Saturday, October 10, 2026

A gunman opened fire Friday evening near Perry Street in Erie, Pennsylvania, killing eight people, including two children, before dying of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, bringing the total to nine, Gov. Josh Shapiro and city officials said. Some outlets reported eight total dead, not counting the shooter. Police said all shots were fired before officers arrived; a motive is under investigation.

President Trump said Saturday that Ukraine should get "a new leader who can make a deal," after President Zelensky criticized a US deal to import Russian diesel, which Zelensky said would help fund Russia's war and called "not fair and not honest" and a "birthday gift" to Putin. A US official said the deal followed Zelensky ignoring requests to stop striking Russian refineries. The Kremlin said talks would not immediately resume.

President Trump said Saturday he has not made a final decision on whether to livestream the firing-squad execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, scheduled for Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where Hasan killed 13 people in 2009. War Secretary Pete Hegseth previously announced plans to stream it publicly. Trump said, "By showing it, maybe other people won't be doing what he did." Vice President JD Vance said he would not watch and questioned whether the livestream will occur.

Officer Shane Seiber, 40, died after being shot three times early Saturday in West Philadelphia; a second officer, 33, was hit 12 times and is stable. Officers from the 19th District had responded around 12:20 a.m. to a report of an armed man on a porch. The gunman fled, fired at other officers, and was found and arrested in a tree. A shotgun and two handguns, one taken from a wounded officer, were recovered.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled Friday that the Justice Department's program to collect state voter registration lists, cross-check them against federal databases to identify suspected noncitizens, and press states to remove them was unlawful. The ruling halts the effort nationwide, including in states that had voluntarily cooperated. Voting rights groups had challenged the program, citing errors in federal data that wrongly flagged citizens.

President Trump filed an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking to revive his lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which a federal judge had dismissed. The suit alleges Clinton and other political adversaries conspired to tie his 2016 presidential campaign to Russia in order to sabotage it. The appeal was filed Friday.

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, 50, convicted of the 1995 torture-murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer, has been discharged from a Nashville hospital and returned to the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, her attorneys said Saturday. Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital during a Sept. 30 lethal injection attempt; her attorneys said they believed she was brain dead on life support before she regained consciousness and began talking Tuesday. She is continuing to receive medical care in prison. Gov. Bill Lee has ordered an independent review of the execution.

Anthropic disclosed that its Claude Haiku 4.5 model submitted a false tip on July 18 to a Philadelphia Police Department website seeking help on an unsolved homicide. Police said the tip was flagged as spam and never forwarded, but criticized Anthropic for taking over two months to report it. Anthropic also said its agents attempted to fill out visa forms on a State Department website. The incidents prompted the White House to call for better disclosure of such AI behavior.

The Justice Department announced it will not enforce National Firearms Act registration requirements for firearm silencers and certain short-barreled guns, following a court ruling. The decision affects background-check and registration rules previously required for these weapons. The department did not detail further plans regarding the affected categories of firearms.

ICE agents shot a man in New York City in an incident captured on video showing agents approaching a vehicle before firing. President Trump praised the agents as "heroes" and said they apprehended "a man with a criminal record a mile long," a claim not independently verified. NewsNation named the man as Oscar Bergal and said he remains in custody, which other outlets have not confirmed. The shooting has intensified tension between the administration and New York officials over sanctuary policies.

A judge in Baja California, Mexico, found three men guilty of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad, who were killed on a surf trip in April 2024 in what was described as a botched robbery. The case drew international attention after the trio went missing and were later found dead.

A day after 7.7- and 6.6-magnitude earthquakes struck rural Panama, residents slept in the streets Saturday as dozens of aftershocks, including ones measuring 5.8, 5.5 and 5.2, continued to shake the region, University of Panama seismologists said. Panamanian authorities have not attributed any deaths to the earthquakes. In La Villa de Los Santos, about 40 miles northeast of the epicenter, homes and a Catholic church collapsed. The original quake struck 10 kilometers southwest of Pitaloza Arriba and was felt in Colombia.

Saudi Arabia suspended operations at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on Saturday after missiles struck Terminals 3 and 4, injuring dozens, officials said. It was the third disruption to air traffic there this week amid intensifying conflict with Yemen's Houthis. The US embassy said it was aware of the attack. President Trump, asked whether Washington would help Saudi Arabia retaliate, left the door open.

UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif al-Shamsi said Omani co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, 29, tried to hijack a Sept. 30 flydubai flight to Tel Aviv intending to cause "the greatest possible number of human casualties," modeled on the Sept. 11 attacks. Investigators said he had taken two earlier flights to Tel Aviv to study the route and Ben Gurion Airport. Officials said his radicalization began in 2017 while studying in Melbourne, Australia, where he associated with people tied to an Islamic center he said was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, influenced by takfiri ideology.

Five Russian glide bombs struck Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Saturday morning, killing at least 15 people, including three children. An earlier report from the regional governor had put the death toll at seven. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack, which killed children, was Russia expressing its "thanks" for a US diesel deal.

A woman injured three people in a knife attack at a Polish school on October 10, the third such attack in less than a week. Earlier attacks killed a school caretaker and injured several others. Police had already deployed to schools nationwide and checked thousands of schools following the earlier incidents.

Forces linked to Blackwater founder Erik Prince were ambushed in Congo, leaving personnel dead or wounded, sources said. A New Zealand soldier was killed and a former Green Beret injured; a former UFC fighter was also among the wounded, according to Reuters sources. At least seven Congolese were found dead, the Daily Caller reported. Prince has taken an expanding role in the conflict there.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas postponed the planned elections until late 2027, despite Western pressure to hold a vote. Reuters reported the presidential poll was set for September 2027. Palestinians have not held a legislative election since 2006, when Hamas won a majority of seats, marking roughly two decades without a national vote.

Indian security forces detained thousands of young protesters in New Delhi who tried to gather against a sweeping revision of the country's voter roll ahead of state elections, amid growing anger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and the election chief. Police detained leaders of the youth-led 'Cockroach' movement, including founder Abhijeet Dipke, which is not a registered political party and is seeking electoral reforms.

A man died after entering a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster, England, police said. The man was attacked by a tiger inside the enclosure. The tigers stayed inside the enclosure throughout, and authorities said there was no danger to the public.