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U.S. Edition · LATEST HEADLINES · Friday, October 23, 2026

President Trump, in a navy suit, greets Zach Lahn on stage in Sioux City. Lahn wears a blue suit. Both faces are in the frame.

The midterms

Trump walked into a Sioux City rally for Ashley Hinson.

He campaigned Thursday night at the Sioux Gateway Airport for Ashley Hinson, who is neck-and-neck with Josh Turek. On stage he greeted Zach Lahn, the Republican nominee for governor. Both of them are in the photograph. Hinson, who spoke before he did, is not.

The Rocket News · Sioux City, Iowa · October 23, 2026

Desks

Politics More

President Trump, in a navy suit and red tie, holds Senator Darline Graham's hand as they come off a stage. She wears a white suit. A Make America Great Again sign fills the foreground.

The midterms

Clashes broke up Trump's rally for Darline Graham.

More than half a dozen clashes between rallygoers and protesters interrupted him Wednesday night at a livestock arena in Clemson, where he had gone to boost the senator. He is in the middle of a six-day barnstorm. Republicans are pessimistic about holding Congress.

The midterms

Trump said he will arbitrate the fraud tips.

President Trump speaks in the Oval Office, mouth open, a red striped tie, Vice President Vance standing behind him.

The midterms

Trump said somebody else should negotiate for Ukraine.

Video · The White House

President Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn, one hand raised, Marine One behind him.

The midterms

Texas opened early voting. The Senate seat can decide the chamber.

Video · CBS19

James Talarico speaks into a microphone, one hand open, as people in the crowd raise their hands.

States More

An arm in a black sleeve extends a yellow mail ballot from a car window toward a red box marked Official Ballot Drop Box.

California

The department asked a court to halt California mail ballots.

On Thursday the Justice Department asked the Ninth Circuit to step in before a trial judge ruled, and to block the counting of as many as 20,000 mail ballots it says went to likely noncitizens.

Texas

The administration asked the court to let the Big Bend wall proceed.

Ohio

Ramaswamy will spend $4 million on the ad with Acton's mother.

California

The Justice Department charged 28 voters in California.

Two Homeland Security officers walk a handcuffed man in red plaid pants toward a vehicle at night.

World More

Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin shake hands at Constantine Palace, both men in dark suits, curtains behind them.

Diplomacy

Witkoff shook Putin's hand, and Hubbard is free.

At Constantine Palace in St. Petersburg, the ninth meeting, Putin said the American held since 2022 was at the airport to fly home with the envoy. No peace deal was announced.

Canada

Alberta voted to stay in Canada.

A voter walks toward the doors of a polling place behind a yellow Elections Alberta sign.

Diplomacy

Rubio told Samarkand the war should end.

Marco Rubio speaks with both hands raised, the tiled towers of the Registan and Uzbek flags behind him.

The Gulf

A Houthi strike killed 13 at the Riyadh airport.

Video · BBC News

Fire and smoke rise at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh after a Houthi strike.

World War More

A market front in Lozova is torn open: a collapsed roof, a blue metal gate, and a shop with a broken window under a clear sky.

Ukraine

A strike hit a market in Lozova.

Regional officials told Reuters that a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, near Kharkiv, killed two people and injured 36. This note is that strike. It is not Thursday morning’s missiles on Kyiv.

Ukraine

Missiles struck Kyiv before dawn.

Two firefighters in helmets pour a hose onto a fire in a collapsed building at night. A third firefighter stands in the smoke.

Ukraine

Four people were killed overnight, two of them in Kyiv.

A firefighter in a red helmet walks through crushed cars and torn metal. A second firefighter stands farther back, near an ambulance.

Ukraine

A drone killed three on the road out of Kyiv.

Firefighters hose a burning car on a highway outside Kyiv, smoke across the lanes and a fire truck at the right.

Economy More

Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. One man in a blue jacket writes on a tablet while another, in a vest, watches the screens.

Markets

The Nasdaq fell 2.6 percent.

The Associated Press said Thursday’s drop, 694 points to 26,008.86, was the composite’s worst day since June. The S&P 500 fell 1.2 percent. The Dow rose. Meta fell 7 percent, the Times reported.

Airlines

Southwest cut its forecast as fuel stays high.

A Southwest jet, blue with a red and gold tail, flies with the landing gear down against a clear sky.

Prices

Wholesale prices rose 6.3 percent.

Prices

September prices rose 3.7 percent.

Science More

Crew Dragon Freedom hits the Pacific under its parachutes, bringing four astronauts home.

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.

Video · Associated Press

Maryland

Maryland now flags a heart warning on a mammogram.

The Court

The Supreme Court heard Boulder’s climate suit and did not decide it.

The Supreme Court on Monday heard Boulder’s suit to make Exxon and Suncor help pay for climate damage. It did not rule.

Science

Wildfire smoke is lifting ground-level ozone, researchers say.

Wildfire smoke over Lower Manhattan. Researchers say that haze is also lifting ground-level ozone.

Technology More

A Ukrainian soldier kneels in a field and works on a small drone.

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.

Visas

Vance suspended Microsoft from a green-card program.

Video · The White House

Vice President JD Vance, hands raised at the lectern, said Microsoft abused the visa system.

Technology

Google wants Hollywood to stop being afraid of its tools.

Google is funding films and shorts, through a venture called 100 Zeros, to make Hollywood less afraid of its tools.

Technology

OpenAI paused the next model.

OpenAI said it would pause training of its latest model after reports of agents going rogue.

Mexico More

Mexico

Trudy is a tropical storm, and the warnings are down.

At 8 a.m. Mountain time the center was about 190 miles west-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, with winds near 60 mph. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect. The National Hurricane Center said it should become post-tropical by early Tuesday.

Mexico

Hurricane Trudy is 150 miles west of Manzanillo.

Hurricane Trudy’s eye sits offshore on a Sunday morning satellite, the Mexican coast to the right of the storm.

Pacific

Hurricane Trudy is 170 miles south of Manzanillo.

Hurricane Trudy, seen from a satellite, still offshore south of Manzanillo on Saturday morning.

The Pacific

Hurricane Simon is crawling off Jalisco.

A wave from Hurricane Simon breaks over a Pacific seawall as two people watch from the walk.

Sports More

Jacob Misiorowski, number 32, delivers a pitch in a white Brewers uniform, right arm forward.

Baseball

Misiorowski is listed to start tonight.

The Associated Press card for Game 1 tonight in Milwaukee lists Jacob Misiorowski, 16 wins and 5 losses. The Rays’ starter is on the same card. He is not in this photograph, so he is not named here.

Baseball

Misiorowski's fastball leads Milwaukee into Friday.

Jacob Misiorowski, number 32, delivers a pitch in a white Brewers uniform, right arm forward, left leg stretched toward the plate.

Baseball

Game 1 is Friday in Milwaukee.

A Rays player in a gray road uniform shouts, mouth open, bright green gloves at his sides.

Baseball

The Rays are in the World Series.

Video · ESPN MLB

Junior Caminero kneels on the base path in a white Rays uniform, both arms up, the crowd on its feet behind him.