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Man slashes two people while barricaded inside apartment, police say
A 52-year-old man slashed a man and a woman while barricaded inside an apartment in the neighborhood of Edgemere in Queens, officials say. Police responded to the scene at 11:48 PM on Friday night. One of the officers discharged their firearm when trying to break into the apartment. No one was injured as a result.NYPD officers found a 57-year-old woman who had been slashed in the hand and feet. They also found a 53-year-old man with slash wounds in his hand and arms.Emergency services transported the suspect and the two victims to Jamaica Medical Center where they remain stable condition.Officers took the 52-year-old man into custody, but have not charged him yet.The investigation is ongoing.
9 dead, including children, in mass shooting in Pennsylvania
A man killed eight people including a pregnant woman, children and other relatives at his home in Erie, Pennsylvania, about 120 miles north of Pittsburgh, before taking his own life as well, authorities said Saturday.Police first responded to a home on Friday, Oct. 9, around 5 p.m., after witnesses reported seeing a gunman firing shots outside the house before entering the residence.When police arrived, they found two women who had been shot to death in the street.The shooting escalated into a standoff as Erie Police and SWAT teams surrounded the home. More shots were then heard inside the home. When police entered, they found the bodies of seven other people, including children, as well as the gunman who died from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to investigators.Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah described the incident as one of the most difficult and heartbreaking scenes he had ever encountered."The loss of life is devastating and the circumstances we are working through are deeply disturbing," Chief Lorah said. "At this time, we can confirm that the suspect is deceased. Based on the information currently available to us, there is no ongoing threat to the public. Our hearts are with the victims, their families, and everyone affected by this tragedy. There are no words that can be adequately express the magnitude of the loss of life here."Investigators are currently working to determine what led to the shooting."We will not speculate about a motive, or at least information that could compromise this investigation," Chief Lorah said. "It’s just a devastating loss of life. It’s a terrible, terrible scene at this point, and we just need time to piece together what happened here."This story originally appeared on NBCPhiladelphia.com.
Hundreds of thousands without power after Isaias slams the Florida Panhandle and Alabama
Hurricane Isaias has hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The storm made landfall Friday as a Category 2 hurricane near Destin, Florida. It caused flooding and downed trees as it moved inland. Forecasters warn of life-threatening ...
Twelve killed and hundreds injured in Houthi attack at Riyadh airport
Donald Trump says he is evaluating whether the US should join Saudi strikes against the Iran-backed Yemeni rebelsYemen's Houthis have launched a missile attack on Riyadh's international airport in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 12 people and leaving hundreds wounded, the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority has said.Operations at King Khalid international airport in Riyadh were suspended, it said, as more than a dozen ambulances rushed to the airport. More than 300 people were reported injured. Continue reading...
4 dead from storm as Isaias brings threat of floods across the Southeast
Isaias peeled off hotel and condominium rooftops and facades along the Florida Panhandle before charging north Saturday, dishing out torrential rains and the threat of flash floods and tornadoes across the Southeast. At least four deaths were linked to the storm, including two people killed when trees fell onto homes in Florida and Alabama. Forecasters warned that flooding could stretch into the Appalachians.Isaias 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 weakened overnight but remained dangerous.Despite warnings of storm surges ahead of the storm, several major routes along the coast were open by daybreak Saturday and free of downed trees and power lines typically seen after major hurricanes. Scattered damage across the Gulf CoastWithin the first hours after landfall, nearly 900,000 customers were without power, mostly in Florida and Alabama. Hurricane-force winds in the Florida Panhandle blew the roof off a Pensacola hotel, and the city's mayor said the airport "took some damage." The storm flattened a boathouse in Destin and ripped away part of the facade of a high-rise in Panama City Beach. A worker in a condominium parking lot swept piles of the building’s insulation while others put back beach chairs that had been tossed about. 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. Four of the man’s family members, ranging in age from 4 to 72, were treated but expected to survive, the sheriff said.Nearby in Gulf Breeze, Jayme Mitich wiped tears away Saturday as she surveyed the damage to her apartment. Her living room was soaked and covered in insulation. She and her 13-year-old daughter, Jeweliana Jackson, hid beneath a mattress before the storm tore off part of their roof. "The noise got so loud, and I just kept hearing things break and crash into everything," Mitich said. The rest of their apartment complex was littered with roof shingles and broken beams from a wooden fence. The winds uprooted trees and flipped a truck on its side. "It's going to be OK," Mitich said. "No matter what, we're going to make it."Isaias hits Alabama with devastating windsIsaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, roared farther into Alabama with tropical-force winds. 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. Along Alabama’s Gulf Coast, authorities in Mobile reported numerous downed trees and power lines.Maranie Adams, who rode out the storm with her family and their chickens in Gulf Shores, Alabama, said the winds rocked their home, but it was nothing like Hurricane Sally, which left water under their elevated house."I feel very much more relieved today," she said.Wind and rain still threaten the Southeast President Donald Trump approved an emergency declaration for Georgia after earlier doing the same for Florida and Alabama, allowing for federal aid. The U.S. Energy Department authorized emergency exchanges of crude oil from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve to address disruptions in supply because of the storm.The Atlantic hurricane season has been unusually quiet this year, and Isaias was the first hurricane to hit the eastern U.S. since 2024.The National Weather Service advised that parts of Georgia and the Carolinas could see heavy rains capable of causing flash floods. The storm was expected to move into the Tennessee Valley and then the mid-Atlantic on Sunday.A pair of storms in the Pacific Ocean Meanwhile, in the Pacific, Simon strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane as it approached Mexico's coast. Simon was expected to bring heavy rainfall beginning Sunday to parts of southwestern Mexico with life-threatening flooding and mudslides.Tropical Storm Rachel was also expected to bring heavy winds and rain to northern Mexico and Southern California over the weekend.___Casey reported from Boston. Associated Press reporters Sophie Bates in Gulf Breeze, Thomas Strong in Washington, Julie Walker in New York, Tim Sullivan in Minneapolis and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.
Christa Pike out of hospital and back in prison after botched execution attempt
Pike's lawyers said she is back in same prison she's lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical careChrista Pike has been discharged from the hospital after surviving Tennessee's botched 30 September attempt to execute her by lethal injection and is back in prison, her lawyers said on Saturday.Pike, 50, returned to the Deborah K Johnson rehabilitation center, where she has been imprisoned for the last three decades, her attorneys, Stephen Ferrell, Luke Ihnen, Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason, said in a statement. Continue reading...
Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for U.S. diesel prices
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 Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted last month and published Oct. 1 found that Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of Iran, and blame him for higher prices.Trump also suggested that if he had been U.S. president in 2022, "that war would have never started. There was no reason that war with Ukraine and Russia started. It started due to incompetence."Zelenskyy has "lost 30% of your country and you've had over a million people go between the two of them, over 2 million people killed. That's a war that should have never started. And I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president," Trump said. Independent estimates are that about 20% of Ukraine’s territory is under Russian control. British defense officials recently estimated that about half a million Russian soldiers have been killed in the war; there are no reliable recent estimates about how many Ukrainians have died.20 people killed in Russian bombing in Ukraine Saturday Trump’s extraordinary intervention came after Russian strikes killed at least 20 people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.Three children were among those killed when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said Saturday. At least 18 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.Anger in Kyiv at Trump's deal with Putin"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 Zelenskyy wrote Saturday on X. He said every additional billion dollars Russia earns from exports would help pay for weapons components, drone upgrades, missile production and the recruitment of mercenaries, and that Moscow would only be ready to stop when its ability to fight diminished.Zelenskyy said Ukraine was coordinating steps to counter the extra revenue Russia will receive, and that he had spoken to French President Emmanuel Macron about shoring up air defenses, warning of an increased risk of further missile strikes in the coming days.Trump announced Friday that Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter." Russia will deliver an additional 3 million tons "within a short period of time" after that, he wrote. In Kyiv, people gathered at a memorial to fallen soldiers on Independence Square greeted the deal with a mix of anger and resignation."Trump has once again shown his true face," said Oleksandr Petrenko, 26. "He didn't care about the situation, the shelling or the destruction of our homes. All he's interested in is oil or the fuel prices and how much Americans have to pay."For Oksana Yakunina, a financial adviser from the central city of Kropyvnytskyi, the announcement "didn't really come as a surprise.""Trump has been working with Putin for a long time," she told The Associated Press.European allies question U.S.-Russia dealUkraine’s European allies also expressed dismay at the deal and said they stood by their commitment to sanctions.Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Stockholm regretted the agreement, "as energy revenues are central to the Russian war chest," and noted that the European Union would adopt its most comprehensive sanctions package yet on Monday, with 1,600 listings targeting Russia's military-industrial complex.The German government "remains committed to the sanctions imposed on Russia and is working with its European partners on further sanctions," spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said, adding that support for Ukraine "remains unwavering."Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski questioned whether Russia could deliver at all. Citing his embassy's reports of fuel shortages even in Moscow, and "serious sources" saying Ukraine has damaged about half of Russia's refining capacity, he asked on X: "So where will the surpluses for export come from?"Trump's announcement was in stark contrast to a sweeping Russia sanctions law he signed last month that aimed at clamping down on the oil and gas revenues that fuel Russia's war against Ukraine. Trump announced the deal as his envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Ukrainian officials in Miami on Friday to discuss a proposal to end the war. Speaking about Friday's announcement, a senior Ukrainian official told AP that the Ukrainian side was not aware of the deal before the announcement. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly, said Saturday the diesel deal announcement was not tied to anything under discussion in Florida. He confirmed the Ukrainian delegation had left Florida and were on their way back to Ukraine.___Daly reported from Washington and Morton reported from London. Associated Press journalists Bela Szandelszky in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Collin Binkley in Washington contributed to this report.
Russian strikes kill 12 in Ukraine after Trump announces diesel deal with Putin
A recent barrage of Russian airstrikes in Zaporizhzhia claimed at least 12 lives, including those of children. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced a fresh diesel agreement forged by Donald Trump with Russia, highlighting concerns that such deals could fuel the persistent conflict in Ukraine. Zelenskyy emphasized that relaxing sanctions may encourage further military actions from Russia, underscoring the intricate and precarious nature of the current geopolitical landscape.
Watch: Drones take to Delhi skies ahead of CJP protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar
In anticipation of the Cockroach Janta Party's protest in central Delhi, drones and a heavy police presence have been mobilized. The protest calls for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar due to alleged electoral roll discrepancies. Despite the police denying permission, organizers are determined to continue, leading to major disruptions in public transport. Comprehensive security measures are being implemented, including various checkpoints and surveillance systems to ensure safety.
'Seek to turn Delhi into battleground': CM Rekha Gupta slams CJP, Rahul & Kejriwal amid anti-SIR protests
Delhi's Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has placed the spotlight on Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal, blaming them for worsening political strife in the capital. Amid protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, thousands faced detainment while trying to reach Jantar Mantar. Gupta expressed concern over the opposition's actions impacting public life, stating they undermine the democratic mandate.
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A — SpaceX (07:39 UTC)
Tranche 1 Transport Layer A is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance. This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by Northrop Grumman.
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Today In History
2010 — Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles—formerly an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of a group of five islands in the Caribbean Sea—was officially dissolved
1985 — Orson Welles, Citizen Kane Director, Dies at 70
American filmmaker Orson Welles—who notably wrote, directed, produced, and acted in Citizen Kane (1941), one of the most influential films of all time—died at age 70
1979 — Wayne Gretzky's NHL Debut with the Edmonton Oilers
Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky made his NHL debut, with the Edmonton Oilers. How much do you know about hockey?
1973 — Spiro Agnew Resigns as Vice President
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned from office and pleaded no contest to the charge of failing to report $29,500 in income while governor of Maryland
1970 — Fiji Gains Independence from Great Britain
Fiji, an island nation in the South Pacific, gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1970 after over 90 years as a British colony.
1969 — Brett Favre Born, Future NFL Passing Record Holder
American gridiron football player Brett Favre, who broke all the major NFL career passing records as quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, was born
1963 — From Russia with Love film premieres in London
The British spy film From Russia with Love premiered in London; the second film in the James Bond franchise, it is considered one of the best in the series
1956 — World Premiere of Film Giant, James Dean's Last Movie
The American classic Giant had its world premiere; the saga was especially notable for being the last movie of James Dean, who died in a car accident shortly after filming was completed
1935 — George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess Premieres on Broadway
George Gershwin's pioneering opera Porgy and Bess premiered on Broadway in 1935, becoming one of the most influential works of American musical theater.
1917 — Birth of American Jazz Pioneer Thelonious Monk
American pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, among the first creators of modernjazz, was born
1911 — Wuchang Uprising Sparks Chinese Revolution
A group of revolutionaries launched an uprising in Wuchang, China, which many regard as the formal beginning of the Chinese Revolution, a nationalist democratic revolt that overthrew the Qing dynasty
1846 — William Lassell Discovers Neptune's Largest Moon, Triton
In 1846, English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune. Triton is a unique and fascinating celestial body, being the only large moon in the solar system that orbits in the opposite direction of its planet's rotation.
1845 — Founding of the U.S. Naval Academy
To improve the then-unsatisfactory methods of instructing midshipmen, George Bancroft—historian, educator, and secretary of the navy—founded the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on this day in 1845

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