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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia used her first solo briefing Tuesday to confirm the administration had asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as ambassador to Greece, amid a Wall Street Journal-reported flurry of allegations she denies. The report found she asked a Trump donor to quietly pay off a roughly $100,000 credit card bill before her 2025 confirmation hearing and demoted a security officer who didn’t bring her ice at 4 a.m. while she vacationed in Mykonos. Guilfoyle said her time as ambassador “may be coming to an end,” while Trump noted she “wasn’t a member of my family.”
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14th, 2026
Before we get to today’s news, here’s what happened on this date in history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the five-star general who would command Allied forces across Europe and later serve two terms as president, was born in Denison, Texas, on October 14, 1890. After graduating West Point in 1915, he led the June 1944 Normandy invasion, served as Columbia University’s president and NATO’s first supreme commander in Europe, then won the White House in 1952 and 1956, overseeing the end of the Korean War before warning the nation in his 1961 farewell address about the dangers of the military-industrial complex.
A century-old brush with assassination played out in Milwaukee on October 14, 1912, when New York saloon keeper John Schrank shot Theodore Roosevelt in the chest as the former president campaigned for a third term from an open car. Roosevelt’s eyeglass case and the folded 50-page speech in his coat pocket slowed the bullet enough to spare his life, and he insisted on delivering an 84-minute address anyway, blood soaking through his shirt, after telling the crowd not to harm his attacker because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
🗳️ Trump Hedges on Netanyahu Endorsement as Israel Heads Toward Pivotal Oct. 27 Election
President Trump said Tuesday he “may endorse somebody” in Israel’s October 27 national election but stopped short of backing longtime ally Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces his toughest challenge yet from a splintered opposition in the first vote since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack.
Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, whose son and two nephews died in the Gaza war, leads a new Yashar party that polling shows out-pacing Netanyahu’s Likud, while Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid are running together as a joint ticket
An early-October poll gave Netanyahu’s bloc 51 Knesset seats and the opposition 55, short of the 61 needed to govern, raising the prospect of a caretaker government or a second election
Netanyahu’s supporters point to the 2020 Abraham Accords and economic growth under his tenure, while critics blame his government for failing to prevent the October 7 attack and for resisting an independent inquiry into it
📋 DOJ Subpoenas Ilhan Omar’s Relatives as Feds Dig Into Her Family’s Immigration History
Federal investigators issued grand jury subpoenas to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister and other family members this week, escalating a criminal probe that began with Monday’s predawn search of her Washington home and now includes scrutiny of whether Omar’s late father misrepresented his immigration history before becoming a citizen.
The subpoenas seek evidence on the family’s immigration paperwork; separately, a 2019 email surfaced showing Omar’s congressional staff asked Minnesota’s Legislative Reference Library to change her recorded birth year from 1981 to 1982
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office is also examining Omar’s financial disclosures, which she amended in April to shrink her and her husband’s reported combined assets to between $18,004 and $95,000
Omar wrote on X “I will not be silenced,” while Vice President JD Vance said he had no advance knowledge of the search but that “if there’s a real case there, we’re going to follow the facts”
🗳️ DOJ Charges 16 in Noncitizen-Voting Sweep as Trump Administration Ramps Up Midterm Election Security
The Justice Department announced 16 new charges this week against people accused of voting for dead relatives, casting multiple ballots and falsely claiming citizenship to register, part of a broader administration push that includes a new DHS election-security plan and 1,000 planned Election Day monitors.
A multistate case charged five people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin with illegal voting, including two illegal aliens and two legal noncitizens, while a former postal worker in Utah was separately indicted for allegedly discarding roughly 300 mail-in ballots
DHS’s new 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan offers states voluntary, no-cost cybersecurity and physical-security support, and FBI Director Kash Patel called election-integrity enforcement a top bureau priority
White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said “President Trump has done more than any other President to ensure we have free and fair elections,” while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries dismissed the push as “conspiracy-peddling”
⚡ Energy Department Orders Emergency Grid Measures for 13 States as Unseasonable October Heat Strains Power Supply
The Department of Energy issued an emergency order Monday letting grid operator PJM Interconnection tap extra power generation through Friday, as unseasonably warm weather pushes electricity demand higher across 13 states and Washington, D.C. just as some plants are offline for scheduled maintenance.
PJM serves more than 60 million people across Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, with temperatures in the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic expected to reach the 70s and 80s this week
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the order would keep power “affordable, reliable and secure,” and blamed Biden-era restrictions on conventional energy for weakening grid reliability
Separately, the DOE announced $581 million in planned Tennessee Valley Authority grid upgrades across eight states, expected to add about 2.5 gigawatts of capacity and support roughly 800 jobs
💥 Houthi Missile Hits Saudi Aramco’s Dhahran Complex as Trump Weighs Harder Strikes on Iran
A Houthi ballistic missile slammed into Saudi Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters overnight, sparking a fire and damaging floors of the tower that oversees the kingdom’s oil rigs, pipelines and export terminals.
Saudi authorities reported no deaths from the strike but extended King Khalid International Airport’s shutdown through Oct. 17 after a weekend attack there killed at least 12 and injured more than 300
President Trump said on Truth Social the Houthis have re-emerged at Iran’s direction and warned Tehran “the U.S. has had it,” as he weighs harder strikes on Iran
The strike is the first to hit Aramco’s own corporate headquarters complex rather than an airport or refinery, a notable escalation in the campaign’s targeting
— Fox News