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Gunfire erupted just after 1:25 a.m. Sunday at an unpermitted block party in Vienna, Georgia, killing two young men and wounding 35 others during Dooly County High School’s homecoming weekend. More than 1,000 people had packed the 900 block of Pine Street when shots rang out from at least two locations, with several of the injured — ages 14 to 51 — struck by fleeing vehicles rather than bullets. Sheriff Craig Peavy said deputies were already on scene when shooting began, and no arrests have been made as investigators search for the shooter or shooters.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5th, 2026
Before diving into today’s top stories, here’s a look back at this date in history. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011, succumbing to pancreatic cancer at age 56 after transforming personal computing, animation and mobile technology over three decades at the company he helped start in a garage. His death prompted an outpouring of tributes from across the tech industry and spontaneous memorials outside Apple stores worldwide, with many crediting him for products — the iPod, iPhone and iPad among them — that reshaped how people communicate and consume media.
A grueling 1,000-mile retreat across the Rockies came to an end on October 5, 1877, when Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph surrendered to U.S. Gen. Nelson Miles in Montana’s Bear Paw Mountains rather than keep fighting a war his people never wanted. Joseph had led roughly 300 Nez Perce men, women and children on the run for months after the U.S. government seized their Wallowa Valley homeland, evading some 2,000 pursuing soldiers before being cornered just short of the Canadian border. He marked the surrender with words that still echo today: “My heart is sick and sad ... I will fight no more forever.”
✈️ US Pulls All Bombers From RAF Fairford After Suspected Iran-Linked UK Terror Plot
The U.S. Air Force has withdrawn every bomber — including roughly a dozen B-1 Lancers — from Royal Air Force Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, redeploying them to American bases days after UK authorities foiled a suspected terror plot against the base.
UK officials declared a major incident on September 27 after discovering three suspicious vehicles loaded with fuel accelerants near the base, though no explosives were ultimately found
Six suspects — a British-Iranian dual national and five British nationals in their early twenties — were arrested and later released on bail as investigators probe a possible Iranian state-proxy connection
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the plot “clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor,” while the Pentagon insisted the bomber force “remain[s] ready to deliver precision global strike capabilities ... anywhere, anytime”
🤖 Trump Names Jay Clayton AI Czar, Launches New “Super Intelligence Force”
President Trump has tapped Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to lead a new “Super Intelligence Force” task force charged with coordinating AI oversight across the federal government, announcing the move on Truth Social after meeting with major tech executives.
Clayton will report directly to Trump and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, with FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon research chief Emil Michael and OPM Director Scott Kupor assisting
Six companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia and SpaceX — signed a one-page White House accord committing to four layers of AI safety audits and controls
Trump called the companies’ voluntary safety pledge “morally binding,” saying he’s seeing “tremendous self-policing” from the industry
🦠 Putin Regime Accused of Plague Cover-Up After Siberian Lab Worker’s Death
A 28-year-old lab technician at Russia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died of pneumonic plague after allegedly breaking a test tube of live bacteria, triggering the quarantine of nearly 200 people and accusations that regional officials are downplaying the outbreak’s severity.
Darya Shipilova was hospitalized September 29 and died two days later on a ventilator; Gov. Igor Kobzev said all 189 people isolated across three facilities “showed no symptoms and tested negative”
A neighboring regional official initially wrote that Shipilova died of plague, then edited the post to say she “may have died” of it, fueling accusations of a cover-up
An epidemiologist publicly questioned why a single broken tube would justify quarantining 200 people, while one account suggested she may have contracted the illness on a trip to Thailand rather than in the lab
🗳️ Sen. John Kennedy Teases 2028 Presidential Run If “a Bunch of Goobers” Enter the Race
Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he’d consider a 2028 presidential bid if he grows less productive in the Senate and sees only “a bunch of goobers” running for the GOP nomination.
The 74-year-old senator, known for his folksy one-liners, declined to weigh in on a potential matchup against Vice President JD Vance
Kennedy said his immediate focus remains his own Senate reelection campaign rather than any national ambitions
He used “goobers” to describe potential candidates he views as unserious, without naming names
🚨 UK Police Lock Down Entire English Town to Let Migrant Boat Land
Police placed the whole town of Gosport, England under a Section 14 dispersal order to clear the way for a Channel migrant boat carrying roughly 120 people to come ashore, after weeks of local protests against similar landings.
The order was meant to stop demonstrators from blocking safe disembarkation, following a similar standoff two weeks earlier that saw 50 migrants rerouted to Dover instead
Reform UK councillor George Madgwick called it “heart-breaking” given Gosport’s status as “the home of the Royal Navy,” warning that “Britain is Broken”
Conservative MP Caroline Dinenage argued Gosport “is not a safe or suitable location to disembark small boats” and urged officials to redirect future landings