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Rescuers in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region kept pulling bodies from the rubble of a demolished Pryluky apartment building Thursday, with the death toll from Russia’s missile and drone barrage rising to 22, including five children, after a cruise missile scored a direct hit. The broader barrage also hit Kyiv and other regions, landing hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Moscow was preparing a “massive strike” following a suspected Russian drone attack that sank a cargo ship off Bulgaria’s coast days earlier. The assault coincided with Vladimir Putin’s 74th birthday; Zelenskyy said Putin gave himself “a gift” of dead children.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8th, 2026
Before we get to today’s news, here’s what happened on this date in history.
A six-year campaign to export armed communist revolution across Latin America came to a violent end on October 8, 1967, when a Bolivian army detachment cornered and wounded Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara during a guerrilla skirmish, capturing him before his execution the next day; the Argentine-born fighter had battled alongside Fidel Castro in Cuba before slipping into the Congo and then Bolivia to try to replicate the revolution elsewhere.
The House of Representatives crossed a historic threshold on this date in 1998 when it voted 258-176 to open a formal, open-ended impeachment inquiry into President Bill Clinton, with 31 Democrats breaking from their party to join a unanimous Republican conference in backing the probe.
🗳️ Brazil's Right-Wing Parties Sweep Congress in Best Electoral Showing in 40 Years
Final results confirmed this week from Brazil’s October 4 general elections show right-wing parties have secured majorities in both chambers of Congress for the first time in decades, with Liberal Party-led coalitions winning 276 of 513 lower-house seats and 49 of 81 Senate seats ahead of lawmakers taking office in February 2027.
The Liberal Party (PL) alone won 121 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, up from 99 in 2022, making it the largest bloc since 1990
Senator and PL presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, backed by President Trump, faces incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in an October 25 runoff
A survey cited in coverage found 54 incoming senators have said they would support impeaching Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the jurist who oversaw Jair Bolsonaro’s prosecution
🎤 Trump Repeatedly Interrupted by Hecklers at San Antonio Rally for Ken Paxton
President Trump had to pause his remarks multiple times at a Wednesday night rally for Senate candidate Ken Paxton in San Antonio as protesters scattered through the crowd shouted him down, prompting security to intervene and the president to brand the disruption the work of “enemies of our nation.”
Trump told one protester he’d “get hell” at home because “his mom voted for Trump,” and invited any “paid protester” in the crowd to raise a hand and leave
The rally was staged to boost Paxton’s Senate campaign against Democrat James Talarico, whose 11-day absence from the campaign trail became its own flashpoint this week
Supporters in the crowd heckled back, and video circulating from the event shows protesters being doused with water as they were escorted out
⚖️ Death Row Inmate Who Survived Botched Execution Regains Consciousness, Tennessee Court Reopens Case
Christa Pike, the Tennessee death row inmate who survived two attempted lethal injections on September 30, woke up this week for the first time since the failed execution, and a Davidson County judge has reopened her case to preserve evidence from the attempt.
Pike’s attorney, Randy Spivey, said she first asked “Where am I?” and “Who are you?” and is dealing with a blood clot, pneumonia and uncertainty over whether she’ll regain use of her arms
Judge I’Ashea Myles ordered the state to preserve texts, encrypted messages, needles, drugs, IV lines and call records, and to try to recover anything already discarded
Gov. Bill Lee has halted all executions in Tennessee for the rest of 2026; the state has not said whether it will seek a new death warrant
🚨 FBI Thwarts ISIS-Inspired Plot to Shoot Up Mall of America, Arrests 18-Year-Old
The FBI arrested 18-year-old Minnesota man Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud after he allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and plotted a mass shooting at the Mall of America that officials say could have killed dozens, after agents say they’d been watching him for nearly two years.
U.S. Attorney Dan Rosen said Mohamud, described as an American-born citizen of Somali descent, “wanted to kill as many as 60 people” and had planned to strike on October 24
He was arrested after buying an AK-47-style rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition from an undercover FBI employee posing as an ISIS associate
Rosen called him “a radicalized young man who needed to be watched,” crediting agents with detecting and disrupting the threat before anyone was hurt
🔌 Florida Sues Wi-Fi Giant TP-Link, Alleging It Hid Chinese Ties and Security Flaws
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a civil lawsuit against router maker TP-Link, accusing the company of falsely claiming it had split from China and misleading customers about security vulnerabilities that he says Chinese state-sponsored hackers have exploited.
Uthmeier said TP-Link’s claim of moving manufacturing to Vietnam is “fiction,” alleging research and production “remain rooted in China” and that less than 1% of parts at its Vietnam plant are actually Vietnamese-made
The lawsuit targets TP-Link’s HomeShield security service, which Uthmeier says falsely promised “total protection” even as older router models stopped receiving security updates
Florida is seeking an injunction, restitution for consumers and civil penalties; the article contains no public response yet from TP-Link