Friday, October 23, 2026
All World Brief Now updates for this day, Central Time.
- 6 AM CTMorning Brief: Drone sinks ship off NATO's Romania; Trump invokes Defense Production Act for oil refining; Supreme Court lets New Hampshire bar student voter IDs
- Drone strike sinks cargo ship off NATO member Romania; one sailor dead, three missing, and Romania blames Russia
- Update: Oil spill reaches UAE beaches as tanker attacks multiply near Hormuz
- Update: Macron blames 'ultra-left groups' for riots and moves to ban protests ahead of Saturday
- Five Israelis wounded, two critically, in West Bank shooting; troops kill two gunmen
- 5 PM CTEvening Update: Gunmen kill 7 at Jordan church funeral; envoy says U.S. could strike Iran this weekend; AR-15 bans head to the Supreme Court
- Gunmen kill seven at a funeral in a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan; officials call it terrorism
- Update: Suspected terror shooting near Paris kills one as France deploys 70,000 police for weekend protests
- Update: Two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron-area attack; Israel locks down West Bank
- Zelensky says U.S., Ukraine and Russia will hold talks in early November