Suadi Airport Attack, Isaias Recovery, & Candy Spending

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Adam Rogers
October 12, 2026

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A missile strike on Riyadh’s main airport killed 13 people and injured more than 300 on Saturday.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack as Saudi-backed forces fought to retake territory from them. Saudi Arabia extended Riyadh’s airport closure and moved schools online Sunday as the rebels warned travelers to avoid Saudi airports. Another projectile struck a terminal that day and caused a fire and further injuries. The Saudi-led coalition responded with airstrikes on Yemen’s capital of Sanaa.
President Trump said Saturday he was considering joining Saudi airstrikes against the Houthis and would discuss the matter with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The U.S. already provides intelligence support for Saudi Arabia’s campaign but has stayed out of direct combat.

Nearly 396,000 customers in the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama remained without power early Sunday after Hurricane Isaias killed at least four people.
Isaias came ashore near Destin Friday as a Category 2 hurricane. It dropped more than 11 inches of rain in nearby Mary Esther, compounding flooding after days of earlier rainfall. Severe flooding disrupted U.S. Highway 98 while winds tore the roof off a Pensacola hotel and ripped away part of a high-rise’s facade in Panama City Beach.
The storm spawned tornadoes in Georgia and South Carolina Saturday before moving toward the central Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic Sunday, where heavy rain threatened isolated flash flooding. Federal emergency declarations opened access to assistance in Florida and Alabama as well as Georgia.

University of Bonn researchers reset signs of aging in blood cells from an 80-year-old donor by converting them into stem cells whose measured molecular age fell below 20.
The team reprogrammed the blood cells using proteins that switch genes on or off, steering them into stem cells that can produce nerve cells. Their age-related DNA markings reset over roughly 50 days compared with about 20 days using conventional reprogramming. That slower pace gave researchers more time to study how the cells shed signs of aging.
The researchers hope the work will help explain diseases such as Alzheimer’s for which age is a major risk factor. So far, the results are limited to laboratory-grown cells and do not show that the technique can reverse aging or treat disease in people.

The Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation into television networks’ temporary suspension of White House pool coverage after the administration barred several outlets. (More)

A gunman killed eight people, including two children, in Erie, Pennsylvania, Friday before fatally shooting himself. (More)

About a dozen people face returning to prison after a Supreme Court ruling limited compassionate release based on differences between older sentences and current penalties. (More)

Hurricane Simon battered Mexico’s Pacific coast Sunday as a Category 4 storm carrying 150 mph winds and threatening flooding and mudslides from up to 30 inches of rain. (More)

Pope Leo will undergo surgery in the coming days after doctors found a small growth on his lung. (More)

Indonesia moved eight endangered orangutans to safety after fires in Borneo threatened their habitat. (More)

U.S. stock markets closed higher on Friday (S&P +0.59%, Nasdaq +0.64%, Dow +0.83%), boosted by tech sector gains. (More)

U.S. unemployment claims fell to 197,000 last week as layoffs remained low despite slow hiring and more people struggling to find work for six months or longer. (More)

World finance officials are gathering in Bangkok for IMF–World Bank meetings focused on rising debt and the economic pressures from the Middle East war. (More)

The Cleveland Guardians advanced to the American League Championship Series after winning three straight games against the White Sox to erase a 0–2 series deficit. (More)

Georgia took No. 1 in Sunday’s AP football poll after beating Alabama 20–17 while previously top-ranked Texas dropped to seventh following its loss to Oklahoma. (More)

Marvel announced that “Daredevil: Born Again” will reunite the Defenders in its third and final season on Disney+ in 2027. (More)

Florida recorded nearly 300 locally acquired dengue cases concentrated in Hillsborough County in the state’s largest outbreak in decades. (More)

Anthropic disclosed that an experimental AI agent submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia website, which marked it as spam and never forwarded it to police. (More)

Four astronauts returned from the International Space Station after 237 days in orbit, ending a mission that began after an earlier crew’s medical evacuation. (More)

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