Sunday, October 11, 2026 · Evening Edition

Today

By StaffNews Desk

Good morning. Homeland Security chief Mullin brushed aside alarm over the plan to live-stream a military execution, telling critics "No one has to watch it," as lawmakers warned of martyrdom and morality — a killing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants broadcast to the country. The spectacle lands as the administration absorbs a scandal its own media would rather bury: the Wall Street Journal reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's ambassador to Greece, begged a Trump donor to pay off her more-than-$100,000 debt, and Trump and Rubio, a senior official says, are now weighing whether to fire her, "extremely pissed off" at her conduct.

In New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city would investigate an ICE shooting that left a man wounded on Thursday — holding federal immigration agents to account on city ground.

Less than a month from Election Day, the ground is shifting. Jeffries, campaigning across New Jersey and Pennsylvania with Texas next, says Democrats are "on the verge of taking back control" of the House, while Republicans predict a Democratic Senate could refuse to confirm Trump's Supreme Court and Cabinet nominees. Debates return this week in Iowa, Maine and New York; Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico waved off GOP conspiracies over his flu absence as "silly season" and demanded "proof of spine" from rival Ken Paxton.

Abroad, Trump announced a Russia-Ukraine "energy ceasefire" in a social media post that surprised Ukraine, with Russia yet to comment — Zelenskyy said the deal was "news for me" and is waiting on details from Washington. Days earlier Trump had announced a diesel deal with Russia, blamed Ukraine for high US fuel prices, and demanded Zelenskyy stop striking the Russian refineries Kyiv is defending. In Britain, Royal Mail moved to cut 2,500 jobs under billionaire Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group, the restructuring enforced by the union and endorsed by Labour. And on Mexico's Pacific coast, Hurricane Simon bore down near Puerto Vallarta, its worst winds and rain expected around midnight.