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Typhoon Champi strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 4 typhoon in less than a day. As of 7 p.m. Saturday Guam time it had sustained winds of 130 mph about 140 miles east-southeast of Guam, with closest approach expected around sunrise Sunday…
✔ Sources: Guam Daily Post, Pacific Island Times, Scripps News / ABC 10News
French authorities said about 550,000 people protested across France on Saturday, including about 110,000 in Paris. A movement that began at a high school near Paris over run-down buildings, overcrowded classrooms and teacher shortages was joined by unions…
✔ Sources: Al Jazeera, Euronews
President Trump held a midterm rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky, for Republican House candidate Ed Gallrein and asked voters to "pretend that I'm on the ballot." The same day, No Kings events across the country, billed by organizers as nonpartisan,…
✔ Sources: AP via KPRC, AP via PBS NewsHour, Newsweek
Pope Leo XIV left Rome's Gemelli hospital and returned to the Vatican on Saturday, four days after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung. Tests confirmed adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer. He said he was "much better." Doctors…
✔ Sources: AP via MPR News, Al Jazeera
Unranked Florida beat No. 7 Texas 27-24 in Austin, scoring 17 unanswered points in the second half. It was Texas's first home loss since the middle of the 2024 season and its second straight loss; the Longhorns fell to 4-2.
✔ Sources: NBC Sports, On3
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