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Oct 12, 2026
By Jan Wolfe
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A US judge said on Monday that she was "furious" with Justice Department lawyers for their conduct in a lawsuit seeking to halt the Trump administration's takeover of a historic golf ?course in Washington, saying it was "inexcusable" that hundreds of trees were removed from the course over the weekend.
"More ?than being upset and furious right now, I am just deeply disappointed in the government," US District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington told government lawyers during ?a court hearing. "On what universe did anyone in your office think this was acceptable?"
Reyes said the abrupt removal of about 500 trees at East Potomac Golf Links, which began on Friday afternoon, was unacceptable because in May she had demanded that the government provide advance notice of any substantive construction work at the golf course.
The Justice Department's failure to notify the preservationist group that filed the ?lawsuit of the tree removal work "has cost the ?government all of its credibility" in the case, the judge said.
Justice Department lawyer Marissa Piropato said during the hearing that government attorneys had done their best to gather details on tree removal so ?they could share them in a court filing.
"You did not do your best," Reyes replied. "You did your absolute worst."
Since taking office in January 2025, US President Donald Trump has targeted US cultural and historical institutions - from museums and monuments to national parks and arts centers - in ?an ?attempt to reshape them.
The president announced plans last year to overhaul East ?Potomac Golf Links, a century-old public golf course ?owned by the federal government and managed by the National Park Service, part of the Interior Department.
Trump, a frequent golfer who owns several courses, has said he hopes the renovation will allow the course to host major tournaments.
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Oct 12, 2026
Democrats may be discovering the political power of calling something rigged.
They're leaning hard into anti-corruption messaging in the final weeks of the campaign as new research suggests that linking corruption to Americans' economic struggles can boost Democrats into the home stretch.
Messaging from Democrats that tied corruption to housing, health care and the cost of living increased voter support for Democratic congressional candidates by about 3 percentage points, according to a national survey last month conducted by Blue Rose Research and Democratic-aligned Winning Jobs Narrative Action, which was obtained by POLITICO.
The findings align with a shift in how Democrats are talking about corruption — and help explain why that message has exploded on the campaign trail. From Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia to James Talarico in Texas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Democrats have zeroed in on a common argument: Washington is rigged to benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyday Americans.
"We have a corruption crisis in this country, and it is leading to an affordability crisis," Iowa Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek said during his Senate debate against Rep. Ashley Hinson last week.
It's a message that is reverberating across campaigns. In a recent presentation delivered to Democratic groups on Capitol Hill, longtime Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson offered a succinct playbook: "Corruption is why your costs are high," according to the presentation viewed by POLITICO.
His presentation also encouraged Democrats to lead with the acknowledgement that costs are high and then go into corruption, acknowledge that it happens across parties and avoid making President Donald Trump the sole focus of their attacks. "Trump works as an example of corruption that raises costs, not as the whole case," the presentation said.
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Oct 12, 2026
ROME and NEW YORK -- Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to a hospital in Rome on Tuesday morning, the Vatican said on Monday, a day after the pontiff said he would undergo surgery for a nodule found on his lung.
The operation was to take place in the "next few days," Leo said on Sunday.
Pope Leo to undergo surgery after nodule discovered on his lung, he saysPope Leo addressed the planned surgery in a statement on social media Sunday morning.
"The doctors believe that it is best to intervene, so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to remove it," the pope said. "The operation is already scheduled to take place in the coming days. I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers."
Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media via Reuters - PHOTO: Pope Leo walks as he meets members and volunteers of the Circolo San Pietro at the Vatican, October 12, 2026. A lung nodule, also known as a pulmonary nodule, is a small mass of dense tissue on the lung, according to the American Lung Association (ALA).
Nodules can be caused by a variety of factors including scar tissue, lung irritants, inflammatory conditions, current or past infections, or cancer. Most nodules are benign, according to the ALA. They are diagnosed with imaging tests including an X-ray or a CT scan.
Depending on the size, appearance,
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Oct 12, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed scrutiny to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.
The search of the Minnesota congresswoman's home so close to next month's midterm contests that will determine control of the House and the Senate was swiftly condemned by top Democrats in Congress, who raised questions about the timing given longstanding Justice Department protocol to avoid overt investigative steps involving political candidates in the direct run-up to an election.
The Justice Department confirmed in a statement that Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant in the Washington, D.C., area in connection with an ongoing federal criminal investigation but provided no other details.
The nature and scope of the investigation were unclear, though officials in President Donald Trump's administration have repeatedly hinted at the existence of an inquiry targeting Omar, a Somali-born Democrat whose status as an immigrant to the U.S. and left-wing views have repeatedly drawn criticism from Republicans and senior Trump officials.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said last month that there was an "ongoing investigation" related in part to whether Omar lied on her immigration forms and that "something's going to happen."
Omar responded to the s
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Oct 12, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's home on Monday morning as part of a criminal investigation, according to people familiar with the matter.
The search was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations agents, said the people, who were not authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity. More details about the investigation were not immediately clear.
An email seeking comment was sent Monday to a representative for Omar.
The Justice Department said in a statement Monday that HSI agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the department in the Washington, D.C., area but provided no other details.
"This enforcement action is part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation," the department said.
Omar, 44, represents Minnesota's 5th District, including Minneapolis. She was first elected to the House in 2018 and has been known as a member of what's called The Squad of female lawmakers known for their progressive views and pointed opposition to the Republican president.
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Associated Press writers Kathy McCormack in Concord, N.H., and Mike Catalini in Morrisville, Pa., contributed.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/federal-agents-searched-minnesota-rep-121754172.html
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Oct 12, 2026
US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle speaks during a dedication ceremony at the chancery of the US Embassy in Athens, on October 7. - Mark Schiefelbein/AFP/Pool/Getty Images
President Donald Trump is weighing whether to dismiss Kimberly Guilfoyle from her position as US ambassador to Greece after a string of reports about misconduct, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday.
Trump has been monitoring reports claiming Guilfoyle, who was engaged to Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. for four years, accepted lavish gifts as ambassador and sought money in exchange for providing access to administration figures before she was confirmed.
Lawyers for Guilfoyle have denied the allegations about seeking money and said reports about her travel were misleading, adding that she complied with federal gift and reporting requirements.
The reports have irked senior administration officials, particularly since they emerged when Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting Athens for a high-profile speech on Western democracy delivered from the Acropolis.
Trump is expected to decide soon whether to fire Guilfoyle, the person said. The president offered no defense of Guilfoyle when questioned by CNN about the allegations Friday.
"I just heard about it. Too bad. I mean, I don't know," Trump said. "I just heard a little bit about it. I don't know too much, but she was always very nice."
CNN has reached out to the
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Oct 12, 2026
Signing up for a workplace 401(k) plan helps you build retirement savings efficiently. With a traditional 401(k), contributions are made on a pretax basis, and investment gains are then tax-deferred, which means there's no yearly tax bill to pay. Roth 401(k)s are funded, meanwhile, on an after-tax basis, but investment gains and withdrawals are tax-free.
In either case, your money needs to grow in accordance with your needs, and that means you need to choose the right investments. On a broad level, there's no data pointing to the percentage of 401(k) savers who actively pick funds for their savings. Among savers in Vanguard retirement plans specifically, only 31 percent choose their own investments.
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Many 401(k) savers may not actively choose investments because they don't realize they're supposed to choose specific assets or they find the task daunting (or they like what's been chosen for them). If you don't log in to your account to choose investments, your employer might choose them for you, which is legal. And much of the time, in the absence of picking funds yourself, your money will be routed to a target date fund.
Vanguard reports that 96 percent of its retirement plans offered target date funds at year-end 2025. And among plans in which employers chose default investments for 401(k) savers, 98 percent of those investments were target date funds. But financial advisers say target date funds aren't always the best choice.
How target date funds work
When you invest for retirement, your strategy usually needs to change over time. When retirement is decades away, the strategy can be to chase growth and take on more risk by putting m
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Oct 12, 2026
Rancher Yvette Mannon was already dealing with a destructive wildfire and rising fuel costs before the US announced new foreign beef imports [Yvette Mannon]
Nebraska rancher Yvette Mannon was already having a rough year.
In April, a wildfire destroyed 1,600 grazing acres and 13 miles (21 km) of fence along the ranch she bought in 2002. The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.
Mannon's 300 cattle survived the blaze - but the fencing needed to be replaced, and the herd still needed to be fed.
With steel prices at their highest levels in years, heavily affected by tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, that meant spending $4.89 a foot - for a total exceeding $300,000.
On top of that, because so much good grazing land had been destroyed, Mannon also needed a tractor out every day delivering hay to her cattle - at a time when diesel prices, spiking due to the Iran War, were up more than 40% from the previous year.
Then in August, the Trump administration announced it would import 300,000 metric tons of duty-free foreign beef in a bid to lower consumer prices. The news hit right before the September-November window when most US calves are weaned and sold.
The cattle market tanked immediately.
'It felt like a betrayal'"So we're 'Buy American', 'Let's Make America Great'," said Mannon, 63, who voted for Trump. "But for you guys over here, sorry."
"It just felt like a betrayal," she said.
Many farmers and ranchers across the US say they are being hit from all
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Oct 12, 2026
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building is seen under construction in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2026. - Mehmet Eser/Anadolu/Getty Images
Four years ago, with inflation at multi-decade highs, then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a blunt message to Americans: Getting inflation under control would come at a cost.
The Fed needed to act "forcefully," Powell told attendees at a key central banker conference that August. Doing so, he cautioned, would bring "some pain" for consumers.
Now, with the Fed back to raising interest rates for the first time in three years, a familiar warning about the economic fallout is resurfacing.
Inflation across the country is being driven primarily by fuel prices, which have skyrocketed since the war with Iran broke out in February. The Fed has little control over oil production, but by raising interest rates, it is seeking to prevent higher energy costs from spilling over into other parts of the economy and fueling broader inflation.
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Oct 12, 2026
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he intends to serve as GOP leader if Republicans lose their House majority in November — but he remains bullish about the party's chances despite significant headwinds.
"In the unlikely scenario where we lost the majority, I would expect my colleagues would ask me to continue leading this conference, even if we have divided government," Johnson told CBS News' Robert Costa in an interview near Johnson's hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Johnson, who has led House Republicans as speaker since 2023, has repeatedly pushed back on questions about his plans if the GOP loses the majority in the lower chamber in November. Known for his optimistic outlook, the speaker has expressed confidence that Republicans will hold on to the chamber, or even grow their narrow majority. But midterm dynamics traditionally boost the party opposing the party in control of the White House, and the unpopular war in Iran, high gas and diesel prices and other controversial Trump administration policies have added to those challenges for the GOP.
Last week, a comment Johnson made to Fox News on his plans for his future fueled speculation that he could retire from politics, as he suggested that he could go back to his hometown of Shreveport and start a lawn business if the GOP loses the House majority.
"It's just hilarious," Johnson said of the interest the comment spurred, telling Costa that the remark was "tongue in cheek."
"What I was trying to say to them is that throughout my whole life, my number one objective is to be of my highest and best use to God and to my country, and that's always what I've thought," Johnson said. "And I was trying to make the point that if God has a different design, then we'll follow that. But what I believe is, I'm going to be the speaker of the House for at least two more years."
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Oct 12, 2026
President Donald Trump's whirlwind travel itinerary this month reflects a careful calculation as Republicans brace for midterm losses: where he can mobilize his most devoted supporters, where his low approval ratings make him a liability and where he can simply have a good time.
His packed agenda reflects political strategy, travel logistics and the reality that the president - despite being far more active on the campaign trail than his predecessor - is an 80-year-old man with a country to run, people around him say. Trump insists on signing off on the list of places he is visiting each week, according to two people with knowledge of the process.
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Trump has publicly floated a visit to Maine, where GOP Sen. Susan Collins is in a tight reelection fight, but White House and outside advisers to the president say such a trip is highly unlikely. Two people involved in planning his schedule said there are no trips scheduled to Maine or New Hampshire.
Last week's stops included deep-red Nebraska, where the Senate race is closer than once expected; Texas, for the second time in seven days; Upstate New York, to stump for his friend, gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman, who trails by double digits in many polls; and Tennessee, for a rally near a military base.
While in Syracuse, New York, Trump brought former professional boxer Mike Tyson onto the stage to speak.
Bad weather forced him to cancel a trip to Alabama for a college football game, which would have been his second visit to the state in just over a week. Football games are more fun for him than rallies, said one Trump adviser, who like others working on the president's midterm strateg
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Oct 12, 2026
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Donald Trump has claimed that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an "energy ceasefire", with Kyiv saying it would support such a move but Moscow yet to comment.
The US president insisted that it was "effective immediately" but provided no details.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially expressed surprise at the announcement, before saying Kyiv would support it if Moscow did. He also accused Russia of striking Ukrainian energy facilities after Trump's post.
Trump has been urging Ukraine to stop strikes on Russian oil infrastructure - which Kyiv says are vital to curtailing revenue for Moscow's war machine - so Russia can fulfil a recently-struck deal to release diesel to the US and the global market.
The diesel deal, temporarily undoing sanctions on Russian imports, is attracting growing criticism. Zelensky called it a gift to Russian President Vladimir Putin. European officials and some US politicians, including from Trump's Republican party, have said they do not support it.
The deal is Trump's latest effort to lower domestic fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections, having spent months grappling with the political consequences of the war with Iran which has pushed up global fuel prices, particularly those for diesel.
That has soured Trump's standing with the American public, who have been stung by the higher pump prices and knock-on effects that led to across-the-board inflation.
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Oct 12, 2026
STOCKHOLM (AP) — American-born economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel memorial prize in economics on Monday for their work on models that have helped governments and central banks manage economic shocks, such as energy crises and inflation.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners in Stockholm, saying the two were being honored for work that has helped policymakers deal with economic fluctuations.
"The laureates have helped us smooth out the economy's peaks and troughs," the academy said in a statement.
Hall is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford with Columbia University in New York.
Woodford spoke to the committee by phone Monday from New York, saying: "It's a tremendous honor, it's a surprise."
"The laureates' work has provided us with a stable theoretical foundation for the models that are now used by central banks and governments around the world," John Hassler, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, said in a news release.
"With them, we are better equipped to deal with shocks in the economy, such as energy crises or sudden changes in how much households consume."
For decades, governments responded to economic shocks by following the Depression-era prescriptions of the British economist John Maynard Keynes: intervene in the economy by lowering taxes and hiking government spending, thereby encouraging consumers and businesses to spend and invest themselves and help growth get restarted.
"This is the Keynesian recipe and it worked well - until it didn't,'' said Timo Boppart of the Nobel economics prize committee. Policymakers had thought economic management involved simple tradeoffs - unemployment, for instance, would stay low at a time of high inflation and rise when inflation fell. But the "stagflation''
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Oct 12, 2026
Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico in Austin, Texas, on July 22. (Brandon Bell / Getty)Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico addressed his recent absence from the campaign trail Sunday, saying it was nothing but a "nasty case of the flu."
"I was in bed, drinking lots of liquids. Unfortunately, the campaign made me work from home, so I didn't even get full days off. But I didn't want to be out on the trail, and I didn't want to get anyone else sick. It's important, I think, for leaders to be responsible in these moments. And I'm glad to be back. I'm feeling much better," he told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth in an interview.
Talarico returned to the campaign trail Friday; his last in-person event in the state had been Sept. 26, and on Sept. 30, he spoke at a forum virtually, saying he wasn't feeling well.
In his absence, some conservatives speculated that he was taking a break for mental health reasons. One right-wing influencer falsely claimed Talarico was receiving treatment at the Lindner Center of Hope, a facility in Ohio.
Asked about those theories, Talarico said, "The internet's doing its thing."
"That's not true," Talarico said. "I just had the flu, and I feel much better. But it's a good reminder that you can't believe everything you read on the internet."
The Lindner Center also shot down the speculation Sunday,
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Oct 11, 2026
The road to Christa Pike's botched execution was paved with determination.
Dating back more than 20 years, government officials in Tennessee have been dogged in their efforts to carry out lethal injections despite serious concerns about their ability to do so and waning public support. Those concerns turned into red flags in the months leading up to Pike's execution date, death penalty observers say.
Most notably: The state botched another execution in May, and Pike's attorneys repeatedly warned Tennessee officials that her medical conditions would make lethally injecting her particularly difficult. Nearly 10 months before Pike's botched execution, they warned that personnel would have a hard time gaining access to her veins and properly delivering a fatal dose of pentobarbital.
The result, they said in January, was that Pike, 50, would "experience unnecessary and superadded pain and suffering, terror, and disgrace."
That's exactly what her attorneys say happened in the death chamber in Nashville on Sept. 30 after Tennessee repeatedly dismissed concerns from her attorneys, medical professionals and death penalty observers.
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Oct 11, 2026
US Senate candidates Democrat Annie Andrews and Republican Sen. Darline Graham take notes before a debate in Columbia, South Carolina, on October 11. - Sam Wolfe/Reuters
South Carolina has emerged as perhaps the most surprising Senate race to be competitive late in the 2026 midterm elections. And on Sunday night, appointed GOP Sen. Darline Graham, Democrat Annie Andrews and Libertarian nominee Kasie Whitener took part in the only debate currently scheduled in the race.
The debate was often contentious, with both Graham and Andrews taking aim at each other.
Andrews focused on the idea that Graham — the late former Sen. Lindsey Graham's sister, whom President Donald Trump plucked from obscurity to succeed him — is the choice of political insiders and not running a serious campaign. She at one point alluded to an embarrassing moment at a primary runoff debate in which Graham said, "National security is not my thing."
"If your surgeon said that appendectomies aren't really his thing, would you still hand him a scalpel? No," Andrews said. "So why would we hand Darline Graham a full term in the US Senate? She is unserious and unqualified."
Graham also hit Andrews early and often, seeking to tie her to the political left. And she repeatedly took offense to the attacks that Andrews lodged, accusing Andrews of going after her family.
Below are some takeaways from the debate.
Graham avoided another major flub
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Oct 11, 2026
By Luc Cohen
Oct 11 (Reuters) - A US judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from using taxpayer money to pay for political advertisements, after ?publicly funded television ads glorifying US President Donald Trump began airing in ?late September and sparked a bipartisan backlash.
Manhattan-based US District Judge Jennifer Rochon temporarily barred the advertisements after ?plaintiffs including watchdog group Common Cause brought a lawsuit alleging the ads were political propaganda designed to help Republican candidates in the November 3 midterm elections, not public service announcements.
The Trump administration was already planning to stop running the ads before Rochon's order, ?according to a separate statement ?filed with the court on Saturday.
The decision caps days of controversy over the taxpayer-funded advertisements, which were aired in the final weeks ?before the midterm elections.
"We won't stop until this administration is held fully accountable, and no president from any party can waste and abuse taxpayer funds for propaganda ever again," said ?Common ?Cause President and CEO Virginia Kase Solomón.
Trump on ?Monday said he considered the ?ads to be a "positive promotion for our great U.S.A." but that they would no longer be funded by taxpayers, and the White House said this week that the president's political action committee, MAGA PAC, would fund the ads going forward.
The White House said Trump's political action committee will not reimburse taxpayers for the ads that have already ?run. The ads end with a disclaimer saying they ?were paid for by the US government. The ?Justice Department did not immediately respond ?to a request for comment about the judge's order.
The plaintiffs, which ?also included a public employee union ?and a candidate for ?Alabama state representative, had asked Rochon to temporarily block the ads by Friday so that they could not air du
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Oct 11, 2026
By Jana Choukeir, Maha El Dahan, Timour Azhari and Yasmine Ghania
DUBAI/RIYADH, Oct 11 (Reuters) - One person was killed and nearly a dozen hurt in a new attack Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities reported, a day after a strike claimed by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.
Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen said an unidentified ?projectile had targeted Riyadh's international airport Terminal 4 on Sunday, causing a fire. Eleven people were wounded in addition to the fatality, the Saudi civil aviation authority said.
Coalition forces also said Saudi ?air defences had intercepted a cruise missile in the vicinity of King Khalid International Airport. They later added that a drone had been intercepted and destroyed in the country's Eastern Province, and a ballistic missile launched towards Khamis Mushait had been intercepted. Emergency alerts were ?also issued in Abha, in the south, early on Monday but the danger had since passed, the Saudi Civil Defense said.
The strikes have exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi defence capabilities as the kingdom wages an air campaign against the Houthis, who are fighting a ground war in Yemen against the Saudi-backed Yemeni government.
Footage released by Saudi state television of the Saturday attack on the Riyadh airport showed scores of religious pilgrims lined up at a gate as they prepared to travel to Islam's two holiest sites. A bright orange flash sent people running in panic, while parts of the roof appeared to cave in.
The airport was closed after the attack, the deadliest in the kingdom in ?more than a decade.
HOUTHIS CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR OTHER ATTACKS
In a televised speech ?on Sunday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack and said the group had also struck the airport in Dammam in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province and two facilitie
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Oct 11, 2026
A tiger is shown at the Saint Louis Zoo in St. Louis on Dec. 3, 2012. Officials at a wildlife park in Britain said Sunday a tiger that mauled a man to death after he entered its enclosure would not be euthanized. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A British zoo where a man was mauled to death by a tiger over the weekend said Sunday it will not euthanize the animal.
The tiger, named Altai, will not be put to death after the incident in which police said the man was killed after entering the big cat's enclosure at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, England.
"We would like to thank everyone who has expressed their concern following yesterday's tragic incident," the zoo said in a social media statement issued Sunday. "Our thoughts and heartfelt sympathies remain with the family and loved ones of the man who sadly lost his life."
Park officials said the facility would remain closed to give its staff time to recover from the incident.
"Many, many people have contacted us about Altai, the tiger," they added. "We can reassure everyone that he is safe and well and will not be euthanized as a result of this incident."
South Yorkshire Police said they received reports of a man entering Altai's enclosure at 1:35 p.m. local time on Saturday.
"The tiger subsequently attacked the man, resulting in serious injury," they said
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Oct 11, 2026
The Secret Service is working out how to handle threats that have evolved beyond a lone gunman to attack drones.
Deputy Director Matthew Quinn is leading the agency's new multimillion-dollar program to develop offensive and defensive drone capabilities. Among the new tools in the agency's arsenal is an artificial intelligence and radar-guided drone hunter, which disables enemy drones and captures them with a net.
"Swarms are a huge problem and a big threat," Quinn said. "I'd love to tell you the swarm problem is solved. It's not. I will tell you that at the White House, White House is the safest place on Earth."
Drones and the Secret Service The war in Ukraine has become a testing ground for the weaponization of drones. And that hasn't gone unnoticed by the Secret Service.
"We know that technology is going to hit the homeland at some point," Quinn said. "So we're using lessons learned there to build our program and make sure we're ahead of it before it gets here."
It's about planning ahead, Secret Service Director Sean Curran said.
"We have to assume that it's possible," Curran said. "The second we're not, we're going to get caught flat-footed."
The concern is that a small, rudimentary drone could be weaponized with explosives and do serious damage to a large concert, sporting event or campaign rally. 60 Minutes has learned the Secret Service used electronic jamming equipment to take down a drone at the December Arm
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Oct 11, 2026
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on President Donald Trump to "immediately reverse course" on his decision to allow Russian diesel imports, accusing the administration of violating federal law and handing Moscow a financial lifeline as it wages war against Ukraine.
"President Trump's decision to allow Russian diesel imports to the U.S. runs directly counter to that law," the senators said in a statement released Sunday, citing Congress' 2022 ban on Russian energy imports. "The Administration has also failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute."
The rebuke includes four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and John Curtis (Utah) — along with Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.). Shaheen is the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Trump announced Friday that Russia would supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel fuel "to the American and Global Marketplace" following a discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Treasury Department subsequently issued a general license allowing Russian diesel imports into the U.S. through April 2027.
The move comes as Trump scrambles to try to bring down fuel prices ahead of the midterms, with the Iran war — now in its seventh month — contributing to the surge in costs. In September, the average price of diesel hit a record $6.53 per gallon, according to AAA.
"The United States should not provide Putin with a financial lifeline while Russia co
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Oct 11, 2026
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on President Donald Trump to "immediately reverse course" on his decision to allow Russian diesel imports, accusing the administration of violating federal law and handing Moscow a financial lifeline as it wages war against Ukraine.
"President Trump's decision to allow Russian diesel imports to the U.S. runs directly counter to that law," the senators said in a statement released Sunday, citing Congress' 2022 ban on Russian energy imports. "The Administration has also failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute."
The rebuke includes four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and John Curtis (Utah) — along with Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.). Shaheen is the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Trump announced Friday that Russia would supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel fuel "to the American and Global Marketplace" following a discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Treasury Department subsequently issued a general license allowing Russian diesel imports into the U.S. through April 2027.
The move comes as Trump scrambles to try to bring down fuel prices ahead of the midterms, with the Iran war — now in its seventh month — contributing to the surge in costs. In September, the average price of diesel hit a record $6.53 per gallon, according to AAA.
"The United States should not provide Putin with a financial lifeline while Russia co
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Oct 11, 2026
Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it would "respond decisively" against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen a day after a strike on Riyadh's international airport brought the expanding Middle East conflict home to the Saudi capital. The Houthis later claimed responsibility for the attack and warned airlines against flying to Saudi airports, calling them "potential targets."
Saturday's attack killed at least 12, according to Saudi officials, and the Indian Embassy in Riyadh said another person had died the following day from injuries sustained in that attack. More than 300 were wounded.
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The attack revealed the vulnerability of the U.S. ally and the ramifications of the Trump administration's reluctance to openly help fight the Houthis more than seven months into Washington's war with Iran.
Riyadh's airport is Saudi Arabia's second-largest for civilians and is frequently used by royals and visiting dignitaries, including President Donald Trump in his last visit to the kingdom. The airport was attacked again Sunday, igniting a fire and killing one person and injuring 11, Saudi aviation authorities said. Officials also confirmed a separate attack on another major airport on the country's east coast.
The United States is providing Saudi Arabia with intelligence support, analysts and U.S. officials say. But the administration has stopped short of the direct military assistance that officials in the kingdom and its allies in Yemen's internationally recognized government have sought.
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Oct 11, 2026
The spike in oil prices since the Iran war began this year has attracted more thieves, and they are increasingly professional criminals.
West Texas Intermediate crude is up 60% so far this year, and fuel prices have risen even more as global refining capacity has fallen due to the Mideast and Russia-Ukraine wars.
While oil theft has long been a part of the industry, the problem has become prevalent enough for the Dallas Fed to ask about in its quarterly surveys.
The latest one showed that nearly half of firms that are primarily focused in the Permian Basin said their operations have been impacted by theft in oil fields. By contrast, 86% of firms operating mostly outside the Permian said they were not impacted.
The Permian is the heart of the oil patch and the epicenter of the shale revolution that has transformed the U.S. into an energy superpower.
It stretches across the vast expanses of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico—and is dotted with drilling rigs, pipelines, trucks and other infrastructure necessities.
That's made the Permian a target-rich environment. And now that U.S. oil prices have been hovering around $100 a barrel lately, criminals can't resist the payoff.
According to the Dallas Fed survey, 32% of executives who were impacted by oil theft said it had increased slightly over the last 12 months, while 47% said it remained the same, and 22% said it decreased slightly or significantly.
Nearly half of the oil executives (47%) said the most common form of theft was targeted and organized, while 42% described it as opportunistic petty theft.
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Oct 11, 2026
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A man whose toddler was among eight people killed in a mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary.
"I think that was a front for him," Julius Windham said as he stood at a memorial to victims of Friday's shooting, including his 1-year-old daughter Amarianna, her pregnant mother and the woman's 5-year-old son and unborn baby.
"Him every day, him smiling and being just — you would think of nothing like that would happen," Windham said.
The 45-year-old gunman took his own life. Authorities have not released his name, but Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said he was related to seven of the victims. The eighth was a friend of the pregnant woman, he said. Police have not made their names public, either.
Those killed include 2 women outside the home
Mourners on Sunday placed candles, flowers and stuffed animals outside the home where the man opened fire shortly before 5 p.m. Friday. Windham wore a T-shirt with pictures of the women and children and the words, "Forever In My Heart."
"Words can't even explain what I'm going through right now," Windham said. "But I gotta be strong for my community, you know what I'm saying? My family, my daughters, my sons, everybody."
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, Lorah said. The gunman then came out and shot them as they ran toward him, before returning inside.
Responding officers found the two women dead outside. After deploying a drone and robot, they went inside and found the bodies of the 5-year-old
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Oct 11, 2026
About 70 runners and volunteers participating in Utah's Moab 240 ultramarathon were evacuated from the rugged outdoor race course on Sunday after being stranded overnight by a heavy rainstorm that hit the area, authorities said.
The San Juan County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday that it coordinated with race organizers to assist the stranded runners, who had been unable to safely leave the affected areas.
Jon G. Fuller/VWPics via AP Images - PHOTO: Canyonlands National Park, Utah, where about 70 runners participating in the Moab 240 ultramarathon became stranded, Oct. 10, 2026, due to heavy rain. Destination Trail, which organizes and manages the race, said in an update on Sunday afternoon that buses were evacuating the final group of affected participants, who were stuck at an aid station near the Bridger Jack Mesa in the Bear Ears National Monument.
"We know this isn't how anyone hoped Moab 240 would go," Destination Trail said in a social media post to the stranded participants. "So many of you trained for months and traveled a long way to be here, and we're truly sorry the race ended this way. Sometimes the weather has other plans, and when it does, everyone's safety has to come first."
ABC News - PHOTO: The remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel are fueling flood threats, October 11, 2026, along the Southern California coast and in several Western states.Race officials said additional suppli
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Oct 11, 2026
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed growing confidence that his party will regain control of the House in November, as he visited two battleground districts in recent days to help Democratic candidates unseat Republican incumbents.
Jeffries campaigned Friday in New Jersey's competitive 7th Congressional District alongside Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett, a Navy veteran seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. The following day, he traveled to Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District to rally with Democrat Bob Harvie, a Bucks County commissioner challenging Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.
The two districts are heavily suburban, fairly affluent and politically divided — and they've caused heartburn for Democrats in recent years. The moderate Fitzpatrick has a long history of outrunning other Republicans and winning crossover support since he was first elected in 2016. Control of Kean's seat has flipped twice since 2018, but he narrowly won a competitive reelection two years ago.
Democrats have invested in both races this year and view both of them as highly competitive, as they hope to take advantage of an unfavorable political environment for President Trump's party.
"We're running through the finish line
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Oct 11, 2026
A businessman wanted for years in the U.S. for allegedly paying bribes to top Venezuelan officials in exchange for lucrative state contracts in Venezuela has been taken into custody.
Alvaro Pulido was indicted in Miami federal court in 2019 and again in 2021 as part of an investigation into his longtime business partner, Alex Saab, a one-time ally of ousted President Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and State Department had been offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to his arrest.
Pulido was taken into U.S. custody after an investigation led by the DEA, FBI and Homeland Security Investigations agencies, Nicole Navas Oxman, a Homeland Security Task Force spokesperson, said Sunday.
Oxman didn't say how Pulido ended up in U.S. custody but said he will make his initial court appearance Tuesday in Miami.
Venezuelan authorities have so far been silent about the arrest, reflecting the challenge acting President Delcy Rodríguez faces in appeasing elements of the ruling coalition that want her to resist attempts by the Trump administration to round up scores of Venezuelan insiders wanted by the U.S., sometimes for years, for serious crimes ranging from corruption to drug trafficking.
The Colombian-born Pulido was arrested in Venezuela in 2023 as part of a sprawling crackdown on corruption inside state-run oil company PDVSA that was led by Rodríguez while she was serving as Maduro's vice president. She took over as Venezuela's acting president following the U.S. military's ouster of Maduro in January.
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Oct 11, 2026
A man was hospitalized after he was struck by a vehicle driven by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was allegedly pursuing him and another man on Saturday, Texas law enforcement officials and ICE said.
Maj. Anthony McConnell of the Harris County Sheriff's Office's Special Investigation Bureau told reporters that around 7:20 a.m. local time, law enforcement officers were called to Clay Road near Highway 6 just outside Houston after the unidentified ICE agent called 911 for an ambulance for the man, later identified by ICE as Miguel Parra-Hernandez, who was struck.
KTRK - PHOTO: Law enforcement officials are at the scene after a man was struck by a vehicle driven by an ICE agent during chase, according to the Harris Courty Sheriff's Office, on Oct. 10, 2026, in Harris County, Texas.An ICE spokesperson said in a statement that the agency was attempting to arrest another man, Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, a Mexican national who they allege had a criminal record and a final order of removal by a judge.
New surveillance footage shows ICE confrontation in NYC street before shootingThe ICE agent allegedly observed Mendoza-Cervantes and Parra-Hernandez, who the agency alleged was undocumented, enter a car and attempted a car stop, according to ICE.
McConnell said the ICE agent allegedly was pursuing the man and another person in their car and during the chase, the driver and the passenger left their vehicle on foot.
Surveillance video of the incident reviewed by ABC News appears to show the agent maneuvering his vehicle in the direction of the man running and striking him with the vehicle.
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Oct 11, 2026
Communities are beginning to assess the damage left behind by a powerful hurricane that tore through the region, leaving homes damaged, roads flooded and neighborhoods littered with debris.
Photos from some of the hardest-hit areas show the scale of the destruction as residents and emergency crews begin the long process of cleaning up and rebuilding.
How The Violent Category 2 Storm Unfolded Across Florida And Gulf Coast
Isaias slammed into the Florida Panhandle near Destin on Friday, Oct. 9, as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, bringing destructive winds, dangerous storm surge and widespread flooding.
The hurricane tore roofs from buildings, uprooted trees and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers across Florida and Alabama before pushing inland.
Stunning Footage Captures Hurricane Isaias From Inside The Storm's Eye
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Alex Dean cleans out his home that was severely damaged during Hurricane Isaias. Hurricane Isaias made landfall Friday, October 9 along the U.S. Gulf coast.Isaias marked the first hurricane to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast since Hurricane Milton battered Florida in October 2024, nearly two years earlier.
The storm also be
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Oct 11, 2026
Gavin Newsom has rarely shied away from a fight with Donald Trump, especially over immigration.
He didn't hesitate last year to sign into law a ban on federal immigration agents wearing masks in the state. And when he put his name on a package of legislation this year further clamping down on immigration enforcement, he said he was doing so to "push back on Trump's Orwellian immigrant tactics."
But when it came to a bill that would have required the state's public universities and community colleges to make undocumented immigrant students eligible for campus employment, Newsom balked.
Trump officials, he wrote in a message explaining his vetolast month, are "quick to wreak destruction for political spectacle." The risk of them seeking retribution against the schools was too great.
Newsom's decision to avoid confrontation prolongs a yearslong student-led push to persuade skeptical university officials to enact a first-in-the-nation policy that would benefit the roughly 60,000 undocumented students enrolled in the three school systems. And it has deflated immigrant rights activists in his home state ahead of Newsom's likely presidential run.
"There's disappointment that on this issue, the governor hasn't been willing to take a risk for a very important part of the California popula
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Oct 11, 2026
YARDLEY, Pennsylvania — Republican Brian Fitzpatrick sailed to reelection in Pennsylvania's first congressional district two years ago. But now, with just over three weeks to go until Election Day and public opinion continuing to sour on Donald Trump's presidency, Democrats smell blood in the water.
Their optimism that Fitzpatrick's Democratic opponent, Bucks County commissioner Bob Harvie, can defeat the five-term incumbent was on display on Saturday afternoon, as Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries and Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro hit the campaign trail in the leafy Philadelphia suburbs to drum up support for Harvie.
"A lot of people look at this race and think, ‘Well, this is not really one that Democrats can win,'" Harvie told POLITICO after a rally in a middle school gym in Lower Bucks County, where supporters waved red signs emblazoned with the slogan: "Fire Fitz."
"Clearly they are wrong because Leader Jeffries thinks we can win it," Harvie said. "Governor Shapiro thinks we can win it."
Jeffries' decision to campaign alongside Harvie in the final stretch underscores Democrats' growing bullishness heading into next month's midterms, when they aim to retake control of the House of Representatives and usher in a 2018-style "blue wave."
But it also illustrates the potentially risky bets party operatives are willing to place in the final stretch of campaigning, as they deploy relatively thin resources to try and expand their electoral map, including in districts that were previously seen as out of reach.
In recent days, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has committed to spending $900,000 in its bid to unseat Fitzpatrick. House Majority PAC, the House Democrats' main super PAC, has spent more than $6 million to reserve television advertisements in the race, accordi
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Oct 11, 2026
Russia has attacked a power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv despite President Donald Trump's statement earlier Sunday that both sides had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," according to Ukrainian officials.
A local official told ABC News the thermal power plant CHP-5 was struck at least twice, causing a fire. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a statement confirmed Russia had attacked the plant, as well as another in Kyiv, saying it had taken place after Trump's announcement.
Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images - PHOTO: A local resident walks through the ruins of his home following a Russian guided aerial bomb attack in Kharkiv, which killed one person and wounded eight, October 11, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Announcing the energy ceasefire earlier on social media, Trump said both Russia and Ukraine had agreed and that it would immediately come into effect, but Zelenskyy has said Ukraine was caught off guard by the announcement. Russia has yet to comment.
"Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" Trump's post said.
MORE: President Zelenskyy: 'We will stop' strikes on Russian diesel if Russia pauses attacksZelenskyy was surprised by Trump's announcement and only learned about it from social media, a senior source in Ukraine's presidential office told ABC News. Ukraine, however, was ready to accept it immediately if Russia agrees, Zelenskyy said.
Shortly before Trump's declaration, Zelenskyy told Jon Karl on "This Week" that Ukraine wanted an immediate "energy
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Oct 11, 2026
Washington — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Sunday defended the Pentagon's plan to livestream the execution of an ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, while saying that he doesn't see an "elevated risk" to U.S. security amid criticism.
"I think people need to understand, if you attack America, we will come after you and we will make sure that the punishment fits the crime," Mullin said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that the Pentagon planned to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who is set to die by firing squad on Dec. 3 in what will be the first military execution since 1961. The announcement sparked intense criticism, including from some Republicans, like Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who urged the Pentagon to reverse the "gruesome decision," saying there is "no need to livestream any execution, including this one."
"I would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America," Murkowski wrote in a post on X. "It would give this individual, who deserves no further notoriety, the martyrdom he seeks."
While Mullin defended the Pentagon's move, he said, "No one has to watch it if they don't choose to."
"I follow President Trump. He's the commander in chief of the country, and he does a phenomenal job," Mullin said. "He leads this country with a very, very, very direct, forward, straight
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Oct 11, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of six senators on Sunday called for President Donald Trump's administration to "immediately reverse course" on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices.
Trump shocked lawmakers when he announced on social media Friday that he struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call. He said Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to the American and global market, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter." Russia will deliver an additional 3 million tons "within a short period of time" after that, he wrote.
Four Republican senators and two Democratic senators signed onto the statement released Sunday in protesting the deal. They said the administration failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute.
"The United States should not provide Putin with a financial lifeline while Russia continues to kill Ukrainian civilians. The Administration must immediately reverse course," they wrote.
The Republican senators who signed onto the statement are Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Curtis of Utah. The Democratic senators are Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Tillis, in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," said there's a legitimate case for saying the president is not following the law if the administration goes through with its diesel purchase plan.
"We were very clear that Russia is the aggressor. Russia is the one who can end this war by backing out of territory that they occupied," Tillis said.
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Oct 11, 2026
Senator Roger Marshall listens as US Vice President JD Vance speaks during an event at Webco Manufacturing on September 14, in Olathe, Kansas. - Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/Getty Images
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall settled his debts this weekend with a bakery in Kansas after a bill for hundreds of treats his campaign ordered for a 2020 event sat unpaid for six years.
Holly Thomas, the owner of the shop that made cookies, brownies and cupcakes for Marshall's primary election watch party, said in a social media post on Friday that she will not vote for the senator in this year's election, where he is facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton, after he failed to pay the $678.75 he owed her small business.
"This isn't about political parties or policy disagreements. It's about my personal experience as a small business owner and the importance of honoring financial commitments," Thomas said. "That experience is why Roger Marshall will never get my vote."
Thomas said she reached out several times but never heard back, noting that the lack of payment came as her business was just beginning and at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. "Six years later, I haven't forgotten," she said.
Marshall posted a screenshot of a payment for $1,300 on Saturday, showing that he had paid the half-a-d
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Oct 11, 2026
By Andrew MacAskill
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit vote, as he warned voters in France and ?Germany about Moscow-backed efforts to influence their politics.
Burnham, who took over as Britain's ?leader in July and said last month that Britain could consider rejoining the European Union in the future, ?is the first British prime minister to say openly there was evidence of Russian interference in the referendum a decade ago.
"I asked the question coming to Downing Street, was there interference in the 2016 referendum from Russia? And I've had the clear answer that yes, there was," Burnham ?said in an interview with ?The Rest Is Politics podcast released on Sunday.
Burnham did not spell out how he believed that Russia interfered in the referendum and gave no ?details on what evidence this statement was based.
The Russian embassy in London did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Russia has previously denied meddling in the Brexit vote, casting Britain as ?gripped by ?anti-Russian hysteria.
Burnham's comments mark a departure from those ?of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, ?who campaigned to leave the EU, and said in 2020 there was no evidence of Russian interference in the referendum.
Britons voted 52%-48% to leave the EU in 2016, plunging the country into its biggest political crisis since World War Two.
Burnham said voters in European democracies needed to be better informed about efforts to disrupt their politics.
"I mean, these things are ?important now to put clearly on the record, and ?I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand ?that some of this politics is ?instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," he said.
Britain's government failed to establish ?whether Russia meddled in the 2016 referendum ?on membership of the ?EU, according to a report by p
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Oct 11, 2026
Angelina Stone (right).
Credit: gofundmeNEED TO KNOWAngelina Stone was among the nine people killed in a mass shooting in Pennsylvania on Friday, Oct. 9A family friend said that Stone was just days from giving birthInvestigators believe that the suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the incident, during which two children also diedA pregnant woman was among the nine people killed in a mass shooting in Pennsylvania.
Angelina Stone and her loved ones were identified as victims of the shooting that occurred at a home in Erie, Pa. around 5 p.m. local time on Friday, Oct. 9, according to CBS News.
The news outlet reported that Stone was just four days from giving birth. The victims also included her two children, brothers and a friend.
Family friend Lisa Simmers told CBS News, "Her two babies were on the spectrum. Innocent children, couldn't have told on that man if they wanted to, and he still killed them."
She added, "It's mind-blowing to me to understand what was happening in that house while we were standing outside. The feeling of helplessness and knowing we couldn't do anything and she was right there."
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Oct 11, 2026
The messages told him he should "rot in hell" and be thrown in jail.
His friends and family received a barrage of menacing threats.
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Strangers found his cellphone number and peppered his phone with abusive texts. His face was plastered across angry videos online. Even TMZ called him.
The messengers had wrongly concluded that the man was one of the seven Chi Phi fraternity members accused of participating in a 2024 gang rape at Cornell University, a case that has commanded public attention since the accuser, known as "Jane Doe," filed a civil lawsuit last month.
But the man, a graduate student in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, never attended Cornell - he merely shares a first and last name with one of the accused men. To make matters clear, he recently changed his LinkedIn bio to read, "I do NOT go to Cornell."
As the Cornell case has fueled public debate, it has inspired a frenzy of online sleuths, who are racing to identify and expose personal information about Jane Doe and the men she has accused, a phenomenon called "doxing."
Since Jane Doe filed the lawsuit, she has faced death threats and been confronted at her home by armed police after someone made a false report, an action called swatting, according to Thomas Giuffra, her attorney.
In their rush, the digital vigilantes have made errors - falsely identifying a slew of people who are not connected to the case.
At least three other women have been misidentified as Jane Doe on social media, Giuffra said, prompting a wave of videos in which women declare, "I am Jane Doe," to show solidarity with the accuser and attempt to
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Oct 11, 2026
Deadly storm Isaias is forecast to bring heavy rains, potential flash flooding and possible tornadoes along its path Sunday, Oct. 11, as the former hurricane makes its way through the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic region.
The storm came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane near Destin, Florida, late on Oct. 9, tearing down trees and snapping power lines. At least four people have been reported killed in the storm, two each in Alabama and Florida, authorities said.
The storm is now a post-tropical cyclone moving northeast, according to the National Hurricane Center.
What is Isaias' storm track and threat today?
The National Hurricane Center predicts Isaias will drop heavy rain across the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic on Sunday, Oct. 11, bringing potential isolated and urban flooding. There's also a chance for some tornadoes in the Piedmont and coastal plain area of Virginia and North Carolina.
The storm will also bring strong wind gusts across the southeast, particularly near the southern Appalachians, the center forecast. Scattered power outages and downed trees remain likely, the center said. Additionally, ocean swells continue affecting the Gulf and so
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Oct 11, 2026
By Andrea Shalal
BANGKOK, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Finance officials from around the world will gather in Bangkok this week under the shadow of a widening war in the Middle East, the biggest-ever energy supply shock and rising interest rates that together pose daunting risks to already-sluggish global economic growth.
The US-Israeli-led war with Iran, now in its eighth month, and its inflationary impact, will dominate the agenda and sideline conversations during the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, being held ?outside of Washington for the first time in three years.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told Reuters during a tour of the 300,000 square-meter Queen Sirikit National Convention Center on Sunday evening that 18,000 people were registered to attend the meetings, 4,000 more than the ?last off-site meetings held in Morocco in October 2023.
SEVERAL FINANCE MINISTERS STAYING AWAY
Notably absent will be US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who dispatched two senior officials in his stead while he handles some "domestic engagements," a US official said. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Kevin Warsh will attend and is slated to participate in a public event with Georgieva on October 16.
Several other ?finance ministers were also staying home due to domestic budget and election duties, but most central bankers would attend, Georgieva said.
Bessent's decision to skip the high-profile gathering and a meeting of the Group of 20 major economies, which the U.S. leads this year, may frustrate counterparts amid rising tensions over the Iran war, Ukraine's battle against Russia's invasion and the U.S. move to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
World Bank President Ajay Banga told Reuters that while global growth had held up better than feared when Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, shutting off some 20% of the world's oil, pressures were buil
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Oct 11, 2026
President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to an "energy ceasefire" as part of the ongoing conflict. There was no immediate confirmation from Moscow, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly said this "was news for me."
Trump made a similar announcement a month ago, only for the two sides to continue their aerial attacks on each other's energy facilities.
"Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine," Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday morning. "Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" He did not elaborate further on what the ceasefire might include.
Zelenskyy told Axios that he knew nothing about a ceasefire deal.
"But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire Ukraine will agree," Zelenskyy said, according to Axios. "If President Trump negotiated it with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin — please tell us when the ceasefire begins — we are ready and we will accept it."
NBC News has reached out to Zelenskyy's office for further comment.
It follows a dramatic few days in which Trump agreed to a diesel deal with the Kremlin, demanded Kyiv halt attacks on Russian oil refineries and called for Zelenskyy to be replaced. The shift left Kyiv and its European allies reeling.
The U.S. agreed Friday to lift sanctions on Russian fuel in a deal that Trump said would see Russia "immediately" release 300,000 tons of diesel "to the American and global marketplace," followed by 500,000 tons in November and another million after that.
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Oct 11, 2026
The Trump administration is reportedly weighing whether to remove U.S. ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle from her role as new allegations emerge that wealthy Greek businessmen paid for her luxury travel while she used her diplomatic position to lobby their business interests.
According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, senior Trump administration officials are discussing Guilfoyle's future and a decision from President Trump is expected soon.
During January's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Guilfoyle allegedly boasted about her connections to the wealthy businessmen while trying to secure an invitation from an American businessman to a dinner honoring the president's son, Eric Trump, according to an audio recording reviewed by the Journal.
"You know, I can deliver the world to you. Which you deserve," Guilfoyle told the American businessman in the audio. "I'm going to make you a lot of f—ing money."
The State Department's inspector general is also investigating whether the ambassador accepted gifts or favors from private businessmen, according to the Journal, who cited a person familiar with the matter.
The Hill has reached out to the White House and the State Department for comment.
The government watchdog's probe comes after former attorney and longtime Trump ally Eric Deters accused her o
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Oct 11, 2026
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — People in the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama cleaned up after Hurricane Isaias swept through as the storm's remnants caused flooding in North Carolina on Sunday, while powerful Pacific Ocean waves stirred up by Rachel, a former tropical storm, battered the coast of Southern California.
In western North Carolina, rivers overflowed as heavy rainfall raised the risk of flash and urban flooding, according to the National Weather Service. It said tornadoes were possible in parts of Virginia and North Carolina as well as dangerous surf and rip current conditions along the Gulf and southeastern Atlantic coasts.
At least four deaths were linked to Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, which came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane Friday near Destin, Florida, a Gulf Coast vacation spot filled with high-rises and tourist shops. The storm then roared into Alabama with tropical-force winds before heading farther north.
In Florida's Escambia County, Sheriff Chip Simmons said a woman was killed when a tree fell on her home and a man died of carbon monoxide fumes from a generator running in his garage.
One person died when a tree fell on a house in Birmingham, said Cory Moon, the city's fire chief. A second storm-related death in Alabama was attributed to a motor vehicle crash involving a downed tree in Barbour County, said Josh Johnson of the state's emergency management agency.
Heavy rains cause problems in North Carolina
In Burke County, North Carolina, an unhoused male and female were camping when floodwaters from the Catawba
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Oct 11, 2026
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — People in the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama cleaned up after Hurricane Isaias swept through as the storm's remnants caused flooding in North Carolina on Sunday, while powerful Pacific Ocean waves stirred up by Rachel, a former tropical storm, battered the coast of Southern California.
In western North Carolina, rivers overflowed as heavy rainfall raised the risk of flash and urban flooding, according to the National Weather Service. It said tornadoes were possible in parts of Virginia and North Carolina as well as dangerous surf and rip current conditions along the Gulf and southeastern Atlantic coasts.
At least four deaths were linked to Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, which came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane Friday near Destin, Florida, a Gulf Coast vacation spot filled with high-rises and tourist shops. The storm then roared into Alabama with tropical-force winds before heading farther north.
In Florida's Escambia County, Sheriff Chip Simmons said a woman was killed when a tree fell on her home and a man died of carbon monoxide fumes from a generator running in his garage.
One person died when a tree fell on a house in Birmingham, said Cory Moon, the city's fire chief. A second storm-related death in Alabama was attributed to a motor vehicle crash involving a downed tree in Barbour County, said Josh Johnson of the state's emergency management agency.
Heavy rains cause problems in North Carolina
In Burke County, North Carolina, an unhoused male and female were camping when floodwaters from the Catawba
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Oct 11, 2026
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed, holding a handheld mic and wearing his signature V-neck black shirt, slowly shook his head as a woman at his town hall described how she burned through her savings after undergoing emergency brain surgery.
"I'm really sorry for your experience, and I hope that you're on the mend," said El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, after outlining proposals for guaranteed health care and paid leave.
Later that night, while talking to reporters in the basement below the theatre, his tone was far different. El-Sayed called his Republican opponent Mike Rogers a "coward," said President Donald Trump was "afraid" to visit the state and dismissed as "dumb" a question about whether Iran or Israel posed a greater threat to the United States.
The exchanges captured two sides of a candidate who is the central figure in one of the nation's most consequential Senate races. El-Sayed would be the country's first Muslim senator, and he's crisscrossing the state to counter a Republican effort, fueled by tens of millions of dollars, to portray him as a dangerous radical. But he has also embraced his confrontational side by mocking and taunting Trump and Rogers.
"If they want to make me the main character in the midterms, I'm not shying away from it," El-Sayed said in an interview. "Run against me. See how well that works out for you."
El-Sayed's brash, swaggering confidence rubbed some Democrats the wrong way during a divisive primary against Rep. Haley Stevens. The former public hea
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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
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has tapped Attorney General Letitia James (right) to be the special prosecutor in the Cornell University sexual assault case. They attended a press conference on October 2 in New York. - NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx/AP
When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Attorney General Letitia James to take over the investigation into an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house at Cornell University, she asked for a "fresh and thorough" review of all the evidence.
And there is a lot of evidence.
Far from the two-party "he said-she said" structure of many sexual assault allegations, the Cornell case features seven men accused of wrongdoing in a civil suit filed by the woman known as Jane Doe. There are interviews with Doe, the accused men and other witnesses; scores of texts and Snapchat posts; secretly recorded phone calls; and lengthy, conflicting reports from the police, district attorney and university investigators about who knew what when.
In all, it's a far cry from the
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Oct 11, 2026
Election Day 2020 was fast approaching, and Alexander Kolodin wanted a spot inside the Arizona Republican Party's war room.
Kolodin, an attorney who had lost a GOP primary for the state Senate that summer, was seen as something of a gadfly by some in the state GOP and hardly seen at all by others. But the Republicans running the show allowed him into an auxiliary war room on another floor of the hotel, distanced from the real action, one party leader recalled. People there "could say they were in the war room," he said. "If we needed something, then we'd call."
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Kolodin didn't wait to be summoned. On Election Day, complaints began flooding in about ballots marked with Sharpie markers. Soon, supporters of President Donald Trump were blaming Sharpies for what looked like a loss in Arizona.
The Arizona Republican Party had investigated the matter and determined that Sharpies had not in fact caused problems. So its leaders were surprised when they learned that Kolodin was filing a lawsuit demanding that voters who used Sharpies be given a chance to vote again.
The suit was filed the day after the election, the first of several challenges Kolodin championed over the 2020 results. Each failed in court, and they led to sanctions from the state bar association. But Kolodin's embrace of these claims catapulted him from a little-known attorney who badly lost his first campaign for office to a leading figure in Arizona politics and this year's Republican nominee for secretary of state.
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Oct 11, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an "energy ceasefire" without offering specifics on terms. Neither side immediately commented on such an agreement.
The announcement comes a day after Trump blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for attacking diesel facilities in Russia and contributing to a global shortage. Russia and Ukraine have repeatedly attacked each other's energy infrastructure during the war.
Trump's brief post said only that the ceasefire takes effect immediately and that both sides had agreed to it. "Do not break it!" he said in his social media post.
The White House did not immediately clarify the president's post or add detail.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back for updates. AP's earlier story follows below.
Only Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday as he vowed to press ahead with strikes on Russian oil refineries, despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump, who blamed him for high diesel prices and said he should be replaced.
The exchange came as Kyiv pressed its campaign against infrastructure deep inside Russia, with a drone attack on Sunday shutting down a data center run by Russian technology giant Yandex, the third strike on the company's facilities in four days. 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 will be ready to stop striking Russian oil refineries if Russia stops striking our energy infrastructure," Zelenskyy wrote on X.
"It i
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Oct 11, 2026
CAIRO (AP) — A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said. The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others.
Saudi authorities said there were injuries in the latest attack on the King Khalid International Airport complex for terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights. Saturday's missile attack was the deadliest in a Gulf Arab nation since the Iran war began, with another 300 people wounded, some critically. The airport was still closed Sunday.
The sharp escalation in the new front in the war threatens to draw in greater U.S. military involvement, as President Donald Trump has said he is weighing joining the fight against the Houthis. There was no immediate White House comment Sunday.
The latest strike in Riyadh came shortly after the Houthis said the airport in the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sanaa had been struck again, and blamed the Saudis.
At stake, again, in this escalation are global supplies and prices of oil as well as commercial shipping through a crucial alternative waterway to the Iran-threatened Strait of Hormuz — along with civilians and aviation throughout the region.
Trump said he planned to speak to Saudi crown prince
Trump on Saturday also said he planned to speak with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been seeking assistance.
A U.S. intervention could prompt the Houthis to halt shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the sout
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Oct 11, 2026
CAIRO (AP) — A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said. The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others.
Saudi authorities said there were injuries in the latest attack on the King Khalid International Airport complex for terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights. Saturday's missile attack was the deadliest in a Gulf Arab nation since the Iran war began, with another 300 people wounded, some critically. The airport was still closed Sunday.
The sharp escalation in the new front in the war threatens to draw in greater U.S. military involvement, as President Donald Trump has said he is weighing joining the fight against the Houthis. There was no immediate White House comment Sunday.
India's embassy in Saudi Arabia said one of its citizens died Sunday of injuries sustained in Saturday's attack, which would bring the toll to 13. Saudi authorities later said King Fahd International Airport in Dammam also had been attacked, with few details. The city is on the Persian Gulf near Bahrain and Qatar.
The latest strike in Riyadh came shortly after the Houthis said the airport in the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sanaa had been struck again, and blamed the Saudis.
At stake, again, in this escalation are global supplies and prices of oil as well as commercial shipping through a crucial alternative waterway to the Iran-threatened Strait of Hormuz — along with civilians and aviation throughout the region.
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Oct 11, 2026
CAIRO (AP) — Saudi authorities said Sunday that King Fahd International Airport in Dammam has been attacked, with few details. The city is on the Persian Gulf near Bahrain and Qatar.
The statement came hours after authorities said the international airport in the capital, Riyadh, had been attacked once again. The Flightradar24 monitor noted at least one flight diverting from the airport in Dammam.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen have been claiming a series of attacks in the past week on Saudi airports and military and oil facilities.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back for updates. AP's earlier story follows below.
A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said. The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others.
Saudi authorities said there were injuries in the latest attack on the King Khalid International Airport complex for terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights. Saturday's missile attack was the deadliest in a Gulf Arab nation since the Iran war began, with another 300 people wounded, some critically. The airport was still closed Sunday.
The sharp escalation in the new front in the war threatens to draw in greater U.S. military involvement, as President Donald Trump has said he is weighing joining the fight against the Houthis. There was no immediate White House comment Sunday.
India's embassy in Saudi Arabia said one of its citizens died
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Oct 11, 2026
(NewsNation) — Americans taking popular GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound may be facing a new financial dilemma: save for retirement or pay for the drugs helping improve their health. A new survey from the Nationwide Retirement Institute found that 51% of current GLP-1 users worry they may have to choose between medication costs and retirement savings.
The survey suggests those concerns are already affecting financial decisions. According to Nationwide, 54% of current users have changed their financial behavior to afford the medications, including 17% who have taken on debt, 14% who have withdrawn money from savings or retirement accounts and 14% who have reduced retirement contributions.
Counterfeit Ozempic scheme traced to China, feds say
Out-of-pocket costs remain a major challenge, especially for patients whose insurance does not fully cover treatment. According to InvestmentNews, users without full coverage spend an average of $203 a month out of pocket, even as many expect to remain on the drugs long term to maintain weight-loss and metabolic benefits.
Yet many users believe the health benefits may outweigh the financial sac
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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
Wall Street's biggest banks entered the second half of 2026 after one of their most profitable six-month runs in at least a decade. Then interest rates surged.
When they kick off third quarter earnings on Tuesday, starting with JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), and Citigroup (C), followed by Bank of America (BAC) and Morgan Stanley (MS) on Wednesday, investors will be hunting for clues around whether sharply rising interest rates are beginning to spoil the first-half boom.
Profits at these giants should fall from last quarter, as their revenues from trading, dealmaking, and financing are expected to retreat from the levels that powered standout second quarter results, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Still, most are expected to show profits rose from a year ago, with Bank of America and Morgan Stanley expected to prove the exceptions.
"Right now, you look out the window, and it feels okay. I think this is more about the risks than what's happening out the window," said Brendan Coughlin, president of regional lender Citizens Financial Group (CFG), which reports later next week.
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Oct 10, 2026
For months, Republican donors insisted they didn't want to bankroll Ken Paxton's Texas Senate race after President Donald Trump endorsed him over long-time incumbent John Cornyn.
To them, that decision made bailing out Paxton the president's responsibility.
But polls have deteriorated in the weeks ahead of the midterm election so much so that many of these same donors are dropping their objections. The only thing that matters now, they say, is keeping the Senate - by whatever means necessary.
The change underscores the perilous state of the GOP, which finds itself confronting a darkening map where "the fires are everywhere" and which possibly portends the loss of multiple Senate races in states Trump won by double digits two years ago.
"The Senate's the firewall of freedom. As donors sort of handicap what is the most important factor for protecting policy priorities, it's the Senate," said Jason Thielman, former executive director of the NRSC and partner at political consulting firm S2R. "So you lick your wounds if your guy doesn't win and get in line."
MAGA Inc. and its affiliates are expected to spend almost $45 million on boosting Paxton, the state's attorney general, via direct mail, TV and digital advertising in Texas through Oct. 12.
But, with polls consistently showing Paxton trailing Democrat James Talarico, the Senate Leadership Fund, which is the GOP's top Senate super PAC, pour
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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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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.
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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.
95% of affected customers should have power restored by Monday, FPL says
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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.
An Associated
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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.
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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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