Sanctions

Trump put the Graham sanctions on hold.

On Friday night he waived the Russia sanctions he signed last month, two days before the law’s own deadline. He told Congress the pause was in the national interest. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said the waivers were about “sucking up to Vladimir Putin.”

Oregon

Bend named a 5-year-old and a teacher among the dead.

Rhoam Summer, 5, and teacher Megan Lambert, 25, were killed Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary. Police named the shooter as Griffin J. John II, 16. A parent, Kaylub Giamanco, shot him inside the school.

The Gulf

A Houthi strike killed 13 at the Riyadh airport.

More than 300 people were wounded at King Khalid International. A second strike hit the same airport. Saudi Arabia is asking how the missiles got through. The Houthis said Saudi bombs on Sanaa killed 10.

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Ukraine

Zelensky said Russia hit more than 15 energy sites.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched four cruise missiles and 332 drones overnight. All of the missiles and 289 of the drones were stopped. Moscow said it hit steel plants and a substation. Reuters could not confirm that claim.

Prices

Wholesale prices rose 6.3 percent.

The producer-price index jumped 1.3 percent in September, the biggest monthly gain since March 2022. Energy prices for producers rose 10.8 percent. Economists had expected a much smaller move. Social Security’s cost-of-living raise for next year is 3.6 percent.

Space

Four astronauts splashed down off California.

SpaceX brought Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, and Andrey Fedyaev home on Thursday after eight months. They had gone up in February to replace a crew sent home when a NASA astronaut fell ill.

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The arsenal

Ukraine’s drones still run on Chinese parts.

Magnets, motors, chips, sensors and battery cells still come from China, a dozen makers told the Associated Press. Switching to Western parts could raise the cost by 60 percent and cut production by as much.

Pacific

Hurricane Trudy is 170 miles south of Manzanillo.

At 9 a.m. Central time the storm was a Category 1, with winds of 90 miles an hour. A hurricane warning runs from Manzanillo to Cabo Corrientes. The center was still offshore.