The week's biggest stories and where they stand now, stories you may have missed, and what to watch this week.
Hurricane Isaias, the season's first Atlantic hurricane, made landfall near Destin, Florida, Friday evening as a Category 2 storm. At least four people died in Alabama and Florida, outages peaked above 884,000 customers, and roughly 400,000 were still without power early Sunday as the storm's remnants faded over Tennessee.
An attack Saturday on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed at least 12 people and wounded about 300, Saudi officials said. Saudi Arabia blames Yemen's Houthis, who had not claimed this strike. President Trump said the U.S. 'may' join Saudi strikes.
President Trump said Saturday it's time for Ukraine to get a new president, after a deal to let Russian diesel be exported. Ukrainian President Zelensky called the deal unfair and said it's up to Ukrainians to choose their leader, offering elections if Russia agrees to a 60-day ceasefire.
Flávio Bolsonaro won 47.03% to President Lula's 45.16% in Brazil's first round on Oct. 4. A Datafolha poll taken Oct. 6–7 shows Bolsonaro at 49% and Lula at 45%, which Reuters called a technical tie. The runoff is Oct. 25.
The 10-year Treasury yield touched 5.35% intraday on Oct. 7, its highest since 2002, as Fed minutes showed most officials expect another rate hike this year. On Oct. 9, President Trump created a committee to hold a Nov. 5 hearing on whether there is cause to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook over 2021 mortgage applications; Cook denies wrongdoing.
The 2026 Nobel Prizes went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel (medicine), Francis Halzen (physics), Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai (chemistry), Anne Carson (literature) and Navi Pillay (peace). The economics prize is announced Monday.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Herrera province in Panama on Oct. 9, the USGS said, followed by a 6.6 quake and dozens of aftershocks. Several people were injured, with no deaths immediately reported; churches were damaged and the Panama Canal kept operating.
A worker at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died Oct. 2 of what Russian authorities call pneumonia of unknown cause. Russia says no plague case was registered; the WHO says the cause is still unknown and has asked Russia for more information. About 200 contacts were quarantined or monitored.
Three safety researchers fired by OpenAI published an open letter saying the company puts corporate interests ahead of safety. OpenAI says they violated policies on handling sensitive information and that the firings were not about safety concerns; the researchers deny leaking.
President Trump said automatic enrollment is complete, giving about 70 million children an investment account. Parents must claim an account for eligible children born 2025 through 2028 to get the $1,000 federal deposit; the yearly contribution limit is $5,000.
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