Sunday, October 11, 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, officials said. Some outlets reported eight total dead, not counting the shooter. The Washington Times said victims included a pregnant woman and other relatives. Police said all shots were fired before officers arrived; a motive remains under investigation.

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.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) said he will force a House vote to block Russian oil purchases via the "Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act," after Trump said Russia would supply over 300,000 tons of diesel to U.S. and global markets. Rep. Don Bacon said he has agreed to sign the discharge petition. Sen. John Kennedy, Mike Pence and Laura Loomer also criticized the deal. Trump said Saturday Ukraine needs a "new president," saying Zelensky "wants to make problems for the world," after Zelensky called the deal "not fair and not honest."

The Justice Department is investigating ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News over whether they violated antitrust law when they briefly suspended White House press pool coverage of President Trump last month. The suspension followed the White House's September 18 revocation of credentials for CNN, MS Now and Politico, largely citing national security concerns over their reporting on the conflict in Iran. The networks withheld coverage of Trump's summit with Xi Jinping in solidarity, and were notified Friday and asked for related communications and materials.

President Trump said he will "make a decision ultimately" on whether to livestream the firing-squad execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas, according to the AP, or "over 20" by Trump's count. War Secretary Pete Hegseth had confirmed plans to stream it publicly. A Fort Hood survivor said livestreaming would treat the execution as entertainment and "dishonors" victims.

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.

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.

An off-duty ICE agent was shot early Friday in Fresno after police said he assaulted a 72-year-old man and the man's daughter outside their home. A woman found the agent sleeping on her front lawn before the shooting, police said. The agent, who suffered a gunshot wound to the midsection, was hospitalized and remains in custody on felony assault charges.

A defense lawyer for one of seven men accused in a Cornell University rape lawsuit, and separately the National Legal and Policy Center, asked that New York Attorney General Letitia James be removed from the criminal investigation she now leads as special prosecutor. Both cite a September 28 social media post where James called the accuser's experience "horrific and unacceptable" and wrote "we stand with you," arguing it shows prejudgment and bias before her appointment.

A man died after entering a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster, England, police said. He came face to face with an Amur tiger inside the animal's habitat and was mauled. The park was evacuated and closed to the public, with authorities saying the tigers stayed inside the enclosure and there was no danger to the public. The park will remain closed.

Saudi authorities said a Houthi missile strike Saturday on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed 12 people, including a US citizen, and injured more than 300. The dead also included four Saudis, two Bangladeshis, a Palestinian, an Egyptian, a Jordanian, a Syrian and a Sudanese; some wounded were in critical condition. It was the latest of several attacks on the airport in the past week. President Trump, asked whether Washington would help Saudi Arabia retaliate, left the door open.

Leaders of India's youth-led Cockroach Janta Party movement, detained ahead of New Delhi protests over a contested voter roll revision, were released. Thousands of protesters had been detained Saturday as police locked down parts of the capital to block demonstrations against the revision, which has fueled anger at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government and election authorities. Protests against the election chief continued after the leaders' release.

After a woman injured three people in a third school knife attack in four days, Poland's prime minister said the attacks were fueled by online glorification of violence. Police had already deployed to schools nationwide, detained dozens of people and checked 50,000 schools following two earlier attacks that killed a school caretaker and injured several others.

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.

Panama declared a state of emergency after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake and a 6.6-magnitude quake struck the country, followed by dozens of aftershocks, including ones measuring 5.8, 5.5 and 5.2, University of Panama seismologists said. Authorities have not attributed any deaths to the quakes. Residents in La Villa de Los Santos, about 40 miles from the epicenter near Pitaloza Arriba, slept in the streets as homes and a Catholic church collapsed.

President Asif Ali Zardari imposed a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, suspending the provincial government run by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party. Zardari cited "the rising incidents of terrorism and a deteriorating law and order situation." The move comes ahead of a planned march by Khan's supporters.

Polish authorities said police received information about a possible attack planned against Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. The announcement came as Poland has been on high alert following a wave of school violence that resulted in the death of a school caretaker. Officials did not provide further detail on the suspected plot.

Pope Leo XIV, 71, announced Sunday that tests found a nodule on his lung, detected at what he called a very early stage. The Vatican said he will have it surgically removed this week, with about a week of recovery expected. The Vatican did not specify when he will be hospitalized.

A week after a lab worker in Siberia who worked with plague died of pneumonia, the World Health Organization says it does not know what caused the illness. Former White House COVID coordinator Deborah Birx said a lack of transparency around the case is concerning. Russian authorities have not explained the circumstances of the death.