light is delayed, our clocks and all the rhythms they control are delayed," Mistlberger told USA TODAY in an email.
Both choices have trade-offs. According to the analysis, permanent daylight saving time keeps evenings lighter, which may support recreation, social activity, commuting and some economic activity. But it also pushes sunrise an hour later, l
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Oct 10, 2026
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes killed at least 15 people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel that Kyiv warned would help bankroll Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Three children were among those killed when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said Saturday. At least 16 people were wounded in the attack.
Missiles also struck Kyiv in a daytime attack Saturday. Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said four people were wounded.
Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long-range aerial war while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line, more than 4 1/2 years since Moscow's full-scale invasion. Ukraine is struggling to counter escalating Russian bombardments that have killed more than 60 people over the past four days.
Trump said Friday he had struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
Anger in Kyiv over diesel deal
"Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ze
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Oct 10, 2026
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes killed at least 12 people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel that Kyiv warned would help bankroll Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Three children were among those killed when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, Zelenskyy said Saturday. At least 14 people were wounded in the attack.
Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long-range aerial war while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line, more than 4 1/2 years since Moscow's full-scale invasion. Ukraine is struggling to counter escalating Russian bombardments that have killed more than 60 people over the past four days.
Trump said Friday he had struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
"Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia," Zelenskyy wrote Saturday on X.
He said the attacks show Moscow understands "any easing of pressure to mean they can keep fighting, to mean they can keep dropping bombs on cities," adding that "differe
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Oct 10, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not done enough to end his country's war with Russia and blaming him for high diesel prices in the U.S.
"I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does," Trump said.
The president, who on Friday struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to buy diesel from Russia in an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, has been urging Zelenskyy for weeks to stop strikes on Russian energy infrastructure. He has also sought to blame record U.S. diesel prices on Ukraine rather than the U.S.-led war in Iran, which has elevated world energy prices.
"He wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel," Trump said, before departing for Tennessee where he was set to rally Republican voters.
Ukrainian and European officials on Saturday reacted to Trump's diesel deal with dismay, saying it will help pay for Russia's war efforts. Diesel prices have skyrocketed due to a collision of events, including the difficulty of getting oil out of the Middle East since the start of the Iran war, which has raised the price of all oil products.
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Oct 10, 2026
By Rhea Rose Abraham and Rajveer Pardesi
Oct 10 (Reuters) - Isaias weakened to a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday, having rapidly lost wind speed after hitting the ?Florida coast as a Category 2 hurricane, the first of the 2026 Atlantic ?season, the US National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory.
The post-tropical cyclone, crossing over southern Alabama ?after making landfall earlier near Destin, Florida is about 55 miles (89 km) south-southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kmh), the agency added.
Isaias is expected to continue weakening but produce gusty winds well inland before weakening below gale force later on Saturday, the NHC ?said.
The center warned of possible ?storm surges, urban and river flooding and flash floods across the region, with considerable impacts likely across much of southern Alabama and ?the Florida Panhandle into southwest Georgia.
A risk for tornadoes will also persist overnight across the Florida Panhandle and north Florida into southern Georgia, while the tornado threat will continue on Saturday ?across ?parts of the Florida Panhandle, Georgia, and the Carolinas, ?the agency said.
Alabama's emergency management agency ?said the hurricane has downed trees and power lines, making travel hazardous in Houston County, which is under a flash flood warning.
"Due to the impacts of Hurricane Isaias, all Houston County roads are closed until further notice," it posted on X. "These road closures will remain in effect until conditions are deemed safe for travel."
President Donald Trump, asked ?about hurricane preparations, told reporters outside the White ?House, "We're watching it very closely, the hurricane," adding ?that it was "under control."
More than 430,000 ?people in Florida and nearly 297,000 in Alabama lost power as ?the storm hit shore, according to power ?outage tracking firm PowerOutage.us.
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Oct 10, 2026
Washington — The revelation that the Pentagon plans to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, has sparked intense pushback, with one Republican senator calling it "disgusting" and critics warning it could inspire more acts of terrorism.
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed CBS News' reporting that the Dec. 3 execution will be livestreamed. Hegseth told Real America's Voice the execution would be public "because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things." Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that Hegseth recommended, and President Trump approved, a plan to use an Army firing squad.
"Death penalty through firing squad, and he deserves it," Mr. Trump said during an unrelated White House event on Friday.
In an interview Friday night in Syracuse, New York, with WSTM-TV, President Trump said he "wasn't involved in that decision" to livestream the execution, "but I understand that decision."
"I guess they want to have it serve as an example, and I understand that very well," the president added.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who is retiring, called the decision "beyond disgusting." Tillis voted to confirm Hegseth, but is now expressing his regret in doing so.
"Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting," Tillis wrote on X. "Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do.
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Oct 09, 2026
Communities on the U.S. Gulf Coast are bracing as Hurricane Isaias made landfall Friday night as a Category 2 storm.
The storm, with winds up to 105 mph, made landfall near Destin, Florida, in the Florida Panhandle at 8:30 p.m. CT. As it continued its march north over the western part of the Panhandle, the storm weakened to a Category 1.
A hurricane warning is currently in effect from just east of Biloxi, Mississippi, through Mobile and Pensacola to Panama City and Mexico Beach, Florida.
Many low-lying and coastal areas, particularly on the Florida Panhandle, are under evacuation orders, with communities preparing for strong winds that could near 120 mph in some locations, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a press conference Friday morning.
Storm surge warnings are also in place along the coast, with surges forecast to reach up to 9 feet from the Santa Rosa/Okaloosa County Line, Florida, to Grayton Beach, Florida.
Hurricane Isaias continued its march north over the western Florida Panhandle on Friday night, although it weakened to a Category 1 storm, the National Weather Service said.
ABC News - PHOTO: The latest track on IsaiasMaximum winds were at 90 mph and it was moving at 20 mph, the NWS said.
ABC News - PHOTO: The forecast track for Isaias. Oct 9, 10:29 PM
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Oct 09, 2026
President Donald Trump lamented the Norwegian Nobel Committee choosing not to award him with its annual peace prize on Friday, telling rallygoers the decision leaves "an indelible stain on the country of Norway."
Speaking at a rally to boost New York Republicans in Syracuse, Trump listed off all of the accomplishments in office he believes have earned him the right to win the Nobel Peace Prize, including efforts to end or prevent conflicts in Africa and Asia and for having "saved more lives than anyone in history."
Earlier Friday, the committee awarded the prize to Navi Pillay, an 85-year-old South African legal pioneer who led a U.N. panel that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
"I've never heard of the person," Trump said. "I know a lot of people. I never heard of this particular person, but congratulations, anyway. … The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't."
South African lawyer Navanethem "Navi" Pillay at the Nuremberg Forum following the announcement of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. (Daniel Karmann / Picture alliance via Getty)"And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision," Trump continued. "The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are antidemocracy and really enemies of civilization, and we will not forget Norway. That you didn't give this prize with the greatest record in h
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Oct 09, 2026
Communities on the U.S. Gulf Coast are bracing as Hurricane Isaias, now a strong Category 2 hurricane, made landfall Friday night.
The storm, with winds up to 105 mph, made landfall near Destin, Florida, in the Florida Panhandle at 8:30 p.m. CT.
A hurricane warning is currently in effect from just east of Biloxi, Mississippi, through Mobile and Pensacola to Panama City and Mexico Beach, Florida.
Many low-lying and coastal areas, particularly on the Florida Panhandle, are under evacuation orders, with communities preparing for strong winds that could near 120 mph in some locations, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a press conference Friday morning.
Storm surge warnings are also in place along the coast, with surges forecast to reach up to 9 feet from the Santa Rosa/Okaloosa County Line, Florida, to Grayton Beach, Florida.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis provided an update on Hurricane Isaias after the storm made landfall in the state Friday night.
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Oct 09, 2026
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33, and their friend Carter Rhoad, 30, were on a surfing trip when they were shot dead.Photograph: AAP
The parents of Australian surfing brothers murdered in Mexico have said "no outcome can ever undo this tragedy" after three men were convicted of the 2024 killings.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33 respectively, and their friend Carter Rhoad, 30, were on a surfing trip to Mexico's Pacific coast when they were shot dead in Baja California state in a suspected robbery.
The deaths of the trio sparked an outpouring of grief and condemnation in Australia and the United States.
Jesus Gerardo - known as "El Kekas" - was accused of leading the attack. His surname has not been disclosed for legal reasons. He and two other defendants, Irineo Francisco and Angel Jesus, were found guilty on Friday local time.
The judge ruled the three Mexican defendants acted with premeditation.
Martin and Debra Robinson, the brothers' parents, travelled from Australia to the port city of Ensenada for the trial, which began on 7 September.
"They took our sons from our lives forever," said Debra Robinson, who testified on the final day of the trial. "What hurts us most is that, in their final hours, they were treated with such cruelty."
She burst into tears when the guilty verdict was pronounced.
Speaking outside the court after the verdict, Martin Robinson thanked family and friends for their support, and also thanked the judge, court staff, the Australian embassy in Mexico and the Australian federal police.
He said: "No outcome can ever undo this tragedy, but we hope today marks an important step towards justice and allows us to cont
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Oct 09, 2026
A new pact that calls for Russia to boost the U.S. supply of diesel over the next few months is unlikely to make a dent in painfully high prices at the pump or elsewhere, energy policy experts say.
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he had struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to immediately supply the U.S. more than 300,000 tons of diesel. That would be followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November, then 4 million more tons at some point after that.
The deal marks a stark reversal of policy by the U.S., which from the start of Russia's war with Ukraine had banned imports of Russian oil, and comes at a time when the U.S. economy and consumers are being squeezed by a global rise in oil prices due to the eight-month-long U.S. war with Iran.
The price of diesel has shattered records in recent weeks, ratcheting up inflation for a broad swath of consumer goods.
The national average for a gallon of diesel in the U.S. hit a record high of $6.53 on Sept. 22, according to motor club AAA. It averaged nearly $6.28 a gallon on Friday, up from almost $3.68 this time last year. Diesel prices have hit records in Europe, too.
Higher diesel prices mean more expensive transportation for a long list of everyday goods. That's because diesel is used for many freight and delivery networks. And some businesses have already passed along steeper costs to consumers in the form of added fees on online orders and
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Oct 09, 2026
Police said Anthropic's AI model was running a test when it filed false information about an unsolved murder in Philadelphia (ANDREJ IVANOV)An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide to Philadelphia police, authorities said Friday, criticizing the company for taking two months to report the incident.
The Philadelphia Police Department said the false submission was made in July through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a public website where people can share information about unsolved killings.
According to Anthropic's account, as relayed by police, the model was running a test that involved interacting with randomly selected websites when it reached the site and filed false information about an unsolved murder.
The AI model presented itself as someone who might have knowledge of the case.
The incident echoed other recent cases of unintended behavior involving AI models, including one where an OpenAI agent undergoing a security evaluation broke out of its testing environment and breached systems at AI platform Hugging Face.
The episode heightened concerns about the AI industry's increased use of AI agents, systems programmed to take multi-step actions without human supervision.
Anthropic published a report Friday outlining multiple types of "unintended" actions that its models have taken, including the incident involving the Philadelphia Police Department website.
Other organizations impacted included the White House and other US government agencies, the report said.
The newly revealed incidents "had minimal real-world impact" and were "significantly less severe" than other cybersecurity incidents previously reported, Anthropic said.
The company outlined four categories of inciden
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Oct 09, 2026
An off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was arrested for allegedly attacking a woman and her father after he was found sleeping on their California lawn, according to police.
The father shot the agent during the altercation, wounding him, police said.
The incident occurred early Friday in Fresno, police said. The woman arrived home to find the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn, according to the Fresno Police Department, which identified the federal agent as 32-year-old David Gonzalez of Texas.
KFSN - PHOTO: Authorities respond to a shooting in Fresno, California, Oct. 9, 2026.
The woman told her 72-year-old father, with whom she lives, and he "went outside to send Gonzalez on his way," Fresno police said in a statement. When Gonzalez woke up, he "appeared intoxicated and agitated" and allegedly assaulted the father, police said.
"When the victim's daughter tried to intervene on her father's behalf, Gonzalez physically attacked her, at which time she went to the ground," police said.
New surveillance footage shows ICE confrontation in NYC street before shootingThe woman's father produced a gun and fired one shot at Gonzalez, striking him in the midsection, according to police.
The woman called her boyfriend, an off-duty police officer, who arrived and placed Gonzalez in handcuffs, according to Fresno police.
KFSN - PHOTO: Authorities respond to a shooting in Fresno, California, Oct. 9, 2026.
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Oct 09, 2026
By Andrew Chung
Oct 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton accusing her of conspiring along with former FBI Director James Comey and others to rig that year's election by linking his campaign to ?Russia.
The Republican president filed his appeal after a federal judge threw out the case and imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions against Trump and one of his lawyers ?for bringing a "frivolous" suit. A US appeals court subsequently upheld the dismissal and sanctions.
In 2022, when he was out of office after losing the 2020 election, Trump sued Clinton, Comey, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, the ?Democratic National Committee and numerous others in a lengthy complaint filed in federal court in Florida.
Trump, who has a history of suing adversaries, alleged that in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Clinton conspired with allies to discredit him with a "false narrative" that he and his campaign colluded with Russia. The lengthy suit alleged "racketeering" and a "conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood," among other claims.
Trump defeated Clinton in that election, despite losing the national popular vote, and served his first term in office from 2017 to 2021.
US government officials have accused Russia of meddling in the 2016 election, ?and an investigation led by former FBI chief Robert Mueller ?documented extensive contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives who sought to influence the election in his favor. Trump has called the idea of Russian interference a "hoax."
Since losing to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, Trump has made false claims of widespread voting fraud in that year's ?election. Trump regained the presidency by defeating Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024, and has continued to make those false claims.
'POLITICAL MANIFESTO'
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Oct 09, 2026
Trump in Washington on Wednesday.Photograph: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump was on a fresh collision course with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and European allies on Friday after a stunning agreement to buy Russian diesel, upending years of US and western pressure on the Kremlin to end its four-and-a-half year war against Ukraine.
Zelenskyy reacted furiously to Trump's announcement of the deal with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, calling it "absolutely terrible" and "not fair and not honest".
In a move likely to create a fresh crisis with Washington's Nato allies, Trump announced the deal with Putin on his Truth Social network, saying it was essential to reduce fuel prices in the US, which have soared as a result of his decision to go to war with Iran.
"I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter," Trump wrote.
"Based on the condition of their diesel refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 tons of diesel fuel."
He added: "Diesel prices for Americans and, indeed, the world, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truc
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Oct 09, 2026
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck near Panama's southern tip on Friday morning, shaking buildings more than 100 miles away in the capital and prompting evacuations, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A second powerful 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country later in the day following a series of aftershocks.
The initial quake was centered about 7 miles southwest of the remote community of Pitaloza Arriba and struck at a depth of about 7 miles, the USGS said. The 6.6 magnitude quake came about two and a half hours later, with its epicenter about 8 miles west of Río Grande on Panama's Pacific coast and a depth of about 6 miles.
The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had initially warned about the possibility of tsunami waves hitting Panama's coast, but later said the threat had passed.
Tremors were felt in Panama City, where buildings shook and people evacuated into the streets. Visibly shaken residents gathered outside as they waited for news.
"We felt it very strongly. It knocked things over in the kitchen, but we're OK, though we're very scared," Rosendo Domínguez, 60, who is from Herrera province, where the earthquake struck, told The Associated Press by phone. "Everyone is outside, scared."
Multiple aftershocks continued to rattle Panama, including several measuring magnitude 5.8, 5.5 and 5.2. Seismologists at the University of Panama recorded more than 45 aftershocks, though many were too we
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Oct 09, 2026
Hurricane Isaias is expected to bring heavy rain, damaging winds and life-threatening storm surge to the northern Gulf Coast when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias remains a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, which forecasters consider a "major hurricane."
As of 5 p.m. ET, the storm was located about 90 miles south of Pensacola, Fla., and roughly 125 miles south-southeast of Mobile, Ala., moving north at 17 mph. It is expected to approach the northern Gulf Coast this afternoon and make landfall near the Alabama-Florida state line tonight.
The governors of Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared states of emergency, along with several Mississippi counties, urging residents to take the first hurricane of an unusually quiet season seriously. Thousands of National Guard soldiers are being deployed.
Is the storm headed your way? Follow it in real time on the new Yahoo Weather app.
Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Florida's Walton, Escambia, Okaloosa and Franklin counties. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey also ordered nonresidents to evacuate Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Dauphin Island.
Heavy rain and flooding could extend as far north as Tennessee and North Carolina through the weekend. There's also a risk of tornadoes across the Florida Panhandle into southern Georgia.
Follow live updates on Hurricane Isaias below.
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Oct 09, 2026
President Trump announced on Friday that he has chosen Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator, lawyer and former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, as his new press secretary. Zacharia replaces Karoline Leavitt, who left the administration in August.
Zacharia "has an unblemished record of support, and has been a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning," the president wrote on social media. "She is, likewise, a devoted fan and member of MAGA!"
Zacharia called the appointment "the honor of a lifetime" in a post on social media.
Serving President Trump and the American people at this critical 250-year mark is the honor of a lifetime. President Trump has shown America that we can be great again, and he… pic.twitter.com/pLSyjiXI6P
— Katie Zacharia (@KatieZacharia) October 9, 2026
To join the White House, Zacharia, 42, will exit her current role as senior communications adviser to Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs Truth Social. Before that, she served for about two months as a deputy assistant secretary and spokesperson for former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to her LinkedIn. Zacharia has also worked with Fix California, a nonprofit founded by
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Oct 09, 2026
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's revelation that the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be streamed live has drawn fierce criticism and calls for him to reconsider his plan. But it has also put the spotlight on whether social media companies will allow government accounts to stream the death by firing squad on their platforms.
Hegseth has not provided additional details about the Defense Department's plans to livestream the execution of Hasan, who was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 at Fort Hood in 2009. Hasan is set to die by firing squad at 1 p.m. on Dec. 3 at the Texas Army installation, the defense secretary said.
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public, because people need to understand that there's consequences for these types of things," Hegseth said.
The defense chief did not say how the execution would be streamed, and whether the Pentagon would provide that content through its social media accounts or on its website. But his comments Thursday, made to far-right political activist Jack Posobiec, provide advance warning to social media companies that the content could be posted to their platforms.
"If this were a private entity who said, 'we're going to be executing someone at this date,' I think platforms would just say, 'you can't use our platform,'" David Greene, senior counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told CBS News. "The only reason this is even a little bit more difficult of a decision for the platforms is because this is the government doing it, and there is some interest in the public understanding and
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Oct 09, 2026
Hurricane Isaias is expected to bring heavy rain, damaging winds and life-threatening storm surge to the northern Gulf Coast when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias is now Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, which forecasters consider a "major hurricane."
As of 3 p.m. ET, the storm was located about 125 miles south of Pensacola, Fla., and roughly 140 miles south of Mobile, Ala., moving north at 17 mph. It is expected to approach the northern Gulf Coast this afternoon and make landfall near the Alabama-Florida state line tonight.
The governors of Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared states of emergency, along with several Mississippi counties, urging residents to take the first hurricane of an unusually quiet season seriously. Thousands of National Guard soldiers are being deployed.
Is the storm headed your way? Follow it in real time on the new Yahoo Weather app.
Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Florida's Walton, Escambia, Okaloosa and Franklin counties. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey also ordered nonresidents to evacuate Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Dauphin Island.
Heavy rain and flooding could extend as far north as Tennessee and North Carolina through the weekend. There's also a risk of tornadoes across the Florida Panhandle into southern Georgia.
Follow live updates on Hurricane Isaias below.
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Oct 09, 2026
By Jessica Donati
DAKAR, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Blackwater founder Erik Prince's forces suffered a major battlefield loss in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in mid-September when enemy forces ambushed them, killing and wounding at least 20 people, including a popular former UFC fighter, sources close to the government and his company said.
The frontline clash ?shows how Prince, an ally and supporter of US President Donald Trump, has taken on an expanded role in Congo through his company Vectus Global. The company, which ?also operates in Haiti and other parts of Africa, provides consulting and security services and previously helped Congo's army secure the city of Uvira in South Kivu against Rwanda-backed rebels who control swathes of the east.
A veteran special operator reported on ?his podcast earlier this week that former US Green Beret and Ultimate Fighting Championship contestant Tim Kennedy was injured in Congo. The involvement of Prince's forces and the number of casualties have not previously been reported.
The attack in South Kivu on September 17 left about 20 dead and wounded, two sources working with Congo's government said. The dead included at least seven Congolese and a former member of New Zealand's Special Forces, while the wounded included Kennedy and another foreign contractor, the sources said.
A Vectus Global representative declined to comment. The company has not previously suffered casualties in Congo, a source with direct ?knowledge of the operation said.
One of the sources who works for ?Congo's government said that Rwandan forces backing the M23 rebels may have surprised them by tracking a drone used for surveillance operations to their location.
Spokespeople for the Congolese and Rwandan governments
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Oct 09, 2026
Katie Zacharia attends the Nashville premiere of "David" in Franklin, Tennessee, on December 14, 2025. - Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for 2521 Entertainment and Angel Studios/File
President Donald Trump has selected Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who worked briefly at the Department of Homeland Security, as his new press secretary, multiple White House officials told CNN.
Trump in recent days called a number of his close allies and advisers, including former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to seek their opinion of Zacharia, a person familiar with the discussions said. And the president sought Leavitt's counsel before making a final decision and offering Zacharia the position, they said.
CNN has reached out to Zacharia, who was in the Oval Office with Trump earlier Friday morning, according to a person familiar.
Zacharia's selection came about quickly. As of last week, she was not being considered for the role, another person familiar said.
Throughout the search to replace Leavitt, the White House struggled with higher-profile names, several of whom had previously criticized Trump. On multiple occasions, senior officials had narrowed down the list, only to find that candidates had said something negative about the president, disqualifying them from the position, according a White House official.
Zacharia's been a frequent guest on Fox, Newsmax and CNN. And according to her LinkedIn profile, she's served as a senior communications adviser at the Trump Media and Technology Group and Truth Social since June, which followed a two
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Oct 09, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
Trump said on social media on Friday that he struck the deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call in which he was expected to discuss a suspected case of plague in Russia. Instead, Trump announced that Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter." Russia will deliver another 3 million tons "within a short period of time" after that, he wrote.
Trump's shocking announcement comes after he signed a sweeping Russia sanctions law last month that aimed at clamping down on Russia's energy economy, among other areas, that fuel its war against Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted sharply in a social media post, saying that the Russian leader was trying to strike "backroom deals" to buy time in the war.
"Gifts to Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilized world," he said.
Trump's move casts doubt on the likelihood of the White House imposing sanc
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Oct 09, 2026
Measles cases in the United States have surpassed 4,000 this year, according to data updated Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A total of 4,080 cases have been confirmed, with most reported by 45 states and Washington, D.C. Eighteen of this year's total have been among international visitors to the U.S., according to the CDC.
Five measles-associated deaths have been confirmed so far in 2026, all of them in Pennsylvania, according to health officials in the state.
Health officials report 74 new measles cases in PennsylvaniaThe CDC has only recognized two deaths so far this year, with the agency saying that "number is subject to change."
The majority of measles cases in 2026 have been confirmed among children and teenagers aged 19 and younger, according to the CDC. About one in 10 children under age 5 have been hospitalized, CDC data shows.
Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images - PHOTO: Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. About 95% of cases are among people who are unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, according to agency data.
Meanwhile, 2% of cases are among those who have received just one dose of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and 2% of cases ar
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Oct 09, 2026
HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — Vance expresses doubts about Pentagon plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter execution (Corrects name of fort).
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/vance-expresses-doubts-pentagon-plan-173307506.html
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Oct 09, 2026
Two Cash App settlements are drawing interest from users: One settlement is currently being paid, and the other has recently issued payments. Claims can no longer be filed for either one.
Cash App and its parent company, Block Inc. (XYZ), are issuing payments in October as part of a settlement of a class action lawsuit over alleged security breaches that occurred between Aug. 23, 2018, and Aug. 20, 2024. The deadline to file a claim has passed.
The $15 million settlement fund pays previously approved claimants up to $2,500 for out-of-pocket losses, transaction losses, and up to $75 for three hours of lost time.
The other settlement, totaling $175 million, involved a consent order in which the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused Cash App of failing to protect users from fraud. Details on that June payout are below.
Read more: Is it safe to store money in apps like Venmo, PayPal, and Cash App?
What the Cash App settlement is aboutThe lawsuit alleged that a former Cash App employee and an unauthorized person used recycled phone numbers to gain access to accounts.
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Oct 09, 2026
Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to bring damaging winds, heavy rain and potentially life-threatening storm surge to the northern Gulf Coast when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
The governors of Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared states of emergency, along with several Mississippi counties. Thousands of National Guard soldiers are being deployed.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias is now Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, which forecasters consider a "major hurricane."
As of 12 p.m. ET, the storm was located about 180 miles south of Pensacola, Fla., and roughly 140 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi. It is expected to approach the northern Gulf Coast this afternoon and make landfall near the Alabama-Florida state line tonight.
Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Florida's Walton, Escambia, Okaloosa and Franklin counties. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey also ordered nonresidents to evacuate Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Dauphin Island.
Heavy rain and flooding could extend as far north as Tennessee and North Carolina through the weekend.
Follow live updates on Hurricane Isaias below.
This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/live/hurricane-isaias-live-tracker-dangerous-category-2
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Oct 09, 2026
The international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague.Photograph: Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP/Getty Images
The United States was accused of launching "an assault" on the world's legal order after imposing more sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC).
Unveiling the Trump administration's latest escalation against the court, which it has accused of politicization and unfairly targeting Americans for war crime charges, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, declared: "Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC."
The ICC accused Donald Trump's officials of attempting to "obstruct the course of justice" as Rubio, just hours after a former ICC judge was awarded the Nobel peace prize, announced in a video that the US would move to impose financial sanctions.
Related: Alarm at UN over sanctions threatened by US on international criminal court
"We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling their ability to operate against us. Because our message is clear: the United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC," Rubio said in a video posted on X. "We don't need that court and we don't want it."
In a statement, the court warned that "history will judge this moment" and urged other members to ensure it can continue the function. "It is an ?
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Oct 09, 2026
"The bill will follow Americans beyond the fighting itself," an opinion piece in the Port St. Joe Star, a tiny Florida weekly newspaper, warned of the Iran war last month.
The article ran under the byline Ervin Hoskins, which has also appeared on articles critical of the war in larger publications including Daily Kos and Middle East Monitor, which together have more than 3 million followers on Facebook.
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But ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Thursday that Hoskins's purported work was generated using its chatbot by users based in Iran as part of an "influence campaign." The campaign placed about 100 fake articles across at least 20 news outlets, the company said.
The author photo on the Hoskins column published by the Star was generated using OpenAI's artificial intelligence tools, according to the company's online verification tool.
As artificial intelligence tools have become more powerful, some news outlets have been forced to delete AI-generated content published under fake bylines that initially went undetected by editors. Business Insider and Wired removed a series of articles last year that appeared under the byline Margaux Blanchard and appeared to be AI-generated.
But while it was unclear who or what was behind the stories written by Blanchard and some other apparently fake personas, OpenAI said in a Thursday report on use of ChatGPT in political influence campaigns that Hoskins was part of an operation focused on seeding content about U.S. military action in Iran. Many of the articles highlighted negative impacts of the war on Americans.
OpenAI said that Hoskins was among seven bylines that appeared on the series of AI-gene
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Oct 09, 2026
President Donald Trump gambled that importing more beef would lower prices enough to mitigate the political hit from angry ranchers.
His bet hasn't paid off.
Prices have barely budged, ranchers remain incensed, and vulnerable Republicans in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas are fighting to convince rural voters to turn out in November as farmers confront economic headwinds fueled by the president's policies.
"There's a lot of frustration and anger," said Glenn Brunkow, the president of the nonpartisan Kansas Farm Bureau and a fifth-generation farmer and stockman in deep-red Pottawatomie County.
The president's August proclamation to temporarily allow cheaper beef imports from countries like Brazil has knocked $200 to $400 off the value of an American cow, he said, which would otherwise sell for approximately $2,000.
"We knew it wouldn't have much of an effect on the hamburger price in the store. But the markets took that news, and it really knocked the price we get for our cattle down," Brunkow said.
"Then hit us with $6 diesel. This has been pretty pretty tough to swallow."
Republicans from top beef-producing states, agriculture industry representatives and administration officials including Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins warned Trump his beef import plan would hurt ranchers and imperil Republican candidates. Those fears are coming to fruition with just weeks until what looks to be a bruising midterm election for the GOP, as declining profits pile atop frustration among voters who have long been a reliable part of the Republican base.
"It wasn't worth the headache and what it did to the market," said Jenna Stanton, federal policy director at Western Skies
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Oct 09, 2026
The FBI's top official on Oct. 9 announced that the agency had arrested another suspected member of ShinyHunters, the digital hacking group accused of stealing personnel data from the FBI's jobs site in September.
"This is the latest arrest this FBI has made in a matter of days involving this network, as we work non-stop to dismantle the group, pursue new leads and evidence, and act quickly," FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X.
Patel, who did not release the identity of the person arrested, said the breach took place on a platform managed by a third-party vendor. The New York Times is reporting that the suspect is a Canadian citizen and was arrested in Pennsylvania.
Officials have not said how the group - which the FBI is calling "a global cybercrime and threat actor group linked to cyberattacks in the United States, the Netherlands, and around the world" - gained access to FBIjobs.gov. But Reuters previously reported that an internal memo distributed across the FBI said officials were operating under the assumption that all current and former employees had been exposed.
USA TODAY has reached out to the FBI for more information.
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Oct 09, 2026
Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to bring damaging winds, heavy rain and potentially life-threatening storm surge to the northern Gulf Coast when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.
The governors of Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared states of emergency, along with several Mississippi counties. Thousands of National Guard soldiers are being deployed.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias is now Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, which forecasters consider a "major hurricane."
The storm was located around 170 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi at 8 a.m. ET. It is projected to track north, with the center passing near the Alabama-Florida state line, though its exact path remains uncertain. Heavy rain and flooding could extend as far north as Tennessee and North Carolina through the weekend.
Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of Florida's Walton, Escambia, Okaloosa and Franklin counties. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey also ordered nonresidents to evacuate Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Dauphin Island.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged residents to prepare emergency supplies and "execute your hurricane plan."
Follow live updates on Hurricane Isaias below.
This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/we
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Oct 09, 2026
Businessman Eric Deters said he has "no doubt it was pay to play," claiming Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the U.S. ambassador to Greece and ex-fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., asked him to wire $100,000 to pay her American Express bill in exchange for her help with the Trump administration ahead of Guilfoyle's Senate confirmation hearing.
In an interview with CBS News, Deters said Guilfoyle should "lose her ambassadorship" over her alleged behavior, after texts between the two of them from last July were published in the Wall Street Journal.
"It was quid pro quo," Deters told CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang Thursday.
Deters said he never gave her the money.
"Unfortunately for Kimberly Guilfoyle, at that time, at that moment in time, I didn't have $100,000 to spare to give to Kimberly Guilfoyle, or I actually would have been a dumbass enough to do it."
Deters said he made up an "excuse" that his wife wouldn't go along with it.
White House officials were told that the text messages between Guilfoyle and Deters were authentic, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Some Trump aides expressed displeasure about Guilfoyle's actions, they said.
The Wall Street Journal first reported this week that Guilfoyle allegedly reached out to Deters days before her congressional hearing to become a U.S. ambassador, saying she needed $100,000 to pay off her American Express credit debt in a way that wouldn't be publicly visible.
"It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that's all that will show," Guilfoyle wrote to Deters on July 3, according to screen shots of texts provided to CBS News. "I have been offic
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Oct 09, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — As most of the political world focuses on next month's midterm elections, the shadow primary for the 2028 presidential contest is quietly playing out in public view.
Democratic and Republican presidential prospects have been crisscrossing the country, raising money and tapping their political connections to help boost their parties' candidates — and their own White House ambitions.
Here's a closer look at some of the leading prospects and how their political futures may be influenced by what happens Nov. 3.
Newsom has a Southern strategy
Gavin Newsom leaves the California governor's office at the end of the year, and he's been among the most active Democrats throughout the midterms.
He's paid particular attention to the South, where he's campaigned with candidates up and down the ballot in states like Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and, not surprisingly, South Carolina, which hosts the party's first presidential primary contest in 2028.
The Southern focus aligns with the mission of Newsom's Campaign for Democracy political action committee, which was established in 2023 to help his party compete in red states. But it could also help endear him to African American voters, who make up the heart of the Democratic base.
Newsom's star power — and his extensive email list — has strengthened his relationships with key Democratic officials in states like Nevada and New Hampshire, where he's sent out fundraising emails that have generated a surge of donations in recent months.
Perhaps Newsom's biggest midterm contribution was backing Proposition 50, California's response to the Texas Republican mid-decade gerrymander. The proposition, approved by California voters last year, created a new congressional map that may allow Democrats
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Oct 09, 2026
The execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad will be livestreamed to the public, the Pentagon said Thursday.
The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009.
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the conservative TV outlet Real America's Voice, "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be. We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public — because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."
Pentagon officials clarified Thursday that the execution would be livestreamed, the Associated Press said.
The U.S. military has not carried out an execution since 1961 and has not used a firing squad to execute a service member since World War II.
Hegseth's comments have put further spotlight on how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S., following the failed attempt to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection. The failed execution prompted Tennessee's governor to halt further executions this year and order a third-party review.
Asked whether the failed execution in Tennessee would lead him to seek changes to capital punishment, Trump called it "an interesting situation." He told
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Oct 09, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a campaign event in Houston, on September 21. - Antranik Tavitian/Getty Images
Ken Paxton has publicly said he would "love to have" John Cornyn's support after their bruising Republican primary runoff in the Texas Senate race. But privately, Paxton has grown frustrated with the outgoing senator's distance from his campaign.
"He's clearly not helping. He wants me to lose," the Texas attorney general said at a fundraiser last month, according to an audio recording obtained by CNN from an attendee who opposes Paxton.
While Paxton has minimized his criticism of Cornyn following their runoff, the private remarks demonstrate how their long-running tensions continue to roil the race, coming as national Republicans mount an all-out effort to help Paxton defeat Democratic state Rep. James Talarico. With polls showing a tight race, Republicans have poured well over $100 million into the general election in Texas, a state that has not elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994 but is now critical to Republican hopes of holding a Senate majority.
Paxton made the comments at a September 24 gathering in Washington after receiving a question about Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the Democratic congresswoman whom Talarico defeated in his primary, according to two sources familiar with the discussion. The recording o
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Oct 09, 2026
Gas prices are near the highest levels on record at this time of year. Diesel, the workhorse fuel powering trucks, tractors and trains, is also near all-time highs. - Mehmet Eser/Anadolu/Getty Images
The Strait of Hormuz is no longer paralyzed and yet fuel prices remain painfully high. It's a vexing problem with profound financial, political and economic consequences.
Gasoline prices, averaging $4.36 a gallon nationally, have never been this high at this time of year, according to AAA data.
Even after a series of emergency steps from US states and Europe, diesel is only about 20 cents away from the all-time high set just last month.
In short, what started as an oil supply crunch caused by the Iran war has morphed into a broader energy crisis being felt by drivers, truckers and farmers around the world.
Unblocking the Strait of Hormuz has been helpful, but it's still incredibly dangerous - and thus expensive. Not only that, but Russian refineries are getting destroyed by Ukrainian drones, and Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have disrupted a vital shipping lane.
"The wars have not been resolved. There is no peace. The energ
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Oct 09, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference at the site where a man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during an operation in the Bronx, on Oct. 8, 2026. —Ryan Murphy—Getty ImagesNew York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants President Donald Trump to put an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's operations in the city after an agent-involved shooting injured one person on Thursday.
"This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation," Mamdani said in a statement Thursday evening. "I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities."
New York police said that around 4 p.m., federal agents got involved in a shooting and injured a man in the city's Marble Hill residential section. The police's afternoon statement said the shooting victim was conscious and receiving medical attention in a nearby hospital.
But at a press conference Thursday evening before furious protesters, Mamdani said that after his two-hour conversation with Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin
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Oct 09, 2026
As the Trump administration pivoted to economic pressure instead of military force to push Tehran back into talks, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pledged swift damage to Iran's economy.
All Iranian airlines would be grounded worldwide by the end of September, he said last month. The country would run out of oil to sell by the end of this week.
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Iran's economy is suffering. But those pledges and timelines by the Trump administration have proved difficult to meet as it faces an Iranian government with more impetus to endure pain than to back down.
The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has forced oil exports to minimal levels, depriving Tehran of billions of dollars in monthly revenue. But Iran continues to sell oil that it exported during the June truce. And Tehran moves some 250,000 barrels of oil a day out of the country by land, according to Kpler, a global intelligence firm.
President Donald Trump has said the economic pressure campaign, now in its second month, is intended to force Iran back to the negotiating table after the U.S. midterm elections in November, but talks remained stalled, with Iranian officials refusing to moderate their demands.
At the same time, Tehran has escalated militarily against shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, hitting more than nine vessels in a single week. The strikes follow expanded U.S. operations in the area that had facilitated higher oil flows, but failed to move global energy prices.
Regardless, the Trump administration thinks time is on its side, according to a senior administration official, who declined to discuss Bessent's remarks, including the specifics of his timelines for
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Oct 09, 2026
The NewsCongressional Democrats aren't eager to impeach Donald Trump. Pete Hegseth is a different story.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership circle remain reluctant to lean too far into talking about impeaching the president if they regain power next month, a move that would revive the bruising battles of Trump's first term. But as the Iran war squeezes Republicans ahead of the midterms, Democrats are aligning to call for the defense secretary's ouster or resignation.
With impeachment still a dirty word among many House Democrats, targeting Cabinet secretaries could be a pressure release valve for lawmakers itching for action against the Trump administration.
"I 100% believe Pete Hegseth needs to be impeached and removed from office, because not only is he the worst secretary of defense in American history, he is a dangerous war criminal," said Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., who said it should be one of the caucus' "top three priorities" next year.
Hegseth was reviled by the left even before the Iran war began, and since then he's faced criticism from Republicans for his handling of the war. An impeachment vote could even be bipartisan: When the House returns after the midterms, it'll be forced to take up a Hegseth ouster resolution filed by iconoclastic Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Prioritizing Hegseth impeachment would solve a big problem for Democrats: If they win the House, their leaders will face intense pressure from the base to show a new level of fight against Trump. Yet they're leery of the internal divisions or appearance of overreach that a third Trump impeachment might create, and still smarting from his return to office after two impeachment votes.
In public, top Democrats are accordingly circumspect on targeting Hegseth. Jeffries says Hegseth should be fired and that Democrats "haven't ruled anything out" in their investigations. Democrats have filed impeachment articles agains
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Oct 09, 2026
By Julia Harte and Kristina Cooke
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US immigration agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child present in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City, ?according to the mayor, city police and eyewitnesses.
Federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people since Republican President ?Donald Trump returned to office, 7 fatally, sparking protests across the US. Critics contend that Trump's push to ramp up deportations has led to an increasing ?number of violent confrontations, and accuse the administration of resisting accountability for the agents involved.
Trump has said many migrants must be deported, blaming them, often in sweeping terms, for financial fraud and violent crimes.
"Early reports indicate agents surrounded (the man) and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds," New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.
"I have been on the phone with President Trump and (Homeland ?Security) Secretary Mullin, negotiating the release of the ?man ICE agents shot. Those negotiations were unsuccessful," Mamdani said in a press conference late in the evening. He said he demanded from the Trump administration that ICE stop its enforcement actions in ?New York City.
"These actions are making the city less safe," Mamdani said. "This city wants ICE out. We want ICE out of our city, ICE out of our schools, ICE out of our hospitals, ICE out of our streets, ICE away from our kids."
The mayor said the child ?in the ?car is physically unharmed. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said ?NYPD has located the child with a family member ?after a wellness check.
The Department of Homeland Security, ICE's parent agency, said in a statement ICE officers were conducting a "targeted enforcement operation" in the Bronx, New York, to arrest a man from the Dominican Republic with a prior criminal conviction.
The ma
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Oct 09, 2026
The Aldabra giant tortoise is native to the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles. - Philippe Clément/Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Giant tortoises once pushed to the brink of extinction now outnumber humans in their home of the Seychelles, according to a new survey on one of the African nation's most remote islands.
The survey, led by the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) and the University of Exeter in the UK, estimated that about 180,000 Aldabra giant tortoises live on Aldabra Atoll, an Indian Ocean island group off the east coast of mainland Africa.
It is the highest figure ever recorded for the species, and far exceeds the human population of around 122,000 living in the tiny archipelago nation.
Aldabra Atoll is one of only two places in the world where giant tortoises are found in the wild. A much smaller population lives on Ecuador's Galápagos Islands.
One of the world's most undisturbed island ecosystems, Aldabra Atoll is home to several unique species that thrive in the remote haven.
The species has rebounded from a dramatic decline. Heavy exploitation during the 19th century reduced its population on the island to fewer than 1,000, pushing the species to the brink of extinction.
A recovery program helped secure strict nature reserve status for the atoll in 1981. It became a UNESCO World Heritage site a year later, giving the population room to rebound.
"More than 180,000 giant tortoises roaming freely on our atoll is proof of what long-term commitmen
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Oct 09, 2026
OSLO, Norway (AP) — The South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay, who is currently an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
Pillay's work "is a source of hope and inspiration to all those who seek to bring about a more peaceful world," said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in announcing her win in Oslo, Norway.
Her win is sure to be seen as a high-profile rebuke to U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of a U.N. commission she led that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Both leaders also have been highly critical of the institutions where Pillay has worked.
While her work has been global in scope, criticism often has been fiercely local, notably in places like Israel and in apartheid-era South Africa as she and peers took on some of the world's most painful and sensitive legal issues and most vulnerable populations.
Pillay, 85, received the news while attending the Nuremberg Forum, a gathering to discuss international law in Nuremberg, Germany, the location of the trials of Nazi war criminals that helped lay the foundations of international law.
"Firstly, at this venue, your applause means a great deal to me," she said to a standing ovation. "You know, you don't want to receive an award, prize or anything unless the public agrees that you deserve this."
And joking, she added: "But being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify this information."
She chaired an investigation that determined Israel committed genocide in Gaza
Pillay chaired the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, which was created by the U.N.-backed Human Rights Co
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Oct 08, 2026
For about nine decades, executions in the U.S. have been private affairs, often shrouded in secrecy. The stunning Pentagon announcement Thursday that the first military execution in more than 65 years will be livestreamed could change that.
Allowing the world to watch Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan face the firing squad in December would make it the first public execution since two hangings in the 1930s in Kentucky and Missouri drew crowds.
In 1936, a man who reportedly confessed to the rape and murder of a woman was hanged in front of thousands in Owensboro, Kentucky, while the following year, hundreds watched a man in Missouri be hanged.
Proposal harkens back to a bygone era
A livestreamed execution is reminiscent of a bygone period in America's history in which public executions were seen as deterrents to crime as well as popular ceremonies, said Michael L. Radelet, professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, who has done extensive research on executions.
Parents and teachers would often bring children along to teach them a lesson. The events would sometimes feature a choir, a preacher giving an "execution sermon" and the condemned, who was typically a man being hanged, giving a long speech to the crowd.
In an execution in Leadville, Colorado, in the late 1800s, Radelet said Cyrus Minich, who was being put to death, told the crowd, "Therefore I apologize and I'm ready to go. Goodbye, goodbye."
The crowd reportedly responded: "Goodbye Cy, goodbye Cy."
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Oct 08, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against President Donald Trump's planned monument.
The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, criticized the speed at which the project slated for Memorial Circle has moved without going through the full review process.
"The National Park Service, the agency responsible for projects on national park land such as Memorial Circle, is proceeding full-speed toward ground-disturbing construction," the lawsuit said. "Although the agency has claimed that a final decision to construct the Arch has not yet been made and purports to be engaged in a routine decisional process, that rushed process appears to be a pretext designed to shore up justifications for building the Arch in accordance with the President's repeated marching orders."
The lawsuit asks that "the agency's feverish pace toward construction of the arch" be halted to ensure that the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act be followed and proper analysis and testing be done.
"The Arlington County Board has filed this lawsuit because our community has the most to lose from this egregious and unlawful proposed project," Arlington County Board Chair Matt de Ferranti said in a statement. He added that the county has acted in good faith in the review process, pointing out the "severe, unique, and wide-ranging negative impacts" the project will have on the county and its residents, only to see them ignored.
Memorial Circle sits on federal parkland west of the Potomac River across the Memorial Bridge and immediately adjacent to Arlington County.
The county is bei
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Oct 08, 2026
The projected path of Hurricane Isaias.National Weather Service/NOAAHurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to strengthen as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Friday, bringing damaging winds, drenching rain and the possibility of life-threatening storm surge, prompting mandatory evacuation orders in Alabama and Florida.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias, now a Category 2 storm, is forecast to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday as a Category 1, with damaging hurricane-force winds.
Exactly where is unclear. Current models show the center of Isaias coming onshore anywhere from eastern Mississippi to the western tip of the Florida Panhandle.
The governors of Florida, Alabama and Georgia declared states of emergency ahead of the storm. Numerous counties in Mississippi also did.
Is the storm headed your way? Follow it in real time on the new Yahoo Weather app.
"Floridians should take this time to get disaster plans in place and ensure their hurricane supply kit is stocked," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said, urging residents in the storm's path to "
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Oct 08, 2026
The first debate for Georgia Senate on Thursday evening quickly devolved into a string of personal attacks and campaign talking points as Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) and Rep. Mike Collins (R) wrestle for voters' support in the closely-watched midterm race.
The incumbent Democrat has maintained a lead over his GOP challenger in recent polling, but Republicans are still holding out hope to flip this seat in November.
The candidates faced questions during the Atlanta News First debate in Atlanta about their stance on a range of issues, including artificial intelligence, border security, rural health care and agriculture.
Repeatedly, Collins and Ossoff used their allotted time to criticize each other's family backgrounds and argue that their opponent was not fit to represent Georgia on Capitol Hill.
Here are four takeaways from their first face off:
Ossoff slams ‘bigot' Collins
The Democratic incumbent referred to Collins several times on Thursday evening as "the bigot congressman," an insult he has repeatedly invoked on the campaign trail.
Ossoff pointed to the lawmaker's past controversial social media posts, including a sharing a
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Oct 08, 2026
Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in for an hourlong debate Thursday. (USA Today Network; Reuters; Getty Images)GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The two candidates battling for Michigan's open Senate seat tangled here Thursday over the war in Iran, gas prices and tariffs in a debate that often veered into mean-spirited sniping.
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed sought to portray his Republican rival, former Rep. Mike Rogers, as a weak-willed loyalist to President Donald Trump who has recently changed his positions on certain issues out of political necessity.
Rogers tried to frame El-Sayed as a "con man" who is making promises he cannot pay for without raising taxes or other costs.
Each repeatedly taunted the other over real estate — a home Rogers has in Florida and property El-Sayed's wife owns in the United Arab Emirates. The debate, hosted by NBC affiliate WOOD of Grand Rapids, became so punchy at times that moderator Rick Albin pleaded for the candidates to rein in their attacks.
"I'd like to be a part of the debate, too," Albin interjected at one point.
Michigan's Senate race is one of the most competitive and closely watched in the country, and the results could help determine partisan control of the chamber. Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat, is not seeking re-election.
Backed by progress
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Oct 08, 2026
By Julia Harte and Kristina Cooke
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child ?present in the vehicle in the Bronx borough of New York City, according to ?the mayor, city police and eyewitness accounts.
"Early reports indicate agents surrounded (the man) and a 5-year-old-child in his car before firing multiple ?rounds," New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.
The mayor said the child was believed to have been physically unharmed. He referred to the man shot as a "New Yorker."
"This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation," Mamdani said, adding he had called President Donald Trump to talk about the incident. "When we speak ?I will demand that he ends ?all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities."
ICE did not immediately respond to a request from ?Reuters for comment on the incident.
The incident was first reported on X by the New York Police Department, which gave few details other than to say: "there was a shooting involving federal law enforcement agents," and that ?the person ?shot was "currently conscious and receiving medical attention."
The shooting ?occurred at around 4 p.m. ET (2000 GMT) ?in the Marble Hill neighborhood of the Bronx, the NYPD said.
An NYPD spokesperson said the agents involved in the shooting were part of DHS, the parent agency for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol agencies, among others, and that federal authorities were investigating.
Pedro Almarez, owner of a nearby eatery, said he was working at the restaurant when he heard shots fired and ?went outside to see several officers wearing ICE attire at ?the scene.
"There were a lot of ICE officers, three or ?four cars," Almarez told Reuters by phone, ?adding the man
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Oct 08, 2026
The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.
"He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be," Hegseth told Jack Posobiec on Real America's Voice. "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public — because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."
Hegseth said the early December execution will take place at Fort Hood at 1 p.m.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration approved the plan to execute Hasan. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on social media the plan to use an Army firing squad was recommended by Hegseth and approved by President Trump.
While executions are sometimes witnessed by small groups of people, including reporters and victims' family members, it is virtually unheard-of in recent history for an execution in the United States to be viewable by the general public.
The last public execution in the U.S. appeared to take place in 1936, when Rainey Bethea was hanged for rape in Kentucky, reported
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Oct 08, 2026
Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democratic candidate for Congress who said she was raped while fixing a campaign sign in August, told ABC News on Thursday that she was motivated to speak up because of the arguments she was making on the campaign trail.
"I was talking to some seniors about fighting for reinstating and funding the [Veterans Administration] and fixing Social Security, actually addressing the issues" amid federal government cuts or healthcare changes that impacted them, Greene-Placentia told ABC News Live anchor Kyra Phillips.
"It just crossed my mind at that point -- like, wow, I'm kind of being a hypocrite because I'm saying I'm going to fight for Arizonans. I'm going to fight for these folks, but I'm not fighting for women who've been victims of sexual assault, and that's just not how I was raised," she said. "So afterwards, I told my husband and my team, I was like, this is really going to suck, but I have to speak up."
ABC News - PHOTO: Arizona congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia speaks to ABC News Live on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026.Greene-Placentia, a former truck driver who is running in the state's 8th District to try to unseat Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh, told Phoenix New Times, a local news outlet, in a story published Wednesday that she was attacked around 2 a.m. as she was walking toward a campaign sign in a parking lot north of Phoenix. She said she had been subdued and then woke up to find that she was being raped by an unknown assailant.
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Oct 08, 2026
Federal prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson may have lied to Congress in her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, drew the ire of President Trump's base when she testified in 2022 before the House committee tasked with investigating the 2021 Capitol attack.
In a series of depositions and public committee testimony, she said that Mr. Trump and Meadows had been warned on Jan. 6 that some of his supporters were carrying weapons to the Capitol, but that Mr. Trump said he didn't care and tried to order officials to remove the magnetometers.
She also relayed a story she said was told to her by then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, in which Mr. Trump grew incensed after his lead Secret Service agent declined to drive him to the Capitol after the president had delivered a speech to supporters. During that address on the White House Ellipse, he had encouraged them to go to the Capitol, where Congress was confirming the Electoral College results from the 2020 election. He told his supporters that "after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you."
Hutchinson testified that Ornato had told her that Mr. Trump lunged at the steering wheel.
Her account was later contradicted by Mr
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Oct 08, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being "public."
The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009.
Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV outlet Real America's Voice News on Wednesday, said, "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public." Officials in the Pentagon clarified Thursday that the execution would be livestreamed and that more details would follow.
The revelation from Hegseth about the public nature of an execution — let alone one as violent as a firing squad — has raised further questions about how the death penalty is carried out in the United States, especially after the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee.
Experts offer mixed reactions on the plan
Hasan could choose to resist execution and file a habeas petition in civilian court, which is a legal request for a court to review the legality of someone's detention, and could significantly delay the execution, experts on military law said.
"It frankly might outlast the current
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Oct 08, 2026
Former president Barack Obama expressed surprise at Democrats' expanding midterm map at a private fundraiser Wednesday night, but warned donors not to get complacent about the party's chances, according to excerpts provided to The Washington Post.
"There are states right now in play that I would not have imagined being in play," Obama told donors in a fireside chat in Great Falls, Virginia, with Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Delaware), a vice chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "If you had told me, and - I know I'm the hope guy - but if you had told me that the polling currently shows James Talarico ahead of Ken Paxton ... I would have said, eh, I don't think so."
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Talarico, a Democratic state legislator in Texas, is leading Paxton, the state's Republican attorney general, in most public polls.
Obama also mentioned competitive Senate contests in Kansas and Nebraska, as well as Sen. Jon Ossoff's large polling lead in Georgia, as other data points he wouldn't have previously believed.
But Obama cautioned the crowd that winning those races is far from a sure bet.
"All these races that are showing we've got a two- or three-point lead or it's a toss-up, we could end up losing all of them by two points," he said. "It's within the margin of error."
The former president has been ramping up his involvement in the midterms in recent weeks, announcing an upcoming campaign stop in Michigan for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and
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Oct 08, 2026
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The Marius Hills Pit on the lunar surface. | Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Are there secret underground caves on the moon? NASA has a new program that aims to find out.
Though we see it in the sky most nights, the moon still holds an incredible amount of mystery. One such mystery is a large underground cave, or a cavernous tube carved out by ancient lava, that scientists think extends past a particular pit on the moon's surface. And to get to the bottom of it, NASA has selected a project known as GIMLI (the Geophysical Instruments for Marius Lunar pit Investigation, not the character from Lord of the Rings). GIMLI was selected along with two other programs that are all intended to expand our understanding of the moon to better support a future moon base, which NASA aims to build near the south pole.
"NASA Science is building the ultimate interplanetary survival guide to ensure that science goes first to the lunar surface to provide our future astronaut crews with the vital information, resources, and safety precautions needed ahead of time to survive the night on the moon," Nicky Fox, NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement.
Lunar mysteriesThe site of this investigation will be the Marius Hill Pit, which was discovered in 2009 by Japan's Kag
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Oct 08, 2026
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico has been off the campaign trail, sick with the flu. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call via Getty)The bitter fight over a Texas Senate seat that Democrats believe is within reach for the first time in decades should be ramping up right now.
But in the final push, when campaigns believe most voters are finally tuning in, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico has been off the trail for in-person events in the state for 12 days.
His campaign says he has the flu and is expected to be back in action this weekend.
While he has appeared virtually at a forum, Talarico's last in-person event in the state was on Sept. 26. He visited New York on Sept. 29 for a private fundraiser, and, according to the virtual remarks he gave to the Hispanic Business Council the next day, he returned to Dallas and visited urgent care.
It has all prompted a stream of fodder from his opponent, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose campaign is calling on Talarico to produce a photo of himself with a newspaper showing today's date.
"We have a simple request: proof of life," Paxton campaign spokeswoman Madison Cercy said. "James Talarico wants to represent 31 million Texans in the U.S. Senate, but for 12 days, he's hidden from every one of them. There's a reason they call it ‘Texas Tough,' and it's not because Texans hide at the first sign of trouble. If James Talarico is too fragile to face Texans, he has no business asking for their vote."
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Oct 08, 2026
US President Donald Trump presents the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk (Kent NISHIMURA)Donald Trump presented Elon Musk with the top US science medal on Thursday, as the rocket tycoon fully returned to the president's orbit after an explosive bust-up.
Six US tech titans received prestigious awards from the president at a Washington peace institute that was itself recently renamed after Trump.
But all eyes were on trillionaire SpaceX and Tesla boss Musk following his acrimonious departure from Trump's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) last year.
Trump called Musk a "national treasure" and said that "Elon is our modern-day Thomas Edison," referring to the American inventor of the lightbulb.
"Elon, I want to congratulate you. You're my friend, and all of that, but you are a very, very special guy," Trump added at the summit, dubbed "Science: A New Golden Age.
Along with Musk, Google co-founder Sergei Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su all received the National Medal of Science from Trump during the ceremony.
Computer mogul Michael Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, also the top US award in its field.
Trump and Musk gave an amiable if awkward performance on Thursday, with president patting the tycoon on the back and giving him a wooden case containing his medal. The pair largely avoided eye contact.
It was a far cry from May 2025 when Musk's brief and tempestuous time at DOGE flamed out over his opposition to the White House's "utterly insane" tax and spending bill.
Musk -- the biggest donor to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign -- had spent months working out of a small office in the White House complex as DOGE took a hatchet to the federal w
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Oct 08, 2026
Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Mississippi who was wrongfully convicted multiple times when he was tried six times for the same crime by the same prosecutor, has died. He was 56.
Flowers' family confirmed that he died Wednesday at his home in Winona, Mississippi, attorney Rob McDuff told CBS News on Thursday.
No cause of death was given, said McDuff, who was part of Flowers' legal team. CBS News has reached out to the coroner.
Flowers' struggle with the justice system began in Winona, Mississippi, on a July morning in 1996, when the owner of Tardy Furniture, a bookkeeper, a delivery man and a 16-year-old were shot in the head execution-style.
Flowers briefly worked at the furniture store that summer, but he was let go after he stopped showing up after only three days. Police questioned him after the murders, but didn't arrest him at the time. Flowers later moved to Texas to live with his sister, and he was arrested there in January 1997. He had no prior criminal history.
McDuff previously called Flowers' case "unprecedented in the history of the American legal system."
He told "60 Minutes" in 2021 that the first three convictions against Flowers were overturned "because of the prosecutor's misrepresentation of the evidence to the jury and because of his discrimination in the selection of the jury."
The murder weapon was never found, and there was no DNA or fingerprints linking Flowers to the crime.
In the first trial, an all-White jury convicted him after just an hour of deliberation. Flowers, then 27, was sentenced to death.
His conviction was appealed and overturned. But he was tried five more times for the same crime b
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Oct 08, 2026
Eric Deters, a former Kentucky congressional candidate and longtime ally of President Trump, has emerged in the national spotlight after an explosive report revealed his alleged text exchanges with Kimberly Guilfoyle, U.S. ambassador to Greece, over her credit card debt.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Guilfoyle, ex-wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the former fiancé of Donald Trump Jr., allegedly pressed Deters to pay her $100,000 American Express balance without leaving a paper trail and, in exchange, promised to help him reach senior administration officials.
Deters, 63, is a former attorney, businessman and conservative radio host who has spent years building connections within Trump's inner circle. He declined to make the payment and has since publicly accused Guilfoyle of offering political access in exchange for large sums of money.
Guilfoyle's $100,000 request
Guilfoyle's dealings with Deters began drawing attention after the Journal obtained hundreds of text messages, emails and letters, detailing their relationship in a bombshell report.
According to the outlet, Guilfoyle told Deters she needed the balance to be paid ahead of her July 9, 2025, confirmation hearing before the Senate.
"Honey please I need you to get this done for me today," she wrote in one exchange on the messaging app Signal, which
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Oct 08, 2026
Golden hash browns, gravy-smothered biscuits and crispy waffles with a hearty helping of syrup are among the classic Southern comfort foods. But when hurricanes tear through Southeastern towns, the hot meals and bold yellow signs of the local Waffle House provide another kind of comfort.
If a Waffle House stays open in town, even in a limited capacity, neighbors are reassured that the coming storm is unlikely to cause devastation. A closed location of the dependable diner chain has come to indicate impending disaster. The metric is known as the Waffle House Index.
What might sound like silly logic has become one of the most reliable ways for Southerners — and even federal officials — to gauge a storm's severity and identify communities most in need of immediate aid.
What is the Waffle House Index?
The South's favorite disaster authority provides an informal measure of how significantly a storm will affect or has affected a community.
A map of the chain's over 1,900 locations, concentrated in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic, helps residents of storm-prone states assess whether they're likely to lose power, experience severe flooding or endure other extreme conditions that might cause a resilient restaurant to close its doors. For some, it's a telltale sign of whether they need to evacuate.
Waffle House is known not just for serving breakfast 24/7, 365 days a year, but also for its disaster preparedness. For decades, people across the South have noticed that the local Waffle House seemed to be the only business still open during a storm or the first to reopen af
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Oct 08, 2026
Once loyal to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., advocates of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement have become some of his harshest critics. (Bloomberg via Getty)Some supporters of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement have begun to publicly turn against their leader, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the Trump administration as a whole as they demand tougher crackdowns on food dyes and pesticides.
A scorecard released Thursday by MAHA activists, including former members of Kennedy's 2024 presidential campaign, claims the Trump administration broke more than 85% of its promises to MAHA on food, agriculture and environmental health. The makers of the scorecard include Dave Murphy, a former fundraiser for Kennedy's campaign, and Charles Eisenstein, Kennedy's former chief speechwriter.
NBC News is first to report on the scorecard, which offers a window into how MAHA views the administration, and Kennedy himself, ahead of the midterm elections. It accuses the Trump administration of doling out favors to the chemical industry, pointing to its decision to approve new pesticides and hire industry lobbyists and executives.
"We're asking the Trump administration to deliver on even the most basic promises they've made to the MAHA movement, and we've seen over and over again not just a lack of interest in doing so, but a blatant slap in the face," said former Kennedy campaign adviser Tiffany Cianci, a MAHA advocate who authored the scorecard.
About 41% of adults in the U.S. say they support MAHA ideals, according to an
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Oct 08, 2026
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
Those talks broke down as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint. Trump then said in August that the U.S. would launch a "crushing economic operation" to force Tehran into submission.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. is having "productive discussions" with Iran on Thursday, saying the U.S. will not be attacking Iran before the midterm elections.
Oct 6, 2:49 PM
A military spokesperson for the Saudi-backed Yemeni Armed Forces claimed it has gained back control of the key area surrounding Red Sea waterway and the Bab Al Mandab.
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Oct 08, 2026
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
Those talks broke down as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint. Trump then said in August that the U.S. would launch a "crushing economic operation" to force Tehran into submission.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. is having "productive discussions" with Iran on Thursday, saying the U.S. will not be attacking Iran before the midterm elections.
Oct 6, 2:49 PM
A military spokesperson for the Saudi-backed Yemeni Armed Forces claimed it has gained back control of the key area surrounding Red Sea waterway and the Bab Al Mandab.
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Oct 08, 2026
(In paragraph 17, corrects quote attribution to defense lawyer Mark Donnelly, not US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein)
By Luc Cohen
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores both were hit with an additional US criminal charge on Thursday stemming from accusations ?they tortured political opponents and American citizens to retain their grip on power in the South American country.
Separately, US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who is overseeing ?the case, denied a request by Flores to be released from jail ahead of trial due to health reasons.
Maduro and Flores were charged with an additional count of conspiracy to commit torture in addition ?to the drug trafficking charges they previously faced, according to a superseding indictment filed in Manhattan federal court. Maduro and Flores would face a mandatory-minimum 50 years in prison if convicted.
Flores, 69, and Maduro, 63, were captured by the US military on January 3 in their Caracas home and brought to New York to face the drug charges. Venezuela has since boosted cooperation with the US under the leadership of Maduro's former Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.
Relations between the United States and oil-rich Venezuela were tense during the socialist Maduro's 13 years in power. US ?officials and human rights groups have long accused Venezuelan officials ?of torturing detainees, but Thursday's indictment marked the first time Maduro faced criminal charges over the allegations.
In one instance, prosecutors said Maduro in 2013 ordered the arrest of a Venezuelan military officer he suspected of planning a coup.
Members of Venezuela's military counterintelligence directorate then ?interrogated the officer while shocking the individual with a live electric wire around 20 times and hung the individual by the hands and feet for several minutes at a time, prosecutors said.
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Oct 08, 2026
While Christa Pike didn't act alone in the crime that landed her on death row, the two others involved in the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer met less severe punishments.
Pike, Tadaryl Shipp and Shadolla Peterson were all students at Jobs Corps, a training program in Knoxville, Tennessee, when they lured Slemmer, a classmate, into the woods on Jan. 12, 1995.
There, Pike and Shipp, a couple at the time, tortured Slemmer and bludgeoned her to death. They were both later convicted of the crime, while Peterson pled guilty and walked away with probation, according to court records.
The grisly crime has garnered renewed interest after Pike's botched execution by lethal injection on Sept. 30. She was transported to a hospital and has since regained consciousness and is speaking, her attorney said on Oct. 7.
Here's what to know about the other assailants in the case that's capturing national attention.
Christa Pike accomplice Tadaryl Shipp serving life sentence
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Oct 08, 2026
The Trump administration has halted the ability of tech giants Microsoft and Adobe to sponsor H-1B visa workers seeking green cards, Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday.
Vance made the comments during a press conference on visa fraud, during which he argued Microsoft is discriminating against Americans by prioritizing foreign workers. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced later at the event that his department is also suspending Adobe from the program.
"Our message to Microsoft is: You're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers," Vance, who leads the administration's anti-fraud task force, said at the press conference.
The announcement is the result of an administrationwide effort to crack down on alleged abuse of work visa systems. Vance on Thursday accused tech giant Microsoft of fraud, citing the company's decision to eliminate thousands of workers earlier this year.
U.S. tech companies often rely on H-1B visas to hire foreign-born workers with specialized technical skills.
"For every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one-and-a-half foreign indentured servants," Vance said.
Spokespeople for Microsoft and Adobe did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This article originally appeared on Politico at https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/08/vance-microsoft-adobe-h-1-b-green-cards-01111603
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Oct 08, 2026
Moms have deep feels about their childhood American Girl dolls — like Kirsten, Samantha and Molly. Passing them down means letting a new generation take the lead.Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: American GirlOver the summer, I got a text from a cousin whose daughter was almost 7.
"I found a Kirsten American Girl doll on Facebook Marketplace in a town not far from you," she wrote. "I was wondering if you might have a chance to grab it before someone else snags it?"
Her hunt for a vintage Kirsten made by Pleasant Company, before Mattel bought the brand in 1998, had been underway for some time. Her daughter had been saving her lemonade stand profits toward a purchase. Mom had seen a newer version of the doll for sale, but she was holding out.
"I'm finding an OG," she told me.
The retro doll was listed for $90, but she talked the seller down to $75. "This doll exchange is serious business," she told me.
Then came the relay: I picked up Kirsten and drove her home. My husband took the doll on the next leg of its journey, handing her off to one very happy little girl and her mom, who live over an hour away. Three adults and over three hours in the car — all to get one childhood favorite into a new pair of tiny hands.
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Oct 08, 2026
State health authorities are urging people enrolled in Medicaid to check whether they will remain eligible when new rules kick in that could leave millions of Americans without access.
From Jan. 1, Medicaid beneficiaries in dozens of states will have to work, study or volunteer for at least 80 hours a month or meet a minimum income requirement to keep their coverage, among a series of new rules due to take effect.
Many who are still eligible for the program risk losing coverage because of the "added paperwork" and "the hoops you have to jump through," Nate Crippes, a lawyer at the Disability Law Center in Utah, told the Associated Press.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated in October 2025 that the new work requirement alone would leave about 5.3 million more people uninsured by 2034.
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Oct 08, 2026
What Causes Sleep Paralysis? PonyWang - Getty ImagesIt's terrifying to wake up and feel like you can't move, but sleep paralysis is more common than you might think. Up to 30% of people experience this at some point, while people with panic disorder have an even greater risk. But what causes sleep paralysis? The answer isn't always clear.
Meet the experts: James McGuirk, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Vanderbilt Health; Christopher Winter, M.D., a sleep medicine specialist, neurologist, and author of The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How to Fix It; Thea Gallagher, Psy.D., clinical associate professor at NYU Langone Health and co-host of the Mind in View podcast
Certain factors can up your risk of developing sleep paralysis, but doctors don't always know why someone will experience it in any given moment. Making things even more complicated is that some people may experience sleep paralysis once and then never again, while others may have it repeatedly.
"Sleep paralysis" isn't a term everyone is familiar with, and it can look slightly different from person to person. And l
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Oct 08, 2026
By Simon Johnson and Johan Ahlander
STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature", the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.
"She was very taken by surprise," said Ingrid ?Carlberg, permanent secretary of the academy, which awards the prize worth 12 million Swedish crowns ($1.2 million).
"We didn't have so much time to speak, and all she had time to tell ?me was that she is for the moment in Iceland, where she's listening to the wind."
Carson's work often blends verse, prose, dialogue and translation in a genre-defying mix. Born in Toronto, the 76-year-old has also held Icelandic citizenship since 2022 and ?has spent considerable time on the Arctic island in recent years.
She is widely known for her translations of classical Greek literature, which heavily influences her work that ranges from opera libretti to literary criticism and verse novels such as "Autobiography of Red" from 1998.
"Almost all her literary production has centred upon the intersection between the philologist's obsession with words and the poet's desire for new meaning," the Academy said.
"She has herself identified the etymology of words as the starting point for all her work. Her translations from Classical Greek may be regarded as independent works in their own right."
Her style is exemplified in "Norma Jeane Baker of Troy" ?from 2019, a performance piece which mixes the stories of Helen ?of Troy in Euripides' play "Helen" and Marilyn Monroe.
The Academy also praised her ability to explore "the possibilities of writing, a process by which the literary sketch has become of particular value to her".
"Bearing witness to this is Float (2016), a work consisting of 22 chapbooks on different subjects, capa
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Oct 08, 2026
The Cornell University campus on the night of October 6, 2026. Student leaders held a town hall to discuss fallout from the Jane Doe sexual assault case. - Surya Vaidy/CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell's Jane Doe was living in New York City among thousands of other aspirational twentysomethings, attempting to break into the hotel industry and build a new life, according to her attorney, Thomas Giuffra.
But that plan has been derailed since she filed a lawsuit against Cornell University and others, alleging she was raped at a frat house in 2024.
Instead, Giuffra said, Doe spent Wednesday taping up paper to obscure the windows of her parents' home out of fear that a gunman could attack her, and reeling from a swatting episode that he said prompted police to swarm their home Tuesday night with weapons drawn.
Doe is increasingly scared for her own safety, Giuffra said in a phone interview with CNN on Wednesday as he detailed his client's deteriorating mental state after an escalating series of violent threats.
Officers pointed weapons at Jane Doe's boyfriend, her brother and her father after receiving a bogus tip that "someone was killing people in the house" on Tuesday evening, he said.
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Oct 08, 2026
Police said the buses were hit with a glide bomb (Handout)Ukraine on Thursday accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians after 30 people were killed when two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, in one of the deadliest single attacks for weeks.
Photos posted by local authorities showed the burnt-out metal shell of the vehicles, with the blurred-out images of bodies and debris strewn across the road.
Police said the buses were hit with a glide bomb.
The strikes come just a day after five children were among 22 killed when a Russian missile struck a five-storey apartment block in Pryluky, in the northern Chernigiv region.
"The Russians are deliberately targeting civilians," Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said, accusing Moscow of flouting "every conceivable rule of warfare and norm of international humanitarian law".
Kramatorsk City Council called it "yet another horrific crime committed by the Russian army against the civilian population".
"Once again, the Russians have struck a location where there are absolutely no military targets," it added.
There has been mounting concern about the increase in civilian casualties in the conflict, as both sides step up long-range attacks beyond their borders.
Since Russia first invaded in 2022, Ukraine has accused its forces of deliberately attacking and killing civilians.
The United Nations has verified more than 17,000 civilian deaths throughout the war, but says the real number is considerably higher.
Last week, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had sanctioned massive attacks on civilian areas.
The Kremlin has denied the claim.
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Oct 08, 2026
Christa Pike is "up and walking" in the hospital after surviving last week's failed attempt to execute her in Tennessee, a member of her legal team said Thursday.
Lawyer Stephen Ferrell told the BBC that he had learned she was moving around her hospital room, although he had not spoken to her.
"What's been described to me is that physically there's quite a bit going on, that her arms are very injured and she's not able to use them very much," he said. "She is up and walking for the first time today, but just around the room, not very far."
Ferrell described her mental state as "kind of good and bad," adding, "Good that she is fairly with it, but she's also somewhat foggy. She can lose her train of thought really easily and forgets where she's going."
He said he assumed Pike's situation would "keep improving," but added that "there could be some permanent damage. We don't know that yet."
Pike's attorneys said Wednesday that she was feeling "angry and confused" after waking up in the hospital, and that the failed execution attempt left her with severe physical health challenges that put her on a "long road to recovery."
Pike had been unconscious and in critical condition in the days after two doses of pentobarbital failed to end her life on Sept. 30, they sa
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Oct 08, 2026
The USS Abraham Lincoln near the city of Pattaya in Thailand on 6 September 2026. Photograph: Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP/Getty Images
The USS Abraham Lincoln, the US aircraft carrier that has been deployed for nearly a year and has spent months supporting US military operations against Iran, is scheduled to dock in San Diego on Thursday afternoon.
It marks the end of a deployment that has been described as "one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era" and that became marked by a record-stretch at sea, repeated deployment extensions, and reports of supply shortages, and deteriorating morale and mental health among some crew members.
The Lincoln left San Diego last November, initially bound for the Pacific. But it was redirected to the Middle East after the US and Israel launched their war with Iran in late February. The carrier remained there until late August, when it was relieved by the USS George Washington and began its journey home.
Earlier in August, the Lincoln's deployment made headlines and faced scrutiny as reports began surfacing about poor living conditions aboard the ship, including
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Oct 08, 2026
Students walk through the University of Texas campus on Aug. 24, 2026. —Jay Janner—The Austin American-Statesman/Getty ImagesThe Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a rule that would charge schools $70,000 per international student seeking to work in the U.S. through a program known as Optional Practical Training. It marks the Trump Administration's latest attempt to curb foreign enrollment.
The proposal, published Thursday in the Federal Register and open for comment until Nov. 9, aims to crack down on OPT—a temporary employment authorization that lets students work in jobs related to their field of study and that DHS has claimed has "ballooned into an uncontrolled guest worker pipeline" and become a "magnet for fraud."
Under the current system, students pay about $500 to apply and are generally permitted to work in the U.S. for up to a year during or after their study, while those in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields may get work period extensions.
Under the proposal, schools would have to pay $70,000 for a student's initial participation—and another $30,000 for each additional program participation—though DHS said it recognizes schools "may pass the financial obligation of this proposed fee" to students or employers. Collected fees would be
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Oct 08, 2026
Republican efforts to reduce national gas prices in the weeks before Election Day were derailed in the Senate by infighting among GOP lawmakers and members of the administration who could not agree on how to ease consumers' pain at the pump.
The divisions within the Senate Republican conference over how to lower gas and diesel prices — even if temporarily — were driven primarily by geographic differences.
Senators from oil-refining states shot down proposals from farm-state senators to ban the export of diesel or to loosen restrictions on the sale of E15 gasoline with higher ethanol content.
"You're talking about regional politics, and it gets bogged down in the politics of energy, and the fiefdoms around it," said Ron Bonjean, a GOP strategist and former Senate leadership aide.
There were divisions that went beyond geography, too.
Fiscal hawks torpedoed proposals to suspend the gas tax, even though their colleagues argued that doing so for a short period of time to bolster Republican candidates would have little real impact on the highway trust fund.
And lawmakers had less flexibility on some possible actions because of the depletion of the nation's strategic petroleum reserve by big drawdowns to stabilize market prices during the Iran war.
The biggest problem, however, was that Republican senators didn't see any proposal as likely to have a significant impact on prices before Nov. 3, when voters will decide which party controls Congress next year.
"It is almost impossible to federally reduce gasoline prices for consumers because the levers of power that can be used have very lit
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Oct 08, 2026
WASHINGTON - In November, does the blue wave become a tsunami?
Watch these spaces.
Five keys are shaping monster midterms that are poised to revive Democrats' political power in Washington and reinforce it across the country. But the advantage of Republican money and the weakness of the Democratic Party brand could also mean an Election Night with more modest gains, a GOP catastrophe averted.
In a wave election, Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives. In a tsunami, they take the Senate, too.
The Texas Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico and a handful of tight Texas House races will show how many Hispanic voters are abandoning their brief alliance with the GOP. The Senate race in Michigan between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers will test whether swing-state voters are willing to support the Democrats' rising voices on the left.
And President Donald Trump's cross-country tour of some of the nation's most reliably Republican states, from Alabama to Oklahoma, will demonstrate whether he can still deliver. His voters have reshaped the GOP and twice elected him to the White House, but he's no longer on the ballot - not to mention that his approval ratings have sunk to the lowest level of any modern president as midterms approach.
Even Kansas, which hasn't elected a Democratic senator since 1932,
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