Facts, not takes
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office ruled on October 19, 2026, that the fatal police shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley was "justified." Kohen was killed on June 14, 2026, in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, a small city…
NASA reported on October 19 that four crew members had spent a year inside a Mars-simulation habitat in Houston.
The Federal Trade Commission proposed conditions on October 19 for Publicis Groupe's $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp.
PARIS, Oct. 18, 2026. French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez reported more than 2,000 arrests following demonstrations over living costs and public services that were accompanied by fires, looting and clashes with police across the country.
An incident at CFB Wainwright in Alberta on October 17, 2026, killed and injured Canadian Armed Forces personnel and sparked a large fire that spread beyond the base into the surrounding municipal district.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck 48 kilometres west-northwest of Khuzdar, Pakistan on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 05:06:57 UTC, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A driver steered a vehicle through an active soccer game at Stryker soccer complex in Wichita, Kansas on October 17, 2026, killing a child and an adult and injuring multiple others, according to Wichita police.