President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, October 28, 2026, that his administration is "terminating" Biden-era regulations on methane emissions from oil and gas operations, making the announcement at a rally in Lubbock, Texas.
Jacob Allen Morley, 28, serving a life sentence for a 2022 murder conviction tied to Carter County, escaped from the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee on the evening of October 25, 2026.
A fire at a seafood processing plant in a coastal Oregon city triggered an evacuation order on October 25, 2026, after authorities grew concerned that smoke from the blaze carried ammonia.
The Archdiocese of New York agreed on October 24, 2026, to pay $800 million to resolve sexual abuse claims brought by roughly 1,300 survivors, according to NPR and ABC News.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck 200 km west of Sola, Vanuatu on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at 02:31:53 UTC, prompting a tsunami warning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached Kenya and Nigeria through travel-linked cases, the World Health Organization reported as of October 20, 2026.