The Rocket News

U.S. Edition · LATEST HEADLINES · Sunday, October 25, 2026

Barack Obama waves in a light blue shirt on a dark stage, a crowd with signs behind him at a high school gym in Detroit.

The midterms

Obama told Detroit he had starred in this movie.

On Saturday, in a high school gym, he said attacks on Abdul El-Sayed were a movie he had already been in. Trump will rally Sunday in Port Huron. He had not spoken when this edition closed.

The Rocket News · Detroit · October 25, 2026

Desks

Politics More

Senator Dan Sullivan speaks at a microphone in Wasilla while President Trump, in a navy suit and red tie, stands beside him. Both faces are in the frame.

The midterms

Trump said he ordered the suit over Alaska's Senate ballot.

The Justice Department filed Thursday to block certification of a Mary Peltola win if a second Dan Sullivan stays on the ballot. On Friday, landing in Florida, Trump said he was the one who said to do it.

The midterms

Trump walked into a Sioux City rally for Ashley Hinson.

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

Clashes broke up Trump's rally for Darline Graham.

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

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.

States More

Senator Susan Collins speaks to reporters with both arms out, in front of a brick building with a Simone’s sign.

Maine

The White House eased some Canada tariffs.

Friday’s order lifts 50 percent tariffs on plywood, packing crates, some machinery and seaweed. The change takes effect Oct. 30. Senator Susan Collins is in a tight race with Troy Jackson.

Texas

Two Texas seats the map counted on are close.

People walk past a blue sign that reads Early Voting and Votación Temprana. The candidates are not in the frame.

California

The department asked a court to halt California mail ballots.

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

Texas

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

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

Cars burn on a Belgorod street at night, with broken glass and debris in the foreground. No people are in the frame.

Ukraine

Drones hit Belgorod overnight.

Authorities told Reuters that two people were killed and 13 injured in the city. A village near Shebekino is a separate count: one dead, one injured. Saturday’s fire in Togliatti is not in this toll.

Ukraine

Drones hit a plant in Togliatti.

Flames burn on the towers of an industrial plant in Togliatti while black smoke covers the sky.

Ukraine

A strike hit a market in Lozova.

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

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.

Economy More

A worker in a red bandana and safety glasses reaches into a vehicle frame on a Rivian assembly line.

Markets

Business cooled, and prices rose.

S&P Global’s flash composite slipped to 57.6 from 58.4 on Friday, Reuters reported. The prices gauge rose to 59.8, the highest since August 2022. The market is closed Sunday. This is not the Dow.

Markets

The Dow fell 653 points.

A trader in a blue jacket points at a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The frame is the floor, not the closing print.

Markets

The Nasdaq fell 2.6 percent.

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.

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.

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

Sal Frelick, number 10, shouts with a fist raised, dirt on his white Brewers uniform, in Game 2.

Baseball

Milwaukee beat the Rays, 5-4.

Sal Frelick tied Game 2 with his first home run in three months. Cooper Pratt singled home the go-ahead run in the seventh. The Brewers lead the Series, 2-0. Pratt is not in this photograph.

Baseball

Milwaukee held off the Rays, 3-2.

Trevor Megill, number 29, shouts after the last out in a white Brewers uniform, glove in hand, at American Family Field.

Baseball

Misiorowski is listed to start tonight.

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

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.