Iran-backed Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabian airports through Sunday have killed at least 14 people, including an American, and injured more than 300, Fox News reported. Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said a Sunday attack killed a Pakistani resident and injured 11 others, and an airport in Dammam in the Eastern Province was also reportedly targeted; the Houthis urged airlines and travelers to avoid Saudi airports as the kingdom vowed to retaliate. President Trump has said the U.S. "may" join Saudi strikes on the Houthis: "We're gonna look at it. We move very quickly."
A boat carrying 305 people from Djibouti toward Yemen capsized Thursday night or early Friday near Guhere, north of Obock, killing at least 139 people, including 15 children, the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration said Sunday. At least 84 people remain missing and more than 80 survived, all of them Ethiopian nationals, and an IOM official told AP the toll could rise because the boat sank "mainly because it was overcrowded." More than 900 migrants died or went missing on the route from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula last year, the IOM said.
President Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday, "Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" but offered no details, and Moscow did not immediately comment, AP reported. Zelenskyy said Ukraine was "ready to refrain from striking Russian energy infrastructure" if Russia did the same, but said a power plant in Kharkiv was attacked Sunday evening, which his office confirmed came after Trump's post; Trump made a similar claim on Sept. 14 that came to nothing. Separately, six senators, four Republicans and two Democrats, demanded Trump "immediately reverse course" on his Russian diesel deal, saying it runs counter to a 2022 law barring Russian oil imports.
The Department of Homeland Security told the New York Post that municipalities across New York have refused its requests to hold suspected illegal migrants 16,070 times since President Trump returned to office, cases tied to 52,503 criminal charges or convictions, including 131 homicides, 132 kidnappings and 1,017 sexual offenses. "Illegal aliens have no sanctuary in America," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said. A spokeswoman for Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state always notifies federal immigration enforcement of any non-citizen serving a state prison sentence and called the claim "a blatant mischaracterization of the facts."
Secret Service Director Sean Curran told CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday that threats against the agency's full-time protectees "are up just over 40% than they were last year," calling it "a massive increase." Curran and Deputy Director Matt Quinn pointed to social media and mental health issues, said the agency is apolitical and said it does not weigh threats by political side, Fox News reported. The interview comes as the agency faces scrutiny after three officials were placed on leave in August.
Pope Leo XIV wrote Saturday that "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person," without directly naming the U.S. plan, days after the Pentagon scheduled the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, for Dec. 3 at Fort Hood. It would be the first U.S. military execution by firing squad since 1945, and President Trump said Saturday he had not decided whether to allow the livestream pushed by Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth. Several lawmakers, including Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, oppose broadcasting it, and Vice President JD Vance said he would not watch.
President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are weighing the removal of U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, AP reported Sunday, citing a senior U.S. official who said a decision would likely come after Monday's Columbus Day holiday; no departure has been confirmed. The Wall Street Journal reported that Guilfoyle asked Trump donor Eric Deters to pay off a $100,000 American Express bill shortly before her Senate confirmation hearing; Deters said he never made the payment, and her attorney, Jesse Binnall, disputed the messages' authenticity, Fox News reported.
After Monday's legal holiday, the justices hear one hour of argument Tuesday, Oct. 13, in Beaird v. United States, which asks whether the 1993 decision in Stinson v. United States still sets how much deference courts owe the U.S. Sentencing Commission's commentary on its guidelines. The case arose after Kendrick Beaird, who pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, got a higher guideline range because the commentary defines a "large capacity magazine" as one that can hold more than 15 rounds and his Glock's magazine held 17, SCOTUSblog reported. Beaird argues for no deference, the Justice Department supports sending the case back, and Court-appointed amicus Anthony J. Dick defends the Fifth Circuit's judgment.
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